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Grand Theft Auto's Iconic Cover Design Only Exists Because Of 9/11 And Was Created At The Last Minute - Kotaku
Publisher description: The franchise's famous cover layout was apparently designed in about 48 hours
NewsAPI | Oct 13, 2026 | Zack Zwiezen
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This all started with Grand Theft Auto 3, but that wasn’t actually the planned cover art for the game. In a new IGN interview with former Rockstar vice president and lead writer Dan Houser, the GTA boss explained that GTA 3‘s iconic cover came about because of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. With GTA 3 arriving the very next month, 9/11 was extremely fresh in people’s minds, and the original cover just didn’t feel right.
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