Rockstar wins newspaper apology, damages

I wanna know if the next GTA will be in Vice City. They revisited Liberty City, why shouldn't they re-do Vice City? And if they did do it like that, just think of how re-doing San Andreas would look? Holy Crap!!! It would be the ultimate GTA!

jesus. when are they gonna announce next one? I want no episodes but a goddamn game..........and that too in europe or japan!

I hope their attempt to buy channel 5 goes through, the last thing we need is a TV station under the same conditions...

Why didn't Rockstar sue Glenn Beck when he said that GTA IV trains kids to be killers. HLN has way more money than the Daily Star. Come on.

@Fusco1980 Something doesn't make sense here... Half the comments here are about how stupid tabloids are, yet both our comments are only thumbs down, mine with 15. ??? All I claimed was that tabloids report fake unsourced material. Read this : http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/ and tell me if any one story on the front page is true. If Rockstar sues a tabloid, that's a pretty desperate thing to do.

I was lookin for a GTA West Belfast but what can ya do.

Looks like a Good GTA title.......so whens it out :) lol

It's alright. No one reads the Daily Star.

I get bored with GTA ... RDR is better

I was more drawn to the article next to it. Has Syria really banned the burka?

Why would any self-respecting gamer think for a second that a british tabloid could break news of a new GTA game? Also, a split second glance at that photo would tell anyone who has ever seen GTA artwork that its bogus. Is this the same tabloid that broke the news that Eddie Murphy had signed on to play the Riddler in Batman 3: War for Gotham? Stick to legitimate newspapers for news and gamepot for videogame stuff folks!

How the hell could anyone believe that it was true rofl.

lol people who believe anything that the daily star prints should be removed from the global gene pool.

Oh well when british tabloids ever learn! *sigh*

the only people that read the daily star are morons. i actually heard two idiots in the pub when this story came out saying how they were going to walk down the road to rockstar lincoln and chuck bricks at it. idiots the daily star is notorious for printing garbage. when ever theres no news about katie price or something they're still trying to pin on tony blair (despite being out of polotics for quite a while now) they usually either a) make up a story like this, or b) find new evidence about who really killed princess diana. and yet most of the british public seems to believe half this s***. makes me just sad to be british

Daily Star needs to rescind it's status as a newspaper and come out as a spoof/satire mag, albeit a low class piece of crap one. This is yet another load of rubbish from them, so why does anyone get worked up about it? It's reading material for real morons.

just a tabloid.....right!

Seems like the Dirty Digger's at it again...

P.S I would love to see a current gen GTA set in London!

Lol, as if Rockstar would dedicate a whole game just to one incident. Good thing I don't read crap like that.

It's a tabloid. Let them burn, I say.

I don't get it. The Daily Star is a British tabloid. Tabloids also say that aliens are present among us and that Bigfoot is real. Where do companies get the idea that there is any damage done to them through this medium?

@Holy_Terra it might be cheaper then toilet paper, but who would want to wipe thier arse with something thats already full of s....

@Tr5978 the star mocked up the cover art themselves

There would have to be a mystery place that counts as London. but if it is too similar the families may be able to sue.

A tabloid is not a newspaper. They make a living by exaggerating details on legitimate stories or by blatantly inventing new ones to which they later apologize. The money the pay in damages is part of their cost structure and they know they are going to pay large amounts every year... I am surprised there still are people that believe what they read in these tabloids.

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If this is free publicity, then I'd say it's good enough to make buy the next GTA.

@mer1in79 - what, you mean like GTA London? ;) I know what you mean though.... a decent 3D GTA game (NOT Getaway!!!) set in the UK would indeed be great. I just think it's high time that punishments for infringements like this with The Star and others shouldn't be so light... stopping their printing presses for a statutory period would be a good place to start, as that's the only way to truly hurt them.

Something smells fishy....like this is some sort of pre hype from Rockstar to get people talking....something tells me they are in league with this tabloid...

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A british tabloid ran a sensationalist story? This has to be false.

My God anyone who fell for this story and actually believed the obviously mocked up cover needs to be sterilised we do not need their spawn running around infecting others.On the other hand a G.T,A game set in Britain would be a great game.

ROCKSTAR is a king nothing can hurt them.

This is the media 95% of the time, just finding a few bits and pieces they think sound great and then writing a 'story' about it. The media loves to make stuff up and hardly every tells the 'real' news.

Pwned.

You know what, I think that would have been an amazing game, not being a dick, but had the based the character on someone else, maybe it would be brilliant. The one think that would be rubbish is how in GTA you get assigned missions from mob bosses or ect, but he really just goes around shooting people.

I personally don't think it's fair that they got off so lightly... what they printed was a MASSIVE untruth, designed to do nothing other than waggle the preverbial stick in the hornets nest... it caused more upset for those directly affected by the incidents and added fuel to the fire for anyone grasping for a reason to dislike video games. In short, them having to issue a few apologies and microscopic amounts of money for damages is not enough, compared to what they do with these lies and shams of stories daily, ruining individuals daily lives... If you ask me, any publication willing to use an incident as awful as the Moat one to stir up more hate, is bordering on being as irresponsible as the incident perpetrator themselves.

The Daily Star = WEAZEL NEWS. Wait... no, I take that back. GTA IV in-game Weazel News actually has a shred of truth in it (albeit with heavy spin). It's one of life's mysteries to me who even buys The Daily Star comic and why it remains in business. Perhaps the person who said it's cheaper to buy than toilet paper has a point... but who would want all that ink on their...?!

Anyone that believed that story is quite stupid

It just pains me when headlines like this make it into INTERNATIONAL news... it's like we (UK) have had the village idiot represent us as our intellectual spokesperson. It's bad enough us having to bare the shame and tragedy of SCUM like "Moat" and "Bird" being spawned of our shores, and their subsequent actions (not to mention the perpetuation of discomfort and pain a rat-hole sensationalist tabloids CONTINUE TO CAUSE FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS by squeezing ever last headline they can out of such abominable incidents... why cant they go back to wining about Swine flu? Or Volcanic ash? Or the frikken coalition government they tried so hard to prevent from coming to power?), It's salt in the wound when spit-ball rags like the STAR have been allowed to print their idiocy on an internationally accessible platform... ROCKSTAR... DO US ALL A FAVOUR... Write us - your fans - a new DLC. Have Mr Bellic visit back over this side of the pond on a fire-bombing, assassination mission to a filthy joke of a Tabloid HQ, for printing lies about him... THAT would be a game I would buy and enjoy.

To anyone not from the UK : this would have done no damage whatsoever to Rockstar's image as The Daily Star is known for printing absolute nonsense.

lol the daily star the pinnacle of trustworthyness (sarcasm) there is a reason this news paper costs 20p because it is crap... (PS. quote from mock the week "scenes we'd like to see, adverts that never made it to air, the daily star... because it is cheaper than toilet paper) I think this kinda proves it dont you think?

I foresee a firing or two at that newspaper org.

More shocking than the fact that the Daily Star published the article is that someone who works for them was fooled by that obviously-faked cover art.

Whoever even thought of writing that, much less publishing it, should be slapped. B|

This is just stupid. Not that the story should be kept(that is pretty awful), but what I found sad was that Rockstar stooped so low as to sue a tabloid. This is what they do, make outrageous stories that are usually lies.

@NoDzombie i work in newspapers, and yet, sadly a large number of gurning, dribbling old perverts do indeed buy the daily star. All the worse for me as i realise im aiding it. Hmmmm, might sabotarge the pepers today.

Its like with the story of the fox that got into a person house and attacked thier babys. The press milked it so far. Day one... EVIL FOXES. day two... Picture of fox, maybe the one that did it. Day three... picture of man after killing fox. day four... picture, of one of the two babys, after being mauled. and they treat the fox as evil. Whats worse is the babys were twins, so the papers milked it by putting different pictured of mauled babys on the front pages of the papers over a week. SICK. in my view. no body ever questioned why the mother left her door open all night, or pointed out the fox was just a wild animal and just acting as it would with any other living thing if hungry. Yes it was terrible, but the way papers spin things. just wrong.. oops, gone on a bit... er. sorry about that.