History Trivia / GrandTheftAuto

* ContentLeak:
** One of the largest and most infamous in video game history occurred on September 18, 2022. After years of speculation about the next mainline title after ''V'', a hacker leaked dozens upon dozens of videos and screenshots showcasing an early yet comprehensive and playable build of the next installment in the series, which confirmed the names of the game's two protagonists (Jason and Lucia, the latter being the first canonical female protagonist in ''GTA'' history) and the setting being Vice City in the present day, showed off actual gameplay complete with voice acting for the characters, and much, much more. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the biggest leaks ever for a video game, and it reached the point where [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455 it was confirmed]] [[WordOfGod directly by Rockstar]] that these leaks were the real deal, in the process forcing them to all but officially announce that the game was in development.
** It [[https://www.thegamer.com/grand-theft-auto-6-gta-footage-might-have-just-leaked-on-tiktok-development-build/ happened again]] on December 2, 2023, just three days before the release of first trailer for ''VI''. This time, it came courtesy of the ultimate insider source: the son of Rockstar North co-studio head Aaron Garbut, who took a video of his father's work showing off what looked like downtown Vice City and posted it on Website/TikTok. In addition to the video, the leaker also posted details about the map, saying that Vice City would be twice the size of Los Santos, that there would be three major cities and four smaller ones separated by countryside, and that there would be a large lake in the center of the map.
** The much-anticipated first trailer for ''VI'' ended up being leaked 15 hours ahead of its original premiere time of 0900 EST on December 5, 2023. Rockstar [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1731813331244085531 evidently decided to figuratively say "F it"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0 had the trailer go live on their Youtube channel]] around an hour after it had initially leaked.

** It [[https://www.thegamer.com/grand-theft-auto-6-gta-footage-might-have-just-leaked-on-tiktok-development-build/ happened again]] on December 2, 2023, just three days before the release of the game's first trailer. This time, it came courtesy of the ultimate insider source: the son of Rockstar North co-studio head Aaron Garbut, who took a video of his father's work showing off what looked like downtown Vice City and posted it on Website/TikTok. In addition to the video, the leaker also posted details about the map, saying that Vice City would be twice the size of Los Santos, that there would be three major cities and four smaller ones separated by countryside, and that there would be a large lake in the center of the map.

* SequelGap: The next mainline GTA game was officially announced in November 2023, over ''a decade'' after the original release of both ''V'' and ''Online''.

** One of the largest and infamous in video game history occurred on September 18, 2022. After years of speculation about the next mainline title after ''V'', a hacker leaked dozens upon dozens of videos and screenshots showcasing an early yet comprehensive and playable build of the next installment in the series, which confirmed the names of the game's two protagonists (Jason and Lucia, the latter being the first canonical female protagonist in ''GTA'' history) and the setting being Vice City in the present day, showed off actual gameplay complete with voice acting for the characters, and much, much more. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the biggest leaks ever for a video game, and it reached the point where [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455 it was confirmed]] [[WordOfGod directly by Rockstar]] that these leaks were the real deal, in the process forcing them to officially announce the game.

* ContentLeak: One of the largest and infamous in video game history occurred on September 18, 2022. After years of speculation about the next mainline title after ''V'', a hacker leaked dozens upon dozens of videos and screenshots showcasing an early yet comprehensive and playable build of the next installment in the series, which confirmed the names of the game's two protagonists (Jason and Lucia, the latter being the first canonical female protagonist in ''GTA'' history) and the setting being Vice City in the present day, showed off actual gameplay complete with voice acting for the characters, and much, much more. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the biggest leaks ever for a video game, and it reached the point where [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455 it was confirmed]] [[WordOfGod directly by Rockstar]] that these leaks were the real deal.

* ContentLeak: One of the largest and infamous in video game history occurred on September 18, 2022. After years of speculation about the next mainline title after ''V'', a hacker leaked dozens upon dozens of videos and screenshots showcasing an early yet comprehensive and playable build of the next installment in the series, which confirmed the names of the game's two protagonists (Jason and Lucia, the latter being the first canonical female protagonist in ''GTA'' history) and the setting being in Vice City, showed off actual gameplay complete with voice acting for the characters, and much, much more. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the biggest leaks ever for a video game, and it reached the point where [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455 it was confirmed]] [[WordOfGod directly by Rockstar]] that these leaks were the real deal.

* ContentLeak: One of the largest and infamous in video game history occurred on September 18, 2022. After years of speculation about the next mainline title after ''V'', a hacker leaked dozens upon dozens of videos and screenshots showcasing an early yet comprehensive and playable build of the next installment in the series, which confirmed the names of the game's two protagonists and the setting being in Vice City, showed off actual gameplay complete with voice acting for the characters, and much, much more. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the biggest leaks ever for a video game, and it reached the point where [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455 it was confirmed]] [[WordOfGod directly by Rockstar]] that these leaks were the real deal.

* DuelingGames: With the ''VideoGame/{{Driver}}'' series initially, thanks to some not-so-friendly jabs that ''III'' took towards that series. In the ''IV'' era, the ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' series became its main rival, with ads for ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' mocking ''IV''[='=]s perceived stonefaced seriousness. Then after ''Saints Row'' had its tone shift towards superhero in ''Videogame/SaintsRowIV'', it dueled with the ''Videogame/WatchDogs'' series.

* GratuitousGerman: The Securicars are run by the "Gruppe Sechs" which translate to "Group Six" but the "Six" is meant to be homophonous with "Sex".

* TheWikiRule: Two of them, in fact -- [[http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Main_Page Grand Theft Wiki]] and [[http://gta.wikia.com/Main_Page GTA Wiki]].

** There was originally going to be a movie adaptation starring Music/{{Eminem}}. So far, we've got some SpiritualAdaptation(s) (including some Sci-Fi variations of it like Wreck-It Ralph's Slaughter Race and Free Guy by Disney, of all Companies).

* GratuitousGerman: The Securicars are run by a "Gruppe Sechs" which translate to "Group Six" but the "Six" is meant to be homophonous with "Sex".

* ContentLeak: One of the largest and infamous in video game history occurred on September 18, 2022. After years of speculation about the next mainline title after ''V'', a hacker leaked dozens upon dozens of videos and screenshots showcasing an early yet comprehensive build of the next installment in the series, which confirmed the names of the game's two protagonists and the setting being in Vice City, showed off actual gameplay complete with voice acting for the characters, and much, much more. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the biggest leaks ever for a video game, and it reached the point where [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455 it was confirmed]] [[WordOfGod directly by Rockstar]] that these leaks were the real deal.

* ContentLeak: One of the largest and infamous in video game history occurred on September 18, 2022. After years of speculating about the next mainline title after ''V'', a hacker leaked dozens upon dozens of videos and screenshots showcasing an early yet comprehensive build of the next installment in the series, which confirmed the names of the game's two protagonists and the setting being in Vice City, showed off actual gameplay complete with voice acting for the characters, and much, much more. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the biggest leaks ever for a video game, and it reached the point where [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455 it was confirmed]] [[WordOfGod directly by Rockstar]] that these leaks were the real deal.

* ContentLeak: One of the largest and infamous in video game history occurred on September 18, 2022. After years of speculating about the next mainline title after ''V'', a hacker leaked dozens upon dozens of videos and screenshots showcasing an early yet comprehensive build of the next installment in the series, which confirmed the names of the game's two protagonists and the setting being in Vice City, showed off actual gameplay complete with voice acting for the characters, and much, much more. It quickly gained notoriety as one of the biggest leaks ever for a video game, and it reached the point where [[https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455 it was confirmed]] [[WordOfBy directly by Rockstar]] that these leaks were the real deal.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: On February 2021, a group of ''Grand Theft Auto'' modders released a reverse-engineered port of ''Grand Theft Auto III'' (and ''Vice City'') through Github that would allow the game to be playable natively on modern versions of Windows and other platforms while integrating community-made mods such as [=SilentPatch=] and [=SkyGfx=], among other fixes and improvement, but would still require the game's files in order to run. Less than a week later, Take-Two issued a DMCA takedown of the port and its many forks, resulting in those that had a copy prior to the takedown to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes back them up elsewhere]]. The DMCA takedown filed against these reverse-engineered ports was sorted out during late June 2021, with the original Github repository for the project was reinstated for a time. At the start of September 2021, Take-Two struck back even harder against the developers of the reversed-engineered port [[https://www.pcgamer.com/take-two-is-once-again-trying-to-kill-reverse-engineered-versions-of-gta-iii-and-vice-city/ by filing a lawsuit]] against them for claims of piracy and illegally distributing copyrighted code. This is likely prompted by the fact that Rockstar was working on their own remasters of the [=PS2=] trilogy released in late 2021, but the state of these remasters were released in also created [[HypeBacklash its own]] [[PortingDisaster can of worms]].