In 2021,rumourswere circulating that the next GTA would be set in a modern take on Vice City.

Well, the Bloomberg report corroborates this.

The report says this is a move by Rockstar management to reduce crunch towards the end of development.

GTA 6 will have two protagonists, one of whom will be the first female player character in the series' 25-year history.

Bloomberg spoke to more than 20 current and former Rockstar employees for their report into the companys working culture.

The cultural clean-up operation has apparently influenced the next GTAs development in other ways.

A female protagonist would be a first for the nearly quarter of a century old series.

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The Bloomberg report makes for interesting reading in the wider context of crunch throughout the games industry.