MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Miami-Dade commissioners learned that Mayor Daniella Levine Cava recently signed a deal allowing Rockstar Games to put up a \u201cWelcome to Vice City\u201d sign at the Kaseya Center, the Miami Heat\u2019s home, owned by the county. <\/p>\n
Shortly after 1:40 a.m. on Friday, during the Miami-Dade County commission\u2019s second budget hearing that started Thursday afternoon, Commissioner Kionne L. McGhee described several violent video games he has played. <\/p>\n
With that experience, McGhee, 48, the commission\u2019s vice chairman, said he allowed his 6-year-old daughter to play Grand Theft Auto, a popular action-adventure video game franchise, with his supervision. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter, driving the car, she stops at the traffic light,\u201d McGhee said about players\u2019 ability to make choices. <\/p>\n
Commissioner Juan Carlos \u201cJC\u201d Bermudez said he was concerned about Grand Theft Auto VI<\/a> players who may choose to commit crimes and how this can impact the county\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n \u201cIf there is any money in the future, that money should go to the sheriff\u2019s office,\u201d said Bermudez, who represents District 12.<\/p>\n Christopher Hudtwalcker, the mayor\u2019s chief of staff, said Rockstar Games was paying \u201cclose to $1 million\u201d for the Kaseya Center sign, and there were negotiations for other signs at other county properties as part of \u201cthe biggest cultural phenomena of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n Anthony Rodriguez, the commission\u2019s chairman, said he needed more information about the marketing deal. Hudtwalcker committed to providing more information before the next commission meeting. <\/p>\n Commissioners will have to consider how the deal\u2019s revenue could be used to develop the Dan Paul Plaza, also known as Parcel B, a county-owned waterfront property behind the Kaseya Center.<\/p>\n Rockstar Games plans<\/a> to release GTA VI<\/a> on Nov. 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S. The fictional game\u2019s protagonists are Jason Duval, a U.S. Army veteran who works for drug runners, and his girlfriend Lucia Caminos, a fighter who really doesn\u2019t want to go back to prison. <\/p>\n Grand Theft Auto VI\u2019s trailer released in 2025<\/p>\n Grand Theft Auto VI\u2019s trailer released in 2024<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Miami-Dade commissioners learned that Mayor Daniella Levine Cava recently signed a deal allowing Rockstar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-403324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}