Rockstar Games Teases L.A. Noire Return After GTA 6

Rockstar may have set its sights on the next game it’ll do after GTA VI.

Although Rockstar Games is set to release Grand Theft Auto VI later this year, fans of the studio’s games may be wondering what the next game it’ll put out will be.

So far, it seems the studio has fallen into a comfortable switcheroo between a new Grand Theft Auto title, then a Red Dead game, back and forth.

With this expectation in mind, it’s expected that the studio may be working on Red Dead Redemption 3 after GTA VI. However, this may also not be the case.

At yesterday's iicon gaming event in Las Vegas, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick made an appearance to discuss GTA VI.

Moreover, in addition to being asked about GTA, he also made comments regarding other IPs that Rockstar Games has worked on in the past, hinting that the developer is looking to revive some older properties. In particular, L.A. Noire was namedropped as a potential candidate.

Game File reports that Zelnick told interviewer Jenny Maas of Variety “yes” when asked if more L.A. Noire games were being considered.

He then backtracked the statement ever so slight, saying “There’s nothing to announce on L.A. Noire specifically, and if there were, it would be Rockstar announcing it, not me.

“But in any case, with regard to our legacy IP, the teams are always looking at what we have and we’re always thinking about it. The question is, at any given time, do we have a team that’s passionate about working on that?”

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Rockstar Games May Target L.A. Noire As Its Next Sequel After GTA VI

L.A. Noire was a 2011 crime game made by Australian developer Team Bondi and published by Rockstar. Set in 1940s Los Angeles, you played as a police detective tasked with solving different crimes across a variety of different departments, such as traffic, vice, and homicide.

Although the game was a success for Rockstar, a number of controversies at Team Bondi led to the studio’s disbandment shortly after release.

Some of these controversies included incorrect crediting, accusations of lengthy crunch and poor working conditions, as well as a damaged relationship between the developer and its publisher.

After Team Bondi closed in 2011, studio head Brendan McNamara formed Video Games Deluxe in 2013, which has maintained a close relationship with Rockstar on several smaller projects released since then.

Video Games Deluxe’s first game was L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files, remaking eight of the game’s levels into a VR interface.

Later on, it would also take over post-launch development of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, fixing many of the issues players had reported.

After working with Rockstar on these different projects over the last decade, Rockstar acquired Video Games Deluxe in 2025 and rebranded it as Rockstar Australia.

Whether Rockstar Australia may get to return to the world of L.A. Noire remains to be seen, but with Zelnick’s comments about the company revisiting some older IPs, it seems that the universe may be explored further in the future.

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