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GTA 6 report says its first female protagonist will be part of a Bonnie and Clyde double-actIt suggests Rockstar might have got their act together on crunch, too
It suggests Rockstar might have got their act together on crunch, too
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Sources at Rockstar told Bloomberg that GTA 6 is codenamed Project Americas, because the game was originally intended to have a map that covered “territories modeled after large swaths of North and South America”. In 2021,rumourswere circulating that the next GTA would be set in a modern take on Vice City. Well, the Bloomberg report corroborates this. It’s nothing that Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier hasn’t already intimated onTwitterbefore but, interestingly, shrinking the map down to the series' fictional Miami was apparently a compromise to try to improve Rockstar’s working culture.
Bloomberg spoke to more than 20 current and former Rockstar employees for their report into the company’s working culture. While Rockstar had no official comment, one employee described them as “a boys’ club transformed into a real company”. The cultural clean-up operation has apparently influenced the next GTA’s development in other ways. As mentioned above, the game will reportedly star a Latina woman who’s part of a “Bonnie and Clyde” pair of robbers. A female protagonist would be a first for the nearly quarter of a century old series.
Rockstar onlyconfirmedthis February that, yes, they’re actually working on the game everyone has referred to for yonks as GTA 6. More recently, they also confirmedRed Dead Online won’t be getting any more major updates, so the team can shift focus to the next GTA. The Bloomberg report makes for interesting reading in the wider context of crunch throughout the games industry. It doesn’t sound like everything Rockstar has tried to implement has necessarily worked the way they intended – particularly the changes to middle management – but it’s good to hear they’re at least making some efforts. I’m totally fine with playing a new GTA years from now if it means the people who make it get to have proper personal lives.
While you’re waiting, there’s always the frequently updated GTA Online, which is included as part ofGrand Theft Auto VonSteamand theEpic Games Store.
