{"id":1805,"date":"2021-11-08T09:18:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T09:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2021-11-08T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:51:51","slug":"dr-john-wills-on-the-contribution-to-the-video-game-grand-theft-auto-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2021\/11\/08\/dr-john-wills-on-the-contribution-to-the-video-game-grand-theft-auto-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr John Wills on the contribution to the video game &#8216;Grand Theft Auto III&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/people\/1478\/wills-john\">Dr John Wills<\/a> is a scholar in American cultural and environmental issues. In September 2005, he took up a post at the University of Kent, teaching in the School of History and the Centre for American Studies.<\/p>\n<p>On October 22, he was Interviewed by the French newspaper <em>Le Monde<\/em> on the significance of the video game \u2018Grand Theft Auto III\u2019 by Rockstar Games on its 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights the continued significance of the Grand Theft Auto series, with GTA V now the most successful entertainment product ever produced. Dr John Willis offers a insight into why the GTA games have resonated with so many.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the full interview here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/pixels\/article\/2021\/10\/22\/gta-iii-le-sale-gosse-du-jeu-video-a-20-ans_6099586_4408996.html\">Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www-lemonde-fr.translate.goog\/pixels\/article\/2021\/10\/22\/gta-iii-le-sale-gosse-du-jeu-video-a-20-ans_6099586_4408996.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-GB&amp;_x_tr_pto=nui\">English Translation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr John Wills is a scholar in American cultural and environmental issues. In September 2005, he took up a post at the University of Kent, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2021\/11\/08\/dr-john-wills-on-the-contribution-to-the-video-game-grand-theft-auto-iii\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76779,"featured_media":1813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16742,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76779"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}