GTA 6 Dev Rockstar North 'Open and Operational' Following Reports of Explosion

The creation of GTA 6 has been like WW3 🤯👀🪦🪦🪦🫠🤧😱🤔😑🙄

In a documentary post-release: “One very impatient gamer caused the game to be delayed a further six months.” /S

@Can-You-Believe-Sith Considering we're the closest we've ever been to it being a reality, this isn't particularly funny.

Hopefully it wasn’t done on purpose by a GTA Online griefer with a name like xXurmomsugly69Xx. All jokes aside I hope everyone is okay and it was just a boiler explosion from outdated parts considering it’s been like 13 years.

I remember passing the Rockstar office 6 years ago on a city trip to Edinburgh.

@MrPeanutbutterz "the closest we've ever been"

LMAO you are giving away your age. History didn't begin in 2016 bud. Ever heard of the Cold War?

@JamesLimited5990 yes, the Cuban missile crisis in the early 60s was a pretty tense situation, the closest the world has come to a nuclear war. (Way before my time, but I’m aware of its historical significance)

Couldn’t they have hit Tynecastle instead? Only way we’re making that points difference up.

@JamesLimited5990 Some say that we are currently in a Second Cold War.

I never thought I'd be Youtubing videos of boilers exploding but if it was anything like that then I can't imagine the shock people got or the damage it did. The steam one I saw blew a ten meter hole in a wall.

@kmtrain83 Never doubt humanity's ability to develop new ways of destroying itself.

@JamesLimited5990 Okay, the closest to Doomsday that we've ever been, which WW3 may as well be a metaphor for (and you can bet that the 2026 time will be closer to midnight than it is right now).

@MrPeanutbutterz This echos almost word for word what I keep hearing from that other side of the fence but it's been a constant for over a year now, and yet I wake up every day and the world is still here. I tend to just agree with Ministry 'fear is big business' and I have no time for it. I focus more on Megadeth 'peace sells and who's buying?'. Propaganda has made me cynical. Either way you get Metal, so you get what I'm saying. It's a universal language.

Least they have an excuse to push it into 2027. I hope everyone is okay.

@GirlVersusGame well said! The world is full of it nowadays. I gotta go listen to some Megadeth now.

@JamesLimited5990
One of my favourite Dr Who Quotes:
"Your species (humans) has the most amazing capacity for self deception, matched only by its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself"
Part of this self deception is not realising how close we are to destruction.

Anyway, hope everyone is OK and that this is just a malfunction. The fact I haven't seen it on BBC news is hopefully a good sign.

Oh god, I hope everyone is OK.

@SteveJaye Thanks Jaye. I think there's propaganda on both sides. Except on one side it's softer and it slowly works it's way into peoples minds and days by making them fear the ultimate scenario then stresses them out. Back home my entire Christmas was turned into battle plan, it was loud and nonstop every day and every where I went. I called it real life V for Vendetta for a reason, billboards all over Moscow. Propaganda and giving into fear is so dangerous. I had to leave early, people have lost their minds.

It's lead me to believe that conflict on such a scale is mental illness, almost like we've learned to wipe out life on an industrial scale before we've gotten past the illness of wanting to do it in the first place. Enjoy your Megadeth, I am.

@MrPeanutbutterz Open a history book and read about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

What's happening in history right now is called a boring Monday.

About the explosion, I live in Edinburgh and whatever happened wasn't important enough to warn anyone outside of the area, so hopefully no one was harmed.

@GirlVersusGame I used to work at a pipe fitters years back and occassionally they would have to test hoses / pipes to destruction to see at what pressure the seals would blow. One of these tests was seeing how much pressure a hose could take that was designed to pump snow for ski resort. The pipe never actually blew as the end blank came out first and took out a block wall as the pressure turned it into a cannon round. Pressue can be seriously scary at high levels.

@ everyone who thinks things are "just normal". I live in Minneapolis. I just want to say stop burying your heads in the sand. That is all.

Hope Rockstar staff are all ok - was expecting the announcement of another delay by next summer anyways...

@ilyn I was trained to use a cinema projector a couple of years ago, the guy owned a chain of theaters and had a projector in his home. I still don't know if he was winding me up but he told me that back in the old days the bulb was so strong that if it blew it could take out half of the room. I thought of that every time I laced up up a projector, it was 35mm film and comes on multiple reels then you splice it and run it off platters. The sound is separate and has to be synced by a computer system. That type of bulb would have to run a massive machine so maybe he was serious. I did it because I wanted to learn to lace a projector, it's easier with small hands. It took him maybe thirty minutes to lace one, I got it down to twenty minutes but after what he said about the bulb I said thank you and wanted to get away from that machine.

Some of those bulbs go from 10K lumens to 60K, we had an industrial sized blonde explode on a film set once. Grips call lights after women. That thing was running off it's own generator not the studios grid and when it went the BOOM was massive, they had to clear the set. I can't imagine what a machine like a boiler would be like, lights were enough. It sounds like an interesting job, I can't imagine you did it without some kind of Hurt Locker level of protection.

I wonder what caused the explosion in the boiler room. Curious to read about that once all of the details are out.

Did they find employees chained to their desks for the crunch until release?
Did they have to sign an NDA before entering the building?

Yes, these are the first questions that came to mind once I saw there were no casualties.

They'll do anything for another delay

I bet it was some kid on a Oppressor MK II.

@Pat_trick

What's happening in history right now is called a boring Monday.

I've a friend who lives in Minneapolis - I'll pass on their email address so you can tell them it's just a boring Monday there, shall I?

And I don't remember too many other times when the most dangerous member of NATO threatened to attack another. Care to refresh my memory?

I'll tell one of my Ukrainian friends their life is just another boring Monday later when I see them?

@nessisonett I fully expect that difference to be made up sooner rather than later and your lads to walk to the title easily. And your cross town rivals'll be second, too. And it'll inexplicably be hailed as a miracle championship and O'Neill lauded as a god. I don't see it as anything other than a formality, but it'll be a nice story. Not at Tynecastle, mind.

@Pat_trick Open your eyes.

We're not under the same immediate existential threat of the Missile Crisis, sure. But to downplay contemporary tensions — which get worse by the year — is to bury your head in the sand.

It's not like either of the actual World Wars started with the threat of mutual annihilation, either. The players have been falling into place for years now. The tension's high enough; all it might take is one bad day.

@ZeroE Don’t see it happening through our own efforts, only if Hearts completely collapse. The squad is just not good and they aren’t even trying to sign players worth a sniff. With Rangers getting Skov Olsen and Rohl looking like a decent manager, I think it’s more likely they snatch the season if Hearts slip.

@MrPeanutbutterz I enjoy Megadeth from time to time but not my favourite band by any stretch.

@nessisonett Interesting you feel such a lack of confidence. I genuinely feel it's a forgone conclusion that you lads take control. We shall see. To be fair, it does make for the most Interesting title chase in quite some time, so I do selfishly hope it stays close until the end. I lived in Aberdeen as a very young child so feel connected to the Pittodrie lot. Little did I know at the time, they won the league, and I would follow Sir Alex with my allegiance to Manchester United.

I heard the tried to run GTA6 on a PS3

the whole game, all the progress, the computers it was stored on, including all backup drives have been blown to bits. Have to start over. They will be announcing the 10yr delay later tonight in a official statement.

Boiler explosions are no joke.

@MrPeanutbutterz Well, if you believe WW3 will ever actually happen, then logically every day we are closer than we were the day before.

@tselliot And every day we're all one day closer to death, so none of it matters anyway in anything other than a very tiny picture.

Glad everyone is OK everyone safety is more important than any game

@Yaycandy lol I shouldn't joke about serious things but this made me laugh

@Dan12836666 Sad times coming. GTA6 “may” be the first mainline Grand Theft Auto game to not play on the PS3.

Why the hell did the comment section for an article about a boiler malfunction at Rockstar North devolve into a discussion about geopolitics? Talk about getting derailed.

@Yaycandy ye

@RoomWithaMoose My eyes are wide open. You're easily influenced by the alarmist media.

@MrPeanutbutterz Yes, because USA is the world. Again, you have such a limited scope of reality. Lynchings were common 100 years ago. What's happening is nothing compared to the atrocities men committed over history.

Yes, what's happening is nothing special. Russia and the US and other powerful nations invade and destroy nonstop all the time.

I'm not minimising the suffering of your supposed friends, but under a global perspective, it's nothing new.

Humans suck, war always happen, people get killed and it would be amazing if this would change but it doesn't.

The main difference is that everything gets reported now because of the internet while in the past people suffered in silence.