2023-11-09 19:26:14
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In a press eager for the slightest rumor regarding Rockstar’s announced future blockbuster, the announcement that GTA V will have a sequel – something we have known for almost two years and which was beyond any doubt – is ready to smile. As it stands, we still know nothing.
Incredible: the second best-selling video game in history will have a sequel. In an industry that lives for that, this is quite a surprise. For the past forty-eight hours, we should have been miming astonishment, getting carried away, jumping up and down. Firstly because Rockstar was regarding to announce GTA VI – boom, an article. Then when the studio confirmed that it will indeed release a trailer in December – boom, a second article. And then all this also gives the opportunity to explain why “everyone” is waiting for the new Grand Theft Auto like the messiah – boom, a third article regarding nothing or almost nothing. Magic of the circularity of information, the press feeds itself on the basis of a simple rumor. Certainly well informed this time – at the same time, it comes from Bloomberg, the last American mass media or almost to still place a few posts on video game journalism when the atmosphere is rather one of clear cuts everywhere else – but how often do the sites “specialists” made the headlines on this same rumor of an imminent possible announcement… followed by nothing at all.
An announcement which has already been made. Yes, it’s just a small detail of nothing at all, but Rockstar had already confirmed “actively working” on a GTA V sequel in a blog post dated February 2022. A few months later, those who still doubted of the existence of a successor might be lost in the diffusion of
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