Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans.

Rockstar Plans to Announce Much Anticipated ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., plans to announce the next highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto game as early as this week, according to people familiar with its plans.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      25·
      8 months ago

      Actually, it’s an article about “sources” speculating about the plan to maybe announce something next week. Front-page news!

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    8 months ago

    Now imagine if they announced things like no more predatory monetisation. Consumer-friendly licensing. No more crunch. No more sexual harrassment and bullying in the workplace. Fair compensation for workers. Humane working hours and PTO?

    Ah, well…

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      This announcement is to distract you from those things so in a way it’s the next best thing

    • leekleak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      B-but you don’t understand! Rockstar has been hinting at it with the moon phases and the constellations present in some random promo art! It’s happening any day now!

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    8 months ago

    Second most anticipated game of all time (half life 3 still not confirmed).

    Edit: for clarity, if Steam announced that they were going to announce Half Life 3 tomorrow, the news it’d generate would completely drown out any and all noise relating to the GTAVI release announcement.

    • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      114·
      8 months ago

      GTA is more popular than HL by orders of magnitude. HL is popular, but HL3 has more meme power than anything. I don’t think many console-only players care too much about Valve titles.

      …Or maybe your comment is also part of the meme and went over my head.

      Edit: But personally I also look forward to HL3 more… If it ever materialises :(

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        46·
        8 months ago

        Honestly, I think I’m giving GTA too much credit to put it next to HL3 like that.

        So no, hard disagree there.

        This is a whisper. HL3 announcement would be a bang that would grind the internet to a halt.

        • skeeter_dave@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          92·
          8 months ago

          The avg gamer/person doesn’t give a fuck about Half Life. That ship has looooong sailed. Without the memes that game series would just be a historical footnote somewhere when discussing Counter Strike.

          • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
            61·
            8 months ago

            Exactly, like duke nukem for example.

            There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.

          • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            150k people went out of their way to buy a $1k headset on top of a fancy PC so they can play the half life VR spinoff. People today would absolutely pay $30 for Half-Life 3 if it was innovative and impressive. The ship hasn’t sailed, the bar was simply raised.

          • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
            21·
            8 months ago

            Exactly, like duke nukem for example.

            There are millions of GTA players, all the kids seem to love it, IDK about the halflife user base today.

          • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            29·
            8 months ago

            Gross sales is not predictive of hype surrounding a series, especially when that series hasn’t had a release in nearly 20 years.

            You… Are out of your element.

            • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
              72·
              8 months ago

              Out of my element? I think we only know about as much as each other mate.

              • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                29·
                8 months ago

                You’re comparing the release of FIFA to the release of HL3.

                That’s adequate information to know you are out of your element.

                • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  72·
                  8 months ago

                  I don’t mean the release of FIFA, I mean the games that groups of people play and are aware of. If even non-big-gamers are hyped for a game, then oh boy.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          8 months ago

          You’re comparing steak and a big mac here. They have largely separate target buyers and operate at different levels of quality/craftsmanship. Yes, HL3 would grind the gaming news media to a halt while this fluff article about GTA6 is just fluff.

          But the steak isn’t selling more copies that the big mac. This is what people are arguing with you over.

          • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            8 months ago

            That’s not what is meant by “anticipated release”, though.

            FIFA2025 will outsell GTA VI. No one is biting their nails waiting for it to happen. It is in no way a highly anticipated release.

            GTA VI is a pretty highly anticipated release, yes, but to compare it half life 3 is… Silly.

            By this metric, Half Life 3 is way, way way way more highly anticipated. Steam servers would go offline.