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Notorious GTA 6 heckler invades the stage at Opening Night Live 2023

How does he not have a ton of heat on him yet?

Marco Wutz

Notorious GTA 6 heckler invades the stage at Opening Night Live 2023
Notorious GTA 6 heckler invades the stage at Opening Night Live 2023 /

Opening Night Live 2023 started off heated as Geoff Keighley had to fend off a heckler invading the stage after the initial music performance by Starfield’s composer. The person in question asked for details about GTA 6 before he was chased off the stage by security, with Keighley saying how “disappointing” this act was on such a special day for gamers worldwide.

Referencing a similar incident at The Game Awards, the guy said that “Bill Clinton wants GTA 6.” 

At least Keighley is becoming well-practiced in dealing with things like that, huh?

This is not the first time this particular heckler stormed a live show: He went on camera at a German game TV show called “Schlag den Star” last year asking similar questions and only recently repeated his performance during a live show discussing soccer – German football icon Stefan Effenberg was ready to throw hands immediately, but thankfully the invader was quickly carried off before they came to blows, though not before he got a glass of water poured over himself.

If this were GTA, the guy probably would have had so much heat on him already that he’d never have gotten into Opening Night Live in the first place, but apparently his stage invasions have flown under the radar of the relevant authorities so far.

Honestly, we half expected this one to be a set-up for a reveal trailer.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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