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If you’ve played GTA Online over the past week, you may have noticed a peculiar message: “GTA VI Coming 2019.” If you’re wondering why the game industry isn’t exploding over the sudden revelation that the next Grand Theft Auto will be out next year, it’s because there’s been no such announcement - the message going up in GTA Online is a hoax.
The impromptu announcement has only appeared in the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 versions of the game, which happen to be way more open to playing online with hacked games. It seems this is exactly what’s happened here - a hacker’s figured out how Rockstar’s announcement system works, and managed to put out an intriguing message about the developer’s next game.
Open your world with the .
Slim as it is, there is a chance the message is real, but don’t take any bets on it unless you like some real long odds. Red Dead Redemption 2 is out this year, five years after GTA5’s original release. Unless Rockstar’s shrunk its development process down from a half-decade to a single year, the is probably a bit further off.
What is coming soon is a Red Dead sequel, and - yes, I’m going to harp on this again - it still hasn’t been announced for PC. Maybe that’s a good thing, though. If a PC version got similarly hacked, I’d have to write this story all over again for Red Dead 3, and nobody wants that.

Red Dead Redemption 2 won’t be out on PC on day one, but with or without a third platform it’s going to sell a hell of a lot of copies. Take a look at October’s release calendar, and you’ll find that other publishers are giving Rockstar’s cowboy epic a wide berth, with games as big as Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed scooting far earlier than normal.
Everyone’s a little scared of coming out too close to Red Dead, and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says “We're running scared too. I think a healthy degree of paranoia and insecurity about releases is probably a good thing. I'm fond of saying that arrogance is the enemy of continued success.”
Someday Red Dead Redemption 2 will be on our list of . (Probably.)
October’s follows the impressive - by some metrics now considered the most profitable entertainment product of all time - so Take-Two has plenty of reason to be excited about the game the company’s about to publish. Still, GTA5 might present some overly lofty expectations.
“It's hard to expect anything to perform as well as the most profitable entertainment product of all time,” Zelnick tells GamesIndustry.biz. “I don't think that's a realistic expectation. Our hope, and also belief, is that Red Dead Redemption 2 will be an extraordinary creative product and that it will do incredibly well. Beyond that I can't say - I don't think anyone can say. We have to release it and see what consumers think.”

Red Dead Redemption 2 publisher does not want to take success for granted.

100 million is a big number to beat.

Rockstar Games is extremely particular to their games. With Red Dead Redemption 2 releasing this year, we're pretty sure GTA VI isn't happening at least for the next few years.

Rockstar's greatest ever character? There's no contest, really. He's everything I love in a video game hero; cool, composed and with a sharply- defined cocky edge. And the best thing is, he never utters a single word.
Good god I love Liu Ping, and going back to Rockstar's Table Tennis after some 12 years (12 years!) his appeal hasn't dimmed in the slightest. It's in his swagger, the strength and style he communicates in even the smallest of movements as he prowls around the table, deftly conjuring impossible shots. It's in his attitude, the way he holds the paddle angled towards himself, dangling purposefully between thumb and forefinger in a posture of pure purpose. It's the way he fans himself nonchalantly with that paddle at the end of a point, the raised eyebrow when a game doesn't go his way or the pursed lips and look of pure determination as he's about to fire off a serve. He's a hard-edged angel with a mean backhand.
So much done with so very little, which is pretty much Rockstar's Table Tennis' maxim - and which pretty much flies against the maximalist approach that Rockstar typically takes with Grand Theft Auto. Funny, isn't it, how last generation was bookended by two Rockstar San Diego joints, both of which played fast and loose with the company's formula. Red Dead Redemption is brilliant in its own way, of course, rightly praised for its relative reserve and emotional maturity when placed in contrast to Grand Theft Auto 4 which preceded it (the contrast is even starker when you put it alongside Grand Theft Auto 5), but Rockstar Table Tennis is something else; a wordless wonder where rivalries are told through nothing more than the tics that find their way into the animation.

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