A running log of site changes and notable GTA 6 developments — new trailers, confirmed facts, and rumor checks, updated as news breaks.
Grand Theft Auto VI now has an age rating in Japan. Since 17 October the Japanese PlayStation Store lists it as CERO Z, the board's 18+ only category, with two content icons: crime and violence. According to Game…
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Rockstar released the Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer on 15 October without any warning. The video went up on the Rockstar Games YouTube channel at 13:00 UTC, exactly five weeks before the game comes out on 19…
Read moreGTA 6 started life as Project Americas, a game meant to cover large parts of North and South America. Rockstar's own leaders said so in a long Bloomberg Businessweek feature by Jason Schreier, published on 14 October…
Read moreArion Kurtaj, whom a jury in 2023 found to have carried out the 2022 hack that leaked Grand Theft Auto VI footage, is due to stand trial on 9 November 2026 at Woolwich Crown Court in London. The date comes from his own…
Read moreNintendo of America president Devon Pritchard has answered the Switch 2 question about Grand Theft Auto VI for the first time, and the answer is a shrug. In an interview with Variety published on 9 October she was…
Read moreThe hosts of the first six Grand Theft Auto VI radio stations are real music stars. Rockstar listed them on 8 October only by their on-air names, and Rolling Stone and Pitchfork named the people behind them the same…
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Rockstar named the first six radio stations of Grand Theft Auto VI on 8 October in a Newswire post and opened a Music section on the game's official site. Each station gets a two-minute preview with its hosts on air…
Read morePlaying only the story missions may not be enough to keep Jason and Lucia together. Rob Nelson (co-studio head and head of development at Rockstar North) says so in the full transcript of his IGN interview, published…
Read moreXbox says Grand Theft Auto VI will not be streamed to PC, and that it has no exclusive streaming rights to the game. Matthew Ball (chief strategy officer at Xbox) posted this on X on the night of 6 to 7 October: "the…
Read moreGTA VI will not mock any real politician, event or movement by name. Rupert Humphries, senior vice president of narrative at Rockstar, says so in the full interview from LOVE Issue 27. Photos of the printed pages…
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LOVE, the Paris fashion and culture magazine, has put Grand Theft Auto VI on one of the six covers of its Issue 27, on newsstands from 5 October. The cover is artwork Rockstar made for the magazine: Lucia Caminos and…
Read moreThe Miami Heat will turn their arena into Vice City for one game on 18 November, the night before Grand Theft Auto VI launches. The club's official page calls it "a historic partnership" and gives the details: the Heat…
Read moreRockstar has put Grand Theft Auto VI's age rating on its official site. Since 1 October the footer of rockstargames.com/VI carries the ESRB's Mature 17+ badge with seven content descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense…
Read moreRockstar has confirmed that two of Florida's best-known areas are not in GTA VI. According to Game Informer's cover story, Orlando and its theme parks, Walt Disney World, Universal and SeaWorld, are not part of…
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Game Informer's GTA VI issue went live on 29 September, and its biggest number comes from Rockstar itself. Aaron Garbut, one of the heads of Rockstar North, told the magazine that Leonida is about twice the size of GTA…
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On 25 September Game Informer revealed the cover of its issue 382, and it is Grand Theft Auto VI. The magazine says the 14-page cover story is built on interviews with several lead designers at Rockstar and comes with…
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Rockstar opened pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State - Vice City Collection on 24 September, announcing it on Newswire and listing it on the Rockstar Store at $399.99. It is a limited box of eleven…
Read moreOn 22 September crews in Miami used a helicopter to lower giant pink-and-white letters onto the roof of the Kaseya Center, home of the Miami Heat. The sign reads "Welcome to Vice City". A Miami-Dade County spokesperson…
Read moreVirgin Media O2 announced on 21 September that anyone in the UK can pre-order Grand Theft Auto VI by paying £20 upfront and then £1.39 a month for 36 months, with no interest. The carrier's own newsroom puts that at…
Read moreRockstar Games has put a Mod Guidelines page on its own site, dated 10 September, and it is the first single document in which the studio spells out what players may and may not do with the code, maps and assets of its…
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Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on 19 November with nothing to sell you beyond the game itself. Strauss Zelnick (chairman and chief executive of Take-Two, Rockstar's parent company) said so at the publisher's annual…
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Rockstar has put a name to the music campaign that has been running all week. On the morning of 17 September the studio published a Newswire post announcing Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, a soundtrack record made with…
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Spotify has put the Grand Theft Auto VI artwork that musicians posted a day earlier onto its own billboards. On 16 September the company's verified X account published four photos of the boards with nothing in the…
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A row of musicians published previously unseen Grand Theft Auto VI artwork on 15 September, all within the same few hours and all on their own accounts. Kotaku counted nine: Travis Scott, Future, Metro Boomin, Morgan…
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The Associated Press caught Stephen Root on the carpet at the BAFTA TV Tea Party on 13 September and asked him outright whether he is in Grand Theft Auto VI. "You're gonna see me in there," he answered. The wire put…
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Japan's PlayStation.Blog laid out Sony's Tokyo Game Show plans on 10 September, and Grand Theft Auto VI gets a room of its own. The PlayStation booth will run a theater called Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look: the…
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Google has updated YouTube's ad guidelines, and for anyone planning to post Grand Theft Auto VI footage it is the change of the year. Two September entries turned up in the guideline log. The first: graphic gaming…
Read moreNintendo used its Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8 to give the Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time a release date: November 5, 2026, at $59.99, with visuals Nintendo describes…
Read moreOn September 10 the Glasgow Employment Tribunal opens the full hearing into the October 2025 dismissal of 31 Rockstar employees in the UK, and it is scheduled to run until October 16. The dates were confirmed on…
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On September 3 Miami-Dade County published a joint statement from Commissioner Juan Carlos Bermudez and Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz calling on the county to reject any use of county resources to promote Grand Theft…
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Sony revealed two Grand Theft Auto VI DualSense controllers at its State of Play on 3 September, and the details come from PlayStation's own blog rather than a retailer listing. There is a Black Limited Edition and a…
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Netflix published its weekly Top 10 on 1 September, and Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look sits at the top of the English film list for the week of 24 to 30 August with 31.1 million views. Netflix says it also…
Read moreRockstar published a Newswire post titled Introducing nopixel V on 1 September, and the tone is unusually warm for a studio that kept roleplay at arm's length for a decade. "For years, we've seen the exciting…
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Rockstar's screenshot page for Grand Theft Auto VI holds 99 official 4K stills this morning. Last week it held 70. We counted the live page ourselves and pinned the change with the Internet Archive: the snapshots from…
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Rob Nelson, head of development and co-studio head at Rockstar North, took Famitsu through Grand Theft Auto VI system by system at the studio in Edinburgh, and the interview went live on 28 August. What matters is…
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The day before the Extended Look, Rockstar did something it has never done for Grand Theft Auto: it handed a batch of official screenshots to a fashion magazine and let them be laid out as an editorial. Dazed's autumn…
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Rockstar put the full "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look" on its YouTube channel and on rockstargames.com/VI at 9 p.m. Eastern on August 27, six hours after the Netflix premiere, and the running time everyone spent…
Read moreRockstar Games spoke about the Grand Theft Auto VI breach for the first time on August 26, one day before the Extended Look. The statement went up on the studio’s own social accounts, X and Instagram, and it opens with…
Read moreTake-Two's response to the Grand Theft Auto VI breach is now on a court docket. On August 20 and 21 the publisher filed four DMCA subpoena requests in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York…
Read moreThe Netflix question around Grand Theft Auto VI moved this week from why the next trailer is going there to whether Netflix wants the company behind it. Strauss Zelnick answered that one on CNBC on Monday, August 10…
Read moreTake-Two reported its first quarter of fiscal 2027 before the market opened on Friday, August 7, and the headline number was $1.39 billion in Net Bookings for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, slightly above the top of…
Read moreRockstar announced on August 6 that "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look" premieres on Netflix on Thursday, August 27 at 3 p.m. Eastern, and arrives on the official Rockstar Games YouTube channel and the Grand Theft…
Read moreTake-Two will report its first quarter fiscal 2027 results before the market opens on Friday, August 7, with the analyst call at 8:00 a.m. Eastern. The company put that in a scheduling notice on July 9, which also…
Read moreStudios have been quietly stepping around November 19 for months. This week one of them named the reason on the record. In an interview Crunchyroll published on August 3, recorded at Anime Expo 2026, Danganronpa 2x2…
Read moreMicrosoft's new Xbox console prices took effect on August 1, and the European figures turned out to be the sharpest part of the increase. The company had announced the move on June 25 in an Xbox Wire post that gave US…
Read moreSony's results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, published on July 30, answer the one hardware question still hanging over GTA 6's launch: whether there will be enough consoles. The report states that Sony has…
Read moreOn July 28 Australian players opened the Diamond Casino & Resort in GTA Online and found the betting gone. Slots, blackjack, roulette, three card poker, Inside Track and the private penthouse table no longer work, and…
Read moreRockstar's GTA 6 support FAQ spells out that region restrictions on code redemption follow “the region associated with your platform account”, and the restriction lands on one platform only. About Xbox the same page…
Read moreThere is one line in Rockstar's own GTA 6 support FAQ that no other region gets: “Product codes in Japan will expire 170 days after the issuance date, which is the launch date (November 19, 2026), due to regional…
Read moreThe Rockstar Games Workers Union has finally sat down with the studio's management. In a July 22 post on X, the union, backed by the UK's Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, called its first formal meeting…
Read moreSony has confirmed on its own support pages that the PlayStation Store in Mexico will start billing in Mexican pesos instead of US dollars. The store goes down for maintenance from August 18, and peso pricing takes…
Read moreGTA 6's pre-orders are tracking like nothing the industry has measured before. Analytics firm Newzoo published an analysis on July 16 calling it 'the strongest pre-order campaign ever recorded': the firm counted…
Read moreTwo Mexican politicians have opened a new front in the disc fight. Federal representative Iraís Reyes and senator Luis Donaldo Colosio, both of the Movimiento Ciudadano party, announced they will file an antitrust…
Read moreThe regulators have started answering, and they don't agree with each other. Michael McGrath, the EU commissioner responsible for consumer protection, told reporters at the European Parliament in Strasbourg that…
Read moreThe pushback against the disc-free future now has numbers. 'Don't Kill the Disc: Tell Sony to Keep Physical PlayStation Games', a Change.org petition started on July 1 by Jade Pearce of Canadian games retailer PNP…
Read moreJean-Luc Mélenchon, the French left's veteran who took almost 22% of the first-round vote in the 2022 presidential election and is running again, pulled GTA 6 into politics on July 2. In a post on X he pointed at the…
Read moreRockstar announced The Kortz Center Heist on the Newswire on June 17, and the date is now locked: July 14, 2026, on all platforms. It is GTA Online's first brand-new heist since Cayo Perico in late 2020 — a multi-stage…
Read moreSony made it official on the PlayStation Blog on July 1: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will be pressed on disc. Titles releasing after that date go digital only, while anything that shipped on disc before…
Read moreAlongside the June 25 pre-order launch, Rockstar published more than 60 new official 4K screenshots of Grand Theft Auto VI. The batch brings fresh looks at Jason and Lucia, a wide range of vehicles and weapons, NPCs…
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The wait for a price is over: Rockstar has put official numbers on Grand Theft Auto VI. The Standard Edition is $79.99 and the Ultimate Edition is $99.99, the only two versions on offer, and pre-orders went live at…
Read moreSony has turned its own platform into a GTA 6 billboard for the pre-order launch. Boot up a PS5 right now and the Welcome Hub greets you with a custom animated Grand Theft Auto VI logo that links straight to the…
Read moreWith Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders open as of midnight on June 25, the early story is not a sales figure but the size of the bet around it. Rockstar and Take-Two have not released any pre-order numbers, so everything…
Read moreRockstar lifted the lid on Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders a day ahead of their June 25 launch, and the headline surprise is physical: there is no disc. Boxed copies hold a download code only, a deliberate move from a…
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Rockstar confirmed today that pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI open on June 25, 2026 — 'on digital storefronts and at other select retailers' — and dropped the game's official cover art alongside the announcement…
Read moreTake-Two has said GTA 6's marketing begins at the start of summer, and the consensus across insiders and press points to a third trailer in late June 2026 — likely the first real look at gameplay, and possibly the…
Read moreTake-Two boss Strauss Zelnick reaffirmed GTA 6's November 19, 2026 release date after a TikTok interviewer from the School of Hard Knocks channel stopped him on the street — the clip went up on June 15. Asked why the…
Read moreThis site exists to answer one question: what do we actually know about GTA VI? Every entry here is labeled as confirmed, trailer-spotted, rumor, or debunked - and every claim links to its source, so you can check it…
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