GTA 6's Release Could Be The Reason This Rockstar Game Was Cancelled

is one of the most highly anticipated titles in the gaming space at the moment, coming over a decade since the last entry in the series first launched to then-record-breaking sales. With how 's trailer reveal has already broken records, it's incredibly likely that the upcoming title will go on to do the same, which is why Rockstar's focused its attention on it right now. Unfortunately for some, this may have come at the cost of another Rockstar title.

Rockstar's portfolio has always seemed to consist of high-quality games, and up until 2013, the company released games for a variety of series, like,,,,,, and, and over the years it had plenty of others in the works such as. Since 2013, however, Rockstar has only released and titles. A growing library of the studio's past games — and have been confirmed for 2024 — are being added to the subscription, but these past franchises have received no new entries of their own.

Since Rockstar Games was established in December 1998, the studio has released several acclaimed titles, but many others have been lost along the way.

Recently, when promoting Skydance's VR adventure title, Meta revealed that the VR version of that was announced at the 2021 Facebook Connect event has been put "" while both Meta and Rockstar "" is still one of the franchise's most beloved titles, with an engaging story that was inspired by gang culture in Los Angeles in the 1990s, a varied open world to explore, and plenty of activities to do within it, each of which had a gameplay purpose as they impacted the protagonist CJ's stats.

Somewhat bizarrely, neither Meta nor Rockstar Games seemed to mention the ambitious-sounding again after this event, with it being notably absent from several keynotes in the years that followed and potentially signaling it being shelved fairly early on. To show how long it had been since its announcement, it was initially intended for the Oculus Quest 2, and since then, Meta has dropped the Oculus branding and is starting