Heaven 17 composer calls out Rockstar over alleged lowball GTA 6 music offer | Gaming

Any ambitions you may have had to relive that scene from Trainspotting in the nightclubs of open world game GTA 6 have been cruelly dashed. Martyn Ware – of 80’s synthpop band Heaven 17 – took to Xitter over the weekend to share his experience of Rockstar games attempting to licence his song Temptation. The offer, which Ware describes as for “a buyout of any future royalties from the game”, was allegedly for $7500.

“I was recently contacted by my publishers on behalf of Rockstar Games re the possibility of using Temptation on the new Grand Theft Auto 6,” wrote Ware, who was also one of the founding members of The Human League – he left before they composed Keep Feeling Fascination, which featured in Vice City.

“Naturally excited about the…