6 Insider: GTA 6 news, screenshot breakdowns and a Grand Theft Auto 6 wiki
You can hide from the cops on a bus in GTA 6, says Edge's cover story
NewsRockstar slowed GTA 6 down because GTA V's pace "felt too fast" in Vice City
NewsGTA 6 is a 210GB download on PS5, according to the PlayStation Store's own data
NewsGTA 6 on PC by March 2027? Here's where that report comes from
NewsPS5 sales jumped 22% in September. Bloomberg says GTA 6, Circana's own analyst says Wolverine
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The GTA 6 launch checklist
Estimates put the download at 150 to 200GB and preload opens 12 November. Most of what goes wrong on launch night is decided a week earlier.
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- Preload
- Unlock time
- Spoilers
Latest
- GuideConfirmed
GTA 6's boxed copy is just a code, and some shops won't sell it
Three weeks out, here's what the no-disc box means for trade-ins, slow internet and anyone who wanted a game on the shelf.
- NewsReported
South Park just aired GTA 6 gameplay nobody's seen, and Rockstar supplied it
Jason, Vice Beach, a dog and a bag you don't want to be hit with. Rockstar's thanked in the credits, so the footage is real.
- NewsConfirmed
Justice scored GTA 6, and the new single "Pusher" has Gesaffelstein on it
Rockstar's confirmed a full adaptive score from Justice. The vinyl's up for preorder, it lands on 11 December, and nobody can agree how many tracks are on it.
- NewsReported
Virgin Media will pay you €800 to play GTA 6 for eight hours
€100 an hour, the game's thrown in, and you can spread the hours over the week. There's a catch, and it's a small one.
- BreakdownConfirmed
GTA 6 has a video rental shop that's going bust, and it's still "now stocking DVDs"
On the strip mall Lucia robs in the Extended Look, the shop next door is Video Forever. We read every sign on it at 4K.
- BreakdownConfirmed
Read Lucia's texts in GTA 6's penthouse job: "10+ guys, auto weps, explosives"
During the Extended Look's high-rise shootout, Lucia's texting Jason from inside the party. At 4K you can read every word.
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The first GTA's moral panic was a PR job, and the man behind it was Max Clifford
In 1997 the team behind Grand Theft Auto hired Britain's most notorious publicist. The tabloid outrage that followed was the plan.
- FeatureConfirmed
What 9/11 changed in GTA III: the cop cars, a cut mission, and a cover made in one evening
Rockstar delayed GTA III by three weeks after the attacks and said the game ended up "about 1% different". Here's what that 1% was.
- FeatureConfirmed
Jack Thompson offered $10,000 for a game about killing game developers, then refused to pay. Penny Arcade paid it instead
The cheque's memo line said "For Jack Thompson Because Jack Thompson Won't." He tried to get the police involved.
- NewsReported
A hacker got $50,000 from Sony for a PS5 exploit, and it's why GTA 6 won't be pirated on day one
The flaw would've opened the PS5 right up. Somebody reported it a month before launch, Sony paid out, and half the homebrew scene is furious with him.
- NewsReported
GTA 6 review copies are reportedly out, and a second source backs the 18 November embargo
NateTheHate says Rockstar's started sending codes to outlets, and Insider Gaming says it's verified the reports. Reviewers would get about three weeks with it.
- NewsReported
Rockstar put fake GTA brands on real Miami billboards, and one of them hides the launch date
Dix lipstick, Juice Loose and a Weazel cartoon called Macca & Friends are all up in downtown Miami. Read the small print on the cartoon one.
- NewsReported
Rockstar is sponsoring Druski's comedy show now, with Ali G, to sell the GTA 6 Ultimate Edition
The latest Coulda Been Records special is "presented by Grand Theft Auto 6". Rockstar paying for a creator spot is new, and so is the audience it's chasing.
- GuideReported
No, nobody's playing GTA 6 early on TikTok, and the "early access" downloads are malware
A clip of Lucia in a clothes shop is doing the rounds with a caption saying it's the real game. It almost certainly isn't, and the links that come with this stuff are how people get robbed.
A speedboat running past the container cranes of the port.
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One of 131 shots we cut from Rockstar's 2160p masters, a different one each day, 17 days out from launch. Browse all of them.
Original research
Read off the footage, frame by frame
Most GTA 6 news is the same few stories going round, and when we cover one we say whose reporting it is. These came out of Rockstar's own footage instead: 138 catalogued shots, 111 vehicles identified frame by frame, and a 84-page wiki built on official material.
Every shot of all three trailers, 138 of them
Rockstar's own masters run through scene detection, one frame from the midpoint of each shot, each permalinked and timestamped back to the second it came from.
111 vehicles, sorted by how firmly each is known
Named by Rockstar, sighted in official footage, or reported by a named outlet. The rumour column is empty on purpose: nothing here exists only in a leaked list.
A road sign that names three places nobody can explain
Trailer 2 spends a second and a half on a causeway. Pulled at native resolution, the overhead signs name VCI Airport, Ambrosia, Southside and Peacock Bay.
From the archive
We read all twelve of the new GTA 6 screenshots frame by frame. Here's what's actually in them
A named citrus brand, two lightning strikes behind a seaplane, three alligators a few feet from a man's boots, and a Florida panther. The detail in Game Informer's issue 382 is in the corners of the images, not the middle.
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The GTA 6 map is playable right now. It is eleven years old.
192 GB of Rockstar's files went public and modders loaded an early Leonida into GTA 5. Several of the week's biggest discoveries are already published on Rockstar's own website.
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Is Jason an undercover cop who betrays Lucia? We tested the evidence
The theory rests on a handful of trailer moments and one screenshot. Read at full resolution, that screenshot says close to the opposite of what it's quoted for.
5 min read
Every word you can actually read in the GTA 6 trailers
A hotel, a boardwalk, the state on the number plates, an advert for America's favourite dissociative, and a prison notice signed by the Governor of Leonida. Read off the 2160p masters.
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GTA 6 has a working television, and we sat through an entire advert on it
Thirty-five seconds of the Prairie Sandwich, start to finish, plus four brand names read straight off the screen and a fridge door doing more character work than most games manage in dialogue.
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A highway sign in Trailer 2 names the airport, and two places nobody can explain
We pulled the frame at native resolution. VCI Airport, Southside, Peacock Bay, an interstate spur and a US route, all legible, none of them mentioned anywhere else.
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Interactive
The map of Leonida
Six regions, every named district, and what each one is based on in the real Florida. Tap a marker and read the page.
Open the mapOfficial media
162 Rockstar screenshots
Every official press image, filterable by subject, at full resolution. No upscales and nothing from a leak.
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The wiki
Reference pages built from confirmed footage, with everything unconfirmed labelled as such.
Vehicles
Every car, bike, boat and plane spotted so far.
Characters
Jason, Lucia and everyone orbiting them.
Locations
Vice City, Leonida and the map beyond it.
Weapons
Guns, gear and what the footage shows about them.
Mechanics
Systems Rockstar has confirmed or teased.
Trailers
Trailer 1, Trailer 2 and the Extended Look, and what each one established.
Music
Radio, the soundtrack, and what's actually been confirmed.
Activities
Fishing, diving, the gym, and everything that isn't a mission.
The Map
Regions, towns and how they connect.