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Rockstar Leak Reveals Discord Messages Leading to Mass Firing at GTA Dev

After weeks of waiting, Discord messages that allegedly led to Rockstar's mass firing have been revealed, showing the gravity of the situation and putting more pressure on the developer.

International Business Times UK · Nov 25, 2025

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says GTA is so successful because of its "sense of freedom," and because it "smashed together" shooting, driving, and simulation genres in a way games hadn't done before

"Those were the first games that showed you this idea of just living in this fake place"

GamesRadar · Nov 25, 2025

The Witcher 3 star Doug Cockle says "I really don't care" about GTA 6, regardless of whether Rockstar's long-awaited game beats CDPR's opus on award count or not

"Oh man"

GamesRadar · Nov 24, 2025

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is making a game set in the same world as his new novel about devs who create a "self-loathing" AI, and is "dabbling" with using real AI in its development

But the developer thinks the technology is sometimes overhyped "just to sell AI stock"

GamesRadar · Nov 24, 2025

This GTA 6 fan's fascinating deep-dive into co-protagonist Jason's military background is a must-read for all you lore heads out there

Part-history lesson, part-fan detective work, this is some wild but impressively coherent speculation.

PC Gamer · Nov 23, 2025

Former Rockstar and GTA lead Dan Houser says gaming can "either go somewhere really interesting or somewhere that gets overly focused on making money"

"I think there's always that danger with any commercial art form"

GamesRadar · Nov 23, 2025

GTA 5's character-swapping system was a stroke of genius that was supposed to feature in San Andreas 9 years earlier—this masterclass mod makes that dream a reality

Real Multiple Protagonists recreates a long-forgotten source code quirk from a game now 21 years old.

PC Gamer · Nov 22, 2025

007 First Light CEO is glad GTA 6 got delayed since now "spring looks really good," but thinks Rockstar could help "the industry as a whole" once it finally ships its masterpiece

Hakan Abrak thinks the release will encourage people to return to gaming as a hobby

GamesRadar · Nov 21, 2025

GTA 6 joins Cyberpunk 2077 in winning the Most Wanted Golden Joysticks award two years running, in what's not a worrying coincidence whatsoever

Rockstar and CD Projekt sure know how to generate buzz

GamesRadar · Nov 21, 2025

To get GTA on Xbox, Microsoft had to convince Rockstar that its console wasn't "going to be a flop," former exec says

Bringing GTA to Xbox was "a big moment," says Peter Moore

GamesRadar · Nov 20, 2025