that november, houser discussed with "the times" his work on the series and the process that would be undertaken for the next "grand theft auto" game. he expressed plans to co-write a thousand-page script and said that, when developing a new game, the team typically created a city and then from that developed the lead cast. in july 2010, rockstar north posted seven job advertisements related to a new title. the company wanted to recruit environment artists, physics programmers and character animatorsthe latter advertisement asked for recruits with "professional experience developing a third person action game". journalists wrote that the job listing was indicative of "grand theft auto v"s existence. in june 2011, anonymous sources allegedly close to the developer told gamespot that the title was "well under way", with a 2012 release date likely.