![]() He wanted to make another trailer, using remastered GTA: Vice City shots, which subtly cited Summer 2021 as the GTA 6's release window.īut then Rockstar caught on to the stream and the jig was up - and reactions among the group differed. While some members of the group wanted to simply throw their names up on the screen when the countdown ended, Joe had another idea. "I was very much in the mindset that I wanted to keep it going forever, I wanted to keep it under wraps and never reveal it." "Because there was three people: me, Zach and Ryan, there was a bit of a conflict of interest between what we were going to do," Joe tells us. This was further helped by the group sewing the seeds of the fake announcement stream in GTA forums and through social media.īut the question remained: what would they do when the countdown ended? The plan was going better than the threesome had expected, with viewership improved by news outlets, and a popular YouTuber, covering the stream. They want the game so desperately that it's like a mild delusion." Rumbled by Rockstar "If they took a step back and asked themselves if it makes sense, they'd probably realize: it doesn't. "I think people are so hopeful for a new game that they're willing to accept things a little bit more," Joe told us. ![]() The Twitch stream chat was torn between those who called it fake, and others defending the stream. "The fact that there's so much hope probably adds to that and makes it a little bit more believable." "I don't think that the graphics were 100% convincing," Joe tells us. Nor did it stop 125,000 people viewing the stream. There were plenty of clues but, according to Joe, few people picked up on them.īut that's not to say everyone believed the hoax, the majority of viewers clocked on straight away, but that didn't stop many from hoping that this could be the real deal. The music playing in the background of the stream was also from GTA: Vice City - after all, some rumors suggest GTA 6 will be set in Miami. After all, the logo had been designed in 15 minutes and included a fake skyline he found online and a blacked out image of Jason Statham. There were several points where Joe didn't think the plan would work. The stream went live on March 28, and was ran by another friend, Ryan, who had a PC capable of running a 24 hour Twitch stream. The plan turned into a fully formed idea: they would set up a 24 hour Twitch stream counting down to their fake GTA 6 announcement, complete with a teaser trailer to really get fans excited. ![]() "If we did a little bit more, there's a chance that this could take off as a good April Fool's joke. "In my head I was thinking 'yeah, I can do you a logo - but I could do a lot more than just a logo'," Joe tells TechRadar. Within 15 minutes Joe had created the logo you see above, but they wanted to take it that step further. Zach contacted Joe, who does freelance graphic design for YouTubers, and asked him to create a logo. "If you're going to try and fool people, the most realistic thing Rockstar would do in that situation would not be a logo on a black screen with a rubbish countdown," Joe O'Shead explains to TechRadar. This sparked an idea, where Zach wanted to create a logo for GTA 6 to trick people into thinking an announcement was on the way. It just so happened that, a few months prior to the prank, Zach got his hands on the GTAVI username on Twitch. Joe's friend Zach has a penchant for grabbing old, inactive usernames on sites and handing them over to other people. "I think even for us, it started out quite small initially, and then we kept throwing ideas in. However, with GTA 6 hype at a fever-pitch, Joe O'Shea (aka Joe Designs) and his friends decided that now was as good as any to roll out an elaborate fake GTA announcement that they had been considering for a few months. And, as expected, those dates passed with no announcement made. GTA fans were originally expecting an announcement for GTA 6 to take place on March 21, with a trailer expected to drop on March 25.Īs we pointed out at the time, this was highly unlikely given that Rockstar Games hadn't teased anything itself or made any official statement that an announcement was coming.
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