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Grand Theft Auto's origins have never been steeped in mystery, but recently unearthed design documents from 1995 have revealed a few extra tidbits that even the most die-hard franchise fans might find interesting. For instance, did you know GTA was once planned for the N64 and Sega Saturn under the codename Race 'n' Chase? You did? Screw it – these are still pretty cool.
The12-page pitch was posted by Mike Daily, an original member of Rockstar North's first incarnation...
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Just ponder for a second, if you will, a world of games without that quaint little series Grand Theft Auto. No slaughtering innocent OAPs in drive-bys. A huge vacuum in that whole ‘beating digital prostitutes with baseball bats’ genre. Worse still, a world without OG Loc. Can you imagine such a dark, open world-free existence? Well, this terrifying alternate reality almost came to pass, during the first GTA’s troubled development…
One of the original developers of the Grand Theft Auto series has said that he believes the franchise is stagnating, and that the series is not moving fast enough.
The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the commercial pillars of the video game industry, with the last entry, 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV, selling over 17 million units to date. But the storied franchise was almost nipped in the bud, according to Gary Penn, who worked on DMA Design's original GTA, which released in the late 1990s.
Just in time for the back to school season this week, we present another open learning session via a whole new batch of answers to some of the burning questions from the comments here on the Rockstar Newswire, and from Mouthoff, Twitter and Facebook.
Rockstar Week's lightening sales continue today on Steam, offering the five-game Grand Theft Auto Classics bundle at 75% off. The pack contains, GTA, GTA 2, GTA 3, San Andreas and Vice City all for just $7.50 through 4 PM Pacific today.
Steam has kicked off Rockstar Week, offering short sales all week long, starting with GTA: Vice City for just $2.50 for two hours, as well as taking 50% off of the 13 game Rockstar Collection through the entirety of the sale week.
Dan Houser, vice president of Rockstar Games, reveals first details about GTA 5. The script for GTA 5 is set to have more than 1,000 pages. But the city of GTA 5 and the characters were not yet set in stone.
MCV: Rival publishers forecast that Activision title will shift 1.7m UK copies in first week
31 studios from across Europe feature in the list - 26 of them in the UK. These include the likes of Rockstar North (third on the list and responsible for the Grand Theft Auto franchise), LEGO Star Wars developer Traveller's Tales (11th) and Media Molecule (18th), the developer of LittleBigPlanet - and the highest placed independent UK studio on the list.
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