GTA 6 has scared off publishers all year, but Rockstar has been doing this for at least 18: In 2007, Saints Row 2 devs held a meeting to panic over the GTA 4 release date

GTA 6.

Director of digital preservation Andrew Borman has uncovered a lot of secret history while trawling through The Strong National Museum's recently acquired archives of the now defunct Saints Row studio Volition, but that doesn't make any individual find less surprising: apparently, Volition was keeping close watch on Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar back in 2007.

"Wasn't [expecting] to see an October 2007 meeting (partial) recording on a MiniDV tape," Borman writes on Bluesky alongside a photo of a meeting slide which ponders, "if GTA slips, will we change the SR2 release date?"