Author: Lumen Heijdendael

As part of a Christmas present, infamous leaker John Doe dropped GTA news at last, although it may not be what you expected; design documents for several GTA games, including GTA 3, GTA: Gameboy Advance, Vice City, San Andreas, and more. But one document stands out far beyond the rest: the design document for Grand Theft Auto: Online. Only, this isn’t GTA Online as we know it today—the microtransaction juggernaut that changed the way Rockstar Games operates forever. This is the version conceptualized way back during GTA 3’s development, offering a glimpse at the earliest vision of what would later…