Fancy a chance of winning a signed original Big Box PC version of #GTA? Join the @gtacommunitysol over on Discord, and on #GTAVI launch day (Nov 19th - so far), I'll pick one luck member, sign it, and send it to them. Discord link in the community bio. solana:2wMTr4ZttVr5tmS4wLStee59wi8f9QQfMtT2Hoispump

23 days until the biggest media event we've ever seen... I'm honestly expecting wall to wall solana:2wMTr4ZttVr5tmS4wLStee59wi8f9QQfMtT2Hoispump coverage for DAYS! @gtacommunitysol

Exclusive GTA Interview coming soon! With one of the original creators of GTA and Lemmings & more! ➡️Mike Dailly I @mdf200 Subscribe to piped.video/@gamesyouloved to see it first! #gta #retrogaming

GTA 6 review copies are expected to be extremely limited and controlled, with ex-IGN employees stating they don't even know anyone who's getting one. This is speculation on my part, but we may see review copies only sent to outlets that don't traditionally have a gaming audience, as GTA 6's marketing so far has been going after non-gamers and casual players.

🚨 ROCKSTAR GAMES MIGHT BE PREPARING A LIVE-ACTION GTA 6 CAMPAIGN! 🎬🌴 With Grand Theft Auto VI scheduled to launch on November 19, 2026, Rockstar’s marketing push is entering its final stretch — and something interesting is happening in Miami! 🎥 A film crew has been spotted shooting a convoy of GTA VI-inspired cars on closed-off Miami streets, with camera rigs and drones capturing the action. The vehicles reportedly feature Vice City-style designs and license plates, bringing the game’s fictional world into real life. 🚘 The cars were created in collaboration with West Coast Customs, the custom-car company that previously built the iconic blue Banshee for GTA V’s promotional campaign. 👀 Could this be a new live-action GTA VI advertisement? And imagine if Manni L. Perez and Dylan Rourke joined the campaign to bring Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval to life! With Rockstar already transforming Miami with Vice City branding, fictional advertisements, custom cars and promotional installations, a live-action campaign would be the perfect way to take the hype to another level. However, Rockstar hasn’t confirmed that the filming is for a live-action GTA VI trailer. Reports suggest it could instead be promotional content connected to the Miami Heat’s upcoming “A Night in Vice City” event. 🔥 Could we see Jason and Lucia in live action before launch? #GTA6 #GTAVI #RockstarGames #ViceCity #WestCoastCustoms #GrandTheftAutoVI

25 years ago, on October 22, 2001, Grand Theft Auto III was released. This is the team that made it. (I'm second from the right) Here's what I remember about making it. For most of development, GTA3 was in a sorry state. It crashed frequently, the frame rate was terrible and the map was full of holes. Only in the last six months did everything come together. For the longest time, it looked like the frame rate was going to be 20 fps. Only in the final months did we manage to hit 30. In 1999, DMA Design, based in Dundee, Scotland, was going through some changes. The company had recently been bought by Take-Two Interactive, and a satellite office had opened in Edinburgh. Space Station Silicon Valley for the N64 had been finished in 1998, but there was no new project lined up. Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut started working on GTA3. Unprompted. Meanwhile, the original GTA1 and GTA2 team had started work on GTA2.5, set in Miami. It was called 2.5 because it used the 2.5D (isometric) perspective. In March 2000, the Dundee office was closed and GTA2.5 was cancelled. Take-Two/Rockstar gave GTA3 the green light. Everything was written from scratch. Only two people worked on both GTA2 and GTA3, and no code or art from GTA2 was reused. The way we worked was organic. People would come up with ideas for missions and we'd just try them. If they were fun, they were in. The story was secondary. In fact, the opening plot involving Catalina trying to kill Claude was added well into development. Leslie Benzies (the producer) plastered a wall in the boardroom with Post-it notes. They were yellow, green and pink, representing missions, contacts and locations. Missions were moved around all the time, often handed from one contact to another. Only once the voice acting was recorded were these things set in stone. You sometimes come across locations on the map that are more detailed than you'd expect. Chances are there used to be a mission contact there that got moved elsewhere. Working on GTA3 was a lot of fun. Every day there was something new going in. A new mission, radio station, car, pedestrian, building or whatever. The game was growing at an incredible rate. Other than the multiplayer mode we did some work on, I can’t remember a lot of wastage. Although everybody worked hard, I don't remember many people doing crazy hours. On the rare occasions I was in over the weekend, there were usually only one or two others. Even during crunch time, most people left the office around 9 or 10 in the evening. I always thought it was better to work eight focused hours than spend your life in the office. Although we liked the game, it wasn't at all clear that it would be a hit. GTA3 had a disappointing showing at E3 in May 2001. Most people weren't interested, and those who were thought it was too violent. It had an OK launch, but sales never tapered off. Our office was in Leith, Edinburgh. It was a fairly run-down neighbourhood at the time. Just a couple of years before we arrived, J.K. Rowling had been writing the first Harry Potter in that very same neighbourhood. The thing I remember most is the camaraderie. In a small team, everybody relies on each other and everybody has a lot of input. Most of us were young and had only recently moved to Edinburgh. We went to the pub together. It felt like a group of friends who happened to be working on a project together. nitter.siddz.com/ObbeVermeij/status/178… nitter.siddz.com/ObbeVermeij/status/175… nitter.siddz.com/ObbeVermeij/status/187… nitter.siddz.com/ObbeVermeij/status/182… nitter.siddz.com/ObbeVermeij/status/179…

It’s November 19 and you’re driving around listening to ’80s hits on Vice City FM:

PC Big Box version of #GTA has arrived. “Okay” condition outside, lovely inside. Doesn’t look like the posters have ever been unfolded These are getting stupidly expensive now, though managed to aquire this for the @RetCollective without selling a kidney @gtacommunitysol solana:2wMTr4ZttVr5tmS4wLStee59wi8f9QQfMtT2Hoispump

With #GTA6 nearing launch, it's worth remembering where it all started. This first image spawned the first prototype, which in turn helped spawn the second. And the rest as they say.... is history. You can see a printout of this image, just over my shoulder. This picture was taken while making the prototypes, sometime in 1994. #GTA @gtacommunitysol solana:2wMTr4ZttVr5tmS4wLStee59wi8f9QQfMtT2Hoispump

A new discord group is currently being worked on for the @gtacommunitysol, with more in the works as well... solana:2wMTr4ZttVr5tmS4wLStee59wi8f9QQfMtT2Hoispump

Thanks everyone for tuning into the pump live today! The @gtacommunitysol will be sharing the Discord for solana:2wMTr4ZttVr5tmS4wLStee59wi8f9QQfMtT2Hoispump holders tomorrow, where you’ll be able to ask me questions directly. 😎