Inside the making from the multibillion-dollar Grand Theft Auto gaming empire

Grand Theft Auto is among the biggest and most controversial gaming franchises of all time. Since its 1st launch in 1997, GTA has pioneered the usage of from 3D images to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible enhancements in the $75 billion game industry, it has additionally been a lightning pole of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic about Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life offences. Jacked tells the turbulent and mainly unknown tale of GTA’s wildly ambitious makers, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the ethnic and political backlash they have provoked.

-Explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, as well as the glamor of American pop lifestyle and transformed it into a worldwide video game blockbuster

-Written by David Kushner, writer of Masters of Doom and a high journalist on video gaming, and attracted from over a decade of interviews and research, including firsthand knowledge of Grand Theft Auto’s creators and detractors

-Offers inside details on essential episodes in the introduction of the series, including the financial turmoil of Rockstar games, the infamous “Hot Coffee” sex minigame event, and more

Whether you love Grand Theft Auto or hate it-or just want to comprehend the defining entertainment product of a generation-you’ll want to read Jacked and get the true story behind this boundary-pushing game.