E3 2019: Ten predictions for this year's show

Rockstar will announce Grand Theft Auto 6

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Rockstar Games are rarely a presence at E3. To be fair, they kind of don't need to be. They're arguably the biggest, most successful game studio/publisher on the planet, what with the release of the majority of their games frequently becoming outright cultural events, followed by said game selling a gajillion copies within six minutes or so of going on sale (OK, we might be exaggerating a little, but you get the point). Nearly every Rockstar release - especially the ones that have taken year to develop and have been delayed numerous times - usually is followed by a "biggest opening of any entertainment thing in the history of entertainment and things!" collection of news stories.

So, Rockstar doesn't exactly need E3.

But, as the late, great Phil Collins said... OK, fine... as the not dead but still pretty great Phil Collins once sort of sang, we can feel... something in the air... this, uh, E3 season. Look, for some reason, it just feels like we're going to get something from the Big R this June, most likely during a 2K Games presentation.

Now, it could be anything. Maybe it'll be an announcement for Bully 2. That would be an amazing E3 moment in of itself - the original Bully was a great game and has been deserving of a sequel for a long time. Heck, it could even be Table Tennis 2, and we'd still be pretty hyped. Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis was actually a fun game and a great way to debut their RAGE engine - so, hey, maybe a sequel would also be another way to debut a new engine. That would be E3 announcement-worthy in of itself.

However, we're going to go out on a limb here and predict we're going to get a teaser for Grand Theft Auto VI. Now, it could be a full on teaser like the original one for GTA V or it could simply be a title card, much like Bethesda did for Elder Scrolls VI. But, it's going to be something.

We can feel it.