 That November , vice president of Rockstar Games Dan Houser discussed with The Times his work on the series and the process that would be undertaken for the next Grand Theft Auto game . He expressed plans to co @-@ write a thousand @-@ page script and said that , when developing a new game , the company typically created a city and then from that developed the lead cast . In July 2010 , Rockstar North posted seven job advertisements related to a new title . The company wanted to recruit environment artists , physics programmers and character animators — the latter advertisement asked for recruits with " professional experience developing a third person action game " . Some journalists wrote that the job listing was indicative of Grand Theft Auto V 's existence . In June 2011 , anonymous sources allegedly close to the developer told GameSpot that the title was " well under way " , with a release date likely in 2012 . 
