SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The maker of the infamous Grand Theft Auto online game franchise introduced on Friday (Feb 4) {that a} new version is below growth, confirming long-bubbling hypothesis.
New York-based or how it is going to be totally different from the earlier version of the sport launched in 2013 to blockbuster gross sales.
“We’re happy to verify that lively growth for the following entry within the collection is below approach,” the studio’s subsidiary Take Two Interactive stated in an internet publish.
Greater than 230 million copies of Grand Theft Auto, known as “GTA” have been bought total.
An internet, multi-player model of the sport boasts a big and devoted neighborhood of followers, a few of whom took to Twitter to specific delight on the information together with jibes that Rockstar won’t ship the brand new sport for years.
One fan of the sport tweeted a photograph of three aged males hunched over a online game controller, joking it could be him and mates when GTA 6 is lastly accessible.
A tweet from the account @robertyoushock centered on Rockstar saying the brand new sport is properly below approach.
“This similar language was utilized in June 2012 with regard to GTA V,” the tweet learn, noting it took 14 extra months for the sport to launch.
The GTA franchise wherein gamers tackle the function of a legal has been criticised for glorifying law-breaking, violence and abuse of girls.
“This could possibly be the GTA to finish all GTAs!,” learn a tweeted reply to Rockstar from the account of self-described e-sports commentator and sport streamer @nathanias.
