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There's a fascinating piece on Develop today.
Writer Owain Bennallack speculates whether Rockstar founders and Sam and Dan Houser might someday be knighted.
Whilethe Housers are pariahs to some for the GTA series' edgy content, theircultural and economic impact is undeniable. It certainly wouldn't bethe first time that the passing of the years transformed British badboys into royal honorees.
Here's Bennallack:
They’vefought the law, Jack Thompson, and the British tabloids. With theircomrades at Edinburgh’s Rockstar North they’ve upped the ante with eachsuccessive GTA, creating landmark games with ever more wit, élan,action and emotion...
...the establishment eventuallyco-opts any superstar bad boys who haven’t died in their own vomit,overdosed on narcotics, outlived their legends or crashed a lightaircraft into some Caribbean outcrop.
I mean the inevitable coming of Sir Sam Houser, or Dan Houser OBE..
GrandTheft Auto IV caps a body of work that is culturally and commerciallysignificant enough to warrant official recognition... The playfulnature of GTA IV is also why today’s rote moral outrage will eventuallybe no impediment to the Housers getting their high society dues. It’shard to appreciate now that rock music once shook society, but it did,and decades later Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney picked up theirknighthoods regardless...