A handful of Grand Theft Auto fans were questioned by police after snooping around Rockstar’s HQ in Edinburgh.
YouTuber ÜberGaming flew to Glasgow last month and stayed in a hotel opposite the offices of Rockstar North, the game developers currently working on Grand Theft Auto 6. On May 26 (the day Grand Theft Auto 6 was originally supposed to launch), they walked into the building to pay their “respects” to the scrapped release date. However they were “thrown out” in seconds by security.
“Because we stood out so much, the police arrived, took our details and asked what we wanted.” They weren’t arrested, but were allegedly told that if any info about Grand Theft Auto 6 was leaked, the police will want to question them again. “We now have a five star [wanted level] in real life,” ÜberGaming added.
Earlier this year, games journalist Reece Reilly said a number of “crazy” Grand Theft Auto 6 fans have been trying to get inside information about the game. “I have heard stories from Rockstar devs over the years of nutty fans trying to get into their buildings to get any info they can from faking IDs to flying drones above windows to try to get images/video,” he wrote on X.
Rockstar recently fired a number of staff after accusing them of sharing confidential information with the public and back in 2022, a British teenager was arrested for hacking the company and leaking over one hours-worth of development footage for Grand Theft Auto 6. In April, the team was blackmailed after hackers got hold of a “limited amount” of personal data but nothing about the game was ever released.
Grand Theft Auto 6 is on track to be the most expensive video game ever built. It will launch November 19, 13 years after Grand Theft Auto 5 was released. “It takes time to do something that is as good as it can possibly be,” said the boss of publishers Take-Two Interactive about the long wait.
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