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Jacked the outlaw story of Grand Theft Auto

The creation of the biggest and most controversial video game franchise-Grand Theft Auto-is a fascinating and mostly unknown tale. David Kushner pulls the curtain back on this generation-defining story.

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  • "The creation of the biggest and most controversial video game franchise-Grand Theft Auto-is a fascinating and mostly unknown tale. David Kushner pulls the curtain back on this generation-defining story."@en
  • "Jacked is the Moneyball of video game success stories. Rockstar Games was a tiny start-up entering an industry dominated by a few behemoths. How does an unknown company use fast cars and sex to transform video games into a multibillion-dollar industry? The answer is a story veiled in secrecy, rumor, and myth, and Jacked takes listeners deep inside Rockstar to witness the founding of one of today's largest game developers. Like most success stories, the road to the top is paved with good lies."@en
  • "The creation of the biggest and most controversial video game franchise-Grand Theft Auto-is a fascinating and mostly unknown tale. David Kushner pulls the curtain back on this generation-defining story."
  • "Inside the making of the multibillion-dollar Grand Theft Auto videogame empire. Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest and most controversial videogame franchises of all time. Since its first release in 1997, GTA has pioneered the use of everything from 3D graphics to the voices of top Hollywood actors and repeatedly transformed the world of gaming. Despite its incredible innovations in the $75 billion game industry, it has also been a lightning rod of debate, spawning accusations of ethnic and sexual discrimination, glamorizing violence, and inciting real-life crimes. Jacked tells the turbulent and mostly unknown story of GTA's wildly ambitious creators, Rockstar Games, the invention and evolution of the franchise, and the cultural and political backlash it has provoked."
  • "The audiobook explains how British prep school brothers Sam and Dan Houser took their dream of fame, fortune, and the glamor of American pop culture and transformed it into a worldwide videogame blockbuster."@en

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