The opening night of gamescom 2023 began with a scandal: Shortly after the opening, a fan stormed the stage, wanting to talk about Rockstar’s yet-to-be-released mammoth game GTA 6. Host Geoff Keighley referred him from the event.
That was the scandal: gamescom 2023 kicked off with the Opening Night Live, a major event where new games are introduced and numerous trailers are shown.
In the first few minutes, host Geoff Keighley set the stage for an epic evening, piano sounds could be heard and a trailer for Starfield was shown.
Keighley was just saying that he was allowed to play Starfield but not talk about it when a bearded man stormed the stage, pressured the host, and said in English with a noticeable accent that Bill Clinton wanted to play GTA 6.
With this trailer for Starfield, the Opening Night Live of gamescom 2023 in Cologne began:
gamescom host reacts calmly but expresses his great disappointment
This is how the host reacted: The host turned away from the man, so that his voice could only be heard in a choppy manner through Keighley’s microphone while security personnel removed him. The camera also quickly panned away from Keighley and the interrupter.
The audience booed.
Keighley thanked security and said:
“Very disappointing. This is so disappointing, this is such a special night for many, many developers. It is really disappointing to see someone behave this way. But we will continue with the show right away.”
According to initial information, the man was the same person who had already stormed the Sport1 show Doppelpass on Sunday, the 20th of August, and wanted to talk about GTA 6.
In one clip, you can see the incident:
Allusion to the incident at the Game Awards 2022
What was that about Bill Clinton? This is an allusion to the “Game Awards 2022”, where someone approached the developers of Elden Ring and said something about Bill Clinton. As the site Kotaku reports, the person turned out to be a well-known online troll.
The Game Awards held every December are hosted by Geoff Keighley, like the Opening Night of gamescom and the Summer Game Fest, the “replacement E3”.
Why is GTA 6 so special? GTA 6 seems to be a special case among all the games currently in development, as the “GTA” series has always been one of the most popular game series ever.
GTA 5 was released back in 2013, but remains popular even 10 years later thanks to the online mode GTA Online. Rockstar is keeping extremely quiet about part 6, even though players have been waiting for it for a long time and are soaking up every tidbit of information about the game.
A major leak in 2022 has seemingly only fueled interest in GTA 6 even more.
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