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Real-world politics, in case you haven’t noticed, are particularly charged at the minute. It’s a climate that hasn’t gone unnoticed by Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser, who told GQ he’s “thankful” his company isn’t working on Grand Theft Auto 6 right now. The firm’s obviously always been brilliant at social commentary, but he admits that he doesn’t know how he’d approach a sequel in the era of Donald Trump and Brexit.

“It’s really unclear what we would even do with it, let alone how upset people would get with whatever we did,” he said. “Both intense liberal progression and intense conservatism are both very militant, and very angry. It is scary but it’s also strange, and yet both of them seem occasionally to veer towards the absurd. It’s hard to satirise for those reasons. Some of the stuff you see is straightforwardly beyond satire.”

Houser added that due to the rate at which things in the political spectrum are changing, the game would be “out of date within two minutes”. When you consider that it’s taken the company upwards of five years to release Red Dead Redemption 2, that’s just not going to work, is it? All that said, Rockstar’s writing is always so sharp that we would genuinely love to see what it came up with right now – there’s no doubt it’d rub people the wrong way, though.

[source gq-magazine.co.uk]