Rockstar Games was hacked by a teenager using an Amazon Firestick, a hotel TV and a mobile phone.Last September, over 90 videos and screenshots from Grand Theft Auto 6 surfaced online ahead of the game’s public reveal.Rockstar Games confirmed the “early development footage” had been “illegally accessed and downloaded”. Later that month, a teenager in Oxfordshire was arrested in relation to the hack.In July, it was confirmed that 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj would face 12 offences, including six charges under the Computer Misuse Act, three blackmail charges, and two counts of fraud but was deemed “unfit” to stand trial.Earlier this week, Kurtaj was sentenced to an “indefinite hospital order” with a judge ruling that his skills and desire to commit cyber-crime meant he remained a high risk to the public (via BBC).
The 9 artists Grand Theft Auto VI needs as radio hosts
06.12.2023 - 16:49 / thefader.com
The trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI was released this week, arriving nearly a decade after the previous installment in the massively successful (and controversial) open-world action series. It wasn’t the first look at the game: a trove of in-game footage leaked in September 2022 revealed the game’s location (Vice City, a southern metropolis based on Miami) and its main characters, Lucia and Jason, among other key details.
Still, the official trailer was greeted with near-ecstatic enthusiasm, amassing tens of millions of YouTube plays within 24 hours. The game also now has a release year: 2025, 13 years after the last game.
A long way off, but judging from the early response from fans, Rockstar Games have another blockbuster on their hands. The developers have to get a lot — and we mean a lot — of things right to satisfy fans, some of whom have been alienated by the sheer length of the wait for a new game.
You won’t be surprised to learn that, in our opinion, one of the biggest deciding factors of the game’s enduring success will be its music selections, represented and/or curated by the hosts of the in-game radio stations. Frank Ocean, Flying Lotus, Roy Ayers, Femi Kuti, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Karl Lagerfeld, and Iggy Pop are just some of the names enlisted to play DJ for past Grand Theft Auto games.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor YouTube announced that the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI reached the “extraordinary milestone” of generating more than 93 million views in the initial 24-hour period on the Rockstar Games YouTube channel — shattering the previous record for a non-music video debut on the platform. Rockstar Games released GTA VI’s first trailer on Monday, Dec. 4, after it first leaked online.
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Royal Tell-All Endgame Is A FLOP! Book Calling Princess Catherine ‘Cold’ Sells HOW MANY COPIES?!
Omid Scobie must not be happy right now…
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Something Special, the Seoul-based international format agency founded by format specialists Jin Woo Hwang (president and executive producer) and Kim In Soon (EVP & head of content) announce that ITV Studios has optioned the hit Korean celebrity format “Battle in the Box” for France, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. The deal was unveiled on Wednewday, the first full day of the Asia Television Forum and Market (ATF) in Singapore. “Battle in the Box,” created by Korea’s NMedia and represented globally by Something Special, has previously seen deals announced with Fremantle for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal.
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Grand Theft Auto VI trailer leaked before official unveiling — here’s when the game will finally will be released
Grand Theft Auto VI arrived a little early after a copy was leaked online.Rockstar Games released its first look for the sixth game of the cult-classic video game series Monday evening — roughly 15 hours before the planned Tuesday morning unveiling — while citing the leak.“Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube,” Rockstar Games wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, just after 6 p.m. ET Monday.Rockstar Games and its New York parent company, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., did not provide further details on the leak.
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BBC confirms The Traitors series two start date as host Claudia Winkleman teases 'watch your back'
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‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ trailer soundtracked by Tom Petty’s ‘Love Is A Long Road’
Grand Theft Auto VI features Tom Petty‘s song ‘Love Is A Long Road’.The first trailer for the highly anticipated new instalment to the classic video game finally arrived today (December 5) after it was leaked online a few hours prior.While the new trailer does not include an official release date for the game, it suggested a release window of 2025.Soundtracking the trailer is Petty’s song from 1989 album ‘Full Moon Fever’, which was released as a B-side to his hit single ‘Free Fallin’’.The synth-rock track is played over a montage of clips from the new game, including boat parties, car drifting and store hold-ups, as Petty sings that love is a “long, long road”.Rockstar is taking players back to Vice City for Grand Theft Auto 6, and will this time introduce the series’ new female protagonist, Lucia, with Bonnie and Clyde-type story elements.The song appears to be fitting for the new love story that’s teased, which features a clip of a couple discussing the importance of trust before bursting into a store with masked faces and wielding guns.Co-written by guitarist Mike Campbell, the song was said to be inspired by a motorcycle he owned. “I was really into that frame of mind,” he once said, per Rolling Stone.
Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer leaves fans stunned - but many have issue with release date
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Jordan Moreau More than 10 years after Grand Theft Auto V first came out, the first look at the long-awaited and highly anticipated sequel, Grand Theft Auto VI, has officially been released. Rockstar Games dropped the first trailer to the massively hyped video game on Monday night after it first leaked online. Fans will have to wait a while longer to play it, however, because only a 2025 release window was teased.
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How does a mistake like this happen?!?
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