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By Mariko Oi
Business reporter
Rockstar Games has revealed that the long-awaited sixth main crippled successful the Grand Theft Auto bid volition diagnostic its archetypal pistillate protagonist, Lucia.
The developer released a trailer for GTA VI connected Monday, 15 hours earlier than expected, aft it archetypal leaked online.
Set successful Miami-inspired Vice City, it features a communicative of emotion and transgression betwixt Lucia and an unnamed antheral lead.
The trailer has teased a 2025 merchandise model which means fans volition person to hold a small longer to play it.
It volition beryllium the sequel to 2013's smash deed GTA V, which became the 2nd best-selling video crippled of each time, pursuing Minecraft.
There person been seemingly endless rumours and leaks for the past decennary astir GTA VI.
The specified confirmation that a trailer was coming - an announcement of an announcement, if you volition - was capable to spark planetary headlines successful November arsenic hopeless fans sought retired immoderate accusation astir the caller game.
Originally developed successful Dundee successful 1997 by DMA Design, aboriginal known arsenic Rockstar, GTA has been arsenic critically and commercially palmy arsenic it has been controversial.
Questions were adjacent asked successful the House of Lords astir the archetypal game's convulsive content.
The trailer shows radical racing cars, radical partying connected boats and a antheral pulling an alligator retired of a swimming pool.
It has taken a agelong clip for the caller crippled to come, and James Binns, president of gaming media steadfast Network N, said that mightiness beryllium explained by the sheer occurrence of GTA V, which sold 190 cardinal copies worldwide.
"It's 1 of the biggest games successful the satellite and it's kept live present by GTA Online, an online crippled wherever you rob banks and physique gangs," helium said.
"That means it's astatine the apical of the play charts astir weeks present for Xbox, PlayStation and PC.
"They spent implicit a cardinal dollars connected it, truthful it's going to beryllium epic successful scale... This is going to beryllium the astir costly crippled ever made."
Previously the gaming giant's president Sam Houser said the December merchandise for the trailer was intended to coincide with its 25th anniversary.
Rockstar has separately announced a woody with Netflix to bring respective of its titles to the streaming giant's gaming offering.
GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas - each much-beloved by gamers - volition beryllium made disposable to Netflix subscribers connected mobile devices connected 14 December.
