# Grand Theft Auto

> A chronological documentary of 847 moments spanning 1904–2026.
> Source: https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto · Loreline (loreline.live)

A driving game made in Dundee that nearly got cancelled, and the thirty years since. This archive follows the series through the cities it copied, the studios that built it, the courtrooms it ended up in, and the jokes it left behind. The real Miami of 1986 and the real Los Angeles of the early nineties are here, photographed at the time, because the games themselves are almost entirely unfree and the places they were traced from are not. It covers the Hot Coffee panic and what actually shipped on the disc, the Supreme Court case that ended the legal argument in 2011, the leak, the modders, the radio, and the loading screens that became a visual language of their own. The sixth game had not been released when this was assembled, so nothing here claims to know how it turned out.

_Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-20._

## Eras

- **Studios**, The buildings and the companies. DMA Design in Dundee, Rockstar North, Rockstar Games in New York, Rockstar San Diego and Leeds and Lincoln, and Take-Two, which bought DMA Design in 1999 for one pound. Also the working conditions: the crunch dispute is here in full, where neither the accusation nor the correction survives intact.
- **Controversy**, The moral panic, its participants and its evidence. Hot Coffee, the ESRB re-rating and what was actually on the disc, the campaigners and the politicians, the press coverage, and the research that was cited on both sides. Rockstar, the games press and the campaigners were all interested parties and each is named as one.
- **Courtrooms**, The legal record. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, decided seven to two at the United States Supreme Court in 2011, which ended the constitutional argument and which almost no telling of this story includes. Also the FTC settlement, which required disclosure rather than imposing a fine, the Hot Coffee class action and its decertification, and the suits that failed.
- **Cities**, The real places the games were traced from, photographed when they were themselves. Miami in 1986, Los Angeles and San Francisco and Las Vegas in the early nineties, New York across a century, and London. This is the largest part of the archive and the reason is a rights fact rather than an editorial one: almost no image of the games is freely licensed, and the cities are extensively documented in every era.
- **Business**, The money, with its sources attached. Take-Two as a public company and its filings, retail and the shift to digital, GTA Online and recurrent consumer spending, and the launch figures that are actually documented rather than estimated. Sales claims here carry a source and a date or they are not made.
- **Radio**, The in-game stations and the music they licensed, which is the part of these games people quote back most often. The DJs, the talk radio parody, the era-specific soundtracks and the artists whose work was cleared. Two hosts are real people voicing themselves.
- **Memes**, The artifacts that escaped the games and kept going. The loading-screen art style, whose author is Stephen Bliss, Rockstar senior artist from 2001 to 2016, who took it from Jack Kirby and is almost never credited for it. The quotes, the death screens, the neon palette whose descent from Vice City rather than from Miami Vice is genuinely disputed, and the clips that spread on their own. Where an origin date rests only on aggregators, it is marked as uncertain rather than asserted.
- **People**, The named individuals, in and around the series. Designers, writers, artists, composers, executives, actors, campaigners and lawyers. Living people are handled conservatively here: confidential settlements imply no outcome, and a disbarment is described by what it was for.
- **Development**, How the games were actually made. Race'n'Chase and the 22 March 1995 design document, the Dundee office above a former fish and chip shop, the shift to three dimensions, the engines, the motion capture and the open-world tooling. The origin story here is the attributable one: Gary Penn's line that nobody wants to be the cop, and a project that nearly died. The police-bug anecdote that circulates as the origin is fan-wiki folklore and is not captioned as fact.
- **Trailers**, The marketing as its own object. Rockstar's trailers have their own release-day culture, and the numbers around them need care: the first sixth-game trailer's ninety million views in twenty-four hours is Guinness-adjudicated on YouTube, while the second's larger figure is cross-platform and Rockstar's own claim. They are not comparable and are not presented as such.
- **Community**, Practice, meaning the people who do things with the games rather than the things themselves. Modders and the tools they wrote, roleplay servers and the people who run them, speedrunners, machinima makers, archivists and preservationists. Where a clip from this world spread on its own, it sits in Memes; the server it came from is here.

## Timeline

### 1904
- **1904**, Hudson Building & 42 Broadway. Rockstar Games is headquartered in New York, where Sam Houser remains president as of 2026. Hudson Building & 42 Broadway. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4ed7a6ec-94b5-4468-91d9-58dbde7b3555) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hudson_Building_&_42_Broadway_LCCN00650123.jpg
### 1913
- **1913**, House of Lords. Publisher BMG Interactive hired publicist Max Clifford to court rather than avoid outrage around the 1997 game. Clifford was an interested party who built his reputation on claiming credit for manufactured stories, so his own account is not neutral. House of Lords - DPLA - cd380d3a407ccd83cdc5cde2386707ce. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4f543ec8-0456-4c38-b152-f067cdc51fa2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_of_Lords_-_DPLA_-_cd380d3a407ccd83cdc5cde2386707ce.jpg
### 1920
- **1920**, Lower Manhattan by Brown Bros. circa 1920. Rockstar Games is headquartered in New York, where Sam Houser remains president as of 2026. Lower Manhattan by Brown Bros. circa 1920. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4b0afd97-93ab-4d3e-8184-bb2bee7bc9f8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lower_Manhattan_by_Brown_Bros._circa_1920.jpg
### 1937
- **1937**, Exterior of the Apex building, new home of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC settled with Take-Two and Rockstar on 8 June 2006 over the failure to disclose the Hot Coffee content that was relevant to the game’s rating. The settlement required disclosure, with future violations subject to penalties of up to 11,000 dollars each. No fine was imposed in the settlement itself; the 24.5 million dollars often cited was the cost of the recall. Exterior of the Apex building, new home of the Federal Trade Commission Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/48e95bf7-430c-46d8-b498-c60868f3efd9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exterior_of_the_Apex_building,_new_home_of_the_Federal_Trade_Commission_LCCN2016872023.jpg
- **1937**, Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. The S.R.O sign was hung out today as Secretary of Labor Perkins appeared before the House and Senate Labor Committee. The Family Entertainment Protection Act, introduced 17 December 2005, would have federally penalised sales of M- and AO-rated games to minors and required annual FTC checks for hidden content. It was referred to committee and never became law. Standing room only at Capitol labor hearing. Washington, D.C. June 4. The S.R.O sign was hung out today as Secretary of Labor Perkins appeared before the House and Senate Labor Committee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/123fc1dd-87ff-4a69-b69b-f99b87ed16e5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_room_only_at_Capitol_labor_hearing._Washington,_D.C._June_4._The_S.R.O_sign_was_hung_out_today_as_Secretary_of_Labor_Perkins_appeared_before_the_House_and_Senate_Labor_Committee_LCCN2016871800.jpg
- **1937**, The Capitol from the Apex Building The new home of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC settled with Take-Two and Rockstar on 8 June 2006 over the failure to disclose the Hot Coffee content that was relevant to the game’s rating. The settlement required disclosure, with future violations subject to penalties of up to 11,000 dollars each. No fine was imposed in the settlement itself; the 24.5 million dollars often cited was the cost of the recall. The Capitol from the Apex Building The new home of the Federal Trade Commission Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6634c06b-d431-4980-ad2d-557f228c59b8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Capitol_from_the_Apex_Building_The_new_home_of_the_Federal_Trade_Commission_LCCN2016872024.jpg
### 1948
- **1948**, Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, Bestanddeelnr 191-0761. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/744df14e-39c9-4fcf-8c48-4213eb749ad9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biscayne_Boulevard_in_Miami,_Bestanddeelnr_191-0761.jpg
- **1948**, Gezicht op Miami, Bestanddeelnr 191-0760. Collectie / Archief : Fotocollectie Van de Poll Reportage / Serie : Reportage Miami Beschrijving : Gezicht op Miami Datum : 1948 Locatie : Miami, VS Trefwoorden : panorama's Fotograaf : Poll, Willem van de Auteursrechthebbende : Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort : Glasnegatief Nummer archiefinventaris : bekijk toegang 2... [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8d70f691-4bb3-4761-b311-55663e1ab7fe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gezicht_op_Miami,_Bestanddeelnr_191-0760.jpg
### 1950
- **1950**, \[Cable Car Film\] (sound). An archival film on San Francisco's cable cars. The Prelinger collection is a standing source of free-licensed American city footage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e47aa2c0-84dd-4485-9b7e-eb15b786bac3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2_cyIcd5Jw
### 1960
- **1960**, London (Westminster), 1960, east at Cavendish Square to Margaret Street. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. London (Westminster), 1960: east at Cavendish Square to Margaret Street. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5e954829-2c64-4e6c-8f6c-4fd957b4f23f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_(Westminster),_1960,_east_at_Cavendish_Square_to_Margaret_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4669179.jpg
- **1960**, London Royal College Street, Camden -by-Ben-Brooksbank. Royal College Street, Camden, 1960. View NW, near Pratt Street. \[Precise location slightly doubtful\]. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7c856abf-1143-4c5a-8c0e-5097ca534d65) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Royal_College_Street,_Camden_geograph-3072773-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
### 1962
- **1962**, Picadilly Circus -by-Ben-Brooksbank. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/44564953-5514-4150-9cc3-97d989093784) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picadilly_Circus_geograph-3963212-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
### 1963
- **1963**, NY stock exchange traders floor. Photograph shows stock brokers working at the New York Stock Exchange. Take-Two Interactive is a publicly traded company, and its filings are the primary source for the series’ finances. Recurrent consumer spending is 80 percent of Take-Two’s FY2025 net bookings of 5.65 billion dollars, with GTA Online and GTA V named among the largest contributors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b1183897-c381-44c7-ad85-000653db3235) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NY_stock_exchange_traders_floor_LC-U9-10548-6.jpg
### 1965
- **1965**, Clapham Junction BR Standard 2-6-4T -by-Ben-Brooksbank. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Clapham Junction BR Standard 2-6-4T geograph--Brooksbank. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/dcd40036-62d5-4ba1-a5f7-17a1bb32f46d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clapham_Junction_BR_Standard_2-6-4T_geograph-2686065-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
- **1965**, Urban Scotland: Dundee (1965). Dundee filmed in 1965, twenty-three years before David Jones founded DMA Design there. The city's earlier economy was jute, journalism and manufacturing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c62ff3ff-c0c8-40cf-b365-bbba8f2216f1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4dQQGV5vFc
### 1966
- **1966**, Goswell Road, Clerkenwell, London – 1966. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Goswell Road, Clerkenwell, London - 1966. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/da10365a-34be-4554-b806-ad41d89eb852) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goswell_Road,_Clerkenwell,_London_–_1966_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6702616.jpg
- **1966**, This is Newark, 1966. A 1966 civic film portrait of Newark, a year before the unrest that reshaped the city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/070ced64-ef2b-451e-a604-11a98a2a04b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z0sWF8Cbt0
### 1967
- **1967**, 1960s fashions - London, 1967. Photo taken in the rain, September 13, 1967 at St. James's park in London, England. She was from Germany. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0d41a12f-8c15-4021-8099-20ec9d5fd316) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1960s_fashions_-_London,_1967.jpg
- **1967**, Broad Street station. This is now occpied by the Broadgate development. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c392df8e-5268-4338-8b41-9282fb6da05e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad_Street_station_-_49334734.jpg
- **1967**, Broad Street Station - the Lombardic staircase in 1967. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Broad Street Station - the Lombardic staircase in. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ab2ceffe-a2d8-48cd-a79d-13898249ae14) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad_Street_Station_-_the_Lombardic_staircase_in_1967.jpg
- **1967**, Broad Street station roof. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Broad Street station roof. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/19d1b216-52f8-4e58-88d4-32f6a48db0b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad_Street_station_roof.jpg
- **1967**, Broad Street station viewed from inside train sheds 1967. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Broad Street station viewed from inside train sheds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ae19414f-f4a4-4e4e-84ff-f3c657d89dc0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad_Street_station_viewed_from_inside_train_sheds_1967.jpg
- **1967**, Broad Street station with Eastern Region DMU. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Broad Street station with Eastern Region DMU, 1967. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/65860682-7226-4b01-abba-e83b17cd26ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad_Street_station_with_Eastern_Region_DMU.jpg
### 1968
- **1968**, Elevated view across Stillwell Avenue showing control tower and storefronts. Looking east by northeast. - Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell and Surf Avenues, Brooklyn, HAER NY-325-5. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Elevated view across Stillwell Avenue showing control tower and storefronts. Looking east by northeast. - Stillwell Avenue Station, Intersection of Stillwell and Surf Avenues, Brooklyn, HAER NY-325-5. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/09547acb-9d3c-4446-986a-3eeac50bb033) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elevated_view_across_Stillwell_Avenue_showing_control_tower_and_storefronts._Looking_east_by_northeast._-_Stillwell_Avenue_Station,_Intersection_of_Stillwell_and_Surf_Avenues,_Brooklyn,_HAER_NY-325-5.tif
- **1968**, Koninklijk huis, prinsessen, prinsen, bezoeken, galakleding, Anglo-Nederlandse S, Bestanddeelnr 017-1359. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Koninklijk huis, prinsessen, prinsen, bezoeken, galakleding, Anglo-Nederlandse S. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/995be64e-d45f-4ada-9bfd-28083a73fe2b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koninklijk_huis,_prinsessen,_prinsen,_bezoeken,_galakleding,_Anglo-Nederlandse_S,_Bestanddeelnr_017-1359.jpg
- **1968**, Soho At Night (1968). Pathé films Soho at night in 1968, on the eve of the year the London expansion depicts. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is the series' only historical setting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cc978d0f-fc85-4052-9fb9-adf0578aac62) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiwvwesBOOU
### 1969
- **1969**, 1969 London, Thames, Westminster. The Thames and Westminster in 1969. The London expansion required the original game to run and remains the series' single excursion into a real, dated, non-American city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/49452203-92ab-4a2b-bed7-d61674f7deeb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32v5xlMxlno
- **1969**, COVENT GARDEN MARKET - LONDON 1969. British Movietone films Covent Garden Market in 1969. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting, which makes real London footage from that year unusually apt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/22b6995e-d18e-4e51-9a12-2851569f2799) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p8QbCXD7LM
- **1969**, 1969 City of London, Bankers. The City of London in 1969, the year of the series' only historical setting. Free-licensed and archival film of the real place solves a period-imagery problem that game footage cannot, since no free licence exists for the games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/97d03386-81c1-4738-8dae-59b1aeca01ee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0aNASELHpM
- **1969**, Looking at London: Victoria Line, 1969. A city archive film on the Victoria Line, which opened in 1969. London of that exact year is unusually well documented because of the transport and civic projects underway. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ae299244-a8d9-4177-b702-36de0547e925) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Se4tt4RhA
- **1969**, Lloyds Of London (1969). A Pathé newsreel from inside the City of London in 1969, the year the expansion depicts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/291d1551-abaa-4278-82e5-05a13ebf06be) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLr7XsY1mz4
- **1969**, London 1969 archive footage. Seven minutes of London street archive from 1969. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 is the only entry set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/63638096-34d6-4580-81b3-13526891aca4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnvWsFGPeSg
- **1969**, Queen Opens New Victoria Line (1969). A Pathé newsreel of the Queen opening the Victoria Line in 1969. Newsreel archives are among the most reliably licensed sources for the one historical setting the series attempted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/76caa9a8-8170-4632-a7d5-47a8a397cc06) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huPa6Qcs-SI
- **1969**, 1969 London, Piccadilly Circus, Big Ben. Piccadilly Circus and Westminster in 1969. The London expansion required the original game to run and remains a genuine rarity in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8433bffd-9086-48ad-949c-dcf6996f888d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1VI8lOh5QA
- **1969**, Barbican, 1969: The development of the Barbican Estate following the Second World War. The Barbican Estate under construction in 1969, filmed by the city's own archive. Post-war London was still visibly rebuilding in the year the game is set. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/569f3adb-3020-4c49-bb38-1705e38b574c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLPlJsoVq8k
### 1970
- **1970**, Dalston Junction - view from train, 1970. This was the Kingsland triangle west curve used by the Broad Street to Richmond trains. It will eventually reopen as part of the East London line extension. The fourth-rail electrification was still in position. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8bf16569-cb43-484d-a870-f7d631944a52) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalston_Junction_-_view_from_train,_1970.jpg
- **1970**, Liverpool Street Station 1970. Taken from a train leaving Broad Street. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2267ac1a-10ec-4cdf-a0a6-3851fbad4307) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liverpool_Street_Station_1970.jpg
- **1970**, View of the World Trade Center under construction from Duane Street, Manhattan, 1970 retusche. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. View of the World Trade Center under construction from Duane Street, Manhattan, 1970 retusche. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f30e7baf-ac84-4cee-bc3e-2f49c315da7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:View_of_the_World_Trade_Center_under_construction_from_Duane_Street,_Manhattan,_1970_retusche.jpg
### 1971
- **1971**, Demography Students and Staff, Faraday House 8th July 1971. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. Demography Students and Staff, Faraday House 8th July. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/03cc1367-74f3-4424-9db4-dfa4de79a519) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demography_Students_and_Staff,_Faraday_House_8th_July_1971_(3926525656).jpg
- **1971**, London, Middlesex Street - 1971. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. London, Middlesex Street - 1971. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4a0dda6d-f058-4752-ab97-b16e314adebf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London,_Middlesex_Street_-_1971_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3280540.jpg
- **1971**, London, Widegate Street - 1971--by-Helmut-Zozmann. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. London, Widegate Street - 1971. London, Widegate Street, Sandy's Row, Artillery Passage, 'Petticoat Lane Market'. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/66ee7916-53bc-4fbd-be36-c28c590df97e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London,_Widegate_Street_-_1971-geograph-3280552-by-Helmut-Zozmann.jpg
### 1972
- **1972**, Fiat 130 Coupe at Earls Court. Fiat 130 Coupe at the back of the exhibition hall during the London Motor Show in 1972 DVLA data First registered in UK May 1973 Manufactured 1973 Engine capacy 3235 cc Not taxed for UK road use since March 1985. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. London 1969 is the only historical setting in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8817ffc1-0a36-4c0a-8bb0-9fe1ce75399b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiat_130_Coupe_at_Earls_Court.jpg
- **1972**, 1972: The BRONX is Burning - NYC FIREFIGHTERS \| Man Alive \| Classic BBC Documentaries \| BBC Archive. BBC cameras follow New York firefighters during the Bronx fires. The borough appears in Grand Theft Auto IV as Bohan, and its real history is documented in broadcast archives across decades. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3938d8a1-11de-4f59-8159-610f933be272) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPe0Ng0nU-0
### 1973
- **1973**, James Brown Live Hamburg 1973. James Brown performing live in Hamburg, Germany, February 1973. James Brown appeared on Master Sounds 98.3, the funk and soul station in San Andreas. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d2cc2c8e-2497-42d0-9f04-d31ffe47bfe2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Brown_Live_Hamburg_1973_1702730029.jpg
- **1973**, A RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE MANY RETIREMENT HOTELS IN THE SOUTH BEACH AREA OF MIAMI BEACH. NEARBY IS THE LONGEST STRETCH... - NARA. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. A RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE MANY RETIREMENT HOTELS IN THE SOUTH BEACH AREA OF MIAMI BEACH. NEARBY IS THE LONGEST STRETCH... - NARA. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/83357527-af01-4a6b-a2e2-f9995fed1dc3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_RESIDENT_OF_ONE_OF_THE_MANY_RETIREMENT_HOTELS_IN_THE_SOUTH_BEACH_AREA_OF_MIAMI_BEACH._NEARBY_IS_THE_LONGEST_STRETCH..._-_NARA_-_548619.jpg
- **1973**, INEXPENSIVE RETIREMENT HOTELS ARE A HALLMARK OF THE SOUTH BEACH AREA. A FAVORED PLACE IS THE FRONT PORCH, WHERE... - NARA. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. INEXPENSIVE RETIREMENT HOTELS ARE A HALLMARK OF THE SOUTH BEACH AREA. A FAVORED PLACE IS THE FRONT PORCH, WHERE... - NARA. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/23763283-4f9b-454a-83c5-90589e8b3f0a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:INEXPENSIVE_RETIREMENT_HOTELS_ARE_A_HALLMARK_OF_THE_SOUTH_BEACH_AREA._A_FAVORED_PLACE_IS_THE_FRONT_PORCH,_WHERE..._-_NARA_-_548626.jpg
- **1973**, LIFE FOR LARGE NUMBERS OF RETIRED PERSONS WHO HAVE SETTLED IN THE SOUTH BEACH AREA REVOLVES AROUND THE BEACH. IT IS... - NARA. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. LIFE FOR LARGE NUMBERS OF RETIRED PERSONS WHO HAVE SETTLED IN THE SOUTH BEACH AREA REVOLVES AROUND THE BEACH. IT IS... - NARA. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2764c050-433b-45ff-b501-a6367d02d881) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LIFE_FOR_LARGE_NUMBERS_OF_RETIRED_PERSONS_WHO_HAVE_SETTLED_IN_THE_SOUTH_BEACH_AREA_REVOLVES_AROUND_THE_BEACH._IT_IS..._-_NARA_-_548617.jpg
- **1973**, Looking northeast at Third Avenue Elevated over Cross Bronx Expressway. Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Third Avenue Elevated Line, Borough of the Bronx, New York. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8e07ab55-156a-4a9b-8157-87f3d65266ea) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_northeast_at_Third_Avenue_Elevated_over_Cross_Bronx_Expressway.jpg
### 1974
- **1974**, San Francisco 1974 Archival Footage. San Francisco street archive from 1974. San Fierro is the series' San Francisco, one of the three cities inside the fictional state of San Andreas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9af8833b-82ee-4f48-979f-6f2217e0b799) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJxmzJ3TaI
### 1975
- **1975**, 1970s San Francisco, Street Scenes, Trams, 35mm. San Francisco streets and trams on 35mm in the mid 1970s. San Andreas, released 2004, is set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e31f7ebf-1082-40cd-b74f-30fec9372b61) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqngnVDQ4UM
- **1975**, 1970s LAS VEGAS STRIP NEON SIGNS & HOTEL FACADES MGM DUNES ALADDIN STARDUST FLAMINGO XD60574. Archive film of the Las Vegas Strip's neon signs and hotel facades in the 1970s, including properties later demolished. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3ed6ac56-df5a-4e9f-bd7b-b600d6ddd5f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IqZJTDZOPM
### 1976
- **1976**, Pam Grier 1976. Actress Pam Grier during an interview in Los Angeles. Pam Grier hosts The Lowdown 91.1 in GTA V. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5798e77f-372a-43ad-85fa-906166110957) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pam_Grier_1976.jpg
- **1976**, San Francisco 1976 archive footage. A long archive reel of San Francisco in 1976. The real city is documented across every decade under licences the games themselves will never carry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cae0c8b8-48c7-4a35-9fbf-ef2597f71c7a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVv77hTr8w
### 1977
- **1977**, 1977 SOUTH BRONX: "THE FIRE NEXT DOOR". A full 1977 broadcast documentary on the South Bronx at its lowest point. Roughly a quarter of the borough's housing stock was lost to fire and abandonment across the 1970s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c00889c8-b70d-48e1-a7d5-4111b2ee1078) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQkhD-2cWwY
### 1978
- **1978**, KDAY Los Angeles / Dave Michaels / 1978 09 25,1250 1325. A full 1978 KDAY broadcast recording. Airchecks preserve the actual sound of American radio in the decades the games reconstruct. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/81fec258-dc4f-4a96-8a10-52dfefe727d5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PadFc56lxUs
- **1978**, Late 1970s San Francisco Mission District, Chicano Street Scenes, HD. Street scenes in San Francisco's Mission District in the late 1970s, two decades before the series reached the city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ce4fcfd4-fc6c-4f37-9f02-5e5ec8f5d339) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Hqnn8cdRE
### 1979
- **1979**, Chicken sign, El Paso, Texas. Roadside neon of this kind is the American signage vocabulary the Vice City look draws on. Whether Vice City originated that aesthetic or transmitted a 1980s one inherited from Miami Vice and the 1986 arcade game Out Run is genuinely disputed, and neither claim is settled. Chicken sign, El Paso, Texas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bbf0837b-1969-4057-83f4-4cad843b4fb5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicken_sign,_El_Paso,_Texas_LCCN2017709701.tif
- **1979**, Archive: 1979 Gay Freedom Parade in San Francisco \| KQED News. KQED's own newsfilm of the 1979 Gay Freedom Parade in San Francisco. Local public broadcasters are among the most reliable archival sources for American cities. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ecb0c532-50a8-4714-b42e-7ce0d9452514) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFZBIju9Ok
### 1980
- **1980**, Cohen's Chicken House sign, Junction City, Kansas. Roadside neon of this kind is the American signage vocabulary the Vice City look draws on. Whether Vice City originated that aesthetic or transmitted a 1980s one inherited from Miami Vice and the 1986 arcade game Out Run is genuinely disputed, and neither claim is settled. Cohen's Chicken House sign, Junction City, Kansas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2290cffb-a834-4a13-adb2-90ff8744ec66) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cohen's_Chicken_House_sign,_Junction_City,_Kansas_LCCN2017709730.tif
- **1980**, Trading floor, New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York. Take-Two Interactive is a publicly traded company, and its filings are the primary source for the series’ finances. Recurrent consumer spending is 80 percent of Take-Two’s FY2025 net bookings of 5.65 billion dollars, with GTA Online and GTA V named among the largest contributors. Trading floor, New York Stock Exchange, New York, New York. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9a1f02d4-53c8-4b88-ba8e-d3b6104e71f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trading_floor,_New_York_Stock_Exchange,_New_York,_New_York_LCCN2011630168.tif
- **1980**, Analog Infrared Aerial - Manhattan - Brooklyn Bridges, New York, 1980. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey. Analog Infrared Aerial - Manhattan - Brooklyn Bridges, New York, 1980. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/03ad7ed8-5885-44d4-9c3a-07e8cfd08842) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Analog_Infrared_Aerial_-_Manhattan_-_Brooklyn_Bridges,_New_York,_1980.jpg
- **1980**, Berkeley Shore Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Berkeley Shore Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/40cdaa13-050b-49db-b308-9dfa8092f186) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berkeley_Shore_Hotel,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711376.tif
- **1980**, Clown Casino photograph taken in the 1980s, Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. Clown Casino photograph taken in the 1980s, Las Vegas, Nevada. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4c66d6e1-baa4-4927-be95-2065070b04bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clown_Casino_photograph_taken_in_the_1980s,_Las_Vegas,_Nevada_LCCN2011630146.tif
- **1980**, Four hotels, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Four hotels, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/01d742e9-b74a-4e42-b908-beb5553143db) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_hotels,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711375.tif
- **1980**, Greystone Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Greystone Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f2169031-abdf-4945-a8b0-2bad1c75bf4b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greystone_Hotel,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711396.tif
- **1980**, Gulf, Miami, Florida. Vice City took this city and this decade as its subject, down to the year. Vice City is set in 1986, so photographs of Miami in this decade are photographs of the game’s subject. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/64693425-51eb-4e1c-b566-39589b77a504) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gulf,_Miami,_Florida_LCCN2017707702.tif
- **1980**, Gulf Gas, Miami, Florida. Vice City took this city and this decade as its subject, down to the year. Vice City is set in 1986, so photographs of Miami in this decade are photographs of the game’s subject. Gulf Gas, Miami, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/07f8e874-ef95-4384-a18f-9d003f9b7aac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gulf_Gas,_Miami,_Florida_LCCN2017707554.tif
- **1980**, Gulf Gas, Miami, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Gulf Gas, Miami, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f67a0804-1393-43af-bc00-16739d46eb02) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gulf_Gas,_Miami,_Florida_LCCN2017707555.tif
- **1980**, Hotel Collins Park, Miami Beach, Florida. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986. Hotel Collins Park, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ffe31dc0-7b95-4ac5-bb5d-5f64683c0725) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Collins_Park,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711400.tif
- **1980**, Hotel Davis, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Hotel Davis, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bd92dc38-d4ce-4d2f-a84f-91886b07f157) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Davis,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711366.tif
- **1980**, Hotel Taft, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Hotel Taft, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ff2be751-21c3-488b-8871-c64fe058ca4b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Taft,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711393.tif
- **1980**, Hotel Webster, Miami Beach, Florida. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986. Hotel Webster, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1c321958-6abe-4d44-9e9f-e6677ce935a7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Webster,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711371.tif
- **1980**, House of Moy Lee Chin Restaurant, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. House of Moy Lee Chin Restaurant, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0b6f8930-aeb4-45f8-b48e-d74a42643ff7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_of_Moy_Lee_Chin_Restaurant,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017709294.tif
- **1980**, Neron Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Neron Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f8982583-32f7-4ec6-9a37-f93adbf9eaa6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neron_Hotel,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711369.tif
- **1980**, New Yorker Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City took this city and this decade as its subject, down to the year. Vice City is set in 1986, so photographs of Miami in this decade are photographs of the game’s subject. New Yorker Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9894023a-8832-435a-9943-02af911a55da) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Yorker_Hotel,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711363.tif
- **1980**, Permastone entrance at 805 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach. HABS No. FL-322-51. 805 OCEAN DRIVE, ENTRANCE, SHOWING ADDED PERMASTONE SURROUND. Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District, Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/872414a2-4e86-452f-8a98-ccc1275c03b3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Permastone_entrance_at_805_Ocean_Drive,_Miami_Beach.jpg
- **1980**, Surfcomber Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986. Surfcomber Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1934c012-1d4c-440c-89ad-63f68689fd7a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surfcomber_Hotel,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711370.tif
- **1980**, A CASE OF CITIES: NEW YORK 1980. An Associated Press newsfilm report on the state of New York City in 1980, near the low point of its fiscal crisis. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f856b625-d00f-4fed-b1cc-7d719d70021d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J6xrKJzp48
### 1981
- **1981**, A Rolls Royce 1981 at 230 Park Avenue - in front The Helmsley Building. A Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn 1948. Just passing by 230 Park Avenue, at The Helmsley Building. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/755b4dfc-4cf6-4905-b04f-eb41258ce34d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Rolls_Royce_1981_at_230_Park_Avenue_-_in_front_The_Helmsley_Building.jpg
- **1981**, Harry Van Arsdale, Labor Day Parade, New York City. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. Harry Van Arsdale, Labor Day Parade, New York City. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1b1781db-f6e9-45d0-957c-24a0df770224) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harry_Van_Arsdale,_Labor_Day_Parade,_New_York_City.jpg
- **1981**, Manhattan from ferry gate; suspended gangways upper left and upper right. - Central Railroad of New Jersey, Jersey City Ferry Terminal, Johnson Avenue at Hudson River, Jersey City HAER NJ,9-JERCI,4-15. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Manhattan from ferry gate; suspended gangways upper left and upper right. - Central Railroad of New Jersey, Jersey City Ferry Terminal, Johnson Avenue at Hudson River, Jersey City HAER NJ,9-JERCI,4-15. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/03543a41-e53d-439c-a868-9d3cef66d5d1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manhattan_from_ferry_gate;_suspended_gangways_upper_left_and_upper_right._-_Central_Railroad_of_New_Jersey,_Jersey_City_Ferry_Terminal,_Johnson_Avenue_at_Hudson_River,_Jersey_City_HAER_NJ,9-JERCI,4-15.tif
- **1981**, New York 1981 - 5th Avenue (PLTL0311). New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. New York 1981 - 5th Avenue (PLTL0311). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f371ab90-9af2-477a-ad64-f8703e833a84) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_1981_-_5th_Avenue_(PLTL0311).jpg
- **1981**, 1981: Reviving That Miami Beach Magic, But With Less Elbow Room. Local news on the early 1980s revival of Miami Beach. The Art Deco district that Vice City models was, at this point, a contested and partly derelict piece of city rather than a postcard. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b5cd6495-296f-4950-8809-143d89e40231) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tg-BGnOLw
- **1981**, Working the "A" Train (1981). The transit authority's own 1981 film about the crews who run the A train. The subway of this era is among the most photographed environments in the city's history. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1160661a-23e4-4051-a25c-d9b59cc92cb1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcN_gPZEEI8
### 1982
- **1982**, Choo Choo Grill sign, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Roadside neon of this kind is the American signage vocabulary the Vice City look draws on. Whether Vice City originated that aesthetic or transmitted a 1980s one inherited from Miami Vice and the 1986 arcade game Out Run is genuinely disputed, and neither claim is settled. Choo Choo Grill sign, Grand Rapids, Michigan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7e34e767-2963-426d-a733-c1f17351c4db) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Choo_Choo_Grill_sign,_Grand_Rapids,_Michigan_LCCN2017709624.tif
- **1982**, Brooklyn Bridge night lighted 1982. Night view of the Brooklyn Bridge, looking northwest, bridge lighted. Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b392dce8-2897-41a6-b475-ecc5668729a5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Bridge_night_lighted_1982.jpg
- **1982**, Brooklyn Bréck. Looking north at Brooklyn Bridge, spanning East River between Brooklyn & Manhattan, New York City, New York County, NY. View of Brooklyn tower emerging behind nineteenth century commercial buildings on the corner of Front Street and Old Fulton Street (also called Cadman Plaza West). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/158c5165-2402-4144-8c25-15e2601b55b1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Bréck.jpg
- **1982**, Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City took this city and this decade as its subject, down to the year. Vice City is set in 1986, so photographs of Miami in this decade are photographs of the game’s subject. Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/393b37a4-e6bd-4416-8a65-b1d91e1d5346) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fontainebleau_Hilton,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711379.tif
- **1982**, Night view of Brooklyn Bridge, East River, Manhattan, New York NYC (1982). New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Night view of Brooklyn Bridge, East River, Manhattan, New York NYC. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2dc1d17d-9205-4ff6-a865-56fa6f899fe8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Night_view_of_Brooklyn_Bridge,_East_River,_Manhattan,_New_York_NYC_(1982).tif
- **1982**, 1982 NEWS SPECIAL: The South Bronx \| WASTELAND. A 1982 news special on the South Bronx. The borough appears in Grand Theft Auto IV as Bohan, and the real place is documented in broadcast archives across exactly the decades the games reach back into. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0e87d54f-1c4a-4f05-ba9a-05da0e84d035) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H15INi4udRE
- **1982**, South Beach Redevelopment, Or, Art Deco Begone!. Archive news on the fight over demolishing South Beach's Art Deco buildings. The architecture that later defined a whole visual genre came close to being cleared. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/48bd7b44-73c9-457b-aa44-5dc84967946e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHT2K1RYSJA
- **1982**, 1982 NEWS SPECIAL: MIAMI SLUMS \| Overtown Projects. A 1982 news special on Overtown, the Miami neighbourhood the tourist city excludes. The real Miami of this era was considerably harder than the neon that later stood in for it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/875a1e02-64bb-4cb9-ab08-027d4677aa70) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAtiGfKIwmE
### 1983
- **1983**, Alfred Gonzalez "Gordon's Gin on Dice". Taken in Harlem at about 109th Street and Third Avenue. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e8b1d32d-8a66-43d6-81e5-da4c78737151) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Gonzalez_"Gordon's_Gin_on_Dice".jpg
### 1984
- **1984**, The 1980s aesthetic, as defined by 1984's Miami Vice pilot. A clip from the 1984 Miami Vice pilot presented as the aesthetic's founding statement. This is the primary visual source that both sides of the origin dispute point back to. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7598cb08-dcb9-455a-aae3-73cf2ffcd9ff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r2JN6PaFnc
- **1984**, "Carnivale" - Miami, 1984. The cruise ship Carnivale in Miami's harbor on June 15, 1984. Miami in the 1980s is the model for Vice City, and the game is set specifically in 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cd33f615-cd54-452a-a87d-283bb38cc1f9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"Carnivale"_-_Miami,_1984.jpg
- **1984**, "Columbus C" - Miami, 1984. The cruise ship Columbus C moored in Miami's harbor on February 26, 1984. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0f7057e4-5d9c-419d-9099-2da6ce0fb8b3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"Columbus_C"_-_Miami,_1984.jpg
- **1984**, Central Park New York City New York 1. Bridge No. 27 , detail of Cast iron railings and railing post . A bridge 27 in Central Park , southwest of the Reservoir. Image (1984): HABS ,Historic American Buildings Survey of New York City. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cf92eb5e-daf8-4532-bb2c-160fe880b6da) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Park_New_York_City_New_York_1.jpg
- **1984**, Dan Rather at CBS, 1984 election set, N.Y.C. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. Dan Rather at CBS, 1984 election set, N.Y.C. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ca7db69b-230e-45b2-91cd-74df32bbbef9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dan_Rather_at_CBS,_1984_election_set,_N.Y.C.jpg
- **1984**, Governors Island Old Post Hospital. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. Governors Island Old Post Hospital. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/db53374b-bf40-414f-b83b-af94ddcb56e1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Governors_Island_Old_Post_Hospital.jpg
- **1984**, Jesse B Foerster NYC 1984 Empire State Building. Jesse B. Foerster on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York City, 1984. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/454e1cc0-511b-415a-bc8b-7932f3497b3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesse_B_Foerster_NYC_1984_Empire_State_Building.jpg
- **1984**, The REBELLION Of Paint: "NYC Subway Graffiti's Golden Age "(1984 Archive). A 1984 broadcast on subway graffiti writers at their peak. The visual texture of New York in this decade is what the series reached for when it built Liberty City. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4b0f5ce6-1598-40a2-a1e0-0da65fd41311) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsv30bPlHG0
- **1984**, 1980s Miami \| Port of Miami \| Cruise Liners \| Florida \| Crime Inc \| 1984. Thames Television films the Port of Miami in 1984 for a documentary on organised crime. British broadcasters were covering the same city that Miami Vice had begun dramatising that year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aa2b28f7-5435-492f-8308-7971116ccb4c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egZP565ibmQ
- **1984-06-20**, Empire State Building -Top June 20, 1984. Night view from observation deck showing spire and antennae arrays. 35mm Ektachrome 64 slide film exposed 4 sec, f8, 50mm lens. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/449518b6-27f9-418f-8b25-5a581a64c631) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Empire_State_Building_-Top_June_20,_1984..jpg
### 1985
- **1985**, 0StoneC-R1-E119. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/036e7875-70e6-45c6-99be-a5d7863385c3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0StoneC-R1-E119.jpg
- **1985**, AnimalHousefilmset. The outside view of the home set used to film exterior shots of the 1978 film Animal House . The set was located at Universal Studios Hollywood. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7a556f59-5184-4a5c-8fe5-e468ff85390e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AnimalHousefilmset.jpg
- **1985**, CalTrain 916 named "California" waiting its turn at the 4th & Townsend station in San Francisco, CA in October 1985. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. CalTrain 916 named "California" waiting its turn at the 4th & Townsend station in San Francisco, CA in October. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1c6605ca-d696-4146-b661-dbffeb63bee6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CalTrain_916_named_"California"_waiting_its_turn_at_the_4th_&_Townsend_station_in_San_Francisco,_CA_in_October_1985_(30591257451).jpg
- **1985**, LeaveittoBeaverfilmset. The outside view of the home set used to film exterior shots of the television sitcom Leave it to Beaver . The set was located at Universal Studios Hollywood. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9feafa5f-2cf0-4cef-b9b2-12a0c4c7f829) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LeaveittoBeaverfilmset.jpg
- **1985**, Miami Bayfront Park, 1985. Aerial photograph of Miami's Bayfront Park in June 1985 (on an unspecified date). The Port of Miami and Miamarina can also be seen along with the bridge leading to it. Explicitly listed as being in the public domain as seen in the URL. It is unknown who was the exact person who took the photo. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ac06a430-9bc2-4596-b30d-2eea16946eb3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miami_Bayfront_Park,_1985.jpg
- **1985**, Shops, Venice, California. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3551ac84-e9e2-4e7a-b7ca-a88ed950c367) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shops,_Venice,_California_LCCN2017712587.tif
- **1985**, New York, NY Broadway by night. AP archive footage of Broadway at night. Times Square before its 1990s redevelopment is the New York that the earlier games evoke. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e404725c-c745-4a9c-a17a-6c6624800bd0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j1y_xH6Wko
- **1985**, 1980s New Jersey, Aerials Over Suburbs, 35mm. Aerials over 1980s New Jersey suburbs. Alderney in Grand Theft Auto IV is New Jersey, the state neighbouring the game's Liberty City. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4192a25c-9a3c-4b64-8b86-d5d0c7820272) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-jtxahB1j4
- **1985**, Times Square in the 1980s: A Short Documentary. A short documentary on Times Square in the 1980s, before the redevelopment that reshaped it. This is the New York the series drew on for Liberty City, a city photographed and filmed extensively in every era where the games themselves carry no free licence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/228501b1-6dfc-4507-a4d9-f37a0ca294ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46wOvUx7z7w
- **1985**, New York City 1980s Stock Shots - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com. NBC's archive of 1980s New York street footage. Liberty City is New York, and in Grand Theft Auto IV the mapping runs borough by borough: Algonquin is Manhattan, Broker is Brooklyn, Dukes is Queens, Bohan is the Bronx and neighbouring Alderney is New Jersey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8aeb7948-2559-4d7d-9793-6cb78d3cf301) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kNWylU7g-Q
- **1985**, Sunset Boulevard, 1980's. Archive film 41192. Los Angeles is the most filmed city on earth, and this 1980s archive of one of its best known boulevards is part of why the cities facet carries the archive's visual weight where game footage cannot. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ec42f18f-e2e3-44ae-a981-4928b38974c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1FFugu0HmI
- **1985**, Los Angeles Street Scenes, People, Cars 1980s. An extended reel of 1980s Los Angeles pedestrians and traffic. The real place is free-licensed in every era; the games are not, and never will be. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/db75c744-91be-463b-a27d-53b7e1d76def) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ep5mAHbHU
- **1985**, Views Around Miami, Florida, 1980s. Archive footage of 1980s Miami, its causeways and waterfront. Free-licensed and archival film of the real city carries visual weight that game footage never can, since no free licence exists for the games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/094b83f8-e869-4280-a0ac-e90b58262dc4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDzSNTk625o
- **1985**, 1980s New York, People of the Bronx, Bronx Buildings. Archive footage of Bronx residents and tenement blocks in the 1980s, the borough that becomes Bohan in Grand Theft Auto IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9af42323-d7e3-41b0-89c0-c40d95776038) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DrcKmQQKk
- **1985**, 1980s Hollywood Boulevard, Capitol Records, LA from 35mm. Hollywood Boulevard and the Capitol Records tower on 35mm. These are the real landmarks that Los Santos renames rather than reproduces, partly to avoid legal exposure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bcb0b8f1-98b9-44ea-9eb1-fc2c2c3d18b2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGuyDM3NNRI
- **1985**, 1980s Las Vegas' Neon Lights, Nevada, USA. An extended reel of 1980s Las Vegas neon. Free-licensed archives of the real place carry the visual weight that game footage cannot. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5c1c3601-b70b-4c0f-9294-c17f3e52e164) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvIpntqz2U
- **1985**, Various New York City Scenes-Restaurants Etc. (B). Associated Press newsfilm of New York street life and restaurants. Wire-service archives are among the most reliably licensed moving-image sources for the real cities behind the maps. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5c0575dd-8922-43ae-9a53-d70d2c77f2d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPFmyJxWspY
- **1985**, Fremont Street at night in Las Vegas (1980s). The neon of the real Las Vegas at night in the 1980s. This is the visual reference the series drew on for Las Venturas, its Nevada city in San Andreas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/826971c3-7d2b-4c22-96ff-d7d0299915fc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slHlN5Z_UK8
- **1985**, The REAL 1985 Hollywood: "Street Kids, Gangs, and LAPD Sweeps" (Raw Archive). Raw 1985 broadcast archive on Hollywood street life and police sweeps. Vinewood is the series' Hollywood, and the Vinewood Sign stands in for the Hollywood Sign. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/677dd639-919f-4a2c-bc09-261a50787195) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIyribwI8Y
### 1986
- **1986**, President Ronald Reagan Watches The Swearing-In Ceremony for Chief Justice Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of The United States Supreme Court with Warren Burger in Th. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, which struck down a California law banning the sale of violent games to minors and held that video games are protected speech. The vote was 7 to 2. President Ronald Reagan Watches The Swearing-In Ceremony for Chief Justice Rehnquist and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of The United States Supreme Court with Warren Burger in Th - DPLA - 32adedbd016ec59e33fe91bf20c9741c. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bb2ba6fa-5e8d-4c39-a6f3-dfd69e649324) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Ronald_Reagan_Watches_The_Swearing-In_Ceremony_for_Chief_Justice_Rehnquist_and_Associate_Justice_Antonin_Scalia_of_The_United_States_Supreme_Court_with_Warren_Burger_in_Th_-_DPLA_-_32adedbd016ec59e33fe91bf20c9741c.jpg
- **1986**, Donald Trump with Fred Trump. Fred and Donald Trump at Wollman Rink in Central Park, apparently during a November 1986 celebration of rink's restoration. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2c53d837-ee6b-434c-87e1-eb80df40ac6b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_with_Fred_Trump_(cropped).jpg
- **1986**, Fred Trump 1980s color. Fred and Donald Trump at Wollman Rink in Central Park, apparently during a November 1986 celebration of rink's restoration. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/25a16d7a-66c4-4413-a1e0-df0362f77958) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fred_Trump_1980s_color.jpg
- **1986**, Fred Trump in the 1980s. Fred Trump at Wollman Rink in Central Park, apparently in November 1986, during a celebration of rink's restoration by his son Donald. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/dcc02a87-316b-4a39-bb0e-fbe5a93fcf0f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fred_Trump_in_the_1980s_(cropped).jpg
- **1986**, George Deukmejian, Daryl Gates, and Sherman Block, 1986. Gov. Deukmejian with Chief Daryl Gates, Sheriff Sherman Block and blowup of check that was given to law enforcement. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aa8db3e4-4847-45da-af7a-8638863526e2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Deukmejian,_Daryl_Gates,_and_Sherman_Block,_1986.jpg
- **1986**, George Washington Bridge, HAER NY-129-28. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. George Washington Bridge , spanning the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey, circa 1985. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/be8c048a-d1d8-40eb-bd73-7c56b1654702) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Washington_Bridge,_HAER_NY-129-28.jpg
- **1986**, James-freud-models-san-francisco-2. James Freud of Models in the lobby of the Miyako Hotel in San Francisco, California - 1986. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6bbcb229-2f45-4272-9f68-f3636c678325) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James-freud-models-san-francisco-2.png
- **1986**, 1986: Art Deco Burger Joints Make a Splash On South Beach. South Beach in 1986, the year Vice City depicts. The Art Deco District and Ocean Drive are the real architecture behind the game's look, and behind the neon aesthetic later attached to it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1447273b-9ecf-4e61-8f34-62214244eebb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSaj38yubs
- **1986**, 1986 NEWS SPECIAL: CRACK \| "The Thrill Is Gone” Miami Florida. A 1986 news special on crack in Miami, filmed the same year in which Vice City is set. The game was released in 2002 and modelled on a Miami that broadcast journalism had already documented in detail. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9c901674-443c-46cc-9810-a22ffcd1d447) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Nr8mFDqqA
- **1986**, Scenes from Miami's Drug War, 1972-1986. Compiled local news footage of the Miami drug war through 1986, the year in which Vice City is set. The game's premise draws directly on this period of the city's reporting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0bfcd2b0-dc7d-4a56-b6ef-d2aa17fc267d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chG82s2zRrk
### 1987
- **1987**, Mr Magic & Dj Marley Marl - Rap Attack WBLS 107.5 1987. A 1987 recording of Rap Attack on WBLS in New York. The show format, with hosts talking over and between records, is what the games reproduce in fiction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8f15fdd9-3e7b-4e44-9e38-b1563cf2449c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7VgVxu98rM
- **1987**, A Green Tortoise GM "old-look" bus at SF Transbay Terminal in 1987. A GM "old-look" bus in Green Tortoise service at San Francisco's Transbay Terminal , in 1987. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d68a44b0-cb2e-46de-a60c-7c98ddd793ff) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Green_Tortoise_GM_"old-look"_bus_at_SF_Transbay_Terminal_in_1987.jpg
- **1987**, Brad Mays editing "Stage Fright," 1987. Filmmaker Brad Mays editing a scene from his first feature film "Stage Fright." Although most of the film was cut on an eight plate Steenbeck flatbed, here Mays is working on an upright Moviola, which he kept in his New York apartment. The series returned to a New York analogue three times, and GTA IV mapped it borough by borough: Algonquin, Broker, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney for New Jersey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bb046ab4-6bf2-40fd-bcd5-fefadf83a81e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brad_Mays_editing_"Stage_Fright,"_1987.jpg
- **1987**, Chasen's Restaurant, Los Angeles, June 1987. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Chasen's Restaurant, Los Angeles, June 1987-7290009994. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7a95b5a1-c63c-410b-a914-ffc62628070e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chasen's_Restaurant,_Los_Angeles,_June_1987-7290009994.jpg
- **1987**, Hotel Room San Francisco California June 1987 - 01. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. Hotel Room San Francisco California June 1987. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/70b6f4e6-81b2-4101-a7ce-712880a391ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Room_San_Francisco_California_June_1987_-_01.jpg
- **1987**, Leaving Chasen's restaurant, 1987. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/01066a9a-b98f-491b-b42a-5271ca8a023b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leaving_Chasen's_restaurant,_1987.jpg
- **1987**, Lombard Street, San Francisco California, June 1987 04. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. Lombard Street, San Francisco California, June 1987. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/06cfff4e-fc2e-4930-9f87-4a9b37f656b0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lombard_Street,_San_Francisco_California,_June_1987_04.jpg
- **1987**, Paul-hester-sf-np1. Paul Hester of Crowded House, outside Wolfgang's (nightclub) in San Francisco, California. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c166c8a8-17ba-494f-b190-75a4fc66d38d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul-hester-sf-np1.jpg
- **1987**, West Hollywood Bar, 1987. Interior, Mother Lode bar, 8944 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2b882bd9-5909-4a7a-87f4-fdcae1e40bcf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hollywood_Bar,_1987.jpg
- **1987**, New York in 1987. Nearly an hour of continuous 1987 New York street footage across the boroughs. Liberty City maps to this city, with Algonquin for Manhattan, Broker for Brooklyn, Dukes for Queens and Bohan for the Bronx. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/20657396-6af2-4ffe-aa3b-db071efa7487) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elHK6hlnuc0
- **1987**, N.Y.C RAILFANTRIPS ELS & SUBWAYS 1958-'87 MOVIE FOOTAGE UNEDITED. Two hours of unedited amateur film of New York elevated lines and subways up to 1987. Amateur archives of this kind preserve street-level detail that broadcast footage rarely captured. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/02c4f734-bb0c-436c-a5e2-7e6d9ef1ce66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYV7uyY-4Gc
### 1988
- **1988-03-31**, \[WRKS\] 98.7 Mhz, Kiss Fm (1988-03-31) New York After Dark with Yvonne Mobley \| 1D1K, Thank You !. A dated 1988 New York broadcast recording. The music on Rockstar's stations was either licensed or written for the games, and the licensing carried real legal exposure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/16cfbc88-fe3d-4177-8767-f382b93a1b54) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAGGfs8H_fI
- **1988**, W Riklis (left). Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1a36b641-68c2-4b13-b880-f9cfa5fee614) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W_Riklis_(left).jpg
- **1988**, The Ortiz Organization - Newark, New Jersey (1988). A 1988 news documentary on Newark, the New Jersey city behind Alderney. The borough-by-borough mapping in Grand Theft Auto IV extends across the river. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5f9a1001-292d-451e-8968-621498c1ca19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSoHJJ0l3c
### 1989
- **1989**, Lifeguard Gregory J. Bonann. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Lifeguard Gregory J. Bonann working on Will Rogers State Beach in 1989. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7bd904e4-e092-4c0a-83fd-93f50d6c9e81) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lifeguard_Gregory_J._Bonann.jpg
- **1989**, New York day, 1989. Helmsley Building, Park Avenue, New York day, 1989. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a0e6421e-d850-43f0-883c-ca3c7be0ec0c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_day,_1989.tif
- **1989**, San Francisco street musician - 1989. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Francisco street musician - 1989. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c73e933a-019f-4fb8-a5d2-d86e2cc2faf8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_street_musician_-_1989.jpg
- **1989**, Miami in 1989. Archive film 61591. Silent street film of Miami at the end of the decade Vice City depicts. The game is set in 1986 and was released in 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5f694635-8e67-4390-ad70-d5d5d8f3189b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqbPQk6-xo
### 1990
- **1990**, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia -- Ellis Island (NY NJ) September 1990. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, which struck down a California law banning the sale of violent games to minors and held that video games are protected speech. The vote was 7 to 2. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Ellis Island (NY/NJ) September 1990. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f36e723c-2774-4419-8e26-e2c924cd9120) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Supreme_Court_Justice_Antonin_Scalia_--_Ellis_Island_(NY_NJ)_September_1990_(24188200169).jpg
- **1990**, Inside Pirate Radio \[1990\] Documentary. A 1990 documentary filmed inside UK pirate stations. Radio of this kind, unlicensed and host-driven, is the form the games parody rather than the corporate formats that replaced it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/52561556-25fc-469e-bde5-c999d355b6c9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_oXEMu7Rzo
- **1990**, ShelleyDuvall. 's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0188bbe4-afb7-42cf-aad3-5e12335a8943) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ShelleyDuvall.jpg
- **1990**, 1411 Super Store, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. 1411 Super Store, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0c245001-1bd1-4939-a716-1d2129c1c4bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1411_Super_Store,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017706411.tif
- **1990**, Seven Days in Bensonhurst \| Frontline 1990. A documentary shot in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst in 1990, the real borough behind Broker. New York of this period is the city the series returned to twice, in 2001 and 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/22368fd5-d792-44ff-9097-1e19023f158c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSw0LC6kvgo
- **1990**, Century Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Century Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2e1c1f90-62cf-408e-9182-f437e0e17519) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Century_Hotel,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017707293.tif
- **1990**, 1980s, 1990s Driving POV on Hollywood Boulevard, 35mm. A driver's view down Hollywood Boulevard around 1990. Driving is the series' native verb, and the real streets it abstracts are extensively filmed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/317de75b-477d-4d44-8cec-b0ad3c958add) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrpqLEpl0wg
- **1990**, Gothic Revival - New York, NY - Church of the Ascension (1). Built in 1841. Designed by Richard Upjohn. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/321cc99a-51f2-49a3-91f4-6c1206a24378) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gothic_Revival_-_New_York,_NY_-_Church_of_the_Ascension_(1).jpg
- **1990**, Florida 43. Miami Beach, Collins Ave, Florida, Greyhound buses. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4d65798e-0aab-403e-9c7f-9992cd5c240f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_43.jpg
- **1990**, Miami 74. Miami Beach, Collins Ave, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6d1239ca-b30f-4d7c-9b49-0a21eeab131e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miami_74.jpg
- **1990**, Almost literally within the shadow the the glittering Las Vegas Strip, the Tropicana Motor Park, photographed in the 1990s, was a vestige of hardscrabble days in Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. Almost literally within the shadow the the glittering Las Vegas Strip, the Tropicana Motor Park, photographed in the 1990s, was a vestige of hardscrabble days in Las Vegas, Nevada. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/750b08e5-00ac-433c-929b-a68ff6e4a8e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almost_literally_within_the_shadow_the_the_glittering_Las_Vegas_Strip,_the_Tropicana_Motor_Park,_photographed_in_the_1990s,_was_a_vestige_of_hardscrabble_days_in_Las_Vegas,_Nevada_LCCN2011634438.tif
- **1990**, La Victoria bakery, looking south along Alabama from above 24th Street (1990?). From the picture bin at the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse. La Victoria bakery, looking south along Alabama from above 24th Street (1990?) Mission District, San Francisco, California. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/977f3246-6dc5-439a-b4e0-8fa256862edb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Victoria_bakery,_looking_south_along_Alabama_from_above_24th_Street_(1990?).jpg
- **1990**, Lincoln Apartments, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Lincoln Apartments, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a3deba16-a829-4b92-9e36-6666aeef7439) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln_Apartments,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017712580.tif
- **1990**, 1990 Psycho house from tram. View of "Psycho" house on Universal Studios tour, from tram. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a738a58a-bcfd-42b5-a78d-acee4569d587) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1990_Psycho_house_from_tram.jpg
- **1990**, Edison Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Edison Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b06d1743-4fd5-4e5b-8b8e-1231da3ec422) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edison_Hotel,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711394.tif
- **1990**, 1990 Psycho house from tram. View of "Psycho" house from tram, cropped. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b0d7bdfb-2f4a-4961-9728-147599faecd2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1990_Psycho_house_from_tram_-_cropped.jpg
- **1990**, Queensboro Bridge 186. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Queensboro Bridge, East River, New York. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b69f4e3c-2104-4fc7-aa35-9addd932b959) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queensboro_Bridge_186.jpg
- **1990**, Calimax Super Market, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Calimax Super Market, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d785d58c-4284-4c71-805c-91df62d29451) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calimax_Super_Market,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017712582.tif
- **1990**, Apartments, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Apartments, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e78bb6de-3ed8-4433-b98f-6b738f625c0f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apartments,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017711404.tif
- **1990**, Cafe des Artistes, Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. Cafe des Artistes, Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ffc3118b-6161-4b6b-a04b-22e4c1d6f4bd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cafe_des_Artistes,_Miami_Beach,_Florida_LCCN2017712583.tif
### 1991
- **1991**, US Supreme Court, 1991 to 1992 term. The 1991 to 1992 Rehnquist Court Seated, from left: Stevens , White , Rehnquist (chief justice), Blackmun , O'Connor Standing, from left: Souter , Scalia , Kennedy , Thomas. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, holding that video games are protected speech. His reasoning noted that the studies did not prove a direct causal link, and pointed to the long tradition of violent children’s entertainment. Justices Thomas and Breyer dissented separately. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/566553a7-cc74-4086-88b7-203f90efe0a4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Supreme_Court,_1991_to_1992_term.jpg
- **1991**, GoldenGate BridgeSanFrancisco1991. 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/52df4631-865e-4ddc-a0b3-4a9931abe6bb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GoldenGate_BridgeSanFrancisco1991.jpg
- **1991**, Pier39SanFrancisco1991. Pier 39 in San Francisco with resident Sea Lions. Taken 1991. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6295591a-a9f8-48da-8ec4-aa80d9ddf24b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pier39SanFrancisco1991.jpg
- **1991**, Hell Gate Bridge from the west. New York Connecting Railroad, Hell Gate Bridge , Spanning East River, Wards Island & Astoria, New York, New York County, NY. From east looking northwest, with Queens in the foreground. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6dc2b7ea-70f5-4817-bb51-dd4f1ec2ab85) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hell_Gate_Bridge_from_west_looking_northeast_348973pv.jpg
- **1991**, Lower Manhattan Skyline December 1991 2. Lower Manhattan skyline, December 1991. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/af40f866-6b47-400a-a22c-49c755d634e3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lower_Manhattan_Skyline_December_1991_2.jpg
- **1991**, Perpsective view Outerbridge Crossing. Cropped/rotated version of File:PERSPECTIVE VIEW OUTERBRIDGE CROSSING BRIDGE - Outerbridge Crossing Bridge, Spanning Arthur Kill from New Jersey to Staten Island, Staten Island (subdivision), Richmond County, NY HAER NY,43- ,3-3.tif. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f5c66fa6-73c2-4c3a-a335-25a7eb5a91a7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perpsective_view_Outerbridge_Crossing.tif
### 1992
- **1992**, Happy Days and Sunshine - a brief history of the Santa Monica Pier from 1992. A 1992 film on the history of the Santa Monica Pier, the real structure behind the Del Perro Pier in Grand Theft Auto V. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1ff26899-3f51-41eb-8b0e-321efdf56d20) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB-0eZZaWzw
- **1992**, LA 92 (Full Documentary) \| National Geographic. A feature documentary assembled entirely from footage of the 1992 Los Angeles unrest. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s and modelled on the era of the crack epidemic, gang conflict and these events. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6ef5647f-bc2d-497a-92e7-830921b089f2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaotkHlHJwo
- **1992**, Raw Footage of Los Angeles as the 1992 Riots Erupt Throughout the City \| From the Archives \| NBCLA. Raw NBC footage of Los Angeles as the 1992 unrest began. San Andreas is modelled on the era of the crack epidemic, gang conflict and the events around 1992, which is the real history its Los Santos is built over. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/af423203-0095-49f1-a08c-5ae534f7580b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRRpgOxMn8
- **1992**, Lombard Street to Coit Tower 1992. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. Lombard Street to Coit Tower, San Francisco, 1992. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bc0f3da0-3022-4d2e-944f-5bf6567ee58a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lombard_Street_to_Coit_Tower_1992.jpg
### 1993
- **1993**, DMA Design Christmas Meal 1993. The DMA Design staff at their Christmas meal in 1993, filmed by an employee. It shows who was actually in the building four years before the first game shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a18bf566-aab1-46fc-a258-9a3aaac69e88) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2cdR5-wurs
- **1993**, HD Footage of NYC From 1993 Is Surreal \| New York Post. High-definition street footage of New York in 1993. Grand Theft Auto III would set its Liberty City here eight years later, three weeks after the September 2001 attacks forced changes to the game. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0238ae11-8ed6-496c-bf08-f2c74aebe7d7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRX_BrNt01o
- **1993**, HERB CAEN2. San Francisco Chronicle newspaper columnist Herb Caen plays the drums at a party in San Francisco at the Engineers' Club October 1993 celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Paris Review. 1993 Photograph by Nancy Wong. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/22615034-4271-4fe2-ae1d-5f503d83ddfe) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HERB_CAEN2.jpg
- **1993**, Vintage Las Vegas Strip Footage 1990's Dunes, Sands, MGM Grand, Boardwalk, Hacienda. The Las Vegas Strip in the 1990s, including casinos since demolished. Las Venturas is the series' Las Vegas, reached in San Andreas in 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4709fb60-6d9f-4b36-a151-970e2eae5ad1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1MMJc3qPBI
- **1993**, KITT at Universal Studios, original uncropped version. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. KITT at Universal Studios, original uncropped version. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/625e16e5-3fe3-44a5-a952-4266b1fdb945) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KITT_at_Universal_Studios,_original_uncropped_version.jpg
- **1993**, 1990s Downtown Los Angeles, USA, Aerials Over Skyscrapers, City Hall. Aerials over 1990s downtown Los Angeles and City Hall. San Andreas is a state rather than a city, containing analogues of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9895bb65-3d88-416e-b6ef-0b2437c436ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8odSKjBE_Is
- **1993**, Virtua formula. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. Virtua Formula 8-machine plus commentator setup at the defunct Sega Virtualand, inside the Luxor Casino, Las Vegas, USA, in 1993. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9e80fe2e-e8f3-4b9e-b8f0-eb7bcf93ae03) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virtua_formula.jpg
- **1993**, KITT at Universal Studios, with Knight Rider sign in the background. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. KITT at Universal Studios, with Knight Rider sign in the background. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a06b9cee-a65d-4ed1-9304-948415c7e8c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KITT_at_Universal_Studios,_with_Knight_Rider_sign_in_the_background.jpg
- **1993**, 1990s Downtown Los Angeles Street Scenes And Traffic. Fourteen minutes of 1990s downtown Los Angeles street footage, contemporaneous with the period San Andreas depicts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b0d29fdb-7990-4e0f-ba38-38da82716663) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NnwT6VQs6Y
- **1993**, San Francisco Chinatown 1993 hires. Chinatown, San Francisco. Photograph taken from the intersection of Washington and Grant, looking west (uphill) along Washington. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/eecc42d2-fba0-449f-a9b0-8a3d6e62acd3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Chinatown_1993_hires.jpg
- **1993**, Dunes implosion Oct. 27, 1993. Local news covers the implosion of the Dunes on 27 October 1993. The Strip that San Andreas fictionalises was being demolished and rebuilt through exactly this period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fad19fbe-da60-478e-a9ce-71539f70b6b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiHHZqAK9qY
- **1993**, 1990s San Francisco, Street Scenes, Cable Cars, Trams, Hyde St Pier. Cable cars and the Hyde Street Pier in 1990s San Francisco, contemporaneous with the period San Andreas depicts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fdc671a3-9579-49e8-b955-72359b9a3af9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9VzWjor0Po
### 1994
- **1994**, Prince's Chamber in het Palace of Westminster in Londen The Princes' Chamber (titel op object) The British Houses of Parliament (serietitel op object), RP-F-F05022. Publisher BMG Interactive hired publicist Max Clifford to court rather than avoid outrage around the 1997 game. Clifford was an interested party who built his reputation on claiming credit for manufactured stories, so his own account is not neutral. Prince's Chamber in het Palace of Westminster in Londen The Princes' Chamber (titel op object) The British Houses of Parliament (serietitel op object), RP-F-F05022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/558964d7-cca6-47a7-a613-f89c9d67ad46) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince's_Chamber_in_het_Palace_of_Westminster_in_Londen_The_Princes'_Chamber_(titel_op_object)_The_British_Houses_of_Parliament_(serietitel_op_object),_RP-F-F05022.jpg
- **1994**, Violence in Video Games - An ABC News Report (1994). ABC News reports on video game violence three years before the first Grand Theft Auto shipped. The hearings of this period produced the ESRB, the ratings body whose 2005 decision on San Andreas became the series' largest commercial crisis. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/097cae1d-9533-43f0-8a03-f2b1bc81db10) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89uK7cMp6hc
- **1994**, DMA Design Office Tour. A walk through the actual DMA Design office, filmed by the studio's own programmer. This is primary-source footage of the building where Grand Theft Auto was made. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d3daf169-233e-4394-8bcd-5d54aa359e91) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f14k2j9V33Q
- **1994**, A Cirque du Soleil clown at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. A Cirque du Soleil clown at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0869b083-6972-440f-8822-7797de6a43cb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Cirque_du_Soleil_clown_at_the_Mirage_Hotel_and_Casino_in_Las_Vegas.jpg
- **1994**, Our Miami: The Magic City (1994). A full local television portrait of Miami in 1994. Vice City would arrive eight years later, set eight years earlier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1daf39c1-0155-4c63-8816-d8530e52b19a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFucax8Zmm4
- **1994**, San Francisco Chinatown Clay Grant s PICT0027. San Francisco, CA: Grant Avenue intersecting Clay Street, looking south, in Chinatown; October 1994. San Fierro is San Francisco, one of the three cities on the San Andreas map. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2530d251-2dcf-44df-9a95-8a32f7a42424) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Francisco_Chinatown_Clay_Grant_s_PICT0027_19941009.jpg
- **1994**, Scott Weiland in Highland Park Los Angeles 1994 by Ithaka Darin Pappas. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Scott Weiland in Highland Park Los Angeles 1994 by Ithaka Darin Pappas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/59bd1b57-42f6-4180-8f3d-b23411a5c84b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_Weiland_in_Highland_Park_Los_Angeles_1994_by_Ithaka_Darin_Pappas.jpg
- **1994**, FEMA - 1830 - Photograph by FEMA News Photo taken on 01-17-1994 in California. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. FEMA - 1830 - Photograph by FEMA News Photo taken on 01-17-1994 in California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/59fd9859-b82b-4576-a04b-95fa780cabce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FEMA_-_1830_-_Photograph_by_FEMA_News_Photo_taken_on_01-17-1994_in_California.jpg
- **1994**, New York East River Brooklyn Manhattan Bridge e PICT0026. New York City, NY: East River from a pier below Brooklyn Bridge, in background Manhattan Bridge, and Williamsburg Bridge; November 1994. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5e604574-ffe5-457d-9553-f1609d758507) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_East_River_Brooklyn_Manhattan_Bridge_e_PICT0026_19941117.jpg
- **1994**, Aerial view of closed bridge from above Cerritos Channel facing east. - Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,75-11. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Aerial view of closed bridge from above Cerritos Channel facing east. - Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,75-11. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a1d8acdd-bbec-4723-be80-67a27c1182e2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_closed_bridge_from_above_Cerritos_Channel_facing_east._-_Henry_Ford_Bridge,_Spanning_Cerritos_Channel,_Los_Angeles-Long_Beach_Harbor,_Los_Angeles,_Los_Angeles_HAER_CAL,19-LOSAN,75-11.tif
- **1994**, Casa de Lila loggia and infinity pool by Michael E. Arth 1994. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. San Andreas is set in the early 1990s, so this is the period the map was drawn from. Casa de Lila loggia and infinity pool by Michael E. Arth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/abfa13b9-e2fe-4fba-80e4-262289f0380e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_de_Lila_loggia_and_infinity_pool_by_Michael_E._Arth_1994.jpg
- **1994**, Aerial view of nearly closed bridge from above Cerritos Channel facing east. - Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,75-10. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Aerial view of nearly closed bridge from above Cerritos Channel facing east. - Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,75-10. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b00d079a-2c18-4a37-9656-8d1b2d8a1aae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_nearly_closed_bridge_from_above_Cerritos_Channel_facing_east._-_Henry_Ford_Bridge,_Spanning_Cerritos_Channel,_Los_Angeles-Long_Beach_Harbor,_Los_Angeles,_Los_HAER_CAL,19-LOSAN,75-10.tif
### 1995
- **1995**, Gremlin Graphics - Studio Tour - 1995. A walk through the Gremlin Interactive building in 1995, the same year the Race'n'Chase design document was written at DMA Design in Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6f926ca7-cf42-471e-8d66-854956f7d69d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy9Z9gzhmu8
- **1995**, Il saluto di Angelo dal Brooklyn Bridge 1995. Angelo welcomes from the Brooklyn Bridge 1995. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/368cb5b6-b7ca-4376-8ba6-7a632741a290) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Il_saluto_di_Angelo_dal_Brooklyn_Bridge_1995.jpg
- **1995**, Treasure Island 95. Treasure Island sign (original pirate theme) and marquee, 1995. Las Vegas is the model for Las Venturas in San Andreas, which is set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6ba24250-d8c7-420e-8642-36b79d94e19b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Treasure_Island_95_(28609594120)_(cropped).jpg
- **1995**, Driving through San Francisco in 1995 (Dashcam). Thirty-five minutes of continuous driving through San Francisco in 1995. Driving is the series' native verb and the real streets are extensively filmed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9189aae9-ad1e-448c-8776-ee6951eb8a53) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0t9ogfCI3E
- **1995**, NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE AERIAL SHOTS 1995 WITH WORLD TRADE CENTER, TWIN TOWERS. Aerial footage of the Manhattan skyline with the World Trade Center standing. Grand Theft Auto III was released weeks after the September 2001 attacks; Rockstar delayed it three weeks, recoloured the police cars from an NYPD-like blue and white, altered aircraft flight paths and removed terrorism-related mission content. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/972915f3-6046-40c0-b264-622fec4e2f50) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nuYWnNdJxY
- **1995**, 1990s Las Vegas Skyline. The Las Vegas skyline in the 1990s. Las Venturas is the series' Las Vegas, and the real Strip of that decade is documented in stock and news archives in a way the game never can be. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a3d73b67-3784-4739-abfd-7fea3dd4d221) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9__iLXyYmww
- **1995**, 1990s Aerials Over Los Angeles. Aerials over 1990s Los Angeles. San Andreas is a state rather than a city, containing Los Santos for Los Angeles, San Fierro for San Francisco and Las Venturas for Las Vegas, and the 2004 game is set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f2c1abcb-b535-4c1e-874a-f941bb00c506) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eL1bpmcg_M
### 1996
- **1996**, GRAND THEFT AUTO 1996 Making Of - GTA - \| Retro Gaming \| BBC Archive. BBC cameras visited DMA Design in Dundee while the first Grand Theft Auto was still in production, more than a year before it shipped. The studio had been founded by David Jones in 1988 and had made its name on Lemmings, not crime. This is the earliest broadcast record of the game's making that remains officially posted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a860c45b-35c1-4b1e-80b5-b003ff59a6cd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vWSi44ZTSw
- **1996**, British Interview with DMA Design in 1996 about Grand Theft Auto. A 1996 UK television interview with the DMA Design team while the first Grand Theft Auto was still being built. The game shipped in Europe on 28 November 1997. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5a0cbb5b-cc39-4e3e-ab97-b442694000f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRQJZG4_HY
- **1996**, Gremlin Interactive - Behind the Scenes - 1996. Behind the scenes at Gremlin Interactive in 1996, while Grand Theft Auto was still in development at the studio Gremlin would buy the following year. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/04b34ec8-8b76-4725-be96-7989a4e06e1e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIgCvLvsUdQ
- **1996**, Tito Puentes band at the 1996 Olympics Atlanta GA by Don Ramey Logan. Tito Puente appeared on Radio Espantoso, Vice City’s Latin jazz station, which draws on the 1950s to 1970s rather than the 1980s. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. Tito Puentes band at the 1996 Olympics Atlanta GA by Don Ramey Logan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7e140276-2cec-44e7-bf97-02c17d265725) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tito_Puentes_band_at_the_1996_Olympics_Atlanta_GA_by_Don_Ramey_Logan.jpg
- **1996**, 1996 - Full Show - Las Vegas Sands Implosion Special - KTNV TV. A complete 1996 television special on the implosion of the Sands. Las Vegas rebuilt itself continuously across the decade the game is set in. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/080b1c71-9c14-4e38-a8cf-96f7488bbc07) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q_Q5DEu__s
- **1996**, Halloween San Francisco 1996 500cm. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. Halloween San Francisco 1996 500cm bare bulb flash street party fun. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/75519a39-a103-4116-b87c-37229b85f04e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halloween_San_Francisco_1996_500cm.jpg
- **1996**, CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO 1996 -TAXI MEDALLION SUPPLEMENTAL LICENSEPLATE - Flickr - woody1778a. This San Francisco taxi plate is colored reflective black on yellow. In the dark it appears silver on black. The black reflective beading when shone on at night reflects back a silver color. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/85af221e-6a77-4479-93fe-95c95b9c8814) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CALIFORNIA,_SAN_FRANCISCO_1996_-TAXI_MEDALLION_SUPPLEMENTAL_LICENSEPLATE_-_Flickr_-_woody1778a.jpg
### 1997
- **1997**, Grand Theft Auto (1997) 4k PC Gameplay - Bridge Jump, Running Over, Car Explodes. The 1997 original as it played: top-down, three cities, and already an open-world crime game four years before the series moved into three dimensions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d10d062d-ee8c-465f-96b6-3f04e6cab6c6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185PtO8jrOI
- **1997**, United States Capitol - west front. The western front of the United States Capitol . The Neoclassical style building is in Washington, D.C. , on Capitol Hill , at the east end of the National Mall . The Capitol was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill died in committee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9673332d-c5c0-46ce-81d3-e82e22ad3c91) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Capitol_-_west_front.jpg
- **1997**, GTA '97 - ASC Games Intro (RARE). The ASC Games publisher ident from the North American release of the first Grand Theft Auto. BMG Interactive published in Europe, ASC in North America. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/869ef8ab-8a3e-44d8-ad7b-49c4d8b8cab6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3mYd9xH5eY
- **1997**, Game-Rave VHS Archive: ASC Games Q4 '97 Games Footage. ASC Games' own 1997 trade reel. The game reached North America on 24 March 1998, months after its European release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/86b27349-072f-4a73-bf66-3c1878227c3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YcoJaDSA8
- **1997**, 97 Bronx 1800 block Loring Place South. 1800 block of Loring Place South, Morris Heights, Bronx, NY, in the rain. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/76ed50ee-0ded-4ecf-bdbf-27186ea1b6ab) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:97_Bronx_1800_block_Loring_Place_South.jpg
- **1997**, Fav Blessing Low Rez. The Blessing of the Bikes at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. This photo probably taken in 1997. Liberty City is New York. In GTA IV the mapping runs borough by borough, with Algonquin standing for Manhattan and Broker for Brooklyn. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/96edac9e-3e44-4111-a36f-261d3d593cf8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fav_Blessing_Low_Rez.jpg
- **1997**, New York. Central Park. März, wahrscheinlich 1997. Farbnegativ-Scan. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d5e577af-e82e-4c53-b800-e73206523e0b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_(3936190077).jpg
### 1998
- **1998**, Reportagem sobre a proibição do game GTA no Brasil em 1998. Brazilian television reports the 1998 ban of the original Grand Theft Auto. A separate 2010 Brazilian action against Episodes from Liberty City was a music-licensing dispute, not a violence ban, and is often miscatalogued. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e9fb85f8-f002-42a8-84c8-50c9240c57e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ3ndxZeOkM
- **1998**, Rakim-01-mika. Rapper Rakim MC, Hamburg/Germany 1998-06-03. Rakim appears with Eric B. on Playback FM in San Andreas. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0df7be84-8011-4cbc-8c19-6cfdfe45bc3e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rakim-01-mika.jpg
- **1998**, FEMA - 1354 - Photograph by Dave Gatley taken on 03-03-1998 in California. Los Angeles, CA, 3/03/1998, This aerial view of the Downey area shows the Flood Channels in the AR Zones. El Nino storms will affect the water levels in the channels and nearby homes and businesses. Photo by DAVE GATLEY/ FEMA News Photo. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/01ca5c5c-b87b-47fe-8d0c-1862df300208) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FEMA_-_1354_-_Photograph_by_Dave_Gatley_taken_on_03-03-1998_in_California.jpg
- **1998**, 1998-12-Canal-St-Chrystie-St-Citizens-Savings-Bank-New-York. Gebäude der Citizen's Savings Bank, zum Zeitpunkt der Aufnahme Republic National Bank, fotografiert im Dezember 1998. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3918a921-4ef0-43ab-a154-3068a8fe27a5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1998-12-Canal-St-Chrystie-St-Citizens-Savings-Bank-New-York.jpg
### 1999
- **1999**, Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) 4k PC Gameplay - Kill Frenzy Electric Gun, Russian Shooting, Krishna Phone. The PC release of Grand Theft Auto 2 in 1999. After this game a satellite studio opened in Leith, Edinburgh, and Dundee operations closed in March 2000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f53fcf3d-9bdb-4df9-975b-3c44f16e362b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnkxSS2IkQ
- **1999**, Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) 4k PSX Gameplay - Opening Videos, Intro Film, Title Screen, Menu. The last 2D entry in the series and the last released under the DMA Design name, before the Edinburgh move and the Take-Two acquisition. It is set in an unnamed near-future city. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ecadfa12-82c9-448f-b885-19c6b0795379) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wluauykGPuI
### 2000
- **2000**, Chuck D-mika. Chuck D in Hamburg/Germany 2000. Chuck D of Public Enemy voices Forth Right MC on Playback FM in San Andreas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d6d9b5c7-d06f-443f-b885-8692353580f9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuck_D-mika.jpg
- **2000**, Rockstar Studios/Angel Studios (2000). The corporate ident marking Angel Studios becoming Rockstar San Diego in 2000, a year after Take-Two bought DMA Design for one pound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2e131130-708c-4be9-bacf-e17763038a4a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZTVn2h_kI
### 2001
- **2001**, Leslie Benzies Discussing GTA 3. Rockstar North's producer during the Grand Theft Auto III era. Benzies remained president of the studio until 2016 and is now president of Build A Rocket Boy in Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9fb99206-0510-4138-ab4a-5920de86c80c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=442Ojzd6uu4
- **2001**, Klondike. The Klondike Hotel Casino Las Vegas was demolished in March 2008. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a85be231-c870-4b62-ab28-60c9b43cd822) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klondike.jpg
### 2002
- **2002**, 2002 CBS News Report on Violent Video Games by Byron Pitts with Bonnie Behrend and Doug Lowenstein. CBS News reports on violent video games with Byron Pitts, interviewing industry representative Doug Lowenstein. The trade body and the campaigners each funded advocacy of their own throughout this period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f4061736-42b8-48c7-9552-351187d7609f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGASbsr3RE
- **2002**, Rockstar Games GTA Vice City News Segment w/ Peter Jennings (ABC News 2002). ABC News with Peter Jennings covers Vice City in the year of its release. The game was set in a Miami analogue in 1986 and was censored for its Australian release, where no adult classification for games existed at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1800d8ea-03eb-4fd9-a5d1-5d76ceed7a45) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ArczRGUnkE
- **2002**, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - News Clip (2002) WSIL-TV News 3. A local US broadcast reacting to Vice City's release in 2002. The game drew separate objections in Miami over its portrayal of Haitian characters. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/63598cb5-88f2-48eb-b24b-dbaed66d5dff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysEToJCBDzE
### 2003
- **2003**, Artery: "Machinima" (2003). A 2003 television segment on machinima, films made inside game engines. The practice dates to the early 2000s and is one of the series' oldest cultural outputs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/79c180f1-174a-4c41-8a4e-1e08867a80de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0NtXj_gZqY
- **2003**, Dj premier-06-mika. DJ Premier in a club in Stuttgart/Germany. DJ Premier hosts The Classics 104.1 in GTA IV. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/02a243cc-1e6d-4271-b87c-e7016a71f16c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dj_premier-06-mika.jpg
### 2004
- **2004**, GTA San Andreas Official Trailer (Xbox). The official San Andreas trailer from 2004. The game was the largest of the three RenderWare titles, set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d351a959-2fd2-48c1-ab3d-212791dfa5d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFTXRoM50XE
- **2004**, "Ah Sh\*t Here We Go Again" Scene (GTA San Andreas). CJ speaks the line in the opening of San Andreas, after corrupt police dump him in hostile territory. Its meaning in use, weary resignation at a recurring situation, matches its original context unusually closely. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2973e57a-5155-4906-bfc9-e315aff001d4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=665_bPhRsrY
- **2004**, GTA San Andreas - Walkthrough - Mission #5 - Drive-thru (HD). The mission Drive-Thru at the fictional Cluckin' Bell, as shipped in San Andreas on 26 October 2004. Big Smoke's order runs: two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda. It is almost always misquoted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5c0b9991-96ae-4b31-9d15-93af1052760c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1aTlYlfzRk
- **2004**, GTA San Andreas - ALL Loading Screens. The San Andreas loading screens as shipped. This is the Bliss artwork in its original context, shown as game material rather than reproduced as standalone images. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/94119c02-4bd3-4cc4-b3fa-457a5dfcaa45) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW9MMejpmxY
- **2004**, GTA San Andreas Opening Intro. The San Andreas opening in its original context, uploaded in 2007. The game released 26 October 2004 and is the single most meme-productive entry in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c84bc3d3-9686-4a4d-a95f-c5484f57abbf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTB6eEHCAko
- **2004**, Ozzy Osbourne 2. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Heavy Metal rock star and reality television hit Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon, tour the battleship USS Missouri (BB 63) while filming their MTV show "The Osbournes" in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. U.S. Ozzy Osbourne appeared on V-Rock in Vice City. "Bark at the Moon" was later removed when the licence expired. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2fb232d7-a4d1-4f8f-8596-2782e486e82e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ozzy_Osbourne_2.jpg
- **2004**, US Navy -N-2383B-063 Senator and Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John Warner listens alongside Senators Carl Levin. Senator Joe Lieberman joined Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh in introducing the Family Entertainment Protection Act on 17 December 2005. It was referred to committee and died there at the end of the 109th Congress. It never became law. US Navy-063 Senator and Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John Warner listens alongside Senators Carl Levin. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3f9f376d-5561-48b6-940a-521622915a5c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_040210-N-2383B-063_Senator_and_Chairman_of_the_Senate_Armed_Services_Committee_John_Warner_listens_alongside_Senators_Carl_Levin.jpg
- **2004**, GTA San Andreas US TV Spot (PS2). The 2004 broadcast television commercial for San Andreas, contemporaneous with the 26 October release that anchors every quote in the facet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c4c0ff13-2db1-4ebc-be7a-c93477d5d014) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmrznfd6t5k
- **2004**, "00 1426 Calton Hill - Edinburgh, Schottland. Edinburgh has been the home of Rockstar North since the Dundee studio closed in March 2000. "00 1426 Calton Hill - Edinburgh, Schottland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ce4e5f4a-222c-4dfa-86a8-650930de780b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:"00_1426_Calton_Hill_-_Edinburgh,_Schottland.jpg
- **2004**, Rob halford 2004. Judas Priest appear on V-Rock in Vice City. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. Rob Halford of Judas Priest performing at Gods of Metal 2004 in Bologna, Italy. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/141abebf-0c19-478e-98f9-fd5196d8ae49) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rob_halford_2004.tiff
- **2004**, US Navy -N-2383B-091 Senators John McCain, John Warner, Carl Levin, Joseph Lieberman, and other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee listen to testimony. Senator Joe Lieberman joined Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh in introducing the Family Entertainment Protection Act on 17 December 2005. It was referred to committee and died there at the end of the 109th Congress. It never became law. US Navy-091 Senators John McCain, John Warner, Carl Levin, Joseph Lieberman, and other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee listen to testimony. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3c085995-2d86-4125-9dc0-77f7a2e248c1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Navy_040210-N-2383B-091_Senators_John_McCain,_John_Warner,_Carl_Levin,_Joseph_Lieberman,_and_other_members_of_the_Senate_Armed_Services_Committee_listen_to_testimony.jpg
- **2004**, Jack Thompson vs Tony Romando on GTA San Andreas \| Today Show NBC (10/26/2004). An NBC Today Show debate on San Andreas dated 26 October 2004, the game's US release day and months before the Hot Coffee affair broke. Jack Thompson argues opposite an industry representative. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5647b514-24f3-4bb5-b601-eb00adde76c4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEYufivO7ZU
- **2004**, Tower Block Dreams (pirate radio) London. A documentary on London tower-block pirate radio. British radio culture is the background the Scottish-built games drew on when inventing American stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/74ef7659-836f-4f7b-9ae1-ca0b061b6e80) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvF7mbNs50
### 2005
- **2005-02-25**, The U.S. Senator, Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton calling on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on February 25, 2005. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill was referred to committee and died there; it never became law. The U.S. Senator, Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton calling on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on February 25, 2005. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2ac964b5-598d-4ba9-8872-4dc373bc975f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_U.S._Senator,_Ms._Hillary_Rodham_Clinton_calling_on_the_Prime_Minister_Dr._Manmohan_Singh_in_New_Delhi_on_February_25,_2005.jpg
- **2005**, E3 2005. Taken on May 20, 2005 Dowtown Carrier Annex, Los Angeles, CA, US Sony Cybershot. GTA V launched on 17 September 2013 and took 800 million dollars in 24 hours and one billion in three days, the fastest-selling entertainment product on record at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6f6f25e7-4c8e-4065-83bd-26e53d7aa544) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E3_2005.jpg
- **2005**, Namco and Sega. GTA V launched on 17 September 2013 and took 800 million dollars in 24 hours and one billion in three days, the fastest-selling entertainment product on record at the time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/154fe8cd-c2ac-4c4c-8330-b3fb567c6b17) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Namco_and_Sega_(15071907).jpg
- **2005**, ApexBuildingHighsmith. The FTC settled with Take-Two and Rockstar on 8 June 2006 over the failure to disclose the Hot Coffee content that was relevant to the game’s rating. The settlement required disclosure, with future violations subject to penalties of up to 11,000 dollars each. No fine was imposed in the settlement itself; the 24.5 million dollars often cited was the cost of the recall. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1ca0b817-0d26-487f-9008-081d5934bbd7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ApexBuildingHighsmith.jpg
- **2005**, Rockstar Games buses at E3 2005. Rockstar’s invite-only enclosure at E3 2005, made up of coach buses branded with Rockstar related livery. Rockstar at E3 in 2005, the year Hot Coffee broke. The ESRB re-rated San Andreas from M to Adults Only on 20 July 2005, and major US retailers pulled it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/40884f8d-138e-4867-a86e-3abf67d67c95) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rockstar_Games_buses_at_E3_2005.jpg
- **2005**, Federal Trade Commission Building. The Federal Trade Commission Building, originally known as the Apex Building, located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in the Federal Triangle area of Washington, D.C. The FTC settled with Take-Two and Rockstar on 8 June 2006 over the failure to disclose the Hot Coffee content that was relevant to the game’s rating. The settlement required disclosure, with future violations subject to penalties of up to 11,000 dollars each. No fine was imposed in the settlement itself; the 24.5 million dollars often cited was the cost of the recall. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/610037f2-1657-4403-a0d3-c9af1bde86b1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Federal_Trade_Commission_Building.jpg
- **2005**, Commodore64. (1982). Post processing: BG, B/C, noise, dust, spot. The Kingsway Amateur Computer Club in Dundee, where DMA Design’s founding team met, was a home-computer club of this era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d8a46758-41d3-40a2-925a-0677f0f75894) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore64.jpg
- **2005**, Hillary Clinton (1). Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill was referred to committee and died there; it never became law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0ee5609e-87a7-44b1-a016-cee9d3bfaa0b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hillary_Clinton_(22567954442)_(1).jpg
- **2005**, Rockstar Games President Talks PS3 in 2005. Sam Houser on camera in 2005, the year of the Hot Coffee affair and the Adults Only re-rating that forced a recall costing Take-Two US$24.5 million. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fc50522d-70fb-40ed-962b-840192a0ac5e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO2ZyHmDpCE
- **2005**, US Congress Discusses GTA: San Andreas. Congressional discussion of San Andreas following the Hot Coffee re-rating. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. It was referred to committee and died there. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b897b1e9-e2b6-4121-ac36-512203aafa70) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wiJmjw4dp0
- **2005**, Rockstar Games GTA 60 Minutes segment (2005). CBS 60 Minutes on the series in 2005, the year the ESRB re-rated San Andreas to Adults Only on 20 July. Major retailers pulled the game because AO product is effectively unsellable at mass retail. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/21652098-e4bc-4b1b-abf6-05105d315050) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lfgByYZgk8
- **2005**, CBS 60 Minutes: Can A Video Game Lead To Murder?. CBS 60 Minutes covers the Fayette, Alabama case in which Devin Moore killed two police officers and a dispatcher while being detained over an allegedly stolen car. Moore had said he played Vice City. He was convicted of murder in 2005; the civil suit against the industry that followed lost on summary judgment and again on appeal. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b7b226ca-247b-4c13-b1c3-1aa481234614) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WOf4CWO16c
- **2005**, Jack Thompson Going After Video Games \| 2005 - 2008. Compiled broadcast appearances spanning 2005 to 2008. Across that period Thompson's suits in Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, New Mexico and Florida were dismissed, withdrawn or lost. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ae908f95-f01e-493b-90bf-a7bfaf0a6ad6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOlPPN4PFM
- **2005**, Rockstar Games GTA: San Andreas 2005 MSNBC Segment\| Game Sex Worse Than Violence?. MSNBC covers the Hot Coffee affair in 2005, framing the sexual content as more troubling than the violence. The material had shipped intact on the retail discs and was merely made inaccessible; a modder disabled the restriction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0f38487e-765f-4189-a4e8-1a33c09dea42) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnssr6Uby54
- **2005**, Fox News: Link Between Teen Killers and Video Games?. A Fox News segment asserting a causal link between games and teenage killings. The American Psychological Association later warned explicitly against attributing violence such as mass shootings to game use. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2acb9077-9ea3-465a-8cce-11df639101f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GoHyG-Dj0
- **2005**, Joe Lieberman Leads Senate Judiciary Hearing on Violence in Video Games. A full Senate hearing on violence in games chaired by Joe Lieberman, who with Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act on 17 December 2005. It was referred to committee and never became law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f9e16fc9-ac85-4825-8f73-3b2e60896290) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMw1jfsZaw
### 2006
- **2006**, United states supreme court building. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786, was decided here in 2011. The Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, 7 to 2, holding that video games are protected speech under the First Amendment. This is the legal endpoint of the entire moral panic and it is routinely omitted. United States Supreme Court building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0a7cfda9-4e41-4096-8ea3-f7a232892439) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_states_supreme_court_building.png
- **2006**, Iggy Pop (16). Live on the 15th of August, 2006. Budapest, Sziget Festival. Grand Stage. Iggy Pop. Iggy Pop hosts Liberty Rock Radio in GTA IV as himself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e197436f-d65a-4721-ba9a-309bc1cb8acd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iggy_Pop_(16).jpg
- **2006**, George Clinton 2006. George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic voices The Funktipus on Bounce FM in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic performing at the Granada Theater in Dallas, Texas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bd859c48-ca93-49ea-abe3-6a0a4d08ac92) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Clinton_2006.jpg
- **2006**, HerbieHancock. 2006. Herbie Hancock appears on Wildstyle in Vice City. His track was later removed when the licence expired. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9806d865-b39a-49da-9d21-703e5fa6069b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HerbieHancock.jpg
- **2006**, Iggy Pop kneel - Sziget Fest 2006. IGGY POP. Budapest, Sziget Festival 2006 08 15. Iggy Pop hosts Liberty Rock Radio in GTA IV. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c9c6ec79-3770-4e59-812e-e1c788b595d4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iggy_Pop_kneel_-_Sziget_Fest_2006.jpg
- **2006**, \[4K60FPS\] In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins Concert \[GTA Vice City Stories\] (Color Corrected). Phil Collins performs In The Air Tonight inside Vice City Stories, released 2006. A major musician appearing as himself in a game was, at the time, close to unprecedented. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/05d09cee-c014-42c0-ae00-a21e56cd8df1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwrZunRZYn4
- **2006**, Clock Tower - Palace of Westminster, London - September 2006. The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, colloquially known as "Big Ben", in Westminster, London, England. Lord Campbell of Croy condemned the first Grand Theft Auto in the House of Lords. A named peer speaking in Hansard is the hardest record in the British side of this story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6759fdc2-b45a-496d-bde5-d1a61e2d0909) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clock_Tower_-_Palace_of_Westminster,_London_-_September_2006.jpg
- **2006**, Nightline: Jack Thomson (2006). An ABC Nightline profile of Thompson at the height of his campaign. His wrongful-death claim over Manhunt in the UK rested on a link between the game and a murder that the police investigation did not support. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/30528b1c-9adf-4ad2-8a4a-d1ed5aababdf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06YSAQQ5wcE
- **2006**, Hillary Clinton Hates On Video Games. Hillary Clinton on game regulation during the period of her proposed legislation. She had petitioned the FTC on 14 July 2005, days before the ESRB re-rated San Andreas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f57dd0a2-ffc8-4323-9d16-734a44d8fb92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1udjd2Aq3E
- **2006**, Lady Luck. Downtown Las Vegas on Fremont Street - in the days before the Fremont Street Experience went in. Around 1991. Las Vegas is the model for Las Venturas in San Andreas, which is set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8a871b97-2c8b-4472-b8df-f36ebe3f5749) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_Luck.jpg
- **2006**, Beacon Hotel at Night. The Beacon Hotel on Ocean Drive at Night; Miami Beach, Florida. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/991edec4-82e6-41f9-a25e-fa4966ee6581) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beacon_Hotel_at_Night.jpg
### 2007
- **2007-03-29**, Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 1 "Things Will Be Different". The first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV returned the series to Liberty City with a markedly more sober tone. Its 2008 release is the occasion of Jack Thompson's remark calling the game the gravest assault upon children since polio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7cf12476-6d97-4b89-b6f2-649d1c6ea489) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80K51DosFo
- **2007**, Private LAN party in Norway. The modding and multiplayer scene around the series produced San Andreas Multiplayer, Multi Theft Auto and eventually FiveM. Rockstar fought the modders and then bought them: Take-Two issued a cease and desist to OpenIV on 5 June 2017 and reversed within about two weeks after player backlash. Private LAN party in Norway. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/af0e3924-4b55-4fcb-a264-e839f7223830) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Private_LAN_party_in_Norway.JPG
- **2007**, US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of the United States . Washington, D.C. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786, was decided here in 2011. The Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, 7 to 2, holding that video games are protected speech under the First Amendment. This is the legal endpoint of the entire moral panic and it is routinely omitted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fc16caf8-497f-4817-b092-95ba9627189e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Supreme_Court.JPG
- **2007**, Hilton Dundee from Tay Road Bridge at sunset. The Dundee Hilton hotel and riverside from Tay Road Bridge at sunset, January 2007. (Old Olympia Leisure Centre and Discovery Point can be seen in distance). David Jones founded DMA Design in Dundee in 1988, aged 22, drawing his first team from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. The biggest entertainment franchise on earth came out of a small industrial city in eastern Scotland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/714bde8e-a0b3-4744-96cf-7cbfcd7961a9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hilton_Dundee_from_Tay_Road_Bridge_at_sunset.jpg
- **2007**, McDonalds drive thru Charnwood Australia. A car orders lunch at the McDonalds drive-thru in Charnwood, Australian Capital Territory. Big Smoke’s order, from the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru" at the fictional Cluckin’ Bell, is one of the most quoted lines in games and is almost always misquoted. Around 2014 the order was adopted for crank calls to real fast-food outlets, a genuine crossing from screen into the physical world. This photograph shows a real drive-thru, not the game. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/eb975542-7965-41f7-a253-b2c7049a4f08) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McDonalds_drive_thru_Charnwood_Australia.jpg
- **2007**, Grandmaster Flash. ’s hip hop station. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. Grandmaster Flash at the Ingenuity Festival. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e23d6f92-7065-4865-9a0f-4725fcc947c8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grandmaster_Flash_(872341618).jpg
- **2007**, Juliette Lewis f1728239. Juliette Lewis from Juliette and the Licks at the Eurockéennes of 2007. Juliette Lewis hosts Radio Broker in GTA IV. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6af80771-bca7-48ca-9ab4-151d0c8d6d2a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juliette_Lewis_f1728239.jpg
- **2007**, Metalmania 2008 Megadeth Dave Mustaine 02. Dave Mustaine from Megadeth during Metalmania 2008 festival. Megadeth appear on V-Rock, Vice City’s metal station. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a2863175-1c42-4006-bd4f-92c468a294ee) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metalmania_2008_Megadeth_Dave_Mustaine_02.jpg
- **2007**, Rage Against The Machine [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8c432789-bb39-4670-a531-17d753e2d5d2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rage_Against_The_Machine.jpg
- **2007**, Rock en Seine 2007, 2 Many DJs. 2 Many DJs (Stephen and David Dewaele / Soulwax) at Rock en Seine, August 2007. Soulwax host Soulwax FM in GTA V. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ef5d43cf-01e7-4566-9f79-cb226788cfa3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_en_Seine_2007,_2_Many_DJs.jpg
- **2007**, Capitol, Washington, D.C. USA4. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., USA. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill died in committee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fa5f2895-a09c-4813-83a4-ddef972cac30) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capitol,_Washington,_D.C._USA4.jpg
- **2007**, JackThompsonAttorney. ) speaking at a debate at California University of Pennsylvania. Jack Thompson filed repeatedly against the industry through the 2000s and did not win. His 2008 disbarment was for conduct toward tribunals and opposing counsel, not for his opinions about games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9cc3069c-e88c-4f72-8357-ebe46421d32c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JackThompsonAttorney.jpg
- **2007**, Fox's Cashin' In with Jack Thompson. A Fox Business panel putting Thompson opposite industry defenders. Take-Two filed suit against him on 14 March 2007 seeking to enjoin him from bringing public nuisance actions to block unreleased games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8b94d9a3-4aa8-4bb7-a8af-1dbf2ee175e8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNiFKACRNus
- **2007**, 79.LincolnRoad.MB.FL.04mar07. Art Deco relief sculpture on facade of the Lincoln Theater / New World Symphony . 541 Lincoln Road . South Beach . Miami Beach, FL . Sunday Afternoon, 04 March 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d91e955f-6061-4d9e-8ee9-6718ea4931e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:79.LincolnRoad.MB.FL.04mar07.jpg
- **2007-12-13**, 2007-12-13 madd 03web. Mothers Against Drunk Driving objected to the drunk-driving mechanic in GTA IV in 2008 and asked the ESRB to re-rate the game from M to AO. The ESRB did not re-rate it. Rockstar replied that its mature audience was sophisticated enough to understand the content. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e61abcef-3cd2-4ee4-b11c-903fda3d90b5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2007-12-13_madd_03web.jpg
### 2008
- **2008-04-29**, Sex And Violence In Games (CBS News). A CBS News segment on sex and violence in games, three years after the Hot Coffee re-rating. Rockstar's reply to MADD that year was that the mature audience for the game was sophisticated enough to understand its content. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6f40abc7-f637-4bc7-9957-d9645d132b92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcovxDv8ayQ
- **2008-04-29**, Eye To Eye: Grand Theft Auto (CBS News). CBS News covers Grand Theft Auto IV at release. The game arrived the same year Mothers Against Drunk Driving asked the ESRB to re-rate it from M to Adults Only over its drunk-driving mechanic. The ESRB declined. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cd51ab7c-9991-4825-9b29-1a514cce0425) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhxJPrDlrtI
- **2008**, Persevere: Leith History \| 2008. A community history of Leith, the Edinburgh district where DMA Design opened a satellite studio after Grand Theft Auto 2 in 1999. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9984b427-e6bd-43b3-b643-eb7a35db7943) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzpJGcuEUqA
- **2008**, Amiga 500, angled, Google NY office computer museum. DMA Design began on home computers of this class in Dundee in 1988, making Lemmings before it made Grand Theft Auto. Amiga 500, angled, Google NY office computer museum A small museum at the Google New York office, put together by Craig Nevill-Manning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e9ed1121-7213-4c0b-b66d-729e53320aeb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amiga_500,_angled,_Google_NY_office_computer_museum.jpg
- **2008**, Amiga 500, front, Google NY office computer museum. DMA Design began on home computers of this class in Dundee in 1988, making Lemmings before it made Grand Theft Auto. Amiga 500, front, Google NY office computer museum A small museum at the Google New York office, put together by Craig Nevill-Manning. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e1956723-1ff0-4185-b13d-c332decda48c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amiga_500,_front,_Google_NY_office_computer_museum.jpg
- **2008**, 77, Jack Thompson Permanently disbarred....YAY!. Posted four days after the Supreme Court of Florida disbarred Jack Thompson on 25 September 2008. Referee Judge Dava Tunis found him guilty of 27 of 31 charged violations, with costs assessed at US$43,675.35. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a9e36014-9c8f-4d7a-8107-0c3913751c86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3gwqmYjrNY
- **2008**, GTA IV Katt Williams Stand up Act from Liberty City Split Sides Comedy Club vice city. Katt Williams' in-game routine from Grand Theft Auto IV. The comedy club was a full production with performers captured for the game rather than voiced from a booth. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0636dae0-2f9c-47c2-886c-04ce0bb57d60) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eILUM1mgsU
- **2008**, GTA IV Ricky Gervais Stand Act from Liberty city Split Sides Comedy Club. Ricky Gervais performs a motion-captured stand-up set inside Grand Theft Auto IV. Celebrities appearing as themselves across the series include Gervais, Katt Williams, Frankie Boyle, Phil Collins and Jesco White. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/87c802e5-b119-4dac-9daf-747fe0becc1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CECjWWNBiKs
- **2008**, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Dan Houser left Rockstar on 11 March 2020 and registered Absurd Ventures in February 2021. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with a studio in San Rafael, and he is its CEO and creative director. Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California. The 3,000-seat Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, designed in the International Style by Welton Becket & Associates, opened in July 1958. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0711b26c-aa80-41c3-ba20-e7ec8e3f266b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Monica_Civic_Auditorium.JPG
- **2008**, Frankie Boyle Split Sides Comedy Club All shows GTA IV. Frankie Boyle's routine in Grand Theft Auto IV, a Scottish comedian appearing in a game built in Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/904175df-d8da-4906-84ec-4cd6f4a097f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1kzoTQdCLo
- **2008**, David Lee Roth Smashbox 2008. David Lee Roth attending a Fashion Show during Los Angeles Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios, Culver City, CA on March 11, 2008 -. David Lee Roth appears on V-Rock in Vice City. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/002e6187-d5e0-4041-9923-7be09cd4881a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Lee_Roth_Smashbox_2008.jpg
- **2008**, Femi-Kuti. 99 in GTA IV. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e1e59308-ae5e-45b5-ac3d-1a2d1dc51524) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Femi-Kuti.jpg
- **2008**, Willie Nelson in Redmond, Washington 2008. Willie Nelson performing at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington. Willie Nelson appears on K-Rose, the country station in San Andreas. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e74ba65e-84d5-4dbd-a280-79a37c7a99bf) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Willie_Nelson_in_Redmond,_Washington_2008.jpg
- **2008**, The Last HOPE: Grand Theft Lazlow - Hacking the Media by Laughing at Them (Complete). Lazlow Jones speaks at The Last HOPE conference on media and satire. His background in radio is what the series drew on when it built talk stations that parody the form rather than simply host music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/836dd083-932b-45bd-8c77-f30755459191) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=460f_Ro6MEQ
- **2008**, Capitol, Washington, D.C. USA13. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., USA. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill died in committee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6931ef5b-dde1-4154-a849-b05676c580c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capitol,_Washington,_D.C._USA13.jpg
- **2008**, CBS News: Grand Theft Auto 4. Contemporaneous CBS coverage of Grand Theft Auto IV. Jack Thompson called the game the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio, a direct quotation from the year of its release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/af1d0b6e-cd5d-49e8-a9f3-b6847b83f023) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXZdhrZZTEI
- **2008**, CNN Headline News - Rated "M" For Money. CNN on the commercial incentives behind M-rated games. Grand Theft Auto IV sold strongly despite, and partly because of, the coverage treating it as a public danger. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/93b01623-2a03-4337-afa3-a6ffcdb1c4b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKFpwWdpl_U
- **2008**, Fox Morning News 1. A local morning-news panel on Grand Theft Auto IV and minors' access to M-rated games. The ratings system had by then existed for fourteen years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/21ffae7a-c0a8-4874-b3a2-d2550222f925) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlBBbqeC5f0
- **2008**, Gamers Await Arrival Of Controversial Video Game. Local news on Grand Theft Auto IV launch day frames the game as a public concern. The game returned the series to Liberty City with a markedly more sober tone than its predecessors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/373ebc78-6a25-41fd-b640-987f35aeedd8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORW2KYDZg8Y
- **2008**, CNN Headline News - Grand Theft Morality Pt.1. A CNN Headline News special on the series and morality, broadcast around the Grand Theft Auto IV launch. The same year, Mothers Against Drunk Driving asked the ESRB to re-rate the game and the ESRB declined. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/90e0d1c1-7cdb-4521-949f-b367dcf01a13) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzr138ijmaQ
- **2008**, Jack Thompson Interview on Fox News. Jack Thompson makes his case on cable news months before his disbarment. He filed repeatedly against the industry across a decade and obtained no judgment; his one concrete result was a 2005 Best Buy commitment to enforce ID checks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/be8e15c3-9ae7-45c9-adf8-4faf1346e421) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTu0X8TQ2i4
- **2008**, MADD is MAD at GTA IV!. MADD objected to the drunk-driving mechanic in Grand Theft Auto IV and asked for an Adults Only re-rating, citing roughly 13,500 US drunk-driving deaths a year. Rockstar replied that the game's mature audience was sophisticated enough to understand its content. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e84a8f58-4aca-4c2e-974d-02310ad6aba3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkLRDRYWzwI
- **2008**, Grand Theft Auto 4 Complaints and Protests. Organised objections in the days after the Grand Theft Auto IV launch. Jack Thompson called the game the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/805c2a70-b389-4e24-9ef1-4b8f6ff5a31f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8vsgh9iTWE
- **2008**, Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California (2). San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s, with Los Santos standing for Los Angeles. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5c53a61e-6795-4724-a465-02f5fafc10ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Monica_Pier,_Santa_Monica,_California_(2)_(3125722232).jpg
- **2008**, Chesterfield 1. Hotel Chesterfield, Miami Beach. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9f7f8d84-8659-4aa7-9c0a-5561a158d844) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chesterfield_1.JPG
- **2008**, Hollywood sign N Highland Avenue. North Highland Avenue and Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e52d46c9-6c14-42c6-94f0-3cabd2e0d61f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollywood_sign_N_Highland_Avenue.jpg
### 2009
- **2009**, Segas Line of Fire and Namcos Pole Position II sit-down cabinets. With Greg at the Flashbacks retro arcade in Seaside Heights, NJ, July 25, 2009. pictured: Sega's Line of Fire and Namco's Pole Position II sit-down cabinets. Arcade and coin-op culture is the world DMA Design’s founders came out of, by way of the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club in Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9252c95a-a323-484b-9956-ed6b8f58dbba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Segas_Line_of_Fire_and_Namcos_Pole_Position_II_sit-down_cabinets.jpg
- **2009**, Sega-dreamcast-set. An NTSC Sega Dreamcast Console and PAL Controller with VMU. DMA Design’s three-dimensional experiments, Body Harvest and Space Station Silicon Valley, were the technical bridge to GTA III on the hardware of this period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a3bc28e6-5ba9-4a77-9f14-e8c38f6c47b8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega-dreamcast-set.png
- **2009**, US Supreme Court - corrected. United States Supreme Court building in Washington D.C. , USA. Front facade. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786, was decided here in 2011. The Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, 7 to 2, holding that video games are protected speech under the First Amendment. This is the legal endpoint of the entire moral panic and it is routinely omitted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d40e1bc9-ba52-4fd6-87c5-deb29fe3293c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Supreme_Court_-_corrected.jpg
- **2009**, Lee Scratch Perry 24 10 09. Lee Scratch Perry in 2009 live at Rocktambule Festival in Grenoble (France). Lee "Scratch" Perry hosted The Blue Ark in GTA V. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ed6f4200-4b9e-4806-84d5-4eafad1cb9d8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lee_Scratch_Perry_24_10_09.JPG
- **2009**, Slick Rick - The Ruler. Slick Rick performing with Doug E. Fresh live in 2009. Slick Rick appears on Playback FM in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fa898b81-940e-4c7d-8a1a-ca7858250e2f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slick_Rick_-_The_Ruler.jpg
### 2010
- **2010-02-16**, GTA:SA - Big Smoke's Order. An upload from 16 February 2010 that accumulated over 740,000 views across the following seven years. Treat it as a lower bound on the order's circulation rather than its origin, since the meme timeline rests on aggregator accounts. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ae30c361-4dc0-4d52-94ca-5430db639e46) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6g0mPo-uJM
- **2010-04-05**, David Jones - The Spielberg of Gaming. A profile of David Jones, who founded DMA Design in Dundee in 1988 at the age of 22. Lemmings, released February 1991 through Psygnosis, sold 20 million copies across 21 platforms and made him a millionaire at 25. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2e6eb8c3-0904-47c0-b9fd-d286616fd7f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbegRLQSuG0
- **2010**, GameStop store Tower City Center Cleveland. GameStop store in Tower City Center, Cleveland, Ohio. An Adults Only rating is effectively unsellable at mass retail, which is why the ESRB’s re-rating of San Andreas on 20 July 2005 forced a recall that cost Take-Two 24.5 million dollars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c3ffc184-e3e0-4a17-8251-062c4742077b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GameStop_store_Tower_City_Center_Cleveland.JPG
- **2010**, GameStop store Ypsilanti. GameStop store, 2423 Ellsworth Road, Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. An Adults Only rating is effectively unsellable at mass retail, which is why the ESRB’s re-rating of San Andreas on 20 July 2005 forced a recall that cost Take-Two 24.5 million dollars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/197d7869-14ee-468b-a73d-8c6013b4cdba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GameStop_store_Ypsilanti.JPG
- **2010**, Supreme Court to Decide if Video Games are Covered by the First Ammendment. Contemporaneous reporting as the Supreme Court took up the case in November 2010, seven months before it ruled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2463d221-44de-4058-a667-5f66ae5eb271) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9NpMjotNFc
- **2010**, Violent video games: protected by the first amendment?. USA Today frames the First Amendment question on the eve of oral argument. California defended the statute on the ground that violent games were harmful to minors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/08971cbf-57ca-4cf1-ae60-3096a646b6f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLp19tBoVM8
- **2010**, Bassett Lodge sign. Roadside neon of this kind is the American signage vocabulary the Vice City look draws on. Whether Vice City originated that aesthetic or transmitted a 1980s one inherited from Miami Vice and the 1986 arcade game Out Run is genuinely disputed, and neither claim is settled. Bassett Lodge sign. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4cad1702-d71f-4dc4-b81a-ddb898c7694b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bassett_Lodge_sign.JPG
- **2010**, Free Speech vs. Brutal Gameplay – SCOTUS 08-1448 \| Schwarzenegger v. EMA \| Remastered Audio. Remastered audio of the same argument under the original caption, Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, docket 08-1448. The case name changed when Jerry Brown succeeded Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6d933e99-2c5d-4355-af2e-3d4a7e2c3b2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEfqS7-YWMY
- **2010**, Boy wearing a Grand Theft Auto V T-shirt. Dan Houser and Sam Houser with a fan at Rockstar Games. Sam Houser remains president of Rockstar Games as of 2026. His brother Dan, co-founder and lead writer across the series, left on 11 March 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7530cccf-b1d2-4300-9625-cc23d94acb64) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boy_wearing_a_Grand_Theft_Auto_V_T-shirt.png
- **2010**, Ricky Gervais 2010. Ricky Gervais performs as himself at the Split Sides comedy club in GTA IV. Ricky Gervais at Comedy Central 's "Night of Too Many Stars" in 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3fdf5ce8-719d-41e2-aaf4-3d136e9483d7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ricky_Gervais_2010.jpg
- **2010**, Corner of Leith Street and Calton Road, Edinburgh. Dundee operations closed in March 2000 and staff moved to Calton Square in Edinburgh, where the studio has been based since. Corner of Leith Street and Calton Road, Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d86aca11-68ee-45f3-9425-ae79e1e721a6) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corner_of_Leith_Street_and_Calton_Road,_Edinburgh_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1712632.jpg
- **2010**, Sam Houser and Dan Houser. Dan Houser and Sam Houser with a fan at Rockstar Games. Sam Houser remains president of Rockstar Games as of 2026. His brother Dan, co-founder and lead writer across the series, left on 11 March 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b65b6a49-cf87-4e8c-9d26-894249353f65) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Houser_and_Dan_Houser.png
- **2010**, Palace of Westminster, Millbank Tower, Lambert Bridge and Vauxhall riverside. London, UK. Lord Campbell of Croy condemned the first Grand Theft Auto in the House of Lords. A named peer speaking in Hansard is the hardest record in the British side of this story. Palace of Westminster, Millbank Tower, Lambert Bridge and Vauxhall riverside. London, UK. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1eb2b1b6-12d0-48cc-b830-f101add8e134) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_of_Westminster,_Millbank_Tower,_Lambert_Bridge_and_Vauxhall_riverside._London,_UK.jpg
- **2010**, R18+ Classification for Video Games 7.30 report. Australia's ABC on the country's missing adult classification for games. The structural cause of every Australian ban was that the highest available rating was MA15+ until R18+ arrived in 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/22f0a926-00df-4301-b262-7731a21b354a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jdEb1jbLAY
- **2010**, Part 1 of 2 - Chris Ferguson - Violence & Video Games. Christopher J. Ferguson sets out the case against a causal link between violent games and violent behaviour. He later co-authored a 2020 meta-analysis arguing the American Psychological Association's own position was still too strong. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ce4e57fe-7e4a-4713-865a-a88ec23705f9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFYWibyHBM
- **2010**, New Violent Video Game Study Released. Local news treats a single violence study as settled science. The distinction that most public claims fail at is between aggression as psychologists measure it and violence as the public understands the word. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f74f30c8-39bf-44a0-b3aa-201b5e530d82) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVL8ODRJAd4
- **2010-11-02**, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association: Oral Argument - November 02, 2010. The full Supreme Court oral argument of 2 November 2010 in the case that became Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association. At issue was a 2005 California law banning the sale or rental of violent games to minors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0804ddc9-a23a-4ce5-9971-eb51546771d2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kl4gA69SDc
### 2011
- **2011-02-19**, Lemmings '88: A Video Documentary (PART 1). An early video documentary on Lemmings. The studio's first office opened in August 1989 above a former fish and chip shop, two years before the game shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7a0fbfef-e5a1-4a27-9343-6035eb377acd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_tdxD1Tb3c
- **2011**, Dancing people at GamesCom 2011. Convention floors are where this culture is photographable under free licences. The playing, modding and server-hosting practice is the Community thread; a clip that spreads on its own belongs with the memes. Dancing people at GamesCom 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/002c004d-ed77-474b-933b-2386cb0f0a79) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dancing_people_at_GamesCom_2011_(6068679817).jpg
- **2011**, ESport IFNG Munich 20-Nov-11 Stage5. ESport Event Intel Friday Night Game in Munich Tonhalle by ESL at 20th November 2011 on Screen and Stage aTnDelphi vs MYMXlorD in Starcraft II. Competitive and organised play sits alongside the roleplay-server scene that FiveM hosts, reported in the region of 100,000 daily players. Critics say Rockstar’s 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re turned a community-built platform into corporate property. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8d5f9269-6f10-47d5-b946-602d21f89fbb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ESport_IFNG_Munich_20-Nov-11_Stage5.jpg
- **2011**, Girl playing Rayman at GamesCom 2011. Convention floors are where this culture is photographable under free licences. The playing, modding and server-hosting practice is the Community thread; a clip that spreads on its own belongs with the memes. Girl playing Rayman at GamesCom 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/63716934-220b-4bb2-ab67-554b9802fce5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Girl_playing_Rayman_at_GamesCom_2011_(6069220104).jpg
- **2011**, Sony presentation, GamesCom 2011. Convention floors are where this culture is photographable under free licences. The playing, modding and server-hosting practice is the Community thread; a clip that spreads on its own belongs with the memes. Sony presentation, GamesCom 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7c625a01-d51b-41d0-9bdd-d3dc16d8e2eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_presentation,_GamesCom_2011_(6050252113).jpg
- **2011**, GameStop, Umeå. Gaming store "GameStop" in Umeå , Sweden. An Adults Only rating is effectively unsellable at mass retail, which is why the ESRB’s re-rating of San Andreas on 20 July 2005 forced a recall that cost Take-Two 24.5 million dollars. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b35ef4db-b6f5-4903-9be6-2a9be36c8e78) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GameStop,_Umeå.JPG
- **2011**, Xbox-360-Controller-Black. A black wireless Xbox 360 controller. GTA IV shipped in 2008 and GTA V in September 2013 on this generation. V was later reissued on PS4 and Xbox One in November 2014, Windows in April 2015, and PS5 and Xbox Series in March 2022. Its longevity across three console generations, not its launch, is what made the money. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ab483843-5f70-4e79-8b23-01738dcc63f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xbox-360-Controller-Black.jpg
- **2011**, Trading Floor, New York Stock Exchange. Take-Two Interactive is a publicly traded company, and its filings are the primary source for the series’ finances. Recurrent consumer spending is 80 percent of Take-Two’s FY2025 net bookings of 5.65 billion dollars, with GTA Online and GTA V named among the largest contributors. No Known Restrictions Trading Floor, New York Stock Exchange (Highsmith LOC). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cc38503d-18f5-4dd6-9c03-12ba9eead1a1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No_Known_Restrictions_Trading_Floor,_New_York_Stock_Exchange_(Highsmith_LOC)_(6718386525).jpg
- **2011**, GDC 11 - Game of the Year - Rockstar Interview. A Rockstar interview at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, two years before Grand Theft Auto V and in the middle of the studio's Red Dead period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/49a962bc-eb54-4e6a-a214-eca6f2c87467) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40HL4HQ0Rig
- **2011**, Antonin Scalia - Caricature. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, holding that video games are protected speech. His reasoning noted that the studies did not prove a direct causal link, and pointed to the long tradition of violent children’s entertainment. Justices Thomas and Breyer dissented separately. Antonin Scalia - Caricature. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8ebefee2-e975-4902-9e81-a5943480b501) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonin_Scalia_-_Caricature_(5928104071).jpg
- **2011**, Panorama of United States Supreme Court Building at Dusk. Panorama of the west facade of United States Supreme Court Building at dusk in Washington, D.C., United States of America. Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786, was decided here in 2011. The Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors, 7 to 2, holding that video games are protected speech under the First Amendment. This is the legal endpoint of the entire moral panic and it is routinely omitted. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ae74ef27-d6b3-41f4-bf09-c8dcb9f0ad87) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_Building_at_Dusk.jpg
- **2011**, Tallahassee FL Supreme Court bldg02. Tallahassee, Florida : Home to the Supreme Court of Florida since 1948. The Florida Bar proceedings against Jack Thompson ended in his disbarment in 2008, for conduct toward tribunals and opposing counsel rather than for his opinions about games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9634153f-d61a-430d-8532-6bfd1c6075f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tallahassee_FL_Supreme_Court_bldg02.jpg
- **2011**, DMA Design original team in 2011. The original DMA Design team gathered in Dundee in February 2011 for the twentieth anniversary of Lemmings. David Jones founded the studio in 1988 and drew his first team from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. DMA Design original team in. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a415ba8a-01c5-41b3-9937-2aa52c2a5ffd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DMA_Design_original_team_in_2011.jpg
- **2011**, Tallahassee FL Supreme Court bldg03. Tallahassee, Florida : Home to the Supreme Court of Florida since 1948. The Florida Bar proceedings against Jack Thompson ended in his disbarment in 2008, for conduct toward tribunals and opposing counsel rather than for his opinions about games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b04e2263-33e9-4f25-920a-0addfe9811aa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tallahassee_FL_Supreme_Court_bldg03.jpg
- **2011**, Jesco White 2011. Jesco White appears as himself on Rebel Radio in GTA V. Jesco White with velvet paintings of Elvis Presley in background. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/95e283ed-1609-41d7-8bb4-11732579d4df) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesco_White_2011.jpg
- **2011**, Tallahassee FL Supreme Court bldg04. Tallahassee, Florida : Home to the Supreme Court of Florida since 1948. The Florida Bar proceedings against Jack Thompson ended in his disbarment in 2008, for conduct toward tribunals and opposing counsel rather than for his opinions about games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b63e2af8-9e8b-42fd-91c5-b455d91fd0aa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tallahassee_FL_Supreme_Court_bldg04.jpg
- **2011**, Yee: Ruling Puts Corporate Interests Before Children. Leland Yee, who authored the struck-down California statute, responds on camera the day he lost at the Supreme Court. Naming who claims what matters here, since the campaigners and the industry both had their own agendas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/341d3240-1833-49e2-857a-998b892589d0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnmCrTljJkE
- **2011**, Max Clifford at National Fundraising Convention 2011. Max Clifford at the Institute of Fundraising National Convention in 2011. Publisher BMG Interactive hired Max Clifford to publicise the 1997 game, and the strategy was to court outrage rather than avoid it. Clifford built his reputation on claiming credit for manufactured stories, so his own account of the campaign is not neutral. He was convicted of indecent assault in 2014, unrelated to games, and died in prison in 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4af13021-0a61-457f-9808-3d13dfc067a5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Max_Clifford_at_National_Fundraising_Convention_2011.jpg
- **2011**, The Lemmings Gang and Lord Provost. The original DMA Design team gathered in Dundee in February 2011 for the twentieth anniversary of Lemmings. David Jones founded the studio in 1988 and drew his first team from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. The Lemmings Gang and Lord Provost. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/dd8fd9d5-5b17-48b4-b2fe-b93bde67469e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lemmings_Gang_and_Lord_Provost.jpg
- **2011**, U.S. Supreme Court To Rule On Violent Video Games Today!.flv. A re-upload of ruling-day broadcast coverage. The decision came on 27 June 2011 and ended a legal campaign that had run since the mid-1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f8f93d3d-be84-4f36-8afa-3285651dc2f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYzWEbLlV18
- **2011**, Violent video game supreme court ruling. Local Baltimore coverage of the ruling, including retailer reaction. The ESRB rating system remained voluntary and industry-run, which is what the Court left standing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f8189b5d-b185-42a4-96fb-19e1b9e8572e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI0rFbldQc8
- **2011**, SCOTUS Strikes Down California Video Game Ban. Ruling-day reporting on the decision striking California's 2005 sale-to-minors law, enacted in 2005 and commonly cited as 2006. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3d355dd3-7e70-4b38-b8e5-afad7dd93457) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSvOr45YHzo
- **2011**, Violent Video Game Limits Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court. Bloomberg reports the 7 to 2 decision on 27 June 2011. The campaign to legally restrict the sale of violent games to minors ended here, and it lost. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1a84a3af-de47-4895-aee6-334aaf8ece33) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6_rvfBfXg
- **2011**, Citing Violence in Fairy Tales, Justices Strike Down Calif. Video Game Law. PBS NewsHour engages Justice Antonin Scalia's majority reasoning, which pointed to the long tradition of violent children's entertainment and held that the studies did not prove a direct causal link. Justices Thomas and Breyer dissented separately. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d1ea254c-ffbe-4a34-ac5e-5ab99c221ef2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZ5YFq6lIs
- **2011**, Choper Discusses Supreme Court Violent Video Game Ruling. Berkeley constitutional law professor Jesse Choper gives legal analysis on the day of the ruling. The holding placed video games alongside books and film as protected expression. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/59fdbdee-fbe0-41ad-b9a3-87b2041a4c16) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54kM0AUwGE
- **2011**, Court rules First Amendment protects violent video games. CBS News reports the ruling on the day it came down. The Court struck the California law 7 to 2, holding that video games are protected speech under the First Amendment. This is the legal endpoint of the entire moral panic and it is routinely left out of the story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/75553377-3d28-46a7-95fa-9e1b3b128006) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1UhjXt8__8
- **2011**, Blondie - Debbie Harry - Zwarte Cross 2011. Debbie Harry performing with Blondie at the Zwarte Cross festival on Friday July 15th 2011 in Lichtenvoorde the Netherlands. Blondie appear on Wave 103 in Vice City. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/76f23832-0b03-45b4-befd-a262a24a1c82) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blondie_-_Debbie_Harry_-_Zwarte_Cross_2011_(cropped).jpg
- **2011**, Supreme Court To Rule On Video Games. A short bulletin anticipating the decision. The case had been argued eight months earlier and was among the most closely watched of the term for the games industry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b12a437b-6782-48ec-ba97-0195e24aa656) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDm5IQ2yPOg
- **2011**, Gary Numan 2011. Gary Numan appears on Wave 103, Vice City’s synth-pop station. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. Gary Numan performing at Ben and Jerry's Double Scoop Sundae festival, Heaton Park, Manchester, on July 23, 2011. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/31804d8c-d635-4241-8a02-129b29152e2f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gary_Numan_2011.jpg
- **2011**, Kenny Loggins and the Boston Pops 2011. Kenny Loggins With The Boston Pops Orchestra Kenny Loggins of 70s super duo Loggins and Messina performed with the Boston Pops orchestra in Boston, Mass.; June 21-22, 2011. Kenny Loggins hosts Los Santos Rock Radio in GTA V. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/616865c1-a9fb-44cd-97ef-94b921ae4a7e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenny_Loggins_and_the_Boston_Pops_2011.jpg
- **2011**, Flickr - USCapitol - Hart Senate Office Building. The Family Entertainment Protection Act, introduced 17 December 2005, would have federally penalised sales of M- and AO-rated games to minors and required annual FTC checks for hidden content. It was referred to committee and never became law. Flickr - USCapitol - Hart Senate Office Building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c3f57225-3539-4c7c-ad66-d5c54a7a30e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_USCapitol_-_Hart_Senate_Office_Building.jpg
- **2011**, House of Lords 2011. Publisher BMG Interactive hired publicist Max Clifford to court rather than avoid outrage around the 1997 game. Clifford was an interested party who built his reputation on claiming credit for manufactured stories, so his own account is not neutral. House of Lords chamber, Palace of Westminster, London. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e8dda448-18b8-4263-bbd8-3a553d8a9c20) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_of_Lords_2011.jpg
- **2011**, Brendan O'Connor press conference on R18+ classification for games. An Australian minister's press conference on introducing an adult classification for games. Grand Theft Auto III had been modified to obtain MA15+, and San Andreas lost its rating after Hot Coffee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e4da9812-b7bb-40c2-a21a-035dbf0568ba) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcSMMYGE1g
- **2011**, New restricted rating for video games. Australian network news on the agreement to create an R18+ category, which finally took effect in 2013. Until then games that would have received an adult rating were refused classification or censored. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cf88c399-15c6-45ce-943d-e94bba62bc53) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6f-oibMm3M
- **2011**, 1111 Lincoln Road interior second floor. The second floor interior of the architecturally acclaimed 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage in South Beach. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/44cb8125-09bb-480e-8789-6cf9d8d13e3a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1111_Lincoln_Road_interior_second_floor.jpg
- **2011**, 1111 Lincoln Road interior Alchemist boutique. The Alchemist boutique, located on one side of the fifth floor of the architecturally acclaimed parking garage 1111 Lincoln Road in South Beach. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4d28e109-8cdf-43c7-a4c6-6f11ae902dd3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1111_Lincoln_Road_interior_Alchemist_boutique.jpg
- **2011**, 1111 Lincoln Road at night. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. 1111 Lincoln Road at night. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a93d7aa3-8506-4e50-a23d-3c04af7f72b2) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1111_Lincoln_Road_at_night.jpg
- **2011**, 1111 Lincoln Road interior at night. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. 1111 Lincoln Road interior at night. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bfb3c827-b1dc-4ba1-8405-5ebc6a4b2135) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1111_Lincoln_Road_interior_at_night.jpg
- **2011**, London - South Bank - Jubilee Walkway - View NNE along Royal Festival Hall 1951 by Leslie Martin, Robert Matthew and Peter Moro. London 1969 is the series’ single excursion outside America and outside the present, and the only expansion that required the original game to run. London - South Bank - Jubilee Walkway - View NNE along Queen Elizabeth Hall 1967. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d4607a27-60c8-41e1-94c5-b44533bdeea5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_-_South_Bank_-_Jubilee_Walkway_-_View_NNE_along_Royal_Festival_Hall_1951_by_Leslie_Martin,_Robert_Matthew_and_Peter_Moro.jpg
- **2011-11-02**, Grand Theft Auto V Trailer. The announcement trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, released 2 November 2011, almost two years before the game arrived on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 17 September 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d3d5aecc-abe0-4b8b-a19c-b614134992cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkoHAzjnUs
- **2011-11-22**, Brown v. EMA: Video Games and the First Amendment. A Cornell Federalist Society panel dissects the decision months after it issued. Scalia's opinion engaged the psychological research directly and found it did not establish causation. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/98765b06-b004-4f4d-ae22-6c1177c05a58) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbxsa6n_-F4
### 2012
- **2012-01-31**, Free Speech - The Supreme Court Case Against Violent Video Games - Extra Credits. An explainer on the free speech stakes, made shortly after the ruling. The decision means no US law can bar the sale of a violent game to a minor. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/157f933c-eeed-4d61-a5f0-18d0a9d1994d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdGBcYrdok
- **2012**, League of Legends cosplay @ Gamescom 2012. Games conventions are where the free photography of this culture comes from. Rockstar acquired Cfx.re, makers of FiveM and RedM, on 11 August 2023, buying the platform behind the roleplay-server scene it had spent years fighting. League of Legends cosplay @ Gamescom 2012. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b2018bb2-1ead-48fd-933e-f6da76e9bb7f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:League_of_Legends_cosplay_@_Gamescom_2012_(7807721184).jpg
- **2012**, Dreamcast-Console-Set. The Sega Dreamcast, a video game console released on September 9th, 1999 in North America. The last console by Sega, the Dreamcast was well received at launch but many factors like Sega's financial troubles and the extreme popularity of Sony's PlayStation 2 led to the system being discontinued in early 2001. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8852dc0e-6c7a-4cd7-8f4b-ab692daf459a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dreamcast-Console-Set.jpg
- **2012**, Edinburgh Architecture , Shrubhill House, Leith Walk. 2 in 1999, the first step in the move from Dundee to Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/67902258-66e3-459e-9331-637be7a43eca) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_Architecture_,_Shrubhill_House,_Leith_Walk_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3155678.jpg
- **2012**, Edinburgh Calton Hill. Edinburgh has been the home of Rockstar North since the Dundee studio closed in March 2000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/940948a3-9875-4fb7-9c96-122fdaa6eb3e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_Calton_Hill.jpg
- **2012**, Edinburgh Interiors , The Tail End, Leith Walk. 2 in 1999, the first step in the move from Dundee to Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5cf24f90-b5eb-4513-890d-afe5a9cc5564) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_Interiors_,_The_Tail_End,_Leith_Walk_-_geograph.org.uk_-_3155714.jpg
- **2012**, Stalking Rockstar North - An Edinburgh Trip. Exterior footage of the Rockstar North building in Edinburgh. The company moved to Calton Square in 2000 and took the Rockstar North name in May 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/141945ae-e430-45dc-9ab3-5a4c88540816) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Y5pWnMHtM
- **2012**, Caricature - Antonin Scalia. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, which struck down a California law banning the sale of violent games to minors and held that video games are protected speech. The vote was 7 to 2. Caricature - Antonin Scalia. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f5a66ddb-1a9b-4e9d-bf09-4e80f2837e7a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caricature_-_Antonin_Scalia_(8275924672).jpg
- **2012**, Cleburne County Alabama Courthouse 2012. This is a 2012 photograph of the Cleburne County Courthouse located in Heflin, Alabama. Strickland v. Sony was filed in Alabama in August 2005 after Devin Moore, convicted of murder in 2005, said he had played Vice City. Summary judgment was granted to Take-Two on 29 July 2009 and the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed in September 2010. The case is routinely cited as establishing something about games and violence; it established the opposite. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a01fae0d-aca2-4ee8-b5aa-c08e8bbc0517) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleburne_County_Alabama_Courthouse_2012.JPG
- **2012**, Etowah County, Alabama Courthouse. This is a photograph of the Etowah County Courthouse in Gadsden, Alabama. Strickland v. Sony was filed in Alabama in August 2005 after Devin Moore, convicted of murder in 2005, said he had played Vice City. Summary judgment was granted to Take-Two on 29 July 2009 and the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed in September 2010. The case is routinely cited as establishing something about games and violence; it established the opposite. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a41cf0d0-72d8-441a-af23-16714e4c6e7f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etowah_County,_Alabama_Courthouse.JPG
- **2012**, Flying Lotus, Bonnaroo 2012. Cali-bred DJ Flying Lotus performs a late-night set Friday at Bonnaroo. Flying Lotus hosts FlyLo FM in GTA V and recorded original music for it. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1164d5fa-cf56-4865-901c-0aba1dc3abd0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flying_Lotus,_Bonnaroo_2012_(7373612680).jpg
- **2012**, Old Bailey with roof of Central Criminal Court. Arion Kurtaj, who leaked 90 clips of unreleased GTA VI footage to GTAForums in September 2022, received a hospital order rather than a prison sentence. Old Bailey with roof of Central Criminal Court. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1962d916-c17e-481b-b089-b69d71113f70) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Bailey_with_roof_of_Central_Criminal_Court.jpg
- **2012**, Frankie Knuckles @ ADE 2012. Frankie Knuckles @ Sugar Factory club, 2012. Frankie Knuckles is associated with SF-UR, the house music station in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8b1b650e-2100-42ec-a2db-cc8de7993cfc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankie_Knuckles_@_ADE_2012.jpg
- **2012**, Ice Cube 2012. Ice Cube Performs at Supafest 3 Sydney, Australia 2012. Ice Cube appears on West Coast Classics in GTA V. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7ce6088d-7ac8-4a3e-acb4-a591f57230f9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_Cube_2012.jpg
- **2012**, Kendrick Lamar, Bonnaroo 2012-2. Kendrick Lamar performs Thursday night at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tennessee. Kendrick Lamar appears on Radio Los Santos in GTA V. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/862425d6-2ce9-475f-b0a9-3089bf55bcb4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kendrick_Lamar,_Bonnaroo_2012-2.jpg
- **2012**, 12-07-13-washington-by-RalfR-08. United States Capitol, Washington D.C. Senator Hillary Clinton petitioned the FTC over Hot Coffee on 14 July 2005, and with Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act that December. The bill died in committee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/148b69ce-68a7-4177-9ada-e40ecf3d4fba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:12-07-13-washington-by-RalfR-08.jpg
- **2012**, Jacek Tylicki street art war grafitti New York 1982. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Jacek Tylicki street art war graffiti 1982 from: "make war in art not in reality" http://. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/99913b5d-5908-4b5d-a93f-5eb816461802) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacek_Tylicki_street_art_war_grafitti_New_York_1982.jpg
- **2012-11-08**, IGN News - Grand Theft Auto V Gameplay Details Revealed. Early gameplay details for Grand Theft Auto V, reported in November 2012. Rockstar and Take-Two are the interested parties for every pre-release claim about their own games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5d338736-a6f2-4cb3-a7fe-17875fce9dc2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z--0Q6YU77g
- **2012-11-14**, IGN News Grand Theft Auto V: Official Gameplay. Reporting on the announcement of official gameplay footage. The pattern of a controlled reveal followed by press analysis has held across every entry since. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c2183ad1-932e-49ec-b325-dc4866e390ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYIzxBuxYKU
- **2012-11-14**, GTA V Trailer #2. The second trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, released November 2012. The game had been announced in October 2011 and would not arrive until September 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f640cbcd-de95-449e-9a69-81f9085c138d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzV5_Uhu08A
### 2013
- **2013-02-06**, Q3 2013 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Earnings Conference Call. Take-Two's own earnings call from the year Grand Theft Auto V launched. The company reports units shipped rather than sold, a distinction that matters when the figure quoted is over 230 million copies. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8bc8d2a2-d21a-4325-b5c4-41b41cf6e675) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en_BRgRsrTY
- **2013-03-27**, IGN News - All-New Grand Theft Auto V Screenshots. Press coverage of newly released screenshots six months before launch. Rockstar controls the release of every image of an unshipped game, which shapes what can be known about it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aafbc802-bf5e-4bd0-8794-5cf779570b1c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b2w1aP-6Q
- **2013-03-28**, Grand Theft Auto V - Screenshot Analysis (March 2013). A screenshot analysis from March 2013. In the absence of access, close reading of published marketing material is the only technical evidence available before a Rockstar game ships. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b7291d7f-8338-4078-be75-a51c0045e99b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSdG_IKRBJo
- **2013-04-30**, IGN Rewind Theater - Trevor's GTA 5 Trailer. A close reading of the third character trailer. Rockstar structured the campaign around introducing each protagonist separately, five months before release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/02b0949f-7783-482b-a09e-ca3b37f5c6a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjTF1Sqz5QA
- **2013-04-30**, Michael - Grand Theft Auto V Trailer. A press-carried copy of the first character trailer, which Rockstar's own channel age-gates. The same asset is reachable where the original upload is not. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/74b8fa19-4f38-418e-a443-9021d756ff1a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUXeYmDPbc
- **2013-04-30**, IGN Rewind Theater - Michael's GTA 5 Trailer. A close reading of one of the three character trailers Rockstar released on 30 April 2013. Rockstar's own uploads of several of these are age-gated and cannot be embedded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ec236941-d055-4915-8eef-1bdd1791d732) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX8CYnEQiiU
- **2013**, HuffPost Live: Jack Thompson on GTA V (Part 2 of 2). Jack Thompson speaks on Grand Theft Auto V five years after his disbarment. The Supreme Court of Florida removed him on 25 September 2008 on 27 of 31 findings concerning false statements to tribunals and the humiliation of litigants and lawyers, not for his views on games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d8950eea-e598-4581-9fde-de3b5378de66) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L39Q-NBc4Tc
- **2013**, Final Fantasy XIV girl at Gamescom 2013. Convention floors are where this culture is photographable under free licences. The playing, modding and server-hosting practice is the Community thread; a clip that spreads on its own belongs with the memes. Final Fantasy XIV girl at Gamescom 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f8b1fc34-7cf7-4f07-b860-3ef771726e46) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Final_Fantasy_XIV_girl_at_Gamescom_2013_(9591142772).jpg
- **2013**, LAN Party in Kenya. Nexgen LAN Party at 88MPH Space in Nairobi. The modding and multiplayer scene around the series produced San Andreas Multiplayer, Multi Theft Auto and eventually FiveM. Rockstar fought the modders and then bought them: Take-Two issued a cease and desist to OpenIV on 5 June 2017 and reversed within about two weeks after player backlash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/dee57b30-bcb0-454f-a883-70f7c8108390) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LAN_Party_in_Kenya.jpg
- **2013**, Times Square Nasdaq Closing Bell Ceremony 2013 Berenberg. April 18, 2013: Berenberg celebrates Closing Bell Ceremony at Nasdaq. Take-Two trades on NASDAQ. Its disclosures are the only primary source for the series’ finances; the widely repeated 265 million dollar budget for GTA V is an analyst estimate the company has never confirmed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0f74b5bc-0d12-42fc-bec9-f47215fdfee8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Square_Nasdaq_Closing_Bell_Ceremony_2013_Berenberg.JPG
- **2013**, LAN Party in Nairobi. Nexgen LAN Party at 88MPH Space in Nairobi. The modding and multiplayer scene around the series produced San Andreas Multiplayer, Multi Theft Auto and eventually FiveM. Rockstar fought the modders and then bought them: Take-Two issued a cease and desist to OpenIV on 5 June 2017 and reversed within about two weeks after player backlash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2cbcf7ca-c07b-4144-9055-f3a328466455) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LAN_Party_in_Nairobi.jpg
- **2013**, Overnight LAN Party in Kenya. Nexgen LAN Party at 88MPH Space in Nairobi. The modding and multiplayer scene around the series produced San Andreas Multiplayer, Multi Theft Auto and eventually FiveM. Rockstar fought the modders and then bought them: Take-Two issued a cease and desist to OpenIV on 5 June 2017 and reversed within about two weeks after player backlash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/65e498e3-726d-4e7c-b53d-08b2222dde58) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overnight_LAN_Party_in_Kenya.jpg
- **2013**, CNET Update - GTA Online hit with launch problems. Grand Theft Auto Online did not work reliably at its October 2013 launch. The service that failed on day one became one of the two pillars of Take-Two's recurrent spending business. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8ad1de04-ed79-45c4-a349-b0b7b7e16c12) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAPotc3tLfM
- **2013**, GTA 5 Online Update - Shark Cash Cards Are Now Available (GTA 5 Microtransactions) \| WikiGameGuides. Shark Cards go live in November 2013. Recurrent consumer spending as Take-Two defines it covers virtual currency, add-on content and in-game purchases. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ac151944-970e-4b5c-a699-3024cbd921c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeC7IsDsGCI
- **2013**, Grand Theft Auto' Hits Record Sales (9/20/13). A business news programme treats the launch as a financial story on 20 September 2013. The widely repeated US$265 million budget is an analyst estimate of combined development and marketing, never a Take-Two disclosure. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b0af56de-256e-4aa8-a066-8cd76b721156) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anzr2agamGg
- **2013**, IGN News - GTA 5 Sales Hit $1 Billion in Three Days. Trade press reports Grand Theft Auto V passing US$1 billion in three days after its 17 September 2013 release. The defensible superlative is fastest-selling entertainment product, not most profitable of all time, which traces to a 2018 outside estimate. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f1e07deb-8677-4c9e-ab35-4e066b15f788) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYrH4Co58o
- **2013**, Dundee Waterfront beside Tay Road Bridge Oct 2013. Dundee Waterfront Demolition/Redevelopment beside Tay Road Bridge. David Jones founded DMA Design in Dundee in 1988, aged 22, drawing his first team from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. The biggest entertainment franchise on earth came out of a small industrial city in eastern Scotland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e6038ac2-2eed-4931-8a32-2f19c95f1d05) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dundee_Waterfront_beside_Tay_Road_Bridge_Oct_2013.jpg
- **2013**, NORRIES FISH AND CHIP SHOP GEORGE STREET OBAN SCOTLAND SEP 2013. DMA Design opened its first office in August 1989 above a former fish and chip shop in Dundee. NORRIES FISH AND CHIP SHOP GEORGE STREET OBAN SCOTLAND SEP 2013. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7b03a37e-a3f7-43af-83d5-7851ad2d1243) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NORRIES_FISH_AND_CHIP_SHOP_GEORGE_STREET_OBAN_SCOTLAND_SEP_2013_(9702858257).jpg
- **2013**, Antonin Scalia Official SCOTUS Portrait. Antonin Scalia , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, which struck down a California law banning the sale of violent games to minors and held that video games are protected speech. The vote was 7 to 2. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4abca325-ba97-4cd6-9a90-45810bc8d0ef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonin_Scalia_Official_SCOTUS_Portrait.jpg
- **2013**, Florida Supreme Court building. The Florida Supreme Court building in Tallahassee, FL. The Florida Bar proceedings against Jack Thompson ended in his disbarment in 2008, for conduct toward tribunals and opposing counsel rather than for his opinions about games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/84e0431e-736e-434b-8ec3-26f2ec91a80b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_Supreme_Court_building.JPG
- **2013**, Chuck D Public Enemy Way Out West 2013. Chuck D of Public Enemy at Way Out West 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Chuck D of Public Enemy voices Forth Right MC on Playback FM in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4861e038-9d84-48ae-824c-29340408912a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuck_D_Public_Enemy_Way_Out_West_2013.jpg
- **2013**, Frank Ocean Wireless Festival 2013. Frank Ocean at Wireless Festival. Frank Ocean launched the blonded radio station in GTA Online in 2018. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d33d3502-1973-48cc-8a4f-984692ac919d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Ocean_Wireless_Festival_2013.jpg
- **2013**, Jesco White the Dancing Outlaw GTAV PC Easter egg. Jesco White appears as himself on Rebel Radio in Grand Theft Auto V. The stations are fully produced fictions in which the only real element is the music and the occasional real person. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/50c911bc-1df1-4bb9-aa17-7fc615023ee0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk0os_eSjGs
- **2013**, '13 Kia Forte Koup Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada (MIAS '13). 2013 Kia Forte Koup MADD Canada photographed in Montreal , Quebec , Canada at the 2013 Montreal International Auto Show. Mothers Against Drunk Driving objected to the drunk-driving mechanic in GTA IV in 2008 and asked the ESRB to re-rate the game from M to AO. The ESRB did not re-rate it. Rockstar replied that its mature audience was sophisticated enough to understand the content. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/afefa7f0-5308-41d2-8810-6f95123ccfc1) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:'13_Kia_Forte_Koup_Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving_Canada_(MIAS_'13).jpg
- **2013**, Mother shares story, educates about drunk driving -M-NG901-002. Theresa Paulette, Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii Victim Committee Chair, shows the last picture she took of her son during a MADD session aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kahuna’s Community Ballroom, April 5. Mothers Against Drunk Driving objected to the drunk-driving mechanic in GTA IV in 2008 and asked the ESRB to re-rate the game from M to AO. The ESRB did not re-rate it. Rockstar replied that its mature audience was sophisticated enough to understand the content. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/73508124-2268-493e-9496-ee5ff400cf3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_shares_story,_educates_about_drunk_driving_130401-M-NG901-002.jpg
- **2013**, Reverse side of L'Etoile du Nord in Senate Hearing Room. The Family Entertainment Protection Act, introduced 17 December 2005, would have federally penalised sales of M- and AO-rated games to minors and required annual FTC checks for hidden content. It was referred to committee and never became law. Reverse side of L'Etoile du Nord in Senate Hearing Room. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aff4b676-3a6b-4036-80cb-a35c128c0cec) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reverse_side_of_L'Etoile_du_Nord_in_Senate_Hearing_Room.jpg
- **2013**, CBS News: "Grand Theft Auto V" Bashed for Violence, Cruelty to Women. CBS News criticism of Grand Theft Auto V on release. By this point the American Psychological Association had not established a causal link between violent games and violent behaviour, a position it reaffirmed in March 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4624b434-0215-48eb-8e53-775ce6e2bd57) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T0ocBj785U
- **2013**, Grand Theft Auto V - Patrick Scott Patterson speaks to the media (WFAA - Dallas/Fort Worth). Local television on Grand Theft Auto V launch day, with an advocate pushing back on the panic framing. The game took US$800 million in its first 24 hours. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ce907c4f-7b36-4f86-a69a-1cb246c36562) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzioUygn_5g
- **2013**, 'Grand Theft Auto V' success is bad for creativity. CNN argues during launch week that Grand Theft Auto V's commercial scale is bad for creativity. This is criticism on cultural rather than violence grounds, a strand usually lost in the moral-panic framing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8e541cd2-2b04-4c34-9518-1474fb154491) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3qQDwntgVQ
- **2013**, How GTA V Was Changed For Japan. Documents the territory-specific changes made to Grand Theft Auto V for its Japanese release. Censorship of the series has more often been about local classification regimes than about any single global objection. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/29a6e619-c286-403c-8686-fae9601de3bc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmZgOfBRZn0
- **2013**, 2C1V Two Countries - One Voice. The Strip TDelCoro May 22, 2013. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8438e169-946e-4298-8b23-b84597e83d3e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2C1V_Two_Countries_-_One_Voice_(8917216646).jpg
- **2013**, Early at Santa Monica Pier. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. Early at Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b76a655f-8732-44c4-8140-588c951ff8ed) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_at_Santa_Monica_Pier_(9544221128).jpg
- **2013-07-09**, Discussing What's New in the GTA V Gameplay Trailer - IGN Conversation. Press discussion of the first extended gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto V, two months before release. The game had three protagonists, a first for the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/09381f21-6558-452b-8129-e40a261b6721) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6kvBGz6RzQ
- **2013-07-09**, Grand Theft Auto V - Gameplay Trailer. The first extended look at Grand Theft Auto V, showing its three protagonists two months before release. IGN carries the asset embeddable where Rockstar's own upload is age-gated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2610c15e-831f-478b-a6f3-3e5802ceaae6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtCnL62pB8
- **2013-08-15**, Grand Theft Auto 5 - Multiplayer Reveal Trailer. The reveal of the multiplayer mode that became Grand Theft Auto Online. It launched broken in October 2013 and became one of the two pillars of Take-Two's recurrent spending business. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/44741fa5-91ee-47ed-a7c4-20de5c908465) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wSrjYdEgQg
- **2013-08-29**, Grand Theft Auto V: The Official Trailer. The launch trailer, weeks before a release that took US$800 million in 24 hours and US$1 billion in three days. Take-Two has since reported over 230 million copies shipped, making it the second best-selling game of all time behind Minecraft. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0777d3f0-b925-4bd1-88c3-bb8fd747153e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvoD7ehZPcM
- **2013-09-11**, Study Hall: Hotline Miami - More Bloody Neon Pop-Culture in the Spirit of The 1980s. A games outlet on the neon 1980s revival, contemporaneous with Hotline Miami rather than retrospective. The aesthetic had by then escaped its sources and become a genre of its own. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/338ddd48-68e5-4af6-9729-bc8425d46a11) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z05hxwKaPo
- **2013-09-16**, GTA 5 - Review. A press review at the launch of Grand Theft Auto V on 17 September 2013. The games press is inside the industry it covers, which is worth naming when reviews become part of a commercial record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/dcd5d3d2-c876-4dbf-a64a-ee39aebad538) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UB5hpk0iqg
- **2013-09-20**, Grand Theft Auto breaks entertainment sales records. CBS News reports the launch records for Grand Theft Auto V, released 17 September 2013. It took US$800 million in 24 hours and US$1 billion in three days, which is what the phrase fastest-selling entertainment product rests on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f6b555b1-78b1-4523-8b66-624a2e0b3444) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yTUUt4gklo
- **2013-09-23**, You must PAY for GTA Online Cash Cards?! WTF Rockstar!!! (GTA 5 Online Microtransactions). Contemporaneous reaction to Shark Cards being announced. The criticism that the in-game economy is tuned to make grinding unattractive is widely made by players and press, but it is an inference about intent rather than a documented decision. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f27ca79d-2efe-4273-abea-cf4d4282a55e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvTOXFJrCmU
- **2013-10-11**, GTA 5: Michael, Franklin, and Trevor in the Flesh. The three lead actors of Grand Theft Auto V together. Main characters in the series have generally been voiced by lesser-known actors, with celebrity casting concentrated on the radio DJs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8137881a-fe4f-498c-8f8d-8e99314dc10b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7JU0BoX0nQ
### 2014
- **2014-02-27**, Q3 2014 Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Earnings Conference Call. An earnings call covering the first full year of Grand Theft Auto Online monetisation. By fiscal 2025 recurrent consumer spending would account for 80% of Take-Two's US$5.65 billion in net bookings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e6234776-8124-4592-959b-9139527c7878) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgXapMcgyGE
- **2014-03-08**, Big Smoke Calls McDonalds - Grand Theft Auto Prank Call. Big Smoke's order recited as a real call to a fast-food outlet. Around 2014 the order was adopted for crank calls, which is a documented crossing from screen into the physical world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/88f82e1e-c45a-439d-b96c-a78e37af9784) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYAOXpkZJiM
- **2014-06-05**, Mike Dailly & Russell Kay - YoYo Games - "GameMaker & History of DMA Design". Mike Dailly and Russell Kay recount the DMA years together. Roughly 23 people worked on Grand Theft Auto III, a scale worth holding against what the franchise became. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f87a140f-8250-48d1-8254-9fda334bb767) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lXBQ_kL79Q
- **2014**, Morgana (League of Legends) cosplay at Gamescom 2014 close-up. Impressionen: Zweiter Tag, Donnerstag. Mehr auf \<a href=" http://de.videospielehub.wikia.com/wiki/Gamescom\_2014 " rel="nofollow"\>de.videospielehub.wikia.com/wiki/Gamescom\_2014\</a\>. Games conventions are where the free photography of this culture comes from. Rockstar acquired Cfx.re, makers of FiveM and RedM, on 11 August 2023, buying the platform behind the roleplay-server scene it had spent years fighting. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/21210e70-c683-41bb-bb21-5f8f28e67320) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morgana_(League_of_Legends)_cosplay_at_Gamescom_2014_close-up.jpg
- **2014**, Xbox-console. GTA IV shipped in 2008 and GTA V in September 2013 on this generation. V was later reissued on PS4 and Xbox One in November 2014, Windows in April 2015, and PS5 and Xbox Series in March 2022. Its longevity across three console generations, not its launch, is what made the money. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f1a7f639-8399-43f6-af90-66baf7acc69a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xbox-console.jpg
- **2014**, Michael DeFranco (Lua), Strauss Zelnick (Zelnick Media) and John Maloney (formerly Tumblr). Strauss Zelnick (CEO, Zelnick Media) and John Maloney (ex-President of Tumblr) with Michael DeFranco on a panel discussing the current state of enterprise mobility. Strauss Zelnick is chief executive of Take-Two Interactive. On the second GTA VI delay he told Variety that Rockstar believed a limited amount of additional time was required for polish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f28bb720-0964-4c06-84b7-f2137a6691e4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_DeFranco_(Lua),_Strauss_Zelnick_(Zelnick_Media)_and_John_Maloney_(formerly_Tumblr).png
- **2014**, Fellowship in 2014 - Rockstar Games. BAFTA awards its Fellowship to Rockstar Games as a company in 2014. The institutional recognition came fifteen years after Take-Two bought the studio for a pound. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0afcd02a-8b47-43c2-ac00-1ecfe8fff476) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_R_XOZKiHU
- **2014**, Jesco White. Melody Inn, Indianapolis. Jesco White appears as himself on Rebel Radio in GTA V. Jesco White. Melody Inn, Indianapolis. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/53460005-c973-424c-ac60-9f7447989b6f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesco_White._Melody_Inn,_Indianapolis.jpg
- **2014**, Fendi store opening - Karl Lagerfeld. Karl Lagerfeld hosts K109 The Studio in GTA IV, one of the series’ more unlikely castings. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. Fendi store opening - Karl Lagerfeld. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9d852f1f-ffa8-46a1-8ef1-ca23f4acc147) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fendi_store_opening_-_Karl_Lagerfeld_(14091153382).jpg
- **2014**, Evan Bayh. Governor Haley Barbour and Senator Evan Bayh, "Milstein Symposium: Commission on America's Manufacturing Future" 2/5/14. Senator Evan Bayh co-introduced the Family Entertainment Protection Act with Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman on 17 December 2005. The bill would have federally penalised sales of M- and AO-rated games to minors. It never became law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/53bae61b-3204-4cc7-9b16-02ffc1b74e8b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evan_Bayh_(14391619605).jpg
- **2014**, Palace of Westminster from the dome on Methodist Central Hall. Lord Campbell of Croy condemned the first Grand Theft Auto in the House of Lords. A named peer speaking in Hansard is the hardest record in the British side of this story. Palace of Westminster from the dome on Methodist Central Hall. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f9d225f3-30b7-4f53-8063-97f29ad9772f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palace_of_Westminster_from_the_dome_on_Methodist_Central_Hall.jpg
- **2014**, Australia Bans Grand Theft Auto V For “Violence Against Women”. Coverage of the Target Australia withdrawal of Grand Theft Auto V in December 2014. This was a retailer decision following a petition, not a classification ruling. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e48f47a8-fbb3-45d8-be15-effa4bb3e975) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXo0U3tqdmE
- **2014**, 'Grand Theft Auto V' pulled by Australian retailer. Target Australia withdrew Grand Theft Auto V from sale in December 2014 following a petition. This was a retailer decision, not a classification action; the game kept its rating. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2679a5ce-9124-4558-b4d8-201199ab7306) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMv4ZfC1_HQ
- **2014**, Target AU removes GTA V from its shelves - Dec. 5th, 2014. A same-day long-form response to the Target Australia withdrawal. The retailer acted on a petition rather than on any ruling by the Classification Board. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/53bb410f-6486-4b7e-82da-741a8afe4652) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rze-TEJJpYs
- **2014-06-20**, Don Johnson Revisits Miami Vice - The Graham Norton Show. The lead actor of Miami Vice looks back at a show that ran from 1984 to 1989 and is Vice City's acknowledged model. The game is set in 1986, inside the show's run. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fbf19d32-a5c7-4da2-be51-c42151fb3ad0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YiddR11BQ
- **2014-10-20**, Broughy Verified №5 - GTA Online Creator Races. Creator-race curation from 2014, dating the player-built-content practice to within a year of Grand Theft Auto Online's launch. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6039b493-1d9d-4e69-9850-16a5ee571d74) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMuYY_4PhD8
- **2014-11-21**, GTA 5 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Review. The game reviewed again on its second console generation in November 2014. It later reached a third generation in March 2022, and that longevity rather than its launch is what made the money. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5fe0b970-be4b-4b6e-bfc2-4a7bd32320f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQT0m_o73C4
### 2015
- **2015-03-03**, CNN: Expert: Video Games Don't Trigger Violence. CNN airs a researcher rejecting the causal claim. The APA's own 2020 resolution found a small reliable association with aggressive outcomes such as yelling and pushing, but insufficient evidence to extend that to violent behaviour, and warned explicitly against blaming mass shootings on games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ecbfc535-1a8d-444a-89ac-a0bc1d4d3139) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWmbIS2-FgU
- **2015-03-09**, The Man Who Built Miami Beach - A WLRN Original Production. Public television on Carl Fisher, who built Miami Beach out of mangrove swamp in the 1910s and 1920s. The Art Deco district followed in the 1930s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b333b44a-8ca8-4699-bfb2-661ddd9539cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5tAn5ontyk
- **2015-05-20**, Take-Two Interactive Software CEO Strauss Zelnick \| Mad Money \| CNBC. Take-Two's chief executive on a major network in the period after Grand Theft Auto V's launch. The game shipped across three console generations between 2013 and 2022. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/57603de6-e904-42ca-bea6-a166fd4f1f25) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D2K1apeLbw
- **2015-05-21**, BBC Sued Over 'Grand Theft Auto' Movie. Take-Two brought action against the BBC over a drama about the making of the series. Rockstar has litigated over depictions of itself as well as being litigated against. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/93e26c75-e991-445a-8047-67075321ffbd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNAAAIS5-xw
- **2015**, Overgate Centre entrance and City House Dundee March 2015. Overgate Centre and City House, Dundee. David Jones founded DMA Design in Dundee in 1988, aged 22, drawing his first team from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. The biggest entertainment franchise on earth came out of a small industrial city in eastern Scotland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/71a411a7-aed6-407b-bd1a-f11c935159c8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overgate_Centre_entrance_and_City_House_Dundee_March_2015.jpg
- **2015**, NASDAQ Market Site. Minister of Environment Gian Luca Galletti during his interview at Nasdaq. Take-Two trades on NASDAQ. Its disclosures are the only primary source for the series’ finances; the widely repeated 265 million dollar budget for GTA V is an analyst estimate the company has never confirmed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fe3ec571-5ff4-42b4-9c80-fba75b8f819a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASDAQ_Market_Site_201506.jpg
- **2015**, Strauss Zelnick, 2015. Photo of American executive Strauss Zelnick, taken in March 2015. Strauss Zelnick is chief executive of Take-Two Interactive. On the second GTA VI delay he told Variety that Rockstar believed a limited amount of additional time was required for polish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e809f102-42bf-45b9-ae34-2f850e323ea7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strauss_Zelnick,_2015_(16339090774).jpg
- **2015**, Cara Delevingne. Australian Premiere of Paper Towns. Cara Delevingne hosts Non-Stop-Pop FM in GTA V. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2daa36db-7dda-4b3c-9e24-27a0f6c3e47b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cara_Delevingne_(18809361174).jpg
- **2015**, Sly & Robbie TFF. Sly (Dunbar) with Robbie (Shakespeare) and Nils Petter Molvær at TFF Rudolstadt, 2015. Sly and Robbie hosted K-Jah West in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6db3ddef-8871-4110-bc5f-25140ed5822f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sly_&_Robbie_TFF.JPG
- **2015**, Elizabeth Tower, Palace of Westminster - west view. Elizabeth Tower , Palace of Westminster, London. Lord Campbell of Croy condemned the first Grand Theft Auto in the House of Lords. A named peer speaking in Hansard is the hardest record in the British side of this story. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ea6e09bc-f4a0-4289-b647-8d3cdcfcb45f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Tower,_Palace_of_Westminster_-_west_view.jpg
- **2015**, 1960 02-14 Trafalgar Square 1960. Grand Theft Auto: London 1969, an expansion released in 1999, is the only entry in the series set outside a fictional US-styled city and the only historical setting. 1960 02-14 Trafalgar Square 1960. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/11d4cb5a-5ba9-4400-8f42-b888eed8ffe3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1960_02-14_Trafalgar_Square_1960_(51182275533).jpg
- **2015**, 2015 Hollywood United Methodist Church and Hollywood Sign. Hollywood United Methodist Church. Los Santos is Los Angeles, the largest of the three cities on the San Andreas map, which is set in the early 1990s. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3b48b626-5f97-4d72-a70c-1e0a3d4a8406) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015_Hollywood_United_Methodist_Church_and_Hollywood_Sign.jpg
- **2015-07-13**, Disappearing Voices The Decline of Black Radio (2008) TRAILER. On the consolidation and decline of black radio in America. The stations the games satirise were already disappearing from the real dial as the series grew. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f47bfcd9-758b-48c7-bd23-780576319ae5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFQ_Oc0Ri9s
- **2015-07-27**, The History of Grand Theft Auto Documentary. A documentary history of the series through its first fifteen years, covering the move from Dundee to Edinburgh and from two dimensions to three. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/97b114f9-0613-4e3c-9a4f-8f07ec5404a2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MP5JtK0LAY
- **2015-08-27**, Inside the world of pirate radio - Newsnight. BBC Newsnight inside UK pirate radio. The fully produced fictional station, with spoof DJs and spoof commercials, is the series' most imitated and least legally reproducible feature. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/45d38a4d-7f60-4ffc-ba8a-89097011d298) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G9Fi_OSFdw
- **2015-12-10**, GTA Online: Executives and Other Criminals Trailer. One of the recurring paid update campaigns for Grand Theft Auto Online. Recurrent consumer spending reached 80% of Take-Two's net bookings by fiscal 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d9a39d06-5a22-40a2-94ad-006705f8d50d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_S2Eb4Jw88
- **2015-12-11**, GTA 3/Vice City PS4 vs PS2 Graphics Comparison/Analysis. A technical comparison of the PlayStation 2 originals against their later re-releases. Grand Theft Auto III sold 11.6 million on PS2 alone and 14.5 million in total by March 2008. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1aa8be70-dcb8-4365-a6fb-eea7b68b50a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9daD-4Sbn4g
### 2016
- **2016-02-12**, The Retro Hour - Episode 6 (Mike Dailly Grand Theft Auto/DMA Design). A long-form interview with Mike Dailly covering DMA Design's Dundee years. The studio that became Rockstar North fielded roughly 23 people on Grand Theft Auto III, a scale worth holding against what the franchise later became. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0f57f785-bb3b-458d-84f9-281264cd7f67) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1TbThSHXXY
- **2016-02-23**, Behind the Scenes motion capture in GTA Vice City - Animations and Art sketches. Motion capture and concept art from Vice City, released 2002 and set in a Miami analogue in 1986. This is where the licensed-soundtrack radio format became the series' signature. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e0ef66f7-65d5-49b6-8407-f6d5f5b492fc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yo0rZU_fMk
- **2016-03-16**, Some words from Dave Jones of DMA/Rockstar. Dave Jones on his DMA and Rockstar years. He founded the studio in 1988 at 22 and sold it to Gremlin Interactive in April 1997 for GBP 4.2 million. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/907a6665-6c90-470b-aa39-7ba4d904ebd6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isS6DsY-NVE
- **2016**, Maimai murasaki amusement. An amusement full of maimai murasaki cabinets. Arcade and coin-op culture is the world DMA Design’s founders came out of, by way of the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club in Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/12d8634a-812a-4b52-802e-09301b85d6f4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maimai_murasaki_amusement.jpg
- **2016**, Wikia-Gamescom-2016 Cosplay of Tracer. Games conventions are where the free photography of this culture comes from. Rockstar acquired Cfx.re, makers of FiveM and RedM, on 11 August 2023, buying the platform behind the roleplay-server scene it had spent years fighting. Wikia-Gamescom-2016 Cosplay of Tracer. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4dcb8937-19e9-47d8-b151-216a9936d8a0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikia-Gamescom-2016_Cosplay_of_Tracer.jpg
- **2016**, Microsoft-Xbox-360-Pro-Console-BR. The Xbox 360, a video game console made by Microsoft and released in 2005. This is the very first model, a launch-edition of the "Pro", which included a 20GB hard drive and a silver DVD drive bezel. GTA IV shipped in 2008 and GTA V in September 2013 on this generation. V was later reissued on PS4 and Xbox One in November 2014, Windows in April 2015, and PS5 and Xbox Series in March 2022. Its longevity across three console generations, not its launch, is what made the money. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c0609f8e-cbcb-4689-9e6e-277dd9065c92) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft-Xbox-360-Pro-Console-BR.jpg
- **2016**, Microsoft-Xbox-360-Pro-Console-FL. The Xbox 360, a video game console made by Microsoft and released in 2005. This is the very first model, a launch-edition of the "Pro", which included a 20GB hard drive and a silver DVD drive bezel. GTA IV shipped in 2008 and GTA V in September 2013 on this generation. V was later reissued on PS4 and Xbox One in November 2014, Windows in April 2015, and PS5 and Xbox Series in March 2022. Its longevity across three console generations, not its launch, is what made the money. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ec9ad9c8-82c1-4710-bea4-c3798343f5b8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft-Xbox-360-Pro-Console-FL.jpg
- **2016**, Dundee Waterfront Redevelopment Mar 2016 b. David Jones founded DMA Design in Dundee in 1988, aged 22, drawing his first team from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. The biggest entertainment franchise on earth came out of a small industrial city in eastern Scotland. Dundee Waterfront Redevelopment seen from Tay Road Bridge in March 2016- primarily construction of new V&A museum. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1fd53122-1481-45e1-8912-484a74bd3dc8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dundee_Waterfront_Redevelopment_Mar_2016_b.jpg
- **2016**, Sega-Dreamcast-Console-BL. The Sega Dreamcast, a video game console released on September 9th, 1999 in North America. The last console by Sega, the Dreamcast was well received at launch but many factors like Sega's financial troubles and the extreme popularity of Sony's PlayStation 2 led to the system being discontinued in early 2001. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1feb86a2-847d-4d14-b82f-1cdc5cc7159d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega-Dreamcast-Console-BL.jpg
- **2016**, Sega-Dreamcast-Mouse-BL. The official mouse for the Sega Dreamcast video game console, used mainly for web browsing. DMA Design’s three-dimensional experiments, Body Harvest and Space Station Silicon Valley, were the technical bridge to GTA III on the hardware of this period. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a41b1ede-208c-4223-9612-4147e7839825) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega-Dreamcast-Mouse-BL.jpg
- **2016**, Sony PlayStation 2 console. Die Hinterseite auf ein Slimline-PlayStaion 2 (SCPH-70001 Modell). Von links nach rechts: Ethernet-Anschluss, TOSLINK Optischen-Audio-Anschluss (S/PDIF), AV-MULTI-OUT\* und DC IN (Gleichstrom-Stromanschluss) (8,5 V, 5,2 A)\*Proprietärer Anschluss, über den Stereoton, Kompositvideo, S-Video sowie entweder RGB (für SCART)... [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ace9ed28-458e-4490-9536-436b5d540e1c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony-PlayStation-2-70001-Console-BR.jpg
- **2016**, Leslie Benzies @ Everywhere Game. Leslie Benzies was Rockstar North president and producer across GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, IV and V. He sued Rockstar and Take-Two in April 2016; the litigation ended on 7 February 2019 in a confidential settlement, so nothing about who was right is public. He is now president of Build A Rocket Boy in Edinburgh. Leslie Benzies @ Everywhere Game. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0ec4b8d0-c69b-4361-96e1-4a5cc053be3b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leslie_Benzies_@_Everywhere_Game.jpg
- **2016**, Sony-PlayStation-3-2001A-wController-L. The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) video game console, shown with DualShock 3 controller. This is a seventh generation console first released in 2006 as the successor to the PlayStation 2. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5dce2d17-ee7e-4298-b7a1-967ac2760cb9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony-PlayStation-3-2001A-wController-L.jpg
- **2016**, Naava nasdaq times square. New Yorkin Times square aukio. Take-Two trades on NASDAQ. Its disclosures are the only primary source for the series’ finances; the widely repeated 265 million dollar budget for GTA V is an analyst estimate the company has never confirmed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7dc5038c-bdf6-4ee7-8e8f-0ff9da07d029) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naava_nasdaq_times_square.jpg
- **2016**, A memorial for Antonin Scalia at the foot of steps to the Supreme Court of the United States. After the death of Antonin Scalia on February 12/13, 2016, memorial items were left at the foot of steps to the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, holding that video games are protected speech. His reasoning noted that the studies did not prove a direct causal link, and pointed to the long tradition of violent children’s entertainment. Justices Thomas and Breyer dissented separately. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ee9becc3-30aa-43fc-b96d-3fcc05bec98e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_memorial_for_Antonin_Scalia_at_the_foot_of_steps_to_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States.jpg
- **2016**, GTA V Exec Suing for $150 Million in Royalties - GS News Update. Contemporaneous reporting on the royalties claim at filing. The litigation ended on 7 February 2019 in a confidential settlement with each party bearing its own costs, so nothing about who was right is public. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6484501e-b6a1-4594-a6b1-ecc622fa2dee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJTm0Vp4dG4
- **2016**, Former Rockstar North President Suing Company for $150 Million - IGN News. Leslie Benzies filed against Rockstar and Take-Two on 13 April 2016 claiming US$150 million in unpaid royalties. He had been Rockstar North president and producer across GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, IV and V. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1af17d3a-5d2c-40f3-a11b-e736422984f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0jpTyGKQA
- **2016**, Skepta 2 F.I.B. 2016. Skepta contributed to GTA Online’s radio expansion. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9961b886-51c6-46e9-b0c3-733541a1bbbd) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skepta_2_F.I.B._2016.jpg
- **2016**, Las Vegas Boulevard - Bob Dass. Two party cops offering fake-arrest photo ops. Las Vegas is the model for Las Venturas in San Andreas, which is set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/753ff617-1f7a-4d7f-9d3c-4600eca909ce) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Vegas_Boulevard_-_Bob_Dass.jpg
- **2016-08-02**, From DMA to GTA: How DMA Design Changed the World \| Nostalgia Nerd. Nostalgia Nerd follows DMA Design from Dundee to Rockstar North. Dave Jones sold the financially struggling studio to Gremlin Interactive for GBP 4.2 million in April 1997; in September 1999 Take-Two Interactive acquired it for GBP 1, assuming GBP 12.3 million of debt. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6e34ead9-a773-4f0f-883e-2673ce26d866) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IF_dh0Mcio
- **2016-08-22**, The Story and Games of Psygnosis: The UK's Greatest Games Company?. A history of Psygnosis, the Liverpool publisher that carried DMA Design's breakout title. British studios of this period were small, regional and frequently sold on. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7e2a67ce-cbb6-48c6-a3bc-5f92d3f2591a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvYlxnHOY-Q
- **2016-09-23**, The Story of the ESRB Ratings. A documentary on how the ESRB came to exist, following the congressional hearings of the early 1990s. It is the body whose 2005 decision on San Andreas triggered the series' largest commercial crisis. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a6f42b9a-dac6-4164-9b83-307f0306681e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3HDVd22P8
- **2016-10-20**, Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer. The first trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, the game that occupied Rockstar between Grand Theft Auto V in 2013 and the announcement of its sequel in 2023. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6964736b-28fc-4121-96b6-ea5c9007d54e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmA6MrX81z4
- **2016-11-09**, The Third Life of the Hollywood Sign \| Artbound. Public television on the Hollywood Sign, which the series renames as the Vinewood Sign. Rockstar uses fictional names partly to avoid legal exposure and retain creative freedom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/915a5811-be8c-4eca-8414-1a9f44b15905) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IjAUr03CgI
- **2016-11-22**, How big was Big Smoke's order really?. The order measured against a real fast-food menu. This is the meme examined rather than repeated, which is the only honest way to handle a provenance that rests largely on meme aggregators. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cd2136f0-efad-4392-a1b8-a984eb68e19e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3cvmtPuvXo
### 2017
- **2017-03-05**, Study Suggests Violent Games Do Not Equal Violent Countries. Cross-national data undercutting the claim that violent games produce violent societies. Modern preregistered and longitudinal studies have produced chiefly null results. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4a0ea8d2-c4fb-462b-9e13-7d0df0fc1631) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOq5mSsrj0
- **2017-03-05**, Big Smoke's train mission (and why it's not CJ's fault). An argument that the mission failure is Big Smoke's fault, not CJ's. The line is Follow the damn train, CJ, spoken on failing Wrong Side of the Tracks; the widely circulated All we had to do was follow the damn train is a composite that was never spoken. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ea7c0ec9-fd48-4911-8f7d-6f9d1981a924) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIvG8aCuYFw
- **2017-03-20**, Former Rockstar Games Senior Artist - Steven Bliss talks life as an artist // PROJECT 10. Ep.01. A short profile filmed shortly after Bliss left Rockstar in 2016. The many apps offering to turn a photo into a loading screen, and the wave of AI imitations, copy a living illustrator's copyrighted style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e963ff72-35c6-43f9-afb9-f719aa6ad85b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HzwOYsWWRI
- **2017-05-27**, GTA V \| COPS Episode 1 (Rockstar Editor Machinima). Machinima made with the Rockstar Editor, the in-game tool released for Grand Theft Auto V. Films made inside game engines date to the early 2000s and are among the series' oldest cultural outputs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5dd58f69-08e9-4fc7-bae9-923ca78cd93c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4H1GTBkUPE
- **2017-05-30**, Take-Two Interactive Software CEO: Strength In Gaming \| Mad Money \| CNBC. Zelnick during the ramp in recurrent consumer spending. By fiscal 2025 that category would be 80% of Take-Two's US$5.65 billion in net bookings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d038df1d-cc24-4100-a060-860e8a9e2134) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spo2uAyKjpw
- **2017-06-05**, The Industrial River - The Water of Leith. BBC Scotland on the Water of Leith. DMA Design opened a satellite studio in Leith, Edinburgh after Grand Theft Auto 2 in 1999, and Dundee operations closed in March 2000 with staff moving to Calton Square. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fea96591-66d7-4eea-ae40-2e489962daec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDloprEICpE
- **2017**, Ultra street fighter iv arcade cabinet. Arcade and coin-op culture is the world DMA Design’s founders came out of, by way of the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club in Dundee. Ultra Street Fighter IV arcade cabinet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6b071b42-1e9c-49d2-b8d1-8db71a820134) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ultra_street_fighter_iv_arcade_cabinet.jpg
- **2017**, Lamborghini Countach LP 5000S 1983. The Vice City look is credited as a formative influence on synthwave, also called retrowave or Outrun. The counter-position is that the aesthetic is named for the 1986 arcade game Out Run and that its deeper source is 1980s film and television, above all Miami Vice, which was Vice City’s own acknowledged model. Both claims are contested. Lamborghini Countach LP 5000S (built 1983), seen at Concours d'Élégance in Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a1e7320c-ab35-4b8b-9a26-0ddebeb43576) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Countach_LP_5000S_1983.jpg
- **2017**, Bench mark, 244 Leith Walk, Edinburgh. A satellite studio opened in Leith after GTA 2 in 1999, the first step in the move from Dundee to Edinburgh. Bench mark, 244 Leith Walk, Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d946eb61-6a05-4fb4-8855-902197d8fc7d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bench_mark,_244_Leith_Walk,_Edinburgh_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5569455.jpg
- **2017**, Santa Monica, California, beach and coastal bluffs. Santa Monica State Beach and coastal sandstone bluffs (cliffs), California. Palisades Park along Ocean Avenue is seen on top of the bluffs. Dan Houser left Rockstar on 11 March 2020 and registered Absurd Ventures in February 2021. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with a studio in San Rafael, and he is its CEO and creative director. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aeb9dcc7-d172-4fd4-8cce-ae3c72da5a83) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Monica,_California,_beach_and_coastal_bluffs.jpg
- **2017**, Commodore-64-Computer-BL. A Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer introduced in 1982 by Commodore International. Its low retail price and easy availability led to the system becoming the market leader for three years. It remains the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0f9d60b8-6d13-437c-9da2-079ece5ca6e8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore-64-Computer-BL.jpg
- **2017**, Santa Monica - Downtown - Beach. Downtown Santa Monica, California, vista from the 15th store of the Huntley Hotel. Dan Houser left Rockstar on 11 March 2020 and registered Absurd Ventures in February 2021. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with a studio in San Rafael, and he is its CEO and creative director. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/741a4d03-2f59-4c7b-a206-142f698e216e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Monica_-_Downtown_-_Beach.jpg
- **2017**, Santa Monica – Third Street Promenade (a) 06 Sept 2017. Santa Monica, California: Third Street Promenade towards SE. Promenade is a shopping, dining and entertainment complex in the downtown area of Santa Monica. Dan Houser left Rockstar on 11 March 2020 and registered Absurd Ventures in February 2021. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with a studio in San Rafael, and he is its CEO and creative director. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/13bbd4d6-00fd-4842-88fa-e679847b65a3) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Monica_–_Third_Street_Promenade_(a)_06_Sept_2017.jpg
- **2017**, Commodore-64-Computer-BR. A Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer introduced in 1982 by Commodore International. Its low retail price and easy availability led to the system becoming the market leader for three years. It remains the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/374f66d6-ca7a-402e-aa0a-fb8d1f434dfc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore-64-Computer-BR.jpg
- **2017**, Chuck D 2017. Chuck D in 2017. Chuck D of Public Enemy voices Forth Right MC on Playback FM in San Andreas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/68e25036-bc4c-4d4b-afb1-e2565f9cf77c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuck_D_2017.jpg
- **2017**, Commodore-64-Computer-FL. A Commodore 64, an 8-bit home computer introduced in 1982 by Commodore International. Its low retail price and easy availability led to the system becoming the market leader for three years. It remains the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/898a1a59-cc97-4910-beae-f6017b44048e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore-64-Computer-FL.jpg
- **2017**, Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey (1). Arion Kurtaj, who leaked 90 clips of unreleased GTA VI footage to GTAForums in September 2022, received a hospital order rather than a prison sentence. Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey (1). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/61f879ff-1160-47f3-91c9-f9ec54960e69) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Criminal_Court,_Old_Bailey_(1)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5417080.jpg
- **2017**, Hearing Room in the Hart Building. Central Hearing Facility in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The Family Entertainment Protection Act, introduced 17 December 2005, would have federally penalised sales of M- and AO-rated games to minors and required annual FTC checks for hidden content. It was referred to committee and never became law. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/574921ac-2f1f-4591-84b2-94f5acf841da) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hearing_Room_in_the_Hart_Building.jpg
- **2017**, Mothers Against Drunk Driving Garden in Alton Baker Park. Mothers Against Drunk Driving objected to the drunk-driving mechanic in GTA IV in 2008 and asked the ESRB to re-rate the game from M to AO. The ESRB did not re-rate it. Rockstar replied that its mature audience was sophisticated enough to understand the content. Mothers Against Drunk Driving Garden in Alton Baker Park. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5c79b86e-565e-4498-85e1-a19be6cf68eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving_Garden_in_Alton_Baker_Park.jpg
- **2017**, An American Airlines DC-10 takes off from LAX on clear winter day. Note the Hollywood sign in the distance. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. An American Airlines DC-10 takes off from LAX on clear winter day. Note the Hollywood sign in the distance. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/13af0702-369b-4adb-a9f8-83f12be7c69c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_American_Airlines_DC-10_takes_off_from_LAX_on_clear_winter_day._Note_the_Hollywood_sign_in_the_distance.jpg
- **2017**, Las Vegas Strip. \<a href=" https://usareisetipps.com/22-tag-pool-sonne-essen-in-las-vegas/ " rel="nofollow"\>usareisetipps.com/22-tag-pool-sonne-essen-in-las-vegas/\</a\>. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/18631361-3ea4-4b88-bc46-5dd0cead1d44) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Vegas_Strip_(34813386443).jpg
- **2017-06-16**, The OpenIV Mess (Take Two VS GTA V Mods). Posted days into the backlash. The objection was weak on its face because OpenIV was for single-player and offline use and did not breach the Grand Theft Auto Online mod terms. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b346d6e2-2187-49dc-b4de-f0fc1907f51e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH8ANRmucF0
- **2017-06-17**, Rockstar Games & Take-Two versus Modding. On 5 June 2017 Take-Two issued a cease and desist to OpenIV, the tool underpinning most PC mods for Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3, alleging it let third parties defeat security features. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9046a3d6-5975-410c-8016-6a482001e162) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgd7AfbYyI0
- **2017-06-23**, Rockstar Addresses Take-Two C&D - Allows OpenIV. Rockstar reversed the cease and desist within about two weeks and OpenIV continued. This is a rare, documented and fast corporate climbdown driven by player backlash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1abc4d00-1b25-4d2c-92bb-0ae31cd13fc8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQmUrwTXzJw
- **2017-06-24**, OPENIV RETURNS! TAKE TWO REVERSES C&D. OpenIV resumes distribution after the reversal. The episode set the terms for how Rockstar handled single-player modding thereafter. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2e365635-eb19-4b62-bd39-9a4619480a5e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwBXRHx7h8s
- **2017-06-24**, Rockstar Gets Take Two To Back Off GTA V Modders. A named critic frames the reversal as the studio restraining its own publisher. Take-Two and Rockstar are distinct corporate actors and did not present a single position here. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/77312084-12f2-42af-ac12-ad566afe1970) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thh9SyDE_QU
- **2017-06-27**, HUGE Modding Tool TAKEN DOWN \| Take-Two Interactive VS Rockstar \| OpenIV. The takedown seen from the modding-tools side. A decade of community work on the PC versions depended on a single tool that the publisher moved against. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f1c24d05-a9c7-44c8-9a3e-105f760ae777) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGC-72Jb814
- **2017-09-04**, SYNTH STUFF Ep.#1 \| A History of Synthwave. An early synthwave history predating the popular account that credits the 2011 film Drive. Useful for dating when the genre's own origin narrative formed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/37dd8401-fbde-45ae-be6d-8896a724195c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3brwm9OLEA
- **2017-09-23**, Gremlin Graphics founder Ian Stewart - The Retro Hour EP89. Gremlin's founder on building the company that briefly owned DMA Design. The studio changed hands twice in under three years before the first 3D Grand Theft Auto shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2bad8143-487b-4080-966a-598a72278112) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJQsl__DFh0
- **2017-12-04**, The Hillbillies of Grand Theft Auto Online. A documentary on an emergent player community inside Grand Theft Auto Online. What players built inside the game is distinct from what Rockstar designed, and this is the former. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2db73da1-8f4a-4b6f-904d-daf7583d8803) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G86COtz0xjs
- **2017-12-08**, Dave Jones - Creator of Grand Theft Auto Interview. Dave Jones interviewed by Abertay University in Dundee, the institution that became a centre for games education in the city DMA Design came from. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ac2a6f2d-ce54-42f1-a699-27869ee44e75) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmC4267D-k0
### 2018
- **2018-02-11**, DMA DESIGN TALK & Q&A \[PLAY EXPO BLACKPOOL 2018\]. A DMA Design panel and audience session at Play Expo Blackpool. The studio's first office opened in August 1989 above a former fish and chip shop in Dundee, and roughly 23 people worked on Grand Theft Auto III. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6c4c69f3-4fa4-4f0a-a824-2bc9f2aef29c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxHKU28nW68
- **2018-03-21**, The Hot Coffee Controversy (Zero Punctuation). Commentary on the affair and the Adults Only re-rating. The ESRB's stated reason was that the material existed in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/091be95b-7115-4973-b410-e7b405eb4c85) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-RkiPhpPY
- **2018-03-30**, Should We Regulate Video Game Violence?. A legal podcast asks whether any regulation of game violence survives Brown v. EMA, revisited during the 2018 political push to blame games for mass shootings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aeea446c-0322-472d-9fcb-622d9d26345a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTZEHgbTxu4
- **2018-03-31**, Stop Blaming Violent Video Games For Mass Shootings. An explainer on the absent causal evidence. The APA task force found a small reliable association with outcomes such as yelling and pushing, but held those findings difficult to extend to more violent outcomes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cea38a59-a9c1-4d1d-b468-612ac1d1476c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZloQM4Cw0gQ
- **2018-04-07**, Synthwave \| Documentary. A documentary on synthwave, also called retrowave or futuresynth. One account holds that the genre developed among French house producers in the mid to late 2000s partly inspired by Vice City, nine years before the 2011 film Drive is popularly credited. The claim is contested. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/335ed104-491f-446e-8a7d-de061ad34c2c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efvQvaN5AI8
- **2018-05-04**, Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer #3 Analysis! New RAGE Engine Tech Upgrades!. Analysis of engine upgrades visible in a Rockstar trailer. Working from published assets is the only rigorous approach available for unreleased Rockstar titles. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a6eed205-779b-4df4-93d7-809a6d927c4b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AimWQtpx-K8
- **2018-06-11**, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick and Geoff Keighley Talk About Red Dead Redemption 2. Zelnick interviewed at the Red Dead Redemption 2 moment, weeks before the Kotaku investigation into working conditions at the studio. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ab685d01-d4c4-40d1-a879-80d5d47fbdf9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJZgHgXZQio
- **2018**, Kathy at New York Stock Exchange. Take-Two Interactive is a publicly traded company, and its filings are the primary source for the series’ finances. Recurrent consumer spending is 80 percent of Take-Two’s FY2025 net bookings of 5.65 billion dollars, with GTA Online and GTA V named among the largest contributors. Kathy at New York Stock Exchange. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/112a67d4-c501-430f-a7f3-57e3882a123b) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kathy_at_New_York_Stock_Exchange.jpg
- **2018**, GervaisBlooms021218-4. Ricky Gervais performs as himself at the Split Sides comedy club in GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/56279f00-d4d1-43ae-a742-ba1dbba3076e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GervaisBlooms021218-4_(44341160080).jpg
- **2018**, 44th St 6th Av td 05 - 1133 Avenue of the Americas. 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at the southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The Bank of America Tower and the Salesforce Building (3 Bryant Park / 1095 Avenue of the Americas) are south in the background. Take-Two Interactive acquired DMA Design in September 1999 for one pound, assuming 12.3 million pounds of debt. Two years earlier Jones had sold the struggling studio to Gremlin Interactive for 4.2 million pounds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0c4b6cd3-d333-433b-8078-574353bf36e9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:44th_St_6th_Av_td_05_-_1133_Avenue_of_the_Americas.jpg
- **2018**, Katt Williams 2018 (UBX0KEMiZUk). Comedian and actor Katt Williams being interviewed for the film Father Figures in 2018. Katt Williams performs a stand-up set as himself in GTA IV. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/13bd0c3b-9430-457a-8ef8-e5d285a0d89a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katt_Williams_2018_(UBX0KEMiZUk).jpg
- **2018**, Fish and chip shop, Ballachulish. DMA Design opened its first office in August 1989 above a former fish and chip shop in Dundee. Fish and chip shop, Ballachulish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/65fa8643-99d3-4b08-bd86-09096ad5f2f0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fish_and_chip_shop,_Ballachulish_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5822928.jpg
- **2018**, Studios Rockstar North Édimbourg 3. Studios de Rockstar North, Édimbourg. Rockstar North is the studio that was DMA Design. It moved from Dundee to Edinburgh after GTA 2, and was renamed Rockstar Studios in March 2002 and Rockstar North in May 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f7410a61-71ee-4c66-bedb-72baf3b76e9d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Studios_Rockstar_North_Édimbourg_3.jpg
- **2018**, Triangulation pillar on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Edinburgh has been the home of Rockstar North since the Dundee studio closed in March 2000. Triangulation pillar on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/eaf8b35e-aa0c-436a-b806-246796d6d20e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Triangulation_pillar_on_Calton_Hill,_Edinburgh_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5980182.jpg
- **2018**, Justice Scalia. Gravesite of Justice Antonin Scalia at Fairfax Memorial Park in Fairfax, VA. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association in 2011, holding that video games are protected speech. His reasoning noted that the studies did not prove a direct causal link, and pointed to the long tradition of violent children’s entertainment. Justices Thomas and Breyer dissented separately. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e802cd95-7016-41ed-b2fb-70b938de986d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Justice_Scalia.jpg
- **2018**, The Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey. Arion Kurtaj, who leaked 90 clips of unreleased GTA VI footage to GTAForums in September 2022, received a hospital order rather than a prison sentence. The Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/46ce5b4d-1483-4151-8321-f49758444f35) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Central_Criminal_Court,_Old_Bailey_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5923124.jpg
- **2018**, Former Rockstar North President's Lawsuit Against Take-Two Hits a Snag - IGN News. A setback in the Benzies litigation a year before it concluded. Because the settlement is confidential, no outcome can be inferred in either direction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/645ad3c0-3452-4ccb-8a45-18d136a19fa6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UU3bAD0HVo
- **2018**, Depeche Mode en concert à Bordeaux en janvier 2018. Depeche Mode appear on Radio X in San Andreas. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. Depeche Mode en concert à Bordeaux en janvier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9112712b-8558-4218-915a-fe842ece04f5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Depeche_Mode_en_concert_à_Bordeaux_en_janvier_2018.jpg
- **2018**, New Edition on Sister Circle Live. R.B.R.M. , 4 members of R&B band New Edition , interviewed on Sister Circle Live . Left to right: Ronnie DeVoe , Bobby Brown , Ricky Bell , Michael Bivins. Michael Bivins of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe hosts CSR 103.9 in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f307f467-2088-4892-b503-7c373767244f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Edition_on_Sister_Circle_Live.jpg
- **2018**, Nation of Islam, SF 1990's. Nation of Islam members in San Francisco at the Powell & Market cablecar turnaround. San Francisco is the model for San Fierro in San Andreas, a game set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bd784e9e-3256-48d5-953f-a6a71f4c1cb7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nation_of_Islam,_SF_1990's.jpg
- **2018-07-16**, #Gamelab2018 - Dave Jones: From Lemmings and GTA to Fortnite. Dave Jones speaks at Gamelab about the run from Lemmings through Grand Theft Auto. He sold the financially struggling DMA Design to Gremlin Interactive for GBP 4.2 million in April 1997, two years after the Race'n'Chase design document was written. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/437835a5-9ac7-4f20-b6ca-b5f80d9919a8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH-TPLCnwU0
- **2018-07-18**, Retro Island Diskettes 007 \| Steve Hammond of DMA Design. A second, independent interview with Steve Hammond. DMA's 3D experiments Body Harvest and Space Station Silicon Valley were the technical bridge toward the series' move into three dimensions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d432094a-ae5a-48ba-a9db-2ab7a5b580c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvKadqsuhd4
- **2018-08-31**, How Take-Two Lost The Founder & Still Built A $15B Video Game Giant - a Case Study for Entrepreneurs. Take-Two Interactive's corporate history, including the era before it acquired the Scottish studio. The company assumed GBP 12.3 million of DMA's debt as part of the 1999 purchase. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/db47137d-10d8-43c4-b88e-4b419059f701) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aphyy2zEcj8
- **2018-09-27**, DMA Design Historie – Von der Rettung der Lemminge zum Grand Theft Auto und Crackdown. A corporate history of DMA Design through the Dundee closure in March 2000 and the rename to Rockstar North in May 2002. Staff moved to Calton Square in Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/05706458-7c2a-4839-936c-de1eef4a214a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYRvZHjf6Qk
- **2018-10-15**, Rockstar Clarifies Controversy About Working 100 Hour Weeks for Red Dead Redemption 2. Dan Houser's remark about 100-hour weeks and Rockstar's clarification that he meant four senior writers for about three weeks. Schreier's investigation then found nobody had worked 100 hours, and that crunch was nonetheless real, sustained and often mandatory. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a56df826-9ffb-4234-81fd-b936f0f0f6ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBlHsDwAIIE
- **2018-10-18**, Red Dead Redemption 2 Launch Trailer. The Red Dead Redemption 2 launch trailer from October 2018. The studio shipped one major title in the thirteen years between mainline Grand Theft Auto releases. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/69fbf5fb-210e-450e-93df-3a7d655ae3ec) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVRzx17WHVk
- **2018-10-18**, Rockstar Allows Devs to Speak Publicly About Working Conditions - IGN News. Rockstar lifted the restriction preventing developers from speaking publicly, directly after the crunch coverage. Typical crunch weeks reported were 55 to 60 hours, with Rockstar Lincoln quality assurance described as the harshest. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e1949dc6-0a78-4f56-b626-1d30658b060a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLd-eKH6nZI
- **2018-10-25**, Red Dead Redemption 2 - exclusive Rockstar Games interview. BBC Radio 1 gains rare direct access to Rockstar leads. Aaron Garbut and Rob Nelson took leadership roles at Rockstar North after Benzies left in 2016. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/20ec1cf1-8c25-4106-a4fd-e13ac2005c6f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnQRohLtasc
- **2018-10-25**, \[4K\] Red Dead Redemption 2: The Digital Foundry Tech Analysis!. A technical analysis of Red Dead Redemption 2, built on RAGE, the in-house engine that replaced RenderWare. The exact version history of RAGE across titles is not well documented publicly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/be8cd725-08f2-465a-8df9-0d00865c2d92) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnzuh6I8gnM
- **2018-10-25**, A Wild West Revival - Red Dead Redemption 2 Documentary. A documentary on Red Dead Redemption 2, released October 2018 on the RAGE engine. Its development is the subject of the crunch reporting that followed weeks later. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e06c806a-adf8-4b00-a416-ecc7576eb895) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifarc1gzVd4
- **2018-10-25**, Red Dead Redemption 2: Inside Rockstar Games - BBC Click. BBC Click films inside a Rockstar studio, one of very few broadcast pieces shot on the company's premises. Rockstar rarely opens its buildings to cameras. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ef75e8fd-0c82-4c4a-94ba-4d8de5a00c86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHfKjifJBdw
- **2018-12-02**, GTA IV - Censorship in Australia \[Analysis\] - Feat. SWEGTA. The specific content changes made to secure an Australian rating. Until R18+ arrived in 2013 the highest available classification for a game was MA15+. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1602494a-d1bc-4900-bfa9-caeeb4ac4730) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbW9OQeXM6g
- **2018-12-02**, Grand Theft Auto III Retrospective. A long retrospective on Grand Theft Auto III, released 23 October 2001 for PlayStation 2. It reached 1.4 million copies by December 2001 and scored 97 on Metacritic. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a12dd5a7-1a0e-473c-8ccb-91854da54184) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGSWvIflN8
### 2019
- **2019-01-06**, Evolution of RenderWare Engine Games 1996-2018. The RenderWare engine across its full catalogue. Licensing middleware from Criterion Games rather than building in house is why three Grand Theft Auto games shipped in three years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1efbee64-ebbe-4e4e-aabe-5c58d058c929) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mS3GDvHS58
- **2019-02-11**, The Story and Games of Gremlin (full) \| Kim Justice. Gremlin Interactive bought DMA Design for GBP 4.2 million in April 1997. Gremlin was itself taken over by Infogrames, after which Take-Two acquired DMA for GBP 1 in September 1999. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0874f70d-70ec-4c4e-a028-2f49d72cde3a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6taoEQ-UCU
- **2019-03-03**, The history of Outrun - arcade documentary. A history of the 1986 Sega arcade game Outrun. The aesthetic now attached to Vice City takes its name from this game, which is the core of the case that the look predates the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5bef1e07-b0f2-402d-87b4-5a2ff430e1e2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjsKmlR5sxI
- **2019-04-28**, History Behind: Ah Shit, Here We Go Again. An explainer dated to the April 2019 viral spike. The emergence timeline around 2015 on 4chan and Reddit, and the attribution of the spike to a green-screen edit, come from meme aggregators and should not be treated as established. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1be51efb-6380-4361-8bcd-d79a4ca5459c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPk9T1j-zAE
- **2019-05-03**, The History Of GTA Vice City World Records. A record history for Vice City, extending organised speedrunning back to the 3D era titles of the early 2000s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3e0be665-e265-4e59-94dd-e286023a2d5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGHgBcSidQw
- **2019-05-09**, Classic Game Postmortem: Lemmings. An official conference postmortem of Lemmings. Its revenue bought DMA Design the independence in which Race'n'Chase, and then Grand Theft Auto, was developed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0ad25396-e34b-4b1a-b782-d9a0c35c9043) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybs5FR-uUNI
- **2019-05-16**, The City of Las Vegas: The Early Years. The city's own broadcaster on the early history of Las Vegas, the model for Las Venturas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/348154bc-d10e-43b4-aea3-b240055267de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czyMm5DdqAY
- **2019-05-25**, Badlands Does The Big Smoke Drive Thru Order. Someone buys and eats the full order in the real world. Around 2014 the order was also adopted for crank calls to real fast-food outlets, a genuine crossing from screen into the physical world. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e4c9d30e-3593-4e6d-895c-43ce3a05bf32) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xa6F7ntzJU
- **2019-05-28**, Loreto Playground td (2019-05-28) 048. New York is the model for Liberty City, the setting of the first game, GTA III and GTA IV. Loreto Playground td (2019-05-28). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/93b34002-13d4-4e58-b288-d3dae24096e7) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loreto_Playground_td_(2019-05-28)_048.jpg
- **2019-06-11**, WBLS - 'In A Class By Itself' - The 1970's, Frankie Crocker, Building a Station. The station's own history of Frankie Crocker and 1970s New York black radio. Liberty City's stations echo the New York dial that this programming defined. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a8e787ba-f568-4331-b8c1-db00f0fc157d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn8iU3-RNL0
- **2019-06-12**, Take-Two CEO Excited About Opportunities in Streaming and China. Bloomberg interviews Take-Two on distribution and market expansion, four years before the Cfx.re acquisition brought the roleplay platform in house. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fc519f03-2508-4b81-b2f2-3c64226af5a6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTecdBpUtCM
- **2019-06-15**, Rockstar Advanced Game Engine. RAGE, the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine, replaced RenderWare and moved the series onto in-house technology. Its exact first use and version history across titles is not well documented publicly. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7d8f9ea6-99d2-4520-99da-75233e465d4f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT0YBg3CwlM
- **2019**, The History of Santa Monica's Muscle Beach. Muscle Beach in Santa Monica, replicated in both San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto V. The real landmarks are photographable where the games are not. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8d0f2377-820e-4e91-bbe1-eb24ab22c137) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwwV3FP_glI
- **2019**, A Town at Play: Piers of Santa Monica. A museum short on the piers of Santa Monica. The Los Angeles coastline is among the most reproduced settings in the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cdd1bd4b-5552-4933-b2f1-92da458ed2e0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7zCfrZJczU
- **2019**, Crispy chicken at restaurant Aseman Wursti. A dish of crispy fried chicken in mango-curry sauce, served with French fries, cucumber relish and onion, along with a glass of beer, served at restaurant Aseman Wursti at the Helsinki Central railway station in Helsinki, Finland. Cluckin’ Bell, where Big Smoke places his order in the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru", is fictional. The fast-food counter it refers to is not. San Andreas was released on 26 October 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/dad57a2c-9dfc-4941-9154-8e4602b0a4a0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crispy_chicken_at_restaurant_Aseman_Wursti.jpg
- **2019**, Ferrari Testarossa--2. Ferrari Testarossa, seen in Murten/Morat. The Vice City look is credited as a formative influence on synthwave, also called retrowave or Outrun. The counter-position is that the aesthetic is named for the 1986 arcade game Out Run and that its deeper source is 1980s film and television, above all Miami Vice, which was Vice City’s own acknowledged model. Both claims are contested. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/212fc65f-a266-491a-980f-d9015d7784eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferrari_Testarossa-20190419-2.jpg
- **2019**, Denshadegocab1. Densha De Go!! arcade cabinet at an amusement center in Tokyo, Japan. This is the 2017 version of the game. Arcade and coin-op culture is the world DMA Design’s founders came out of, by way of the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club in Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b5bd3ec1-4d6b-486c-98d5-8d86852dd9c5) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denshadegocab1.jpg
- **2019**, Lemmings plaque, Nethergate, Dundee. DMA Design made Lemmings before it made Grand Theft Auto. Released in February 1991 and published by Psygnosis, it sold 20 million copies across 21 platforms and made Jones a millionaire at 25. That success bought the independence in which GTA was developed. Lemmings plaque, Nethergate, Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4b228926-eff8-4d9a-8425-25909f60a493) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lemmings_plaque,_Nethergate,_Dundee.jpg
- **2019**, Daddy Yankee, Con Calma Tour 2019. Daddy Yankee's Con Calma Tour 2019. Daddy Yankee hosts San Juan Sounds in GTA IV. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aa6f91b9-e9b0-4502-8fae-d7695b81052f) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daddy_Yankee,_Con_Calma_Tour_2019.jpg
- **2019**, Gilles Peterson 2019 DF1 2181. Gilles Peterson hosts WorldWide FM in GTA V. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. Gilles Peterson 2019 DF1 2181. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e7d38dc7-93fc-4a06-9ea7-83d3341d216e) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gilles_Peterson_2019_DF1_2181_(49029291892)_(cropped).jpg
- **2019**, Snoop Dogg 2019 by Glenn Francis. Snoop Dogg in Hollywood California on July 22, 2019 -. Snoop Dogg appears on West Coast Classics in GTA V. The stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs and spoof commercials in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/87f1ca98-0063-4eef-8da6-4271c3b31aba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snoop_Dogg_2019_by_Glenn_Francis.jpg
- **2019-06-24**, The History of Rockstar Games. A documentary channel on Rockstar's rise. The series' cultural output ran well beyond the games themselves into quotes, screens and a whole visual style. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b9e9d2c7-9f62-42fa-9092-b8d0ee1b763b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGTWRrGVNU
- **2019-07-12**, THE PASSENGER \[GTA 5 DRIVER ACTION MACHINIMA - Rockstar Editor\]. An ambitious long-form machinima made with the in-game editor. This is player filmmaking rather than anything Rockstar produced. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/22835522-baae-452d-a991-642df3352b06) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyqkKt4zlFI
- **2019-08-04**, 2019-08-04 Commodore Amiga personal computer. Commodore Amiga personal computer. DMA Design began on home computers of this class in Dundee in 1988, making Lemmings before it made Grand Theft Auto. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/79f794b1-fe38-4ab9-b7c0-b4b14690b6ef) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-08-04_Commodore_Amiga_personal_computer.jpg
- **2019-08-23**, The Six Controversial Strats of GTA V Speedrunning. How the speedrunning community argues over and ratifies what counts as a legitimate technique. Rule-making is itself a form of community practice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3ac14c30-2ad3-4a79-9093-ca8ad810b45f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JWGQXXzcjg
- **2019-09-09**, Making Grand Theft Auto & Lemmings at DMA Design with Mike Dailly - Retro Tea Break. Mike Dailly was among the founding DMA programmers drawn from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club alongside Steve Hammond, Russell Kay and Gary Timmons. In 2011 he released the 22 March 1995 Race'n'Chase design document that is the earliest paper record of the project. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b758716f-f835-4650-a4e8-94732ecbd3c2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3CY4ZonCKA
- **2019-09-17**, Legendary Radio DJ Greg Mack on adding rap music to 1580 KDAY radio in Los Angeles (pt.1). The programmer who put rap on Los Angeles radio describes how it happened. The music on the series' stations is the only real element in an otherwise invented broadcast. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/249115ff-f337-41bd-979b-b88a9735b694) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOQxjYFcOqQ
- **2019-11-20**, Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick on Why a ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Film Is Unlikely. Zelnick explains why a Grand Theft Auto film is unlikely. Rockstar has generally kept the series inside games, and uses fictional city names in part to avoid legal exposure and retain creative freedom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d81ff8db-79fe-416e-a5dc-5b15998b6f9f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcY3yn1FEcU
- **2019-12-26**, The Debate Behind Video Game Violence. CNBC on the evidence dispute after politicians blamed games for mass shootings. The distinction that almost every public claim fails at is between aggression as psychologists measure it and violence as the public understands the word. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1529fa64-9a5f-44b7-9eec-6cde0fe6ad69) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaf_Xjz6Mxs
### 2020
- **2020-02-19**, Violent video games with Villanova professor Patrick M. Markey \[audio\]: So to Speak podcast. Patrick Markey, co-author with Ferguson of work challenging the consensus, weeks before the APA reaffirmed its position. Modern preregistered and longitudinal studies have produced chiefly null results. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8f98ba08-8936-4293-83aa-6214ba345f8d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psryt6vHPOQ
- **2020-04-12**, Out Run: The Complete History \| SEGA's most iconic driving game - SGR. A full history of the 1986 Sega arcade game that the Outrun aesthetic takes its name from. Naming the claimants matters here, because the origin of the look is disputed and neither side is settled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9ac04b9d-8b07-41d4-997d-1b450ea36acb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U86YZCNFXX8
- **2020-04-30**, Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition – Available on the Rockstar Games Launcher. Grand Theft Auto IV returns to sale through Rockstar's own launcher after years of music-licensing problems had forced content changes on the PC version. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/33db5fe1-4228-4f11-9078-5a3fa8440e07) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzIZkxsWYw
- **2020-04-30**, Grand Theft Auto V – Available on the Rockstar Games Launcher. Rockstar moves its PC catalogue onto its own launcher. Owning distribution is part of the same shift toward recurring revenue that Shark Cards began. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/af1498e8-7f1f-4c0a-893d-c2b039b69586) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIv_Uj1ERE
- **2020-06-11**, Grand Theft Auto V - Coming to New Generation Consoles. Rockstar announces a further generation of Grand Theft Auto V, seven years after launch and six years before its sequel is due. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/556ba71c-819f-42ee-9a53-c1475d80df82) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foUaOCzfIRU
- **2020**, ReDrawing Edinburgh: A Brief History of Leith. A library history of Leith. Dundee operations closed in March 2000 and staff moved to Calton Square in Edinburgh, where Rockstar North remains. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1cc1f60f-5139-43c8-96f9-1f52f6ddb382) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weecPxofd-g
- **2020**, The Evolution of GTA Radio \| Genius News. Genius traces the series' radio across games. The form is fully produced fictional stations with spoof DJs, spoof commercials and spoof talk radio, in which the only real element is the music, either licensed or written for the games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7fa99452-e8b7-4f6b-9611-f335949e0665) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E26N0gqmS4U
- **2020**, LoL Worlds 2020 Stage - 01. Stage for the 2020 League of Legends World Championship. Competitive and organised play sits alongside the roleplay-server scene that FiveM hosts, reported in the region of 100,000 daily players. Critics say Rockstar’s 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re turned a community-built platform into corporate property. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ce10933b-e5ee-4bc4-8f04-afc7e203a638) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LoL_Worlds_2020_Stage_-_01.jpg
- **2020**, PlayStation 5 and DualSense (2). PlayStation 5 console set vertically with the stand and DualSense controller charging. GTA VI is announced for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on 19 November 2026. No PC version has been announced or dated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5d979d1c-6c92-456c-9bf9-7a164ff398c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PlayStation_5_and_DualSense_(2).jpg
- **2020**, FBoyleSoho100320-3. Frankie Boyle - Soho Theatre - Tuesday 10th March 2020. Frankie Boyle appears as himself in The Lost and Damned, the GTA IV expansion, rather than in the base game. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0bc4d033-b62f-46fc-b2ce-a25ac33b9267) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FBoyleSoho100320-3.jpg
- **2020**, PlayStation 5 and DualSense. PlayStation 5 console set vertically with the stand and DualSense controller charging. GTA VI is announced for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on 19 November 2026. No PC version has been announced or dated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a24a5396-28bb-4de8-8b48-353ebb20540d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PlayStation_5_and_DualSense_(cropped).jpg
- **2020**, Calton Road from Regent Bridge, Edinburgh. Dundee operations closed in March 2000 and staff moved to Calton Square in Edinburgh, where the studio has been based since. Calton Road from Regent Bridge, Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0c0f5902-1638-4405-abbf-64925728e246) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calton_Road_from_Regent_Bridge,_Edinburgh_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6553767.jpg
- **2020**, Fish and chip shop, Aviemore. DMA Design opened its first office in August 1989 above a former fish and chip shop in Dundee. Fish and chip shop, Aviemore. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/afe06214-85b9-4c39-a643-e1014c50f3cc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fish_and_chip_shop,_Aviemore_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6544321.jpg
- **2020**, Griffith Park from Normandie at Clinton St. View of Griffith Park skyline from East Hollywood. Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, in San Andreas and again in GTA V. Vinewood answers Hollywood, and the Del Perro Pier answers the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6afd7510-1a4d-4ba3-974b-fb471196699a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Griffith_Park_from_Normandie_at_Clinton_St.jpg
- **2020-07-03**, RenderWare: The Engine that Powered an Era \| Retrohistories. RenderWare, made by Criterion Games, was licensed middleware rather than in-house technology. Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas all ran on it across three years, which is the technical explanation for a release pace no publisher has matched since. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bb43dd96-7c09-4b03-889b-d697f5c507c0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKpDFIWK1DI
- **2020-08-14**, Lazlow's History with Rockstar, GTA III, & Why He Left. Lazlow Jones from Grand Theft Auto III radio host to writer to departure. He resigned in April 2020, a month after Dan Houser, and was one of the four senior writers named in Rockstar's account of crunch. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/da5511c5-861e-4b7e-ac3c-2ef1cff99e19) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDeEj06V8pg
- **2020-10-12**, Rockstar Acquires Ruffian Games, Forms Rockstar Dundee!. Rockstar returns to Dundee in 2020 by acquiring a local studio, twenty years after DMA Design's Dundee operations closed in March 2000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/241a754a-b50b-4e10-b293-346b3f95b126) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnA6InLQTWU
- **2020-11-15**, That Time Videogames Went to the Supreme Court (Brown v. EMA) - Same Name, Different Game Gaiden. A retrospective walkthrough of the case history and the 7 to 2 holding. Almost no popular account of the Grand Theft Auto controversies includes the Supreme Court ending. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5c831df2-9811-4753-9056-1b9225dc501a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFC6EHRDrLc
- **2020-11-27**, Rockstar's History With Nintendo.... (The DMA Design Years - 1993 to 1995). DMA Design's Nintendo years in the mid 1990s, overlapping exactly with the period when the Race'n'Chase design document was written in March 1995. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/64a0b258-4580-467d-a89d-d10035bd3cb2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de36zzi3eg
- **2020-12-04**, CONTROVERSY: Grand Theft Auto IV. The objections that gathered around Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008, including the MADD campaign for an Adults Only re-rating that the ESRB declined. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d6618506-c270-4367-acb5-272d6744b1c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y98FNuQ43o
### 2021
- **2021-01-04**, WTF Happened to Miami Vice? (1984-1989). A retrospective on Miami Vice, which ran from 1984 to 1989 and is Vice City's own acknowledged model. The game is set in 1986, inside the show's run. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0ff47fdb-f1a7-4ab5-9cdc-69bd4c6fc1cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkylCKD4xwE
- **2021-01-25**, Rockstar's MASSIVE GTA Online Lawsuit Against Modders! Mod Menu Shutdowns, Permanent Bans & MORE!. Rockstar's legal actions against Grand Theft Auto Online cheat-menu authors, a separate matter from the single-player modding dispute settled in 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2faa4a3d-2d3c-412a-9b12-f9219decb6c1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEeG8Oetdbo
- **2021-01-26**, The Longest-Lasting World Records in GTA Speedrunning History. The longest-standing records across the series. Organised speedrunning has tracked these games continuously since the early 2000s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ba69b958-dad2-4c17-906d-a9be1f12d488) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpfKubCzJJ4
- **2021-02-23**, Cool Facts & Behind the Scenes of Red Dead Redemption 2 \| The Making of RDR2. Production detail on Red Dead Redemption 2. Dan Houser's remark about 100-hour weeks referred to work on this game, and was narrowed to four senior writers for about three weeks. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c4b684ca-64f8-45ae-a18f-bfb16def039c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQkDX8jSSo
- **2021-03-08**, Wasted screens from every GTA (2020). The WASTED screen across the whole series. The death and arrest screens are real, long-running and instantly legible, but no dated origin for their use as an image-macro overlay is locatable, so none is asserted here. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/09ca71b9-7075-4a56-9101-648b659c93cf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfk0zviSStA
- **2021-03-17**, Violent Video Games and Availability Cascades with Chris Ferguson \| Chris Ferguson. Ferguson on how the moral panic propagated, recorded after the APA's March 2020 resolution. That resolution found insufficient evidence of a causal link to violent behaviour and warned explicitly against blaming mass shootings on games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/de549bf7-3d62-4f4f-a70a-b3f864cffb5a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DFffU1phGc
- **2021-03-21**, Franklin & Lamar's Voice Actors REACT to GTA San Andreas \| Experts React. Voice actors from Grand Theft Auto V react to San Andreas, the 2004 game that produced the series' most quoted lines. Main characters have generally been voiced by lesser-known actors, with celebrity casting concentrated on the radio DJs. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aa2e6740-9ce7-4461-81fd-5b7cce81a03e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5SA8oXEmRk
- **2021-03-23**, Take-Two Interactive CEO: We are not seeing any softening in demand. Take-Two on demand during the pandemic-era peak for live-service games. Grand Theft Auto Online was by then eight years old and still among the company's largest contributors. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2a45ab5a-02ef-4ef7-bb9d-ff10560eaba3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP257id3IsY
- **2021-03-28**, Audio Interview with Gary Penn. Gary Penn was DMA Design's creative director and is the source of the best-attributed quotation from the early development, that nobody wants to be the cop. The widely repeated story that a police-AI bug accidentally created the game is fan-wiki folklore and appears nowhere in the documented record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/28fe8e88-4bf0-4a27-afad-f342392f2257) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIReo8uiFWM
- **2021-05-15**, History of Grand Theft Auto (1984 - 2021) \| Documentary. A feature-length history of the series. San Andreas, released 26 October 2004, is the single most meme-productive entry and the source of the entire quote cluster. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/01704ce7-0192-4399-ae8f-62a2bef5e017) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKPUS7pu5Y
- **2021-06-09**, Rebel radio ships \| Al Jazeera World Documentary. A broadcaster documentary on offshore radio ships. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce Rockstar's radio content and built the station format from Grand Theft Auto III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a04e26d7-3ec8-4351-a3d8-11e62407b918) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXsJB9_VAXA
- **2021-06-09**, ⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Grove St to Rockstar North, Edinburgh. A walking tour to the Rockstar North offices in Edinburgh. The buildings are photographable where the games are not, which is the whole basis of the studios facet. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f4f86b6b-86c8-4549-a1f0-75ae7e8268a9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E12WNM_CuQc
- **2021**, Take-Two interactive CEO on releasing new consoles and its Codemasters acquisition. Take-Two's chief executive on console transitions and the Codemasters acquisition. The company's growth strategy through this period was acquisition and recurrent spending rather than new mainline Grand Theft Auto releases, of which there were none between 2013 and 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1d3e46d1-c5c3-4a22-bef1-b49b7e295c60) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W7UUOUgdY8
- **2021**, Wild Rift Final Four at the eSports Stage. ​2021台北國際電玩展，TGS電競星光大道，《英雄聯盟：激鬥峽谷》四強賽開場主持人。. Competitive and organised play sits alongside the roleplay-server scene that FiveM hosts, reported in the region of 100,000 daily players. Critics say Rockstar’s 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re turned a community-built platform into corporate property. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3e9bb654-a36a-4e6d-a12d-fccbf7f8eeb9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:League-of-Legends-Wild-Rift_Final_Four_opening_at_eSports_Stage_20210130b.jpg
- **2021**, 1984 Lamborghini Countach LP5000S. A Lamborghini Countach LP5000S taken at the Hampton Court Concours 2021. The Vice City look is credited as a formative influence on synthwave, also called retrowave or Outrun. The counter-position is that the aesthetic is named for the 1986 arcade game Out Run and that its deeper source is 1980s film and television, above all Miami Vice, which was Vice City’s own acknowledged model. Both claims are contested. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7d44789e-2f45-47fc-8340-224b79aebb23) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1984_Lamborghini_Countach_LP5000S.jpg
- **2021**, Boneless Fried Chicken. Balls of fried chicken with Buffalo sauce, chives, carrot, celery and garlic dip, along with a glass of Fanta, served at restaurant Boneless in Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, Finland. Cluckin’ Bell, where Big Smoke places his order in the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru", is fictional. The fast-food counter it refers to is not. San Andreas was released on 26 October 2004. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/83ed779d-f6d9-45ae-a3a7-d264d94bfc2a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boneless_Fried_Chicken.jpg
- **2021**, Fif Burger drive-in restaurant in Hermanninmäki, Helsinki, Finland, 2021 April. Big Smoke’s order, from the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru" at the fictional Cluckin’ Bell, is one of the most quoted lines in games and is almost always misquoted. Around 2014 the order was adopted for crank calls to real fast-food outlets, a genuine crossing from screen into the physical world. This photograph shows a real drive-thru, not the game. Fif Burger drive-in restaurant in Hermanninmäki, Helsinki, Finland, 2021 April. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bedd0807-fb6a-458b-b77b-e7d89d27b711) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fif_Burger_drive-in_restaurant_in_Hermanninmäki,_Helsinki,_Finland,_2021_April.jpg
- **2021**, Lamborghini Countach LP500S IMG 4464. Lamborghini\_Countach\_LP500S in Böblingen. The Vice City look is credited as a formative influence on synthwave, also called retrowave or Outrun. The counter-position is that the aesthetic is named for the 1986 arcade game Out Run and that its deeper source is 1980s film and television, above all Miami Vice, which was Vice City’s own acknowledged model. Both claims are contested. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ffb3263c-6838-40fb-a862-e4b2713abf24) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamborghini_Countach_LP500S_IMG_4464.jpg
- **2021**, GameStop Retail Store - Vallejo - California. An Adults Only rating is effectively unsellable at mass retail, which is why the ESRB’s re-rating of San Andreas on 20 July 2005 forced a recall that cost Take-Two 24.5 million dollars. GameStop Retail Store - Vallejo - California. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1c7445ec-a555-4799-b91e-f190087e95ac) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GameStop_Retail_Store_-_Vallejo_-_California_(50906730711).jpg
- **2021**, Commodore Amiga 500+. Picture of Commodore computer Amiga 500+. DMA Design began on home computers of this class in Dundee in 1988, making Lemmings before it made Grand Theft Auto. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0695cfc8-dbdf-4465-83f0-e547e571a975) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore_Amiga_500+.jpg
- **2021**, Central Criminal Court of England and Wales (The Old Bailey) Ceiling. Here is a photograph taken looking of the dome ceiling in the Grand Hall of the Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey). Taken with kind permission of the administration. NOT to be used commercially. Located in London, England. Arion Kurtaj, who leaked 90 clips of unreleased GTA VI footage to GTAForums in September 2022, received a hospital order rather than a prison sentence. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0f893ba6-1c01-4b94-9039-1a28d29d8988) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Criminal_Court_of_England_and_Wales_(The_Old_Bailey)_Ceiling.jpg
- **2021**, Edinburgh Calton Hill from Salisbury Crags. Remote view of Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, from Salisbury Crags in Holyrood Park. Edinburgh has been the home of Rockstar North since the Dundee studio closed in March 2000. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1928f116-8c44-4bc7-a2e4-3106757c93ae) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_Calton_Hill_from_Salisbury_Crags_20211019.jpg
- **2021**, ROSALÍA VALDÉS. Mexican singer and actress Rosalía Valdés. Picture by Tania Victoria/ Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México. Rosalía co-hosts the MOTOMAMI station in GTA Online. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c97699db-16d4-4f80-a699-903c5edd4d36) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ROSALÍA_VALDÉS.jpg
- **2021**, Sovereign's Throne, House of Lords. The Sovereign's Throne in the House of Lords, Palace of Westminster. Publisher BMG Interactive hired publicist Max Clifford to court rather than avoid outrage around the 1997 game. Clifford was an interested party who built his reputation on claiming credit for manufactured stories, so his own account is not neutral. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/51f02aaf-50c7-469a-a6bb-a2c3f91a69c0) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sovereign's_Throne,_House_of_Lords.jpg
- **2021-06-19**, SilentPatch - SA Mod Showroom #2. SilentPatch is a community bugfix project for the 3D-era games. The footage is a modified build, and the work is preservation the publisher did not do. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3a7492df-fb31-491b-8d42-654fdd9000bb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRnLAIo-i70
- **2021-08-08**, Lazlow interviews Cris Formage from Epsilon (GTA San Andreas WCTR radio). Lazlow conducts an in-fiction interview on the series' talk radio. The spoof talk station is the part of the format with no music licensing attached and the freest hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a940c09c-b598-4b4a-ae37-efc992821a9c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FBJ2AOg2wE
- **2021-08-21**, GTA On Nintendo 64??? - Body Harvest Review. Body Harvest on the Nintendo 64 was one of DMA Design's two 3D experiments alongside Space Station Silicon Valley. Open-world design predates Grand Theft Auto III, including in DMA's own earlier work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5a6ce1a9-94b5-4baf-9933-882bba4d2731) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN77jN18p0g
- **2021-08-24**, Take-Two vs GTA Modding. A survey of Take-Two's legal actions against modders. The company issued a cease and desist to the OpenIV tool on 5 June 2017 and reversed within about two weeks after player backlash. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a6223aa2-7583-4ef8-8405-dbf73112e131) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREw369WoAw
- **2021-09-09**, Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online for PS5 and Xbox Series X\|S – Coming March 2022. Grand Theft Auto V announced for a third console generation, eight years after its original release. No other game in the series has had a commercial life of this length. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f4bd9f3a-5c66-480b-9d3f-6a85d3318b47) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNbONMSObfs
- **2021-09-23**, Evolution of DMA Design (Rockstar North) Games. DMA Design's full catalogue from 1988 to the Rockstar North rename. The studio was renamed Rockstar Studios in March 2002 and Rockstar North that May. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9edca8dc-50dd-4655-b882-ed66e561baa4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ML9IW8im-E
- **2021-09-27**, Evolution of Rockstar San Diego 1994-2018. Rockstar San Diego from its origins as Angel Studios. The Rockstar group grew by absorbing existing studios rather than founding new ones. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b448ae11-f53c-4753-91fb-7bad2798779c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8WfrSzoTYI
- **2021-10-06**, Rockstar Games - The Controversial History. The company examined as a business rather than a creative studio. Take-Two acquired DMA Design for one pound in 1999 and the franchise is now measured in billions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6b17c0a0-2d91-4ea8-9183-4e0a828d9fcb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH8xd5Q65M0
- **2021-10-08**, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Coming Soon. The announcement of the remastered trilogy. The three original games ran on Criterion's RenderWare engine, which complicates any modern re-release. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5d2c1076-8989-4013-9e2a-e85a510af3fc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x7zr1onxfU
- **2021-10-22**, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Trailer. The remastered collection of Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas, released November 2021 to a difficult reception and subsequently patched. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3b3bb5ac-95ce-4ca3-b0f5-348bd0c39cf7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71cBUeAL58
- **2021-10-23**, Grand Theft Auto III - The Best & Worst Game Ever Made. (20 Years Later). Grand Theft Auto III twenty years on. GamePro called it the most important video game of all time and the phrase GTA clone entered the vocabulary, though open-world design predates it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c3b26374-c2c6-49a0-abad-145c9000cbb8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ExJTJM9hxI
- **2021-10-28**, Evolution of Rockstar Lincoln Games 1992-2001. Rockstar Lincoln handles quality assurance and localisation. Its QA operation was described in Kotaku's 2018 investigation as the harshest for crunch, with mandatory overtime from August 2017. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f95da56e-b95c-43c5-9e09-9604c527efb8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4D5DE2Gqw
- **2021-11-04**, Take-Two Interactive CEO: We're probably the biggest metaverse company on Earth. Take-Two positions Grand Theft Auto Online as a persistent world business. Rockstar had become an operator of a live service rather than a maker of finite single-player games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7c28df97-7015-4b2f-ab55-f6e49d6c6dff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZXsDwDiRwM
- **2021-11-19**, Lemmings Can you dig it? A new 2021 documentary shining a light on the iconic video game at 30!. A trailer for the Lemmings thirtieth anniversary documentary. Sequels ran through 1994 with Oh No! More Lemmings, Lemmings 2: The Tribes and All New World of Lemmings. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5059c43e-af54-4901-bf5f-b4361245bb9c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4uCYy5Kotc
- **2021-12-05**, Complete interview with Jamie King, Co-founder of Rockstar Games. A Rockstar co-founder gives a first-person account of how the company was formed. Rockstar Games was established in New York and published the games that DMA Design built in Scotland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2299f987-a240-49b8-839c-382ad7266884) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiGBjwnJvvA
- **2021-12-23**, \[RE-UPLOAD\] How Grand Theft Auto's Iconic Radio Stations Were Created - Noclip Podcast #51. The series' radio stations are fully produced fictions with spoof DJs, spoof commercials and spoof talk shows, in which the only real element is the music. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce that content and built the format from Grand Theft Auto III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f9929548-ec59-40bd-9c07-4f90d9791832) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMkPFnBYwk
- **2021-12-28**, The History of Grand Theft Auto, Lemmings & DMA Design. Documentary outlet /noclip traces the studio from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club through Lemmings to Grand Theft Auto. David Jones founded DMA Design in 1988 aged 22, and the first office opened in August 1989 above a former fish and chip shop in Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/841a2c3d-a6ff-42a9-8579-05cc04c48e73) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev7FqNa5rD0
### 2022
- **2022-01-10**, Take Two to Buy Zynga? \| Understanding the Deal (and Market) (VL603). A practising lawyer analyses the structure of Take-Two's Zynga acquisition, the largest deal in the company's history and a decisive move toward mobile and recurring revenue. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6a69b4a9-877e-4da1-aa9e-2f3e7d56a423) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iudrxrXF1Bs
- **2022-01-11**, R\* Founder about RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine). A Rockstar founder on the in-house engine. Moving off licensed middleware was the decisive technical shift between the 3D era and the HD era. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f395308e-fe07-4b83-8285-6304f1c8f199) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfpOxZV8AQ
- **2022-01-24**, Lemmings Documentary Sneak Peek: Is It A True Original? (Exclusive Clip #1). A clip from the Lemmings documentary on whether the game was genuinely original. DMA Design's founding team came out of the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club in Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b6f6afd2-ccac-401d-808e-8fb2d37cfb17) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv6SuMHp_jo
- **2022-02-02**, Lemmings Documentary Sneak Peek: The Glory Days (Exclusive Clip #2). The DMA Design of the early 1990s, from the Lemmings anniversary documentary. David Jones was a millionaire at 25 on the back of a puzzle game about saving small creatures. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d6569dca-c7f7-4268-beca-ba65b51e3bee) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuiIBfrgKr8
- **2022-02-08**, Take-Two CEO on Q3 earnings: We're not a quarter-to-quarter company. Zelnick on earnings cadence. The company is now valued on recurring spending rather than on game launches, which is the structural change the series underwrote. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/55a5ef9e-cfda-4e3b-bfdb-840a8db131bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChNv2tEjXes
- **2022-02-14**, Lemmings: Can You Dig It? (Full 2 Hour Documentary - 30th Anniversary Feature Retrospective). A two-hour documentary on Lemmings, made for the game's thirtieth anniversary. Released February 1991 through Psygnosis, it sold 20 million copies across 21 platforms and funded the studio that went on to make Grand Theft Auto. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ae4d6387-05ea-40fe-a2f0-bf4bb9816f5c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAVNKdk9gA
- **2022-03-15**, Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online Out Now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\|S. The game arrives on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series on 15 March 2022. Take-Two reports over 230 million copies shipped, making it the second best-selling game of all time behind Minecraft. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/20883183-6b1e-4f22-80b3-94fe91084e0b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqiZdynJmag
- **2022-03-28**, GTA ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION! Rockstar Reveal GTA+ ( RIP Rockstar ). Rockstar introduces GTA+, a subscription tier layered on top of the existing virtual-currency products. The company that once sold finite single-player worlds had become an operator of a live service. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7c396eae-5b98-4b47-b75c-c9e52babfacd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy9O3j9u_t8
- **2022-04-12**, Criterion Games: The Rise and Fall. Criterion's arc including the middleware licensing business that powered Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas, and the acquisition that ended it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/68325d28-4c2f-484e-87ba-acc8acd19b97) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sEpmsGhcSQ
- **2022-04-15**, The Influence Of Miami Vice - Why Miami Vice Is Still Relevant In 2025. On Miami Vice's downstream influence. The honest formulation is that Vice City repackaged a 1980s Miami look for a 2000s audience rather than inventing it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/428bc060-7b07-404c-a081-fe949f8e3341) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg6r7wVaM_8
- **2022-04-28**, Scotland's massive impact on the video game industry that goes unnoticed. On the Scottish games-industry cluster that produced DMA Design. Dundee's Abertay University became a centre for games education in the wake of what the city's studios achieved. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8bff7796-60bf-4cd6-8a9c-cacdaa46f742) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmK9PFxpdK8
- **2022-04-29**, Three decades after Rodney King’s beating, police reform in Los Angeles remains elusive. PBS on police reform in Los Angeles three decades after the beating of Rodney King. The city that Los Santos fictionalises carries this history under it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/00ca84bb-f1d2-48d7-9c67-ee4890464fd8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFCK8OND8CY
- **2022-05-12**, Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Definitive Edition Revisited: BIG Improvements Since Launch. Digital Foundry revisits the Definitive Edition of the three RenderWare-era games after post-launch patching. The original trilogy ran on licensed middleware from Criterion Games rather than technology Rockstar built. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/121d9bce-58f0-45f3-a7e8-3f54c2c66ebe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jIQeEfvAE0
- **2022-05-21**, Games Made With The Renderware Engine 📌. Games built on RenderWare. The 3D era's technical foundation was bought rather than built, which is a large part of the explanation for its pace. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b52c5450-f47d-4f1f-b2c0-885ec50f5e9a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ijW0PRbC0
- **2022-05-31**, DMA Design - Grand Theft Auto - 1997. The first Grand Theft Auto, released in Europe on 28 November 1997 and in North America on 24 March 1998. The design document is dated 22 March 1995 and development began on 4 April 1995. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/78ce2e33-8f35-4820-b13b-0966b5ef407f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GAODzAHcM
- **2022-05-31**, Brampton ON Freight-Train 2022-05-31. A freight train at a crossing on Orenda Rd west of West Dr in Brampton, Ontario. "Follow the damn train, CJ" is spoken by Big Smoke on failing the San Andreas mission "Wrong Side of the Tracks". The meme is inseparable from the mission’s reputation for difficulty, which is the actual reason players heard the line often enough for it to lodge. This is a real train, not the game. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9e91be47-9068-43c7-afb7-9971d17e0f7d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brampton_ON_Freight-Train_2022-05-31.jpg
- **2022**, Pollo Campero Drive Thru sign, Miami-Dade Florida. Big Smoke’s order, from the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru" at the fictional Cluckin’ Bell, is one of the most quoted lines in games and is almost always misquoted. Around 2014 the order was adopted for crank calls to real fast-food outlets, a genuine crossing from screen into the physical world. This photograph shows a real drive-thru, not the game. Pollo Campero Drive Thru sign, Miami-Dade Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7565a0bd-fbe6-4424-b467-08adf2b61815) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pollo_Campero_Drive_Thru_sign,_Miami-Dade_Florida.jpg
- **2022**, NT2673 - Rockstar North. HQ of Rockstar North in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rockstar North is the studio that was DMA Design. It moved from Dundee to Edinburgh after GTA 2, and was renamed Rockstar Studios in March 2002 and Rockstar North in May 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/293e460e-d9d7-4792-b7f3-d8aaeb0b499c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NT2673_-_Rockstar_North.jpg
- **2022**, Axl Rose live in London 2022. Axl Rose performing live with Guns N' Roses at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England on 1 July 2022. Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses voices Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith on K-DST in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ba17fb63-907c-4be1-8792-4731f22e8ebc) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Axl_Rose_live_in_London_2022.jpg
- **2022-07-27**, "Legends in The Cave" Mike Dailly - Lemmings, GTA, Game Maker Studio and more. A long career interview with Mike Dailly, among the founding DMA programmers from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club. In 2011 he released the 22 March 1995 design document for Race'n'Chase, the project that became Grand Theft Auto. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f2474914-bcfd-490b-b4f9-6107f3664079) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NL9Yb-zMw
- **2022-08-15**, Why is Video Game Preservation so Slow?. On why game preservation moves slowly. The 3D-era Grand Theft Auto games ran on licensed middleware, which complicates re-release and is part of why remasters have been contentious. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f97eaf2a-cf16-4c1d-8eb9-d8c7ed81c1df) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F9TDmDc-d8
- **2022-09-08**, KDAY Radio History. A history of 1580 KDAY in Los Angeles, the station that first put rap in regular rotation. Radio Los Santos in San Andreas imitates this format for a game set in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/eb15548f-b811-461f-9595-1e49b57321ed) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiD9K7YCUio
- **2022-09-21**, All Footage of Dan & Sam Houser of Rockstar Games. A compilation of the scarce on-camera footage of both Houser brothers. They ran one of the most visible entertainment properties in the world while appearing in public very rarely. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b1fd8297-c3c2-414c-abde-5f069e98eef2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9oZsnaTUmo
- **2022-10-07**, MC Eiht Reveals That He Was The Voice Actor Behind Ryder In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. MC Eiht identifies himself as the voice of Ryder in San Andreas. The game cast working rappers alongside actors, which is part of why its dialogue circulated so widely. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b4d65ebd-549f-4662-bb0b-4eb2aedf7bc8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCGr8lBKeI
- **2022-12-12**, The History of NoPixel - How it got started. The origin of NoPixel, the best known Grand Theft Auto roleplay server. The roleplay scene runs on community-built platforms layered over a game that never shipped with those features. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/180ae32f-720b-4214-ae10-b86998a6fd04) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4jAFvaLoAM
- **2022-12-15**, Jack Thompson: The Man Disbarred Over Video Games. A long-form account of the disbarment. The grounds were making false statements to tribunals and disparaging and humiliating litigants and other lawyers. They were not his opinions about video games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/53fd6f23-3874-454a-a658-6b9ebcb7125f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlIrYIsAJv4
### 2023
- **2023-01-07**, The Rise of FiveM, How a Mod is Replacing Grand Theft Auto Online, GTA Documentary, From SAMP to Now. Traces the line from San Andreas Multiplayer to FiveM. Rockstar acquired Cfx.re, the makers of FiveM and RedM, on 11 August 2023 after years of conflict with the same scene. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cee16167-898d-4cfe-8049-7e905cb31fea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5OADIBnrc4
- **2023-02-01**, Community Verified Is Back! - GTA 5 Content Creator Races. Player-built race tracks made with the in-game creator and curated by a long-running community figure. User-generated content is a distinct strand of practice from modding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e33b8127-4c48-47e1-8718-ddb45301442a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2GWWSAJOKo
- **2023-02-18**, Body Harvest - What Happened?. Body Harvest was DMA Design's Nintendo 64 project and one of two 3D experiments, with Space Station Silicon Valley, that preceded the series' move into three dimensions. Open-world design predates Grand Theft Auto III, including in DMA's own earlier work. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/023f5419-5cc2-4716-81d4-8597366484f6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yguxX7XJ5yc
- **2023-03-17**, Prime Minds - Episode 23, Fear City w/GTA3 artist Stephen Bliss. A long conversation with Bliss covering his Grand Theft Auto III era work and his later projects. His tenure at Rockstar ran fifteen years and produced the illustrative style that became the basis for the series' promotional imagery. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/84e7efe5-f8b6-43f3-aedd-673edda430ea) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZnL5Q7vtOg
- **2023-03-29**, The pirate station that changed British radio - Witness History, BBC World Service. The BBC on Radio Caroline and the offshore pirate stations. The series' talk and music station format descends from this tradition of radio as a personality-led broadcast rather than a playlist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/94576fbe-c133-4a1c-aa21-063c116b2ea0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGQ0OaI0Ris
- **2023-04-07**, Developing Legendary Games with Dave Jones. Dave Jones on a career that ran from Lemmings through Grand Theft Auto to later studios. DMA's 3D experiments Body Harvest and Space Station Silicon Valley were the technical bridge to the series' move into three dimensions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/72982aa2-ec16-443f-9bd2-494fb676ff84) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3MwU6ePnhw
- **2023-04-13**, Photograph of the first McDonald's fast-food restaurant opened in Punjab, India, located in Doraha, 13 April 2023. Big Smoke’s order, from the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru" at the fictional Cluckin’ Bell, is one of the most quoted lines in games and is almost always misquoted. Around 2014 the order was adopted for crank calls to real fast-food outlets, a genuine crossing from screen into the physical world. This photograph shows a real drive-thru, not the game. Photograph of the first McDonald's fast-food restaurant opened in Punjab, India, located in Doraha, 13 April. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e1fa655b-f48e-419c-86c5-195401390042) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_the_first_McDonald's_fast-food_restaurant_opened_in_Punjab,_India,_located_in_Doraha,_13_April_2023.jpg
- **2023-05-17**, Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) Q4 2023 Earnings Call + Q&A. A full Take-Two earnings call carried by a games outlet. Recurrent consumer spending is defined by the company as virtual currency, add-on content and in-game purchases. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/05ddd1de-11a1-4d7a-b1c6-289b582189ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRArxQktv_0
- **2023-06-05**, This Top GTA Speedrunner Was Just Exposed For Cheating. Cheat detection inside the speedrunning community. Verification and enforcement are carried out by players, since no governing body exists. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7ab8fb04-53f5-423e-8356-edcb4d5d428a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WzCwTLeZ2w
- **2023-06-15**, Absurd Ventures. Dan Houser's studio announces itself. He registered the company in February 2021, eleven months after leaving Rockstar, and it now builds new intellectual property across games, television, film, podcasts, books and comics. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/79afd3e0-1a6c-4f82-90ca-42b6a4758e05) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5-9SeQjAEc
- **2023**, Why The $183 Billion Video Game Industry Can't Quit Microtransactions. CNBC on microtransactions across the industry. Shark Cards are Grand Theft Auto Online's virtual-currency product, and recurrent consumer spending as Take-Two defines it covers virtual currency, add-on content and in-game purchases. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c03b2414-7f88-4b4a-9c90-98cfad985146) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc7WLFfQikM
- **2023**, Chuck D's Artist Collective, Art on the Ave, Fulton Center. Taken in New York City in December 2023. Chuck D of Public Enemy voices Forth Right MC on Playback FM in San Andreas. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e6205e28-2466-4c46-bae7-2da67bc98fa9) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chuck_D's_Artist_Collective,_Art_on_the_Ave,_Fulton_Center.jpg
- **2023**, Lapsus$ GTA 6 Hacker Confined To Mental Hospital After Hacking Behind The Police's Back. #gta6. In December 2023 Kurtaj received an indefinite hospital order, detention in a secure hospital until doctors judge he is no longer a danger. This is not a prison sentence. He has since been released from hospital and is awaiting retrial. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9ab3c308-b82c-4df9-bcd6-43896e37b725) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0yV9_N0HhY
- **2023**, GTA 6 Hacker May Spend Life In Secure Hospital After Indefinite Hospital Order Sentencing. Same-day reporting on the hospital order. The court heard Kurtaj is autistic and had breached Rockstar while already in police custody, which is why it treated him as it did. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7ff2344e-990c-45b9-9d50-4e30c13ac1d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiClIvyGs6E
- **2023**, Lapsus$ Teens Brought to Court in UK \| cybernews.com. Reporting from the August 2023 UK proceedings that convicted Arion Kurtaj over the September 2022 leak of 90 clips of unreleased Grand Theft Auto VI footage to GTAForums. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c0ea830c-8e47-48b0-8ae4-32aad7febaff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut3GU7reCTM
- **2023**, Rockstar North. HQ of Rockstar North in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rockstar North is the studio that was DMA Design. It moved from Dundee to Edinburgh after GTA 2, and was renamed Rockstar Studios in March 2002 and Rockstar North in May 2002. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e5eb4a69-a634-4a3c-87d1-bc8e24346573) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20231022_Rockstar_North.jpg
- **2023**, Edinburgh Trams - Top of Leith Walk. A satellite studio opened in Leith after GTA 2 in 1999, the first step in the move from Dundee to Edinburgh. Edinburgh Trams - Top of Leith Walk. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4a0d950b-5b5d-4b2d-ba89-7cc43057aa5c) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_Trams_-_Top_of_Leith_Walk_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7407225.jpg
- **2023**, Cypress Hill 2023. Cypress Hill appear on Radio Los Santos in San Andreas. The music is the most rights-encumbered material in the subject, so the archive shows the musicians rather than playing the stations. Cypress Hill. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/37562f2e-011c-42a5-ba28-03c93425d126) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cypress_Hill_2023.jpg
- **2023-06-19**, SEGA's Winning Run: Out Run, Space Harrier and Hang On. Sega's arcade lineage of the mid 1980s, which produced the visual language of sunset gradients, palm trees and supercars long before any Grand Theft Auto shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1423c297-ed0d-4ade-a0e0-5f653751685f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-BeyKw4b68
- **2023-07-08**, Jack Thompson Disbarment Day!. A retrospective on the disbarment and its sustained findings. Thompson has not practised law since 2008 despite announcing an intention to resume in September 2009. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8581fb89-6a50-4ea4-9523-f28869961edc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUDOLkA4AM
- **2023-07-25**, What's Rockstar Dundee Up To?. The reconstituted Rockstar Dundee, opened in 2020. The company returned to the city twenty years after DMA Design's operations there closed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9bbe55bb-0199-481a-abbc-da25e33e5f26) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBkwbJ_5ons
- **2023-07-29**, Modders are Fixing GTA IV's Awful PC Port. Modders repairing the Grand Theft Auto IV PC port that the publisher left unmaintained. The footage shows modified builds, which is preservation work by the community rather than the game as shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e1ed939f-62e7-4954-8c81-8c32259a50b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRdCEBAaUo
- **2023-08-04**, Freight Train Blues - Carrollton Riverbend New Orleans 4 August 2023 - 06. Freight train passing Oak Street crossing - Carrollton Riverbend New Orleans 4 August 2023. "Follow the damn train, CJ" is spoken by Big Smoke on failing the San Andreas mission "Wrong Side of the Tracks". The meme is inseparable from the mission’s reputation for difficulty, which is the actual reason players heard the line often enough for it to lodge. This is a real train, not the game. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/304ff75b-81bf-4892-b8ec-8a2c75f4f804) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freight_Train_Blues_-_Carrollton_Riverbend_New_Orleans_4_August_2023_-_06.jpg
- **2023-08-11**, Rockstar Has BOUGHT FiveM & RedM! Should We Be Concerned?. Same-day community reaction to the acquisition. FiveM roleplay hosts an active scene reported in the region of 100,000 daily players. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a45ef109-f72d-4d7a-8bf7-a2ab4b4a5989) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lodTlij2u6Y
- **2023-08-11**, Rockstar Buys Cfx.re (FiveM and RedM). Rockstar acquired Cfx.re, makers of FiveM and RedM, on 11 August 2023. The same company that had spent years fighting the roleplay platform bought it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e63c4a1a-619b-4a57-894d-7e89df5eefa4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udEURhlI5HM
- **2023-08-31**, GTA V Beta - Changed & Cut Radio Content. Radio content changed or cut before Grand Theft Auto V shipped. Licensing constraints shape these stations more than any other element of the games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e2938185-e8e4-4c6a-b176-19455932e1de) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qGRrMJtP3s
- **2023-09-23**, How Speedrunners Destroyed GTA 5 Over 10 Years - World Record Progression. A decade of world-record progression in Grand Theft Auto V speedrunning. Speedrun technique is community practice and is not how the game was designed to be played. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/12c6f211-a930-44b0-9414-b9d843e0f1ac) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7d5upWWznw
- **2023-09-23**, Episode 20 - Stephen Bliss. Further corroboration of Bliss's role and tenure across Grand Theft Auto, Bully, The Warriors and Red Dead Redemption. The archive covers the style through coverage of him rather than by reproducing the art, which remains his copyright. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f3a84f16-9e2b-4756-a649-beaae6bbfab5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMEsk0lvLpo
- **2023-10-09**, Lemmings Bronze Statues in Dundee / DMA Design offices. The Dundee sites as they stand today, including the city's Lemmings memorial. The biggest entertainment franchise on earth began in a small industrial city in eastern Scotland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/119291ca-8d08-4d14-b42d-88dbb55ec341) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0evHC3l9us
- **2023-11-05**, The Hollywood sign turns 100. CBS Sunday Morning on the Hollywood Sign at one hundred. In Grand Theft Auto V the Vinewood Sign stands in for it, one of several Los Angeles landmarks given fictional names, alongside the Del Perro Pier for the Santa Monica Pier. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/67d2023f-f858-4437-823c-2fad802dc329) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=988l9Ay770I
- **2023-11-06**, A History of the Fillmore Neighborhood in San Francisco \| KQED. A public broadcaster's history of the Fillmore district. San Francisco's neighbourhoods carry the social history that San Fierro only gestures at. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ac5ff64d-bfdd-4391-a373-781bd16950cb) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8h2meDtdm8
- **2023-11-09**, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick goes one-on-one with Jim Cramer. Zelnick with Jim Cramer on CNBC. Take-Two's own FY2025 release later reported net bookings of US$5.65 billion with recurrent consumer spending at 80% of the total, which is the structural fact about the company: it collects ongoing spending rather than primarily selling games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b427b5fd-46d5-401f-bca1-cd435d44500a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67bL97XpKIE
- **2023-11-28**, Miami Vice Documentary \| The Inspiration Behind Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Hotline Miami & Outrun. A feature-length documentary placing Miami Vice underneath Vice City, Hotline Miami and Outrun. This is the counter-position in a genuinely contested question: whether Vice City originated the neon aesthetic or transmitted one that Miami Vice had already established. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9283b411-189e-46b6-b567-308469885d95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wxvs-mA5Sg
- **2023-11-29**, What Is SYNTHWAVE? - A Musical Analysis. A musical analysis of synthwave. One account credits French house producers of the mid to late 2000s inspired partly by Vice City; the counter-position holds the sources are 1980s film and television, above all Miami Vice. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/eb26fe04-d6be-43d1-bb7c-fca531ade87d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7W_vpTsb-0
- **2023-12-04**, GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto VI) Official Reveal Trailer. A press mirror of the first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer. Guinness World Records adjudicated three YouTube records within 24 hours, including 90.42 million views and 8.9 million likes. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1f688034-dd63-42e5-bfd9-e2800c916707) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inQelDKULOQ
- **2023-12-04**, History Of Rockstar Games. GameSpot on Rockstar's history. The company has produced more durable internet artifacts than any other games publisher, which is why the meme layer merits its own treatment. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/40856d17-57a6-4337-9d74-894cabf68c43) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU0dktjxTLE
- **2023-12-04**, Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1. Rockstar's first look at Grand Theft Auto VI. Guinness World Records adjudicated three YouTube records inside 24 hours, including most viewed video game reveal at 90.42 million views, taking the non-music record from MrBeast. The game remains unreleased. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ecbda15e-a647-45e3-9802-0f725dbc4b14) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0
- **2023-12-06**, Grand Theft Auto 6 - DF Direct GTA 6 Special - Trailer 1 Tech Breakdown. Digital Foundry breaks down the technology visible in the first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer. Analysis of this kind is the only technical account available for a game that has not shipped, and everything it examines is Rockstar-published footage rather than leak-derived material. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a49f0909-10b8-49eb-962e-6a3d17dc9c7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiC2OzgThc
- **2023-12-23**, Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Definitive Edition - iOS/iPhone vs Consoles - The DF Tech Review. The remastered trilogy compared across mobile and console hardware. Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas originally shipped within three years of each other on the same engine. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6be87bb5-665f-4c1c-9c5f-ff4c46e5bed2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3LweXo0b8
- **2023-12-29**, Michael's Voice Actor Reacts to GTA V. A performer watching clips of his own character. The gap between an actor's work and the memes made from it is one of the few places this facet can show a human author. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9f895d8f-0747-4bda-9665-bb9bfc182dbf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzoKYdltme4
### 2024
- **2024-01-09**, OUTRUN: The Aesthetic Explained. The Outrun visual style is named for the 1986 Sega arcade game, and its deeper sources are 1980s film and television. Vice City, released 2002, is best described as a major transmission vector rather than the origin, though synthwave histories do credit it as formative. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6e292964-f053-4837-a90f-56eb66718b4d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTn1L02rZEU
- **2024-03-16**, Why This GTA Mission is SO Difficult. On why Wrong Side of the Tracks is so hard. The mission's reputation for difficulty is the actual mechanism: players heard the line often enough for it to lodge. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e46b78df-5817-455a-bd06-54f0d04a1bb5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtCZBeo7oIg
- **2024-03-25**, South Korea to Dundee: Abertay University hosts Cross-Cultural Game Jam. Abertay University in Dundee hosts an international game jam. The Scottish games cluster outlived the studio that started it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/737b5e09-78a0-4ee2-bdae-f0ea48c45fdf) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nxxx07TpZ0
- **2024-04-09**, Dare Academy 2023. A student games competition run from Dundee. The city that produced Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto now trains developers rather than exporting them. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2035dfda-fd68-4680-980b-586f3a241291) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYyWRPoaFng
- **2024**, Riot Games Arena VCT Americas February 2024. The stage of the Riot Games LCS Arena in February 2024, during VCT Americas kickoffs. Competitive and organised play sits alongside the roleplay-server scene that FiveM hosts, reported in the region of 100,000 daily players. Critics say Rockstar’s 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re turned a community-built platform into corporate property. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/588d1743-cc7c-4ba3-8670-c08d9721b410) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riot_Games_Arena_VCT_Americas_February_2024.jpg
- **2024**, Frankie Boyle (2024). Frankie Boyle appears as himself in The Lost and Damned, the GTA IV expansion, rather than in the base game. Frankie Boyle - Catford Broadway Theatre - Thursday 4th April 2024. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7dd684f6-e4bf-426d-9912-afe61e1435ba) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankie_Boyle_(2024).jpg
- **2024**, Mononeon and katt williams picture. Katt Williams performs a stand-up set as himself in GTA IV. MonoNeon and Katt Williams at Court Square Recordings in Memphis, TN (2024). [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8614b0d1-974c-4321-936d-5be61180ccf8) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mononeon_and_katt_williams_picture.jpg
- **2024**, CSX night freight train L005 at Framingham Secondary 2. A nighttime CSX train passes through the level crossing at Blandin Ave in Framingham. "Follow the damn train, CJ" is spoken by Big Smoke on failing the San Andreas mission "Wrong Side of the Tracks". The meme is inseparable from the mission’s reputation for difficulty, which is the actual reason players heard the line often enough for it to lodge. This is a real train, not the game. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2554e177-30c9-4fee-9d45-dccbff274716) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSX_night_freight_train_L005_at_Framingham_Secondary_2.jpg
- **2024-06-26**, The Making of Lemmings - Mike Dailly Interview (DMA Design). Dailly on Lemmings, released February 1991 through Psygnosis, which sold 20 million copies across 21 platforms. That success funded the independence in which Grand Theft Auto was developed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e8ae2c3b-39bd-4006-916c-3401bb32bbc8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yo-1eN9j1Q
- **2024-07-19**, DMA Design with Steve Hammond - The Retro Hour EP106. Steve Hammond of DMA Design on the studio's working life. The first office opened in August 1989 above a former fish and chip shop in Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/60946c5f-9a4a-46f6-91fe-357d3c9c7664) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWeiveXyJO0
- **2024-07-24**, The History Of GTA San Andreas World Records. A feature-length history of San Andreas world records. Speedrunning is community practice with its own rules and verification, and is not how the game was designed to be played. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/909f948e-070c-486c-84ec-563ed8662955) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjMLbUKlak
- **2024-07-26**, Ep 70: Stephen Bliss on his iconic Grand Theft Auto artwork and his fantastic new creative evolution. Stephen Bliss was senior artist at Rockstar Games from 2001 to 2016 and illustrated most of the promotional art and loading screens across the series, as well as Bully, The Warriors and Red Dead Redemption. The look that apps and AI image prompts now imitate has a named human author, and almost no coverage credits him. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/78d20a4d-5259-4458-a9b1-0a03eebbdd87) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4_Cg1vEJY
- **2024-08-02**, Stephen Bliss on DC Comics, Jack Kirby's influence on the Grand Theft Auto Rockstar Games. Bliss names Jack Kirby and comics illustration as the influence behind the art style. This is a primary-source answer to where the loading-screen look came from, from the artist who established it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/18ca0155-636f-4ac9-be8a-a895457c820b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIpsSYkEs0
- **2024-09-05**, The complete history of Rockstar Games. A feature-length corporate history of Rockstar Games from its BMG Interactive origins. The publisher was founded in New York while the development studio remained in Scotland. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/73c4fab4-af4c-4dc6-9d0a-84173c6968ab) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po87m6qT-1w
- **2024-09-06**, L'HISTOIRE D'INFOGRAMES. A history of Infogrames, the French publisher that took over Gremlin Interactive and so briefly owned DMA Design before Take-Two acquired it in September 1999. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bffe5be3-51e1-4b89-b882-29d726777719) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=005jOIDnakA
- **2024-09-07**, The Oldest GTA Mod Still Being Updated. A long-lived Grand Theft Auto mod project still being maintained. Modding here is sustained practice rather than a graphics showcase, and the footage shows modified builds. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/70a38d95-8a60-4bc9-aeb1-6bb9f7ac461c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_jlge-09aY
- **2024-11-15**, Jamie King \| Co-Founder, Rockstar Games \| “Why shouldn’t gamers reap the rewards?” \| BBW 2024. A Rockstar co-founder on stage at a conference. The publisher was founded in New York in 1998, a year before Take-Two acquired the Scottish studio that made the games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/44f961af-5093-4cb4-aa3b-6f0a22b78ba7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iHsu3E-r3g
- **2024-11-22**, 3-Minute History: Pacific Ocean Park. Pacific Ocean Park, the lost Santa Monica pier amusement park. Los Angeles carries layers of demolished architecture that the games compress into single locations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/429aa66b-98d8-4fcc-b22b-1497eab480fe) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsJaxXTulNM
- **2024-12-05**, How Speedrunners Beat GTA3 So Fast, It Feels Illegal. How players route Grand Theft Auto III at speed. The techniques shown are glitches and community discoveries rather than intended design. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2df99f1e-0fba-4ba0-8dec-c6bcf9b6dd86) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-x4vx-Uf_k
- **2024-12-12**, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick on Gaming, GTA, and Life-Changing Advice for Young People. A long interview with Take-Two's chief executive covering the franchise. Rockstar and Take-Two are interested parties about their own history, which is worth naming whenever they describe it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fff58bf0-9f05-415a-a369-c3c680e16501) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09uNAeQNdg
### 2025
- **2025-01-12**, DF Retro: The NEW Grand Theft Auto 3 Dreamcast Port Is A Miracle... And It's Just The Beginning. Grand Theft Auto III began development on the Dreamcast and moved to PlayStation 2 when the Dreamcast was judged commercially unviable. A later fan port back to the original target hardware closes a loop the industry never did. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a32eec36-e8e4-4fe5-8511-33743ee23714) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWpf8BBAnq0
- **2025-01-26**, El ÉXITO y CAÍDA de SAMP. The rise and decline of San Andreas Multiplayer, the fan server platform that carried the series' multiplayer culture for years before FiveM. This is community practice, not the game as shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3571f009-c5d9-42b8-a63a-54e5d4499e3b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaJjnW9kKkQ
- **2025-02-10**, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick on Grand Theft Auto VI: We couldn't be more excited. Strauss Zelnick speaks to CNBC about a game that has still not shipped. Take-Two is the interested party about its own release, and no reviews, sales or reception exist for Grand Theft Auto VI. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/94d68731-43a2-4c09-a04b-ce40f37935f5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2POQ_toFtgc
- **2025-02-23**, The Death of FiveM: Lawsuits, Lies and Deception. The state of FiveM after the acquisition. Critics say a community-built platform became corporate property, pointing to a marketplace with mod assets priced high; a circulating US$20 million acquisition figure comes from a fan outlet, not a filing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/e2dd5616-3006-4e44-b08c-5a862fad766a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qWdRkjfihE
- **2025-03-15**, Grand Theft Auto 5 PC - Ray Tracing Upgrade - A Preview of GTA 6 Features?. Grand Theft Auto V received a ray-tracing upgrade on PC twelve years after its 2013 release. The game had already shipped across three console generations, and that longevity rather than its launch is what made it commercially exceptional. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d118bc68-50cc-4acd-8fed-cb9ce4268927) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6gMvs52-Hs
- **2025-03-23**, This N64 Game Was WAY Ahead of its Time!. Body Harvest reassessed. The studio's willingness to build large traversable spaces predates the game that made the idea famous. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3f0b0703-0772-4cda-9205-6450e91e427b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kS_vLzu3h8
- **2025-03-28**, Strauss Zelnick on Grand Theft Auto VI, Mobile Gaming. A long Bloomberg interview covering the unreleased game and Take-Two's mobile business. Everything said about Grand Theft Auto VI here is anticipation; there are no reviews, sales or reception to report. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d65a6382-db0e-4bce-96d2-551fc9099c7c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M53-LKlECk
- **2025-04-05**, MTA v SA-MP \| A History of GTA's OLDEST Multiplayer Mods. Multi Theft Auto and San Andreas Multiplayer were fan-built multiplayer projects that predated any official online mode. Both are community work rather than shipped Rockstar features. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/fbb1439e-f372-411a-911e-b4e624d6fcda) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxljCZ3rubQ
- **2025-05-01**, NEW Aspiring Game Artist Interviews Ex Rockstar Artist (GTA V, RDR2, GTA 6). A Rockstar art-department veteran describes how the environments of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 were actually built. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4d96705b-c1a4-4253-b752-34d694e4bbe1) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogRaBmY7MHs
- **2025-05-06**, 89 Details From GTA 6 Trailer 2. IGN's same-day frame-by-frame reading of Trailer 2. The detail-hunting breakdown became the defining format of the reaction wave around a game that still has not shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0ddc7283-8b67-49f2-a3de-41b30ce09bc9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmKZUB1NBag
- **2025-05-06**, Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 - Analysed. A measured technical reading of Trailer 2, a counterweight to the reaction economy that grew around both trailers. The wave itself became the story for a game with no release to discuss. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/16235e28-327a-44b8-bf3d-7f1d20bc0a9d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPsHCaTUrhc
- **2025-05-06**, Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2. Released unannounced on 6 May 2025. Rockstar claimed 475 million views across all platforms in 24 hours and the biggest video launch of all time, reported via The Hollywood Reporter. That figure is cross-platform and Rockstar's own, so it is not comparable with Trailer 1's adjudicated YouTube number. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8051c9f7-fb89-4ba8-a44d-180fd0af2c54) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQRLujxTm3c
- **2025-05-07**, Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer 2 Tech Breakdown - Incredible Realism, Impressive RT, Astonishing Detail. A technical reading of Trailer 2, released unannounced on 6 May 2025. Digital Foundry works only from the published asset, which matters for a title whose circulating gameplay footage is otherwise leak-derived, fake or AI-generated. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/aa4e9024-a322-4804-b5ce-8d5941db3fd3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zVIy_La7nk
- **2025-05-08**, 'Grand Theft Auto VI' trailer breaks viewing record. A game trailer treated as general news by a network affiliate. Trailer 1 in December 2023 holds the Guinness-adjudicated YouTube record at 90.42 million views in 24 hours; the two figures measure different things and are not comparable. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5f22a4b6-cb68-43d3-bf46-755b33d7184e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkEq8zy7gx8
- **2025-05-08**, Grand Theft Auto VI trailer breaks records. Local broadcast news covering the Trailer 2 view figures two days after release. Rockstar claimed 475 million views across all platforms in 24 hours, a cross-platform number and the company's own claim rather than an adjudicated record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/eaa077b9-ea85-4834-b04d-5728770d6959) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpJfiTkOO3M
- **2025-05-12**, Lemmings: How DMA Design Redefined Puzzle Games. Lemmings, released February 1991, sold 20 million copies across 21 platforms and made David Jones a millionaire at 25. The studio that made Grand Theft Auto first made a gentle puzzle game about saving small creatures. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7f39d637-2cb2-4b02-a1ff-eac4eaa75d3b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FTOySSAPo8
- **2025-05-15**, Yoni Assia at the eToro IPO launch event at Nasdaq on May 15, 2025 02. Take-Two trades on NASDAQ. Its disclosures are the only primary source for the series’ finances; the widely repeated 265 million dollar budget for GTA V is an analyst estimate the company has never confirmed. Yoni Assia at the eToro IPO launch event at Nasdaq, Times Square on May 15, 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/211571da-3b2c-46b8-9bb9-d8523efcb56d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yoni_Assia_at_the_eToro_IPO_launch_event_at_Nasdaq_on_May_15,_2025_02.jpg
- **2025-05-16**, Take-Two CEO on GTA VI delay: Trying to create the best thing anyone's ever seen in entertainment. Strauss Zelnick speaks to CNBC about a delay. Grand Theft Auto VI moved from an initial Fall 2025 window to 26 May 2026 and then to 19 November 2026, with Rockstar citing additional polish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/64c44750-b4db-4775-8ac6-70fe64ff6ab9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlLUo11qWg
- **2025-05-21**, Abertay University Facilities Tour: Games Technology, Arts and Cybersecurity. A tour of Abertay University's games facilities in Dundee. The city built a games-education sector on the back of what DMA Design achieved there. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/dc7014b1-d16c-4d07-8391-20584bea155d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RvrlwsUSi8
- **2025-05-23**, DMA Design, Creators of Lemmings, GTA & Shadow of the Beast. Q&A Talk at ZZap! Live 2025 Event. A DMA Design reunion panel in 2025. The studio was sold twice: to Gremlin Interactive for GBP 4.2 million in April 1997, then to Take-Two for GBP 1 in September 1999 with GBP 12.3 million of debt assumed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b29d0110-bbec-4eb5-9754-03e2755c31b8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wim-7mbX6a0
- **2025-06-06**, MindsEye - Quality Assurance with Leslie Benzies - Dev Diary. Build A Rocket Boy's own footage of its Edinburgh quality assurance floor. Benzies is president of the studio, whose game MindsEye released 10 June 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/040b2f56-da4f-4f17-824b-6e7946eda91b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2SMTr9M1Ek
- **2025-06-08**, Leslie Benzies Reveals Everything You Need to Know About MindsEye \| IGN Live 2025. Leslie Benzies discusses MindsEye, released 10 June 2025 to broadly negative reviews. He was Rockstar North president and producer across Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, San Andreas, IV and V, and is now president of Build A Rocket Boy in Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/23321f38-6b2f-42d2-b442-d565002dace3) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cV-VDYwCMs
- **2025**, The Man behind the Fun with Lazlow \| Soder Podcast \| EP 43. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the series' radio content and built the station format from Grand Theft Auto III onward. He appears as himself in the fiction from Chatterbox FM through V-Rock to a physical character in Grand Theft Auto V, and resigned from Rockstar in April 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/10621773-a198-4b01-a865-78b26d05b2bd) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JGmLsmUmz4
- **2025**, Cosplay Contest Main Stage at Gamescom 2025 in Cologne, Germany. Games conventions are where the free photography of this culture comes from. Rockstar acquired Cfx.re, makers of FiveM and RedM, on 11 August 2023, buying the platform behind the roleplay-server scene it had spent years fighting. Cosplay Contest Main Stage at Gamescom 2025. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/63a0ed04-585f-4cdb-8fb6-ea001c6bf587) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cosplay_Contest_Main_Stage_at_Gamescom_2025_in_Cologne,_Germany.jpg
- **2025**, Jason Schreier March 2025. Jason Schreier’s 77-source Kotaku investigation into Rockstar found that no one had worked 100-hour weeks, and also that crunch was real, sustained and often mandatory. Neither "Rockstar admitted it" nor "it was debunked" is an accurate summary. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b918bf64-9ea2-486b-b391-afa0a044ba62) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jason_Schreier_March_2025.png
- **2025**, Lokerse Feesten-2025-Iggy Pop-5. Iggy Pop at the Lokerse Feesten 2025. Iggy Pop hosts Liberty Rock Radio in GTA IV as himself. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b8875d7a-8136-48be-b25e-881f22abb5eb) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lokerse_Feesten-2025-Iggy_Pop-5.jpg
- **2025**, CSX freight train L010 crossing Route 135 Framingham June 2025 1. CSX freight train L010, led by an EMD GP40-2 locomotive running long hood forward, crosses Route 135 in Framingham. "Follow the damn train, CJ" is spoken by Big Smoke on failing the San Andreas mission "Wrong Side of the Tracks". The meme is inseparable from the mission’s reputation for difficulty, which is the actual reason players heard the line often enough for it to lodge. This is a real train, not the game. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f207d6dd-09c7-415c-9d50-1e3c5a0cfe31) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSX_freight_train_L010_crossing_Route_135_Framingham_June_2025_1.jpg
- **2025**, Tempta Burger Box, Chicken Treat Armadale, 2025 (01). Cluckin’ Bell, where Big Smoke places his order in the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru", is fictional. The fast-food counter it refers to is not. San Andreas was released on 26 October 2004. Tempta Burger Box, Chicken Treat Armadale. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6be5da70-fcf6-4aba-8d2f-52b7410dadaa) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tempta_Burger_Box,_Chicken_Treat_Armadale,_2025_(01).jpg
- **2025**, Thuggs Fried Chicken & Burgers, Carousel, 2025 (01). Cluckin’ Bell, where Big Smoke places his order in the San Andreas mission "Drive-Thru", is fictional. The fast-food counter it refers to is not. San Andreas was released on 26 October 2004. Thuggs Fried Chicken & Burgers, Carousel. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/1796b0c2-233b-4b94-bdc8-893f6097af6a) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thuggs_Fried_Chicken_&_Burgers,_Carousel,_2025_(01).jpg
- **2025**, Macari's fish ^ chips shop, Wemyss Bay. 1989 above a former fish and chip shop in Dundee. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c221241e-198c-41e2-a884-7439d9bb1f76) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macari's_fish_^_chips_shop,_Wemyss_Bay_-_geograph.org.uk_-_8213798.jpg
- **2025**, Railway bridge over Calton Road, Edinburgh. Dundee operations closed in March 2000 and staff moved to Calton Square in Edinburgh, where the studio has been based since. Railway bridge over Calton Road, Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a57d09d9-9d5e-437b-bad9-f801287a02e4) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railway_bridge_over_Calton_Road,_Edinburgh_-_geograph.org.uk_-_8125381.jpg
- **2025**, Rockstar North. 2, and was renamed Rockstar Studios in March 2002 and Rockstar North in May 2002. Rockstar North. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c88789df-48d0-478d-85c4-a39289aad113) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rockstar_North_-_geograph.org.uk_-_8008927.jpg
- **2025**, Transportation Building 225 Broadway. Rockstar Games is headquartered in New York, where Sam Houser remains president as of 2026. Transportation Building 225 Broadway in Lower Manhattan. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/778e7c36-e8f1-4f5e-a5bf-beb7552f5485) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Transportation_Building_225_Broadway.jpg
- **2025**, Las Vegas Strip Skyline Panoramic View The STRAT Hotel Observation Deck. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. Las Vegas Strip Skyline Panoramic View The STRAT Hotel Observation Deck. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/77a09a0c-6ea8-447c-870d-9e18c382c194) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Vegas_Strip_Skyline_Panoramic_View_The_STRAT_Hotel_Observation_Deck.jpg
- **2025**, Las Vegas Strip (April 2025). View of the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 26, 2025 12:56 PDT. Las Venturas is Las Vegas, the third city on the San Andreas map. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7b17187f-f47d-4ec8-9018-7bec4700ff76) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Vegas_Strip_(April_2025).jpg
- **2025**, How an Owl ruled the world : The Story of Psygnosis. Psygnosis published Lemmings in 1991 and was DMA Design's first significant partner. The Dundee studio's independence rested on that relationship years before Rockstar existed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7dfeec62-49cc-4f7a-8462-cfa7e5468028) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQWUXOeoLo
- **2025-07-03**, 12 Years at Rockstar Games - Why Did I Leave?. A twelve-year Rockstar artist's own account of the studio and why he left. Rockstar lifted the restriction on developers speaking publicly in 2018, after the crunch coverage. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/f661b36a-9e50-4405-b9a3-f9728b756a03) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqO6qCM0tjg
- **2025-07-15**, The Story Behind 2025's Biggest Gaming Disaster. An account of MindsEye, released 10 June 2025 by Build A Rocket Boy to broadly negative reviews. Leslie Benzies, formerly Rockstar North president, is the studio's president. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6183f377-3eaa-4075-acc5-f80b67e56750) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-1T5t47tBo
- **2025-08-03**, Rockstar Devs Speak About The Houser Brothers. Former Rockstar developers describe working under Sam and Dan Houser. Sam Houser remains President of Rockstar Games; Dan left on 11 March 2020. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9c373673-5bc9-49aa-b1e6-9ea080e358f4) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXS-ouTjZ9w
- **2025-08-06**, The History of GTA 5's Greatest Speedrunner. A profile of a speedrunner as a person and a practice rather than a recording of a run. The scene sustains its own figures, disputes and institutional memory. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/ba29c548-ca58-421f-946e-cf6c803b3f63) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__SWnv2E-QA
- **2025-09-23**, Every Radio Station in GTA V Explained in Detail. A survey of the stations in Grand Theft Auto V. The form is fully produced fictional radio in which the only real element is the music. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9a845f39-2964-485b-8dd6-23d847c21411) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hf_jxPPf74
- **2025-09-28**, You need to try GTA IV on PC in 2025... (Fusion Fix). A community compatibility patch keeps a seventeen-year-old PC port running on modern hardware. This is modified software, and the fix came from players rather than Rockstar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0c9b2a91-7e0e-4d18-9968-0a62bf2ea890) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhEiNXf_EKA
- **2025-10-19**, ЗНАКОМЬТЕСЬ, ДЖЕЙСОН ШРАЙЕР - ГЛАВНЫЙ ИГРОВОЙ ЖУРНАЛИСТ. A profile of Jason Schreier and his method. His 23 October 2018 investigation interviewed 34 current and 43 former Rockstar employees, plus twelve more supplied by Rockstar's own public relations. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3e0936c3-3dce-4fac-8f5a-24edd455a6ce) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhH7PPEsWow
- **2025-10-31**, GTA co-creator on GTA 6 - launch excitement and pressure \| Dan Houser and Lex Fridman. The series co-creator on the pressure around an unreleased sequel he did not write. Grand Theft Auto VI is announced for 19 November 2026 and no reviews or sales exist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c07fdf0e-d937-464c-90c1-df5cc90f5f30) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADRN0QThKZ8
- **2025-11-06**, GTA 6 Delayed to November 2026: Analyzing Rockstar's Shocking Post. Coverage of the move to 19 November 2026. Take-Two disclosed the date alongside quarterly results and Zelnick gave no reason in the shareholder letter, telling Variety only that Rockstar believed a limited amount of additional time was required. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/034fddcd-e35e-4888-9008-065af3353868) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7s6-mcC704
- **2025-11-07**, 'Grand Theft Auto VI' Game Delayed Again Until November 2026. Bloomberg reports the second delay, moving Grand Theft Auto VI from 26 May 2026 to 19 November 2026. Take-Two chief executive Strauss Zelnick gave no reason in the shareholder letter but told Variety that Rockstar believed a limited amount of additional time was required for polish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/75076d74-1849-460b-8fda-558d694d9f02) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj8-gjQ8KFQ
- **2025-11-08**, How GTA worlds were created \| Dan Houser and Lex Fridman. Dan Houser on how the game worlds were built. He left Rockstar on 11 March 2020 after serving as Vice President of Creative and lead writer across the series. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/92ea6de6-3da9-4b92-b4c6-1fd7d145dff2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfw-y5fFB_0
- **2025-11-11**, The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6. People Make Games reports on the October 2025 firing of 34 Rockstar employees, shortly before the second delay of Grand Theft Auto VI. Journalists noted the firings did not cause the delay but could affect deadlines, and a Rockstar North employee described morale as at rock bottom. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/090b688d-3e58-46fe-a9f8-0ea01098be5f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nOwjeznjI
- **2025-11-23**, Dan Houser Interview Sunday Brunch. A mainstream UK television interview with the co-creator of the series. Both Housers are alive, and Sam Houser remains President of Rockstar Games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/620ebe83-ea89-401f-86d1-2c250dd282b9) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taaJ8EIebQ8
- **2025-11-26**, Dan Houser: "The Games Were So Big, 'They're Like Novels!'" \| GRAND THEFT AUTO & RED DEAD REDEMPTION. Houser on the scale of the games he wrote. In February 2021 he registered Absurd Ventures, now headquartered in Santa Monica with a studio in San Rafael, where he is chief executive and creative director. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/953229b3-8692-473b-8215-8df9249b767a) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4RTTcvFxJU
- **2025-11-30**, Dan Houser BBC Interview - Dan Explains Why He Left Rockstar Games In 2020. Dan Houser explains leaving Rockstar on 11 March 2020 after an extended leave. He had been Vice President of Creative and lead writer across the series, which makes Grand Theft Auto VI the first mainline entry without his writing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5f108de8-6670-4c56-9d18-eedb60d085b5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5_KRXFzHJY
- **2025-12-19**, What each Rockstar studio REALLY does (and no one tells you). How work is divided across Rockstar's studio network. The company operates studios in Edinburgh, New York, Lincoln, San Diego, Dundee and elsewhere rather than in one building. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d377ad5b-6e38-49a1-88b9-2e53df90371c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CugyKOgCxEg
### 2026
- **2026-01-02**, ABSURD VENTURES : Pourquoi le studio de Dan Houser est très prometteur ?. A profile of Absurd Ventures, headquartered in Santa Monica with a studio in San Rafael. Former Rockstar staff have joined the company since its founding. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d7e7716e-f481-42c6-8fd7-0aebdc0f0a3e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezyS9GLrEQY
- **2026-01-04**, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 20 Years Later \| A Platinum Retrospective. A long retrospective on San Andreas, released 26 October 2004 and the largest of the three RenderWare games. It is set across a fictionalised California and Nevada in the early 1990s. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6c795422-0cce-43cf-868f-99d2abe62f9e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qYj_ijOSs
- **2026-01-08**, Dan Houser, author of 'A Better Paradise', reveals the routine behind writing 'Grand Theft Auto'. Houser on his writing routine across the series and his later fiction. He was one of the four senior writers named when Rockstar narrowed its account of crunch on Red Dead Redemption 2. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/20559be4-dcc4-4d5c-be67-ff55fc9843fa) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JxyZ_lSiys
- **2026-01-13**, Sunsets and grids - why do they mean "the 1980s". On why neon, sunset gradients and gridlines read as the 1980s at all. Much of what people now call the Grand Theft Auto look is a 1980s Miami aesthetic arriving second-hand. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7aecb53d-e73a-4e9a-9134-6de619213021) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KkLPX_cMuE
- **2026-01-13**, Rockstar vs. Union: We Went to Court and Saw the Evidence. The same outlet reports from the tribunal itself, with documentary evidence, on the dispute between Rockstar and the union representing the dismissed staff. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/93f59ed8-a6cf-422c-8024-98405e4fb16d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuipPQDd_w
- **2026-01-20**, Rockstar North: From Hobbyists To A Gaming Empire. A history of the studio from the Kingsway Amateur Computer Club to Rockstar North. Dundee operations closed in March 2000 with staff moving to Calton Square in Edinburgh; the company was renamed Rockstar Studios in March 2002 and Rockstar North that May. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/28744a5c-204c-4514-ae8a-2876944e7a61) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RELT4uwMVvE
- **2026-01-23**, Before GTA: The Rockstar Game That Started It All (Nintendo 64). The Nintendo 64 project that preceded the series' 3D turn. DMA had already experimented with three dimensions years before the PlayStation 2 made the approach commercially viable. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8f7a6e44-4020-40a2-9c3f-e1f5ff55a982) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0xGhrVL4w
- **2026-02-08**, The History of GTA 5's Stunt Jump World Records. Records for a single category of stunt jump in Grand Theft Auto V. The granularity of the record-keeping is itself evidence of how organised the community became. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/c3371095-4d7d-4e22-858d-54eca8ae2fb7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdqRn1UJphY
- **2026-02-15**, Every Rockstar Games Studio Explained. A studio-by-studio map of the Rockstar group. The corporate structure grew largely by renaming and absorbing existing studios. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/5d90dddb-a53b-4661-a093-2afb5a1b07e6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX_TknAPWY0
- **2026-03-05**, RUSSELL KAY (DMA Design) Interview - The Making of Lemmings. Russell Kay, one of the founding DMA programmers alongside Mike Dailly, Steve Hammond and Gary Timmons. The studio began in Dundee in 1988 when David Jones was 22. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/da5e173f-70e3-46f7-9b41-2cce24b274a0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6FkExvr98A
- **2026-04-04**, Sage Motel sunset Needles CA 2026-04-04 22-01-43. One of the many motels along Route 66 that has been turned into apartments. The neon sign still stands proudly in front. 1624 West Broadway Street, Needles, California 92363. Roadside neon of this kind is the American signage vocabulary the Vice City look draws on. Whether Vice City originated that aesthetic or transmitted a 1980s one inherited from Miami Vice and the 1986 arcade game Out Run is genuinely disputed, and neither claim is settled. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6606c778-043b-441f-9816-1f5aa317a71d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sage_Motel_sunset_Needles_CA_2026-04-04_22-01-43.jpg
- **2026-04-21**, Oyunlar Çocukları Şiddete mi İtiyor? Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson - Skeptik Altyazılı. Christopher J. Ferguson restates the critique of the research consensus. He, Patrick Markey and Allen Copenhaver published a 2020 meta-analysis arguing the American Psychological Association's own position was still too strong. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/30638554-0393-4e9a-a6fe-3d500e825b2b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR4KlKo_siA
- **2026-05-02**, GTA IV Keeps Getting Better. Continuing community maintenance of Grand Theft Auto IV, released 2008. What is shown is a modded build kept playable by volunteers, not the port as shipped. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/22f189cf-b76e-48d6-979e-7af9446bdef5) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohBwEdH6lqk
- **2026-05-04**, Jack Thompson v. Rockstar (with Jay Brandstetter from I'm From the Internet), Part 1: Bully bulli. A detailed reconstruction of the litigation over Bully, which Thompson sought to block before release. Judge Ronald Friedman dismissed the complaint in 2006, finding no reason to restrict sales. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/92339024-4499-4369-b7ee-1707f98fa5fc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w63aug21J4
- **2026-05-15**, A Conversation with Leslie Benzies and Mark Gerhard. Benzies speaking about his current work. His 2016 suit against Rockstar and Take-Two ended on 7 February 2019 in a confidential settlement, so nothing about who was right is public. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9bd7f6e3-9ed5-43e6-aefb-8745fada045d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqUlBxIN1M
- **2026-05-18**, Jack Thompson v. Rockstar (with Jay Brandstetter from I'm From the Internet), Part 2: Bully bully. The second part carries the Bully litigation through to Take-Two's own suit, filed 14 March 2007, seeking to enjoin Thompson from bringing public nuisance actions against unreleased games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/85bbae4d-dd38-4994-94d7-00d6b97d9077) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xtyKalE7D8
- **2026-06-01**, Jack Thompson's Disbarment Statement (Scandalous Games 5th Anniversary Special). Thompson's own disbarment statement examined against the referee's findings. He filed repeatedly against the industry across a decade and did not win a judgment in any of those actions. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9ed9b996-356c-4752-a0a0-d70fc9fc9778) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESq1LluE6M
- **2026-06-10**, How Speedrunners Broke GTA San Andreas To Beat It In 30 Minutes. Glitch-based routing that reduces San Andreas to a fraction of its intended length. This is community technique applied against the shipped game, not a demonstration of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/221a2b71-35df-4246-9d59-d99964ab2e2e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2RFz24hf78
- **2026-06-10**, The Rise and Fall of Britain’s Jute Millionaire Capital: Dundee, Scotland. The industrial rise and decline of Dundee. The studio that became Rockstar North emerged from a city whose previous defining industry had collapsed. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9192b6a8-e29d-4f3a-a6f7-d021b58e39d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9zGmcAUb0
- **2026**, Bruce Dickinson – Iron Maiden – Tons of Rock 2026. Bruce Dickinson with Iron Maiden, headlining Tons of Rock, Oslo, Norway, June 2026. Iron Maiden appear on V-Rock in Vice City. Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio content and built the station format from GTA III onward. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/6e8584f4-cc9b-4bda-af2f-2ba9bb69af82) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Dickinson_–_Iron_Maiden_–_Tons_of_Rock_2026.jpg
- **2026**, Waterloo Place Bridge over Calton Road, Edinburgh. Dundee operations closed in March 2000 and staff moved to Calton Square in Edinburgh, where the studio has been based since. Waterloo Place Bridge over Calton Road, Edinburgh. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bb634749-3c3d-4d77-b17c-6efca7b62444) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waterloo_Place_Bridge_over_Calton_Road,_Edinburgh_-_geograph.org.uk_-_8227794.jpg
- **2026**, 11th Street Diner in Miami Beach at night. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. 11th Street Diner in Miami Beach, Florida at night. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3dfd563c-cef0-4e20-866b-2ae133a8b95d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11th_Street_Diner_in_Miami_Beach_at_night.jpeg
- **2026**, 11th Street Diner in Miami Beach. Vice City, released in 2002, is set in a Miami analogue in the year 1986. 11th Street Diner in Miami Beach, Florida. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/46c19d0d-34f3-45b4-88b0-e0d4a544c70d) Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11th_Street_Diner_in_Miami_Beach.jpeg
- **2026-06-17**, The $500 Watch Factory Redundancy that Created GTA - Grand Theft Auto Franchise. The industrial Dundee that DMA Design emerged from. The biggest entertainment franchise on earth came out of a small city in eastern Scotland whose earlier economy was jute and manufacturing. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/feeec846-c733-47cd-a735-b777c1f1e410) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpZiFSiJ4I
- **2026-06-18**, Grand Theft Auto VI: Official Cover Art Reveal. Rockstar reveals the cover art for a game announced for 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. No PC version has been announced. The date follows two delays from an initial Fall 2025 window. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0a31c669-ffec-4f2d-97dd-29ccb04dfa63) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiQEBYDox_k
- **2026-06-19**, Every Detail in the GTA 6 Cover Art Explained. IGN reads the Grand Theft Auto VI cover art in detail. The cover sits in the same illustrative lineage that Stephen Bliss established during his fifteen years at Rockstar. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/018fbd09-721c-44ff-ba6e-9263f15d67b0) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb2pukhFaTs
- **2026-06-21**, Body Harvest N64: The GTA Prototype Hiding on Nintendo 64. Body Harvest treated as the technical bridge toward the 3D era. What Grand Theft Auto III did was put an existing open-world crime design into 3D on hardware that could carry it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/bd528ece-d489-475d-94de-c9e4f1dbd288) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5K_igEKD6I
- **2026-06-24**, what GTA VI news feels like to a non-gamer. On Grand Theft Auto VI news reaching people with no interest in games. The running joke about the release date grew through delays from a Fall 2025 window to 26 May 2026 and then 19 November 2026. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/2c0b3381-0489-4e33-a26f-150232c53580) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY1rGBFriII
- **2026-06-24**, GTA 6 Price & Ultimate Edition REVEALED. Announced pricing and edition structure for a game that has not shipped. Pre-order figures are real reported data; sales and reception do not yet exist and any revenue figure attached to the title is a prediction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/852f2127-7e03-44a0-8677-aaaae9c37e4f) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ1KM1_Sbmk
- **2026-07-03**, The Complicated History of GTA Controversies. IGN surveys the series' controversies. The legal endpoint is routinely omitted from such tellings: Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association ended the campaign to restrict violent game sales at the US Supreme Court in 2011, 7 to 2. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/d0481c44-da47-46da-b867-8691a06b8c3e) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AvBFQbviNE
- **2026-07-11**, How the Hot Coffee Mod Nearly Destroyed Rockstar Games. An account of the Hot Coffee affair. The content shipped intact on the retail discs and was merely made inaccessible; modder Patrick Wildenborg released a mod on 9 June 2005 that disabled the restriction. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/775a126c-8507-46ca-ad71-016e7f11f1d6) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QddOJnhvljk
- **2026-07-23**, If Rockstar Meant to Kill This Union, It Didn't Work. The most recent instalment of the reported series, bringing the labour dispute close to the announced 19 November 2026 release date. The game has not shipped and no reception exists. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/253bca2d-fa73-4306-b6e4-58f526c60bd2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4zN4i1aT8
- **2026-07-24**, Dan Houser on Physical Games: If People Want That I Think Companies Should Provide It \| Comic Con 26. Houser at San Diego Comic-Con in 2026, six years after leaving Rockstar and months before the announced release of a game he did not write. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/4e2a9e01-1b0e-4c51-9973-2ac96f362cf7) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEWBnmqu5xQ
- **2026-07-28**, Before GTA 6 — The Darkest Legal Case In Gaming History. A recap of Strickland v. Sony, brought after Devin Moore killed two officers and a dispatcher in Fayette, Alabama. Take-Two won summary judgment on 29 July 2009 and the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed in September 2010. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/3686d9f2-5bcf-443a-a616-1a07f3cd9561) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dojeK1ODo6w
- **2026-08-06**, Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look Coming August 27. A short teaser announcing the date of the extended gameplay presentation. Rockstar's release cadence for a game ten weeks from its announced date is itself the subject here. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/05797d90-4a2b-425c-8b27-717860d9016b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq76pQsI1iw
- **2026-08-06**, GTA 6 (Grand Theft Auto 6) - Official Extended Look Teaser Trailer. A press-carried teaser for the August 2026 presentation. Rockstar's own upload of the full presentation is age-gated and cannot be embedded. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8a133883-9b5f-42ff-8b39-2538eaa1d012) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCKMMsQULKg
- **2026-08-06**, GTA 6 to Premiere Extended Look on Netflix - IGN Daily Fix. Rockstar premiered its gameplay presentation through Netflix in August 2026. A games publisher routing its showcase through a streaming service is itself part of the record. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/a767768d-b97e-48a0-b6f1-aa416910f2cc) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf1KKiA1Pw4
- **2026-08-07**, Grand Theft Auto VI Pre-Orders 'Vastly' Beat Expectations, Take-Two CEO Tells Me. Schreier reports his own interview with Strauss Zelnick on pre-orders for a game that has not shipped. Pre-order strength is reported data; sales and reception do not yet exist. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8261ede8-9910-4149-8f19-78577e232dff) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goR_wYUS_l4
- **2026-08-10**, Rockstar Called It Piracy. Then They Bought It. The full arc drawn explicitly: Rockstar fought the modders, then bought them. The 2017 OpenIV climbdown and the 2023 Cfx.re acquisition are the two documented ends of it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/0314ab1e-cc2e-4781-addc-dd0487704062) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-OZOVHIVs
- **2026-08-16**, Die Geschichte von Criterion Games \| Das Studio, das keine Rennspiele mehr machen darf. A history of Criterion Games, whose RenderWare engine was licensed for the 3D era. Bought technology, reused across three games and a small team, is the technical explanation for a release pace no publisher has matched since. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/b74f8e6b-3ef2-4b31-a429-5ac799e23f62) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqKU-Vit23s
- **2026-08-17**, Complete History of Grand Theft Auto. A recent full history of the series, made weeks before the announced release of Grand Theft Auto VI on 19 November 2026. The gap since Grand Theft Auto V in 2013 is roughly thirteen years. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/52905e57-b72a-45b9-9030-baa501256026) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz0-eXq2tV0
- **2026-08-27**, In GTA 6 You're Not Just Wanted, You're Hunted - Rockstar Explains. Rockstar explains a wanted-system change for the unreleased sequel. Everything known about the game's design comes from material the company has chosen to publish. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/7317269a-2021-4959-a956-b5f13b8bfc9b) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCMjZPWoVUw
- **2026-08-27**, the internet after the GTA VI gameplay reveal. Satire on the internet's saturation after the August 2026 gameplay presentation. A meme about the reaction wave rather than about the game, which is the shape this subject keeps taking. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/832a027f-fe6b-4dd9-95fb-44efea28466d) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKX3H1TWfFQ
- **2026-08-27**, Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look \| Now Playing \| Netflix. Netflix carries the extended gameplay presentation, which Rockstar's own upload age-gates. The distribution route is itself part of the record: a games publisher premiering its showcase through a streaming service. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/851a767e-20f3-40f0-a4cb-52aebdad0cc2) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uphThaa97ig
- **2026-08-27**, We’ve Seen GTA 6 Gameplay IRL - The First Preview. Press impressions from a hands-off viewing of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay in August 2026. The game has not shipped, so this is preview coverage and not a review. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/cdc33b0e-ba5e-4e02-8501-5312e4eb665c) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUeeLF2agZY
- **2026-08-28**, GTA 6 - Biggest Gameplay Changes From Grand Theft Auto 5. Changes visible between Grand Theft Auto V, released 2013, and the unreleased sequel. Roughly thirteen years separate the two games. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/18714412-895a-42ce-8eb6-45975f440d16) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-U2tdh5hgw
- **2026-08-28**, The Accidents That Built Rockstar Games. On the contingencies behind the studio's rise. The widely repeated story that a police-AI bug accidentally created the game is fan-wiki folklore; what is attributable is Gary Penn's remark that nobody wants to be the cop, and that the project nearly died. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/23c953ef-41d0-4873-9b8c-6a0514749011) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTerxYbHMdQ
- **2026-08-28**, Grand Theft Auto III – The Legacy Review. A retrospective review of Grand Theft Auto III, released 23 October 2001 and developed by roughly 23 people at DMA Design in Edinburgh. It popularised the open-world crime game rather than inventing it. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/709d2bb2-7eab-4d9a-bc76-c50a596fba17) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krzT3GBQEg
- **2026-08-28**, 99 Details in the GTA 6 Extended Look. A detail-by-detail reading of the August 2026 gameplay presentation. The frame-by-frame breakdown became the defining format of the reaction wave across all three Grand Theft Auto VI reveals. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/eb91fdd3-6a5b-4e21-9230-70ffd1b77c95) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w3x0DOj3-k
- **2026-09-04**, The Complete History of GTA 5 Speedruns \| Viper Rambles #28. A full history of Grand Theft Auto V speedrunning from a central figure in that scene, published weeks before the announced release of the next mainline entry. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/8547171a-3bbf-4201-a779-c6e14c9fa1d8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Yhy6ZXki8
- **2026-09-04**, \[EXCLUSIF\] INTERVIEW AVEC LAZLOW POUR PARLER DE LA SORTIE D'AMERICAN CAPER EN FRANCE. Lazlow Jones on Absurd Ventures, the company Dan Houser founded in 2021. Several former Rockstar staff have followed him there. [scene](https://loreline.live/loreline/grand-theft-auto/scene/9671c914-0b99-413a-94d7-ca0ffbb8a1f8) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNd-dxjpaEc

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