Rockstar's CEO personally shut down one of San Andreas' biggest myths — but fans kept believing it for YEARS.
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Rockstar's CEO personally shut down one of San Andreas' biggest myths — but fans kept believing it for YEARS.

The '30 Easter Eggs' hoax was a fake 2004 email claiming Rockstar hid undiscovered secrets in GTA San Andreas. CEO Terry Donovan officially debunked it as 'another rumor started on the boards,' and the email's own typos — like writing 'Grand Theft Auto San Andreas' without the colon — expose it as fake. Yet because photos of the EGM interview didn't surface online until 2006, and because a Rockstar dev separately confirmed the game still had unfound secrets, the myth persisted for years.

Verdict:Busted

Source: 30 Easter eggs hoax — CC BY-SA

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The EGM magazine spread featuring Terry Donovan's official debunk of the '30 Easter Eggs' hoax — the smoking gun that took two years to surface online.
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The EGM magazine spread featuring Terry Donovan's official debunk of the '30 Easter Eggs' hoax — the smoking gun that took two years to surface online.

The interview snippet that kept the myth burning — where a Rockstar dev's separate confirmation of unfound secrets accidentally fed the hoax for years.
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The interview snippet that kept the myth burning — where a Rockstar dev's separate confirmation of unfound secrets accidentally fed the hoax for years.

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