Dan Houser tells Variety he hasn't seen GTA 6's extended reveal and will "try and avoid it", VGC reports

Dan Houser, the Rockstar co-founder who wrote Grand Theft Auto 3 to 5, told Variety he had not watched GTA 6's extended reveal and planned to stay away from it, Video Games Chronicle reported on October 3, 2026.

"I haven't seen it yet. I will try and avoid it," Houser said, according to VGC's quotes from the interview. His reason is that he tries to avoid anything that could "distract or disrupt" him creatively. He spends his time making open-world games and working out how to market them, he said, so he does not need to see what others are doing.

He told Variety the habit goes beyond GTA. Houser said he does not play many open-world games, because when he does he finds himself picking apart the strengths and weaknesses of the team as he plays, which he called distracting. Keeping up with the latest games and trends is a job for his team, he said, not for him. He added that he never watched another Western once work on Red Dead Redemption began, and did not watch The Sopranos until after he left Rockstar, apart from seeing the finale when it aired.

Houser left Rockstar in 2020 and founded Absurd Ventures. VGC reported that the company is working on two open-world games. One is a comedy action-adventure, and the other is "definitely less of a comedy", in Houser's words. No titles or release dates were given in the VGC article.

VGC noted that Rockstar is run by his brother, Sam Houser. The VGC article did not mention any role for Dan Houser on GTA 6.