Big [Resume] Surprise: Grand Theft Auto V Dates Back to 2009

Staff Writer • Aug 16, 2011 • Comments ()

You can always seem to find the most damnation-fuelling surprises in the resume files of those who have worked on video games for the biggest names in the industry. In fact, the one you're about to see is no exception....

You can always seem to find the most damnation-fuelling surprises in the resume files of those who have worked on video games for the biggest names in the industry.

In fact, the one you're about to see is no exception.

RipTen has scooped up the dirt on a former Rockstar Games insider who is linked to Agent (which still remains to be published) that reveals involvement with even more than one unreleased project (of which just one of the two is already dead) but in fact was involved with Rockstar's biggest headliner... three times over. That's right: we're talking about Grand Theft Auto IV. And Episodes from Liberty City (as in Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned).

But the big surprise of the three GTA projects is (you guessed it) Grand Theft Auto V. Which apparently dates back to 2009. And was originally planned for a tentative 2011 release. (Which did not go as originally planned as we know by now, making 2012 the next logical target instead.) Here's the damning evidence to prove it, should you be inclined to have your facts straight: