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LatestThe Last Ride: GTA Online players plan a peaceful farewell cruise through Los Santos the night before GTA 6No guns, no cops, no crashes. Just a long line of cars leaving the airport one last time.November 2026
GTA 6 pre-orders pass 10 million: Sensor Tower puts the game over $1 billion a week before launchTen million people have paid for a game none of them has played yet.
The real GTA 6 Grotti Cheetah is for sale in London, and it costs £1 millionA Ferrari in Vice City colours, a rabbit on the badge and a Leonida plate. Yours for a million pounds.
GTA 6 targets 30 FPS on every console, and PS5 Pro gets PSSR and ray-traced shadows instead of extra framesThirty frames on a base PS5, thirty on a Pro. The difference you pay for is in the shadows.
GTA 6 Pre-Load trailer: 30 seconds of Vice City at night, set to a new Tove Lo songThirty seconds, no plot, all mood. Rockstar spent its last trailer on the nightlife.
GTA 6 pre-load is live: New Zealand went first, Xbox opened worldwide, and the PS5 download is 209.8 GBSomewhere in Auckland a PS5 has been pulling Leonida down since lunchtime. Tonight it's your turn.
GTA 6 passes Cyberpunk 2077's pre-order record: Sensor Tower estimates 9.69 million digital copiesTwo million more pre-orders in a week, and the record that stood since 2020 is gone.
GTA 6 PS5 features trailer: haptics, adaptive triggers, the DualSense speaker and Tempest 3D AudioPull the trigger and the trigger pulls back. That's the whole pitch.
Rockstar and PlayStation throw a GTA 6 festival in Miami on November 21 with Travis Scott, Cardi B and JusticeTwo days after launch, half the album steps off the radio and onto a stage in Wynwood.
Tove Lo's Blood In Your Eyes is GTA 6's tenth single, and it's the song from the Pre-Load trailerThe last trailer before launch didn't reuse an old hit. It premiered a new one.
GTA 6 has gone gold: Take-Two says Rockstar has finished the game, and pre-orders are far above its forecastsThirteen years, two delays, one sentence: Rockstar has completed the development of GTA VI.
Without Rockstar's compression GTA 6 would be over 400 GB, says dataminer Tez2212 GB sounds like a lot until you hear what the number was supposed to be.
Is Alex Hernandez in GTA 6? Fans spot Mafia III's Lincoln Clay actor in a new screenshotOne screenshot, one jawline, one actor who has already led a crime game set in the American South.
Is Bobby Moynihan GTA 6's Cal Hampton? The SNL veteran's voice is almost a perfect matchClose your eyes during Trailer 2, then put on an old SNL sketch. That's the whole theory, and it's surprisingly convincing.
A Russian brewer registers 'Doctor Diesel VI' to cash in on GTA 6, with a beer due in mid-NovemberA roman numeral, a pink sunset and a palm tree. That's apparently all it takes to make a beer about GTA 6.
GTA 6 reaches Japanese shop floors: new displays, promo boxes and posters go up across the countryTwo weeks ago it was billboards in Osaka. Now it's the shelf next to the cash register.
Kodak Black turns up in GTA 6 as an NPC, and Rockstar even copied his Golden Acres pendantA Florida rapper in a game set in Florida. The giveaway isn't the face, it's the jewellery.
Rockstar opens the GTA 6 Launch Gallery: over 35 new screenshots two weeks before releaseRockstar's last big drop before the 19th, and it's mostly crime: robberies, chases and one rapper in a club booth.
The Miami Heat release a live-action Vice City trailer with the game's cars and the blimpReal Miami, real cars, a real blimp, and not a single frame of the game. It still looks exactly like GTA.
Miami Heat's Vice City uniforms go on sale November 18 in a limited run, with a Cactus Jack logo on the shortsFor one night the Heat play as Vice City, and from the same day you can wear the jersey too, if you're quick.
Boxed copies of GTA 6 are already on German shelves, and inside there's a download code instead of a discYou can hold GTA 6 in your hands a week early. You just can't put it in the console.
GTA 6 pre-orders pass 7.7 million copies and $750 million, with three out of four buyers on PlayStationEleven days out, GTA 6 is 290,000 copies short of the biggest pre-order run in history, and it isn't even on PC.
Rockstar sets spoiler rules for GTA 6: no unboxing leaks, and key cutscenes only in full let's playsRockstar has spent years writing this story. It would rather you didn't learn the ending from a thumbnail.
GTA 6's first trailer passes 300 million views, more than twice what GTA 5's debut trailer ever gotThree years, no gameplay, one Tom Petty song. And people are still pressing play.
3DTravis Scott shows new GTA-style Nike Air Force 1s after fans panned the first all-black pairThe first pair looked like any black sneaker. The second looks like a Vice City sunset you can wear.
West Coast Customs builds six GTA 6 cars in real life, from the Grotti Cheetah to a Vice Beach police TempestaHypebeast admits it struggled to tell the screenshots from the photos. Scroll down and try it yourself.
Is someone at Microsoft already playing GTA 6? An Xbox screenshot says 'last played 16h ago'Four little avatars and a timestamp. That's all it took to convince half the internet the game is already out somewhere.
October 2026
GTA 6's ad campaign reaches Japan: giant billboards in Osaka with the katakana logo and a CERO Z badgeMiami, New York, Paris. The fourth city on the list is the one that gets to play first after Oceania.
3DJustice's GTA 6 score is coming on vinyl on December 11, and the seven-minute Pusher with Gesaffelstein is outThe Album is what plays on the radio. The score is what plays when you're the one being chased.
Bank of America expects GTA 6 Online and the PC version in early 2027, a few months after the console launchThree different sources, three different reasons, one window: the first three months of 2027.
GTA 6 is the cover of Edge #430: a 16-page report from Rockstar North, free to read online on October 29Game Informer had the hurricanes. Edge went to Edinburgh. Three weeks before launch, Rockstar is letting the print magazines in one at a time.
GTA 6 weighs 210 GB on PS5, more than GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 put togetherFor a year everyone guessed 150 to 200 GB. The first real number beat the top of the range.
Lana Del Rey is waiting for GTA 6 too: she posted Travis Scott's RHYNO from the game's album on InstagramThree weeks before launch, one of the game's own radio hosts is counting down like the rest of us.
3DGTA 6 is on Miami's streets now: a Jason sightseeing bus, a Vice City Coquette and a police LamborghiniThe blimp was for the beach, the roof sign was for the planes. A tour bus is for the tourists, who are exactly the people Vice City was always about.
GTA 6 is rated USK 18 in Germany, and nothing in the rating points to a cut versionThe red square in the corner of the box is official. For a German GTA fan that used to be the start of a worry. This time it's the end of one.
Bloomberg's GTA 6 report: NPCs caused both delays, and Rockstar doubled its staff to finish the gameWhen GTA 5 came out I hadn't shipped a single shader for money. By the time GTA 6 arrives I'll have eleven years of it. Bloomberg finally explains where Rockstar's thirteen went.
3DA Goodyear blimp in Vice City colors is flying south to Florida, with the GTA 6 logo on its bellyRooftops, billboards, a basketball court. Rockstar had run out of flat surfaces in Miami, so now the ad is floating.
GTA 6 radio stations revealed: Flash FM is back, and Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey and Slayer host the first sixTwenty-four years ago Flash FM was the sound of Vice City. On October 8 it came back, and it brought five new neighbours with very famous hosts.
The official GTA 6 merch is in the Rockstar Store: tees, caps, a Zippo and the keychain from the creator boxesTwo weeks ago this list was a line of code in the store's API. On October 8 it got prices, photos and a Buy button.
GTA 6 is rated PEGI 18, and PEGI's detailed description of the content has already vanished from its siteThe red 18 surprised nobody. The paragraph under it did, and it was gone from the page before most people got to read it.
GTA 6 reportedly needs PS5 system software 14.10 or newer, and that locks out consoles kept on old firmwareMost of you will never see this number. If your PS5 has been sitting on old firmware on purpose, it's the only number in this story that matters.
Kingdom Come co-founder Martin Klíma hopes GTA 6 will blaze the trail to higher game pricesA man who isn't going to play GTA 6 is rooting for it harder than some fans. His reason fits on a price tag.
3DLOVE magazine gives GTA 6 one of six covers on issue 27, and Rockstar's writers talk Jason and Lucia insideA luxury issue, and on its cover a couple whose dream is to pay off their debts. I think that joke is the whole game, and Rockstar's writers say it out loud.
3DThe Miami Heat will play as Vice City on November 18, the night before GTA 6 comes outWatch the Heat play as Vice City on the 18th, and the next day drive past the same arena in the game. I can't think of a better countdown.
Real Miami next to GTA 6's Vice City: the arena, the ferris wheel and the marina all line upI spent a good ten minutes jumping between these two pictures. The longer you look, the more of the real city you find in the game.
GTA 6 is rated M for Mature 17+ by the ESRB, with the same seven content descriptors as GTA VSeven descriptors, and every one of them was on GTA V's box in 2013. People are reading this list as news. I read it as a copy-paste.
3DGTA 6 is getting a real Vice City Manatees football, and photos of the ball and the team's socks are outRockstar made up a football team for a game, and now you can throw its ball in a real park. That's the kind of merch I actually get.
A GTA 6 mural is going up in Brooklyn: Colossal Media is painting Jason and Lucia from the vinyl artA whole building wall, painted by hand, and for now it's only pencil lines. I love this slow kind of advertising more than any screen in Times Square.
GTA 6 is out next month: Leonida opens on November 19, and the preload starts a week before thatSince Trailer 1 the date has always been somewhere far off. Today it's on the next page of the calendar.
Fans think GTA 6 could fence Leonida in with a storm instead of an invisible wall or sharksEvery GTA has to tell you 'that's far enough' somehow. A storm would be the first time the answer looks like weather and not like a rule.
September 2026
3DThe Rockstar Store's API gave away the rest of the GTA 6 merch: Burger Shot tees, a Zippo and a basketballThe $400 box was the expensive door. Behind it there's a whole shop of ordinary T-shirts, and some of them Jason is already wearing.
GTA 6 has an X 18+ label in a PlayStation ad in Australia, and games can't get that ratingOne letter in a shop ad got half the internet talking about what's in the game. It says nothing about that.
GTA 6 week: a $975,000 sign, a $400 box nobody is fighting over, brands in Vice City pink and an NDA reminderFour stories from one week, and together they say more about GTA 6 marketing than any trailer: what it costs, what doesn't sell and who's copying it.
GTA IV's collector's edition cost $90, GTA V's $150, GTA VI's $400, and only VI's comes without the gamePut the three boxes side by side and the price isn't the strangest part. The strangest part is what's missing from the most expensive one.
Take-Two shares are down 13.5% since An Extended Look, about $6 billion of market value gone in a monthThe best month of GTA 6 marketing so far, and the stock went down almost the whole way. The reason is on a spreadsheet, not on the screen.
3DGame Informer's GTA 6 issue is out: hurricanes confirmed, 170+ animals and a map twice GTA V'sA month ago our weather page said Rockstar hadn't said a word about hurricanes. As of September 29, it has.
3DA 'Welcome to Vice City' sign has gone up on a Miami arena roof, facing the skyEvery other placement this month has been at eye level. This one only works if you are landing at Miami International.
GTA 6: The Album takes over a Times Square screen, with 'Listen on YouTube' under the logoTwo streaming platforms have now bought outdoor space for the same record inside a week. Nobody has bought any for the game.
GTA 6 can't win Game of the Year at the Golden Joysticks — it lands eight days too lateGTA 6 has won Most Wanted Game at these awards twice without existing. The year it finally exists, it isn't on the ballot.
Six to seven minutes to fly across the GTA 6 map: does the insider's number hold up?I don't repost insiders for the thrill of it. I'm reposting this one because for once the number can be held against something Rockstar itself said.
The actress fans have pinned as Lucia watched her account do 18 million views in a monthNine posts, 176 thousand followers, and a number on the analytics screen that nobody has explained to her.
PS6 and the next Xbox are being pinned to November 2027, one year after GTA 6If the date holds, GTA 6 gets exactly twelve months as the newest thing your console will ever run.
The GTA 6 album is up for pre-save, and the first six singles answer how Vice City soundsThree days ago I wrote that the artist teasers looked like a planned campaign. Here's the payoff: pre-save is live and six songs are already playing.
Twitch's CEO says GTA 6 Online arrives in 2027, after spending 'a lot of time' with RockstarRockstar still hasn't said the word 'Online' out loud. So the CEO of Twitch went on Bloomberg and said it for them: next year.
GTA 5 turns 13 today: 230 million copies, seven Guinness records and a successor two months awayI bought GTA 5 in 2013 and thought: very good, but I miss the San Andreas spirit. Thirteen years later it's still selling millions per quarter.
Three Thursdays in a row Rockstar has dropped something on GTA 6, and tomorrow is ThursdayFans spotted the pattern before anyone at Rockstar admitted to one. Three Thursdays, three drops — and the fourth one is tomorrow.
Travis Scott, Future, Morgan Wallen and Keith Richards teased GTA 6 on the same day, and they weren't aloneA dozen posts in one visual style, in barely a day. That isn't a leak, that's a campaign, and the lineup behind it is wild.
Your build will matter in GTA 6 fistfights: skinny NPCs bolt, big guys hit hard and gas out fastThe gym in the trailer wasn't set dressing. Whether an NPC throws a punch or runs may depend on how you look — and on how they do.
Rockstar wants you to love Jason and Lucia the way RDR2 players loved Arthur MorganRockstar keeps bringing up RDR2 when it explains GTA 6's story. After the stairs example, I finally understand why.
Stephen Root confirms he's in GTA 6 as Brian Heder, the first actor to officially claim a roleRockstar never names its actors before launch. Fans matched the voice months ago, and now the man himself has said it out loud.- Rockstar cut the developer interviews out of An Extended Look and GTA 6 still didn't fit into 27 minutesFor the first time Rockstar just let the game run for half an hour. Even that, Nelson says, wasn't enough to show what's in there.
Rockstar wanted you to leave beer bottles on the floor of your safehouse forever — then Lucia moved inThe detail that spread fastest from the Famitsu interview is something the game doesn't do. Rockstar cut it because its own heroine wouldn't have put up with it.- Safe zones in GTA 6: at your friend's club you're going to have to behave yourselfIn GTA 5 you could trash Trevor's bar just because you could. In GTA 6 one club will tell you no — and honestly, I get it.
The detail in GTA 6's seaplane clip that most people missed — and why it's the physics argument in one frameYou can fake a big explosion. You can't fake spray leaving a propeller in the right direction unless the water is actually being simulated.
Economists put a billion-dollar price tag on GTA 6 launch day, and the number under it is shakyThe billion-dollar figure is real economics done on a silly premise. The 1.5 million number stapled to it in every retelling is the part nobody can source.
GTA 6 pre-orders are closing on five million — and nearly 90% of buyers picked the $100 Ultimate EditionThe interesting number isn't the five million. It's that almost nobody bought the cheap one — and that tells you more about the next two months than any sales chart.
Any store in GTA 6 can be robbed, but the haul isn't spendable until it's been launderedRockstar has quietly moved the hard part of a robbery from the break-in to the drive home. That's a bigger design change than it sounds.
Someone stole a journalist's car in GTA 6 while he was off swimming with the NPCs who jumped firstThe best argument for this world isn't a feature. It's that a journalist got robbed by the scenery and thought it was funny.
GTA 6 pre-load starts November 10: Rockstar confirms the times, a 212 GB download and a $0.99 map posterNine days before launch the console can start pulling Vice City down, so on the 19th the only wait is the clock.
GTA 6 Launch Trailer is out: 90 seconds on a standard PS5, and Justice wrote the game's scoreNinety seconds captured on a regular PS5, with nothing polished up for the camera. It's gorgeous, and it's blurrier than I expected.
3DRockstar opened pre-orders for a $399.99 GTA 6 collector's box on September 24, and the game isn't in itA $400 box with a smoking alligator inside and no game — and I still caught myself looking at the sunglasses twice.