'GTA 6' rumors: release date, new setting and a female lead?

Multinational game developer Rockstar has yet to confirm a "Grand Theft Auto VI" to be released, but rumor has it that it will take three more years for a new installment in the GTA series.

As of now, the only thing fans  can do is speculate on what's in store for the successor of "Grand Theft Auto V." Reports say that a female lead will be voiced by well-known actress Eva Mendes, alongside Ryan Gosling to voice the male lead.

Just recently Digital Times interviewed Rockstar North head Leslie Benzies with regards to what fans can expect in the upcoming GTA VI. Will a female lead make her way into the game? "In the future, could we do a game with a lead female character? Of course. We just haven't found the right game for it yet, but it's one of the things that we always think about. It didn't feel natural for this game but definitely for the right game in the future—with the right themes, it could be fantastic. But for GTA V, this was the organic thing that came up, these were the characters what would display the themes we wanted to think about," she explained.

Despite claims that a London setting might be possible for the future installments of the game, "Grand Theft Auto V" writer Dan Houser believes otherwise. In an interview with The Guardian in 2013, he said, "I think for us, my gut feeling is, GTA London was cool for the time, but games were more limited then. These days I think we would love to set a game in the UK, set in London, whatever, but I don't know if it would be a GTA game. I think there are plenty of great stories we could tell about the UK, great environments to showcase, great gameplay mechanics that could have a UK bent to them – I just don't think it would be a GTA necessarily."

In terms of the chances of using Vice City again as a setting, Benzies believes that it is "always a possibility." She added, "There are a few references to the city in our current-gen GTAs so it is part of that HD universe, and it is certainly somewhere we would love to revisit. However Vice City, perhaps more than any other GTA game, was as much about the era as the setting. Miami in the 1980's is so iconic it would feel strange to revisit the city in a different time period."

Fans will have to wait for further announcements from Rockstar as to how GTA VI will take shape. In the meantime, they can play GTA V along with its latest DLCs.