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Feb 25, 2011
According to reports, Rockstar Games has recently registered new website domains that sound like they could belong to GTA 5's in-game Internet (assuming GTA V has an in-game Internet, as GTA IV did). The domains are: CashForDeadDreams.com, SixFigureTemps.com, StopPayingYourMortgage.net, HammersteinFaus*****m, and LifeInvader.com. If they were indeed registered for GTA V's in-game Internet, then it suggests that the game is set in relatively modern times, since the World Wide Web only became popular in the mid-1990s. Some have speculated that CashForDeadDreams could be a parody of Cash4Gold (or Cash For Clunkers?), that HammersteinFaust is a parody of Goldman Sachs, and that LifeInvader is a parody of LifeLock, or even possibly Facebook.

Dec 17, 2010
Michael "Mystic Meg" Pachter, the infamous Wedbush Morgan analyst, today predicted what most of us predicted two years ago - that the next Grand Theft Auto (GTA 5) will arrive in late 2011 or early 2012. "We fully expect the next instalment of Grand Theft Auto to be released by Q4:12 at the latest, as the company's contracts with the three employees most instrumental in the game's development [Les Benzies, Sam and Dan Houser] expire in January 2012," said Pachter. In 2009, Pachter predicted that development of the game was likely to be concluded in 2010.

Nov 24, 2010
Mike Hickey, the games industry analyst who predicted a pre-E3 (2010) GTA 5 announcement, now believes that the next GTA game is unlikely to arrive before 2012.

Jul 27, 2010
A report on VG247 today suggested that Grand Theft Auto 5 will be set in Los Angeles (or "Los Santos", as it was known in GTA: San Andreas). Eurogamer followed this up with a report that an independent source had informed them that Rockstar is definitely researching locations "around Hollywood . . . and the surrounding area." It's interesting to note that the sources for both stories are unrelated. Rockstar provided no comment on the rumor. Could GTA V: Los Santos be a possibility?

Jun 17, 2010
An editor from technology site TheBitBag.com supposedly overheard a Rockstar Games tester discussing his work. After talking about how much time Red Dead Redemption was taking up, the individual concerned mentioned that he was currently testing GTA V. The validity of the report is uncertain, however the suggestion that GTA V is currently in the testing stages is not unreasonable.

May 4, 2010
A 'leaked' pre-E3 games list circulated the web in May, a month before the expo was due to be held in Los Angeles. The list stated that "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 2" was among the games set to be shown. However the list was untrue and Rockstar Games did not attend the expo, citing "time restrictions" for its decision.

Mar 5, 2010
Industry analyst Mike Hickey, of Janco Partners, predicted a pre-E3 GTA 5 announcement. "We believe there is building suspension for a pre-E3 announcement, although we expect nothing from Rockstar at this year's official E3 event," he said. His first prediction was wrong, while his second prediction was correct - there was no GTA 5 announcement, and Rockstar Games did not attend the event.

Nov 13, 2009
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser confirmed to The Times that a new Grand Theft Auto will be made at some point. "We'll think of a city first, then the characters," said Houser. No specific details were given.

Oct 29, 2009
One of the scenes during the end credits of The Ballad of Gay Tony shows Packie McReary arriving at Francis International Airport in a taxi. Packie gets out the taxi and walks to the terminal with a bag slung over his shoulder (). Could this be a suggestion that Packie will feature in the next GTA?

Oct 28, 2009
In The Ballad of Gay Tony, there's an advert on a billboard in Star Junction that teases where the series is headed next (). The ad, which is replicated in the Episodes from Liberty City instruction manual, declares "Liberty City, It's Over!", to indicate that the GTA IV saga has ended. It then states "Next Stop," but the portion revealing the location has been torn away to expose part of a previous advert. The ad is a parody of the 2009 film New York, I Love You () and there has been much debate over whether it's a genuine hint or simply a joke. The advert underneath (which is partly exposed) can be found in several places across Liberty City, and many believe it is this that holds the clue ().

The Title
Although the title has yet to be confirmed, it will most likely be Grand Theft Auto V (or Grand Theft Auto 5). In the past, some titles have taken the form of Grand Theft Auto followed by the name of the setting (e.g. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) but this was because Vice City and San Andreas formed a trilogy with GTA III, and thus were essentially expansions of the GTA III story. Former CEO of Rockstar Games Terry Donovan admitted that this was the plan from the beginning:

It was really important for us to do this trilogy. A fictional New York in a contemporary setting, Miami in the '80s, and a '90s Cali - that was the trilogy. That was the plan from a long time ago.
Terry Donovan (Former R* CEO) talking to Game Informer
There has been no indication as yet that GTA IV will form a new trilogy with its successor(s), in the same way that GTA III did. Referring to the issue, Rockstar's Dan Houser told the Official PlayStation Magazine in 2007, about a year before GTA IV was released, that Rockstar had yet to make up their minds: "To be honest with you, we haven't yet figured out if this [GTA IV] is going to be leading onto another bunch of games or not. We are just focusing on this at the moment."

Estimated Release Date
Rockstar North has been busy with several projects in 2010. They made a large contribution to Red Dead Redemption, and they're also working on a new PS3 title called Agent. At the moment it is unclear if Agent is still in production - it was announced in June 2009 but we've yet to see anything other than a logo, which suggests it may have been delayed internally. If Agent is Rockstar's priority, we should get a clearer idea of when to expect GTA V once the release date for Agent is known. GTA V should be released no later than 2012.

Platforms
It is likely that GTA V will be developed and released simultaneously for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The PC version will arrive 7-8 months after the console release, as has been the case in the past.

Setting
The biggest question, as always, is where will the game be set? It could be somewhere that has featured previously in the series, or it could be somewhere completely new - the only thing we know for sure is it won't be Liberty City. Most fans think it will be Vice City, but might that be too obvious a prediction? After all, only 4% of our visitors correctly predicted that GTA IV would be set in Liberty City!

When asked if Rockstar had ever considered setting a GTA game outside the US, Dan Houser responded:

Yes we have, we just haven't ever made that maneuver. I would have a certain confidence of maybe doing it in England, but anywhere else I wouldn't really know what was going on. The guys who make that kind of stuff on the team may not necessarily know where to begin. I'm sure that there are lots of interesting things to talk about in Russia or China or Japan about that aspect of society [consumerism] but I wouldn't know what they were and so we feel it wouldn't necessarily be GTA.
Dan Houser in Official PlayStation Magazine Australia

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