![]() ![]() “Research has shown that Gen Z and Gen Alpha prefer gaming to any other form of entertainment-more than social media, more than watching television or listening to music, more than going to the movie theater,” said Warner Bros. Thanks to developers like Rockstar, CD Projekt Red, and most recently Larian Studios, video games as a genre have long shed their stigma as a form of low art, becoming perhaps the major force in the entertainment industry. “We are dependent on the future success of our Grand Theft Auto products,” Take-Two warned investors in its latest full fiscal year report. A decade ago when it launched the previous installment, consolidated annual revenue almost doubled. ![]() Landing another hit is crucial for Rockstar and its parent company Take-Two Interactive Software. Producer and game designer Leslie Benzies departed to found his own studio and is now working on a similar GTA-style game believed to incorporate blockchain elements from the crypto world. Lead writer Dan Houser, the creative brain behind the franchise and Rockstar’s cofounder together with brother Sam, left in 2020. Two of the most important figures credited with the franchise’s chart-topping success moved on after GTA V launched. Like any trailer, it should whet the appetite for the game’s arrival sometime in the next 13 to 24 months (if the predecessor is anything to go by, expect a release in autumn just in time for the holiday shopping season).īut it is little indication about the quality of the finished product, and there are big questions surrounding the next installment. Given all the recent buzz around Miami as a new symbol of America’s wealth gap, Rockstar could hardly have picked a timelier setting for its protagonists’ fictional crime spree. ![]() The scenery shifts from GTA V’s San Andreas, a microcosm of California, to the streets of Vice City, which served as the neon-lit backdrop of the 2002 GTA installment by the same name. ![]()
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