Heaven 17 Co-Founder Claims Rockstar Provided $7,500 Buyout for Utilizing Tune in GTA 6

It’s secure to imagine that Rockstar Video games is engaged on placing collectively a wonderful observe record of licensed songs to make use of in Grand Theft Auto 6, seeing as that’s an space the place the sequence all the time has excessive expectations to stay as much as, nevertheless it appears like not less than one tune that the corporate meant to make use of received’t make it into the sport. 

British musician Martyn Ware – co-founder of fashionable 80s synthpop band Heaven 17 – not too long ago revealed on Twitter that he was contacted by Rockstar Video games with a $7,500 supply for the utilization of the tune “Temptation” within the firm’s upcoming open world recreation, which Ware deemed to low and rejected.

Ware pointed to the immense industrial success of Grand Theft Auto 5, which has offered over 200 million items up to now, raking in over $8.5 billion in income for Rockstar Video games. “Ah, however consider the publicity,” Ware wrote. “Go f**okay your self.”

Grand Theft Auto 6 is ready to launch for PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S in Fall 2025. The sport’s announcement trailer crossed 200 million views in July.