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6 stories on History, newest first. Everything here is on 6 Insider because Rockstar, or somebody reporting on Rockstar, actually said it.
The first GTA's moral panic was a PR job, and the man behind it was Max Clifford
In 1997 the team behind Grand Theft Auto hired Britain's most notorious publicist. The tabloid outrage that followed was the plan.
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What 9/11 changed in GTA III: the cop cars, a cut mission, and a cover made in one evening
Rockstar delayed GTA III by three weeks after the attacks and said the game ended up "about 1% different". Here's what that 1% was.
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Jack Thompson offered $10,000 for a game about killing game developers, then refused to pay. Penny Arcade paid it instead
The cheque's memo line said "For Jack Thompson Because Jack Thompson Won't." He tried to get the police involved.
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Hot Coffee: the sex minigame Rockstar left on the San Andreas disc, and how it nearly sank the game
Rockstar locked it away instead of deleting it. A modder found it, the game got re-rated Adults Only, shops pulled it, and it ended in a federal settlement. Here's the whole story.
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GTA nearly got cancelled, and a police bug saved it
It started in 1995 as a game called Race'n'Chase. It crashed constantly, the driving was bad, the publisher wanted out. Then the cops started ramming people.
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GTA 6 has been in development since 2015, three years before most of Rockstar joined it
Early work began the year GTA V hit PC. Most of the team only joined after Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped in 2018, and that changes how the whole timeline looks.
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