The strangest rumour doing the rounds of late in the games industry has to have been the one about Grand Theft Auto V.
Yes, that's right, five.
Had the rumour not emanated from the usually fairly reliable source that is Game Informer magazine we would most likely have dismissed it without too much thought.
Rumour rubbish
"We're not talking about new DLC or a collection of previously available DLC, we're talking about a full retail game," reads the original story in Game Informer Issue 190.
"We expect this title to follow the suit of previous GTAs and use a subtitle such as GTA: San Andreas, etc. Tokyo might be a possible setting for the game, but details are non-existent at this time."
The article went on to claim that the rumoured new GTA game would be available by Christmas 2009.
A Rockstar spokesperson told Kotaku this week that the rumours were rubbish.
TechRadar has contacted Rockstar in the UK today to find out more about both the near-future and longer-term plans for the Grand Theft Auto franchise.
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worldtvpc
January 21st 2009
4. they have the forgotten dlc released for xbox 360 - they should release it for pc as well.
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evosero
January 20th 2009
3. It just sounds impossible, or at least poor pacing.
The first DLC episode of GTAIV is being released Feb 19 - along with a DS-exclusive GTA game around the same time - with the second DLC episode to be released sometime in Q3 2009 apparently.
To have a full retail game on the scale of GTAIV released within the same year just seems like oversaturation. They'd end up competing with themselves.
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rttech82
January 20th 2009
2. Are you kidding me? Whats wrong with those folks at Rock Star? Have they lost their minds?
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kengmarket
January 20th 2009
1. i love GTA
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