GTA 6 News
Newest first. Everything reported rather than confirmed is labelled inside the story.
You can hide from the cops on a bus in GTA 6, says Edge's cover story
Fuel gauges, police dogs, stinger strips, a car-theft app and a relationship you can lose. Here's what Rockstar showed Edge for issue 430.
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Rockstar slowed GTA 6 down because GTA V's pace "felt too fast" in Vice City
Longer days, slower cars, narrower roads and a lot more doors you can walk through. Here's what Edge's Rockstar North visit says about how the game will feel to play.
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GTA 6 is a 210GB download on PS5, according to the PlayStation Store's own data
A store-data tracker spotted the number and Insider Gaming says it checks out. Rockstar hasn't confirmed it, but it's the first real figure we've had, and it's bigger than most estimates.
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GTA 6 on PC by March 2027? Here's where that report comes from
GamesBeat says four industry sources put the PC version in the first three months of 2027. Nobody's named, Rockstar hasn't answered, and it'd be the fastest port Rockstar's done in years.
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PS5 sales jumped 22% in September. Bloomberg says GTA 6, Circana's own analyst says Wolverine
Same Circana numbers, two readings. Here's what the September data actually shows, and what the next two months need to show to settle it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hot Coffee: the sex minigame Rockstar left on the San Andreas disc, and how it nearly sank the game
Rockstar locked it away instead of deleting it. A modder found it, the game got re-rated Adults Only, shops pulled it, and it ended in a federal settlement. Here's the whole story.
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GTA nearly got cancelled, and a police bug saved it
It started in 1995 as a game called Race'n'Chase. It crashed constantly, the driving was bad, the publisher wanted out. Then the cops started ramming people.
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Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell are real now, and they're inside the Miami Heat's arena
Two GTA fast food chains are serving actual food at the Kaseya Center. One fan says a burger meal cost him more than $37, and that it's basically the stand that used to be there.
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Peekhole, GTA 6's apparent OnlyFans parody, was hiding in the Extended Look
A QR code on a poster inside the Jack of Hearts strip club carries the name. Fans think it's a subscription app parody. Rockstar hasn't said what it is.
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GTA 6 reviews reportedly land on 18 November, with some outlets held until launch day
A ResetEra poster with a decent track record says the embargo lifts the day before launch, and that review codes haven't gone out yet. Rockstar hasn't confirmed any of it.
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BioWare's gone, and the Mass Effect 5 director's first joke was about GTA 6
Michael Gamble lost his studio and his game this week. His sign-off: at least he won't need a sick day on 19 November. It's also a good moment to check that $1 billion sick-day number again.
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Pißwasser, Patriot and a new Vice City lager just got real US beer labels
A brewery just outside Miami had three GTA beers approved by the federal alcohol bureau. Nobody's announced them, and approval doesn't mean they're on sale.
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GTA 6's first TV ad cut the shower scenes and dropped the Xbox logo
It ran during NBA opening night on 20 October. Same launch trailer, a few seconds shuffled around, and only a PlayStation logo at the end.
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A Miami TikToker says filming GTA 6's beach chairs got him fired
Graham Simmon posted a video of Vice City umbrellas, chairs and cabanas on a Miami beach. It barely got any views. Then everyone else reposted it.
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Did Rockstar really try to get Daft Punk back together for GTA 6?
A music leaker says Daft Punk were offered "a final comeback" and an open budget, and that Justice were Rockstar's second choice. Nobody's confirmed it.
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No, you won't be able to stream GTA 6 to a PC through Xbox Cloud Gaming
Xbox's Matthew Ball shut that idea down after a report suggested Microsoft had exclusive streaming rights. Here's what he actually said, and what it leaves open.
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GTA 6 preload: when it starts, how long it takes, and the two settings that stop it stalling
Preloading opens on 12 November, a week before launch. On a typical home connection the download is an overnight job, and a console that falls asleep halfway through is how people miss launch night.
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GTA 6 review scores: Metacritic, OpenCritic and every major review
There aren't any GTA 6 reviews yet, and any score you see before the embargo lifts is fake. This is the page that'll collect them, plus what's worth knowing until it does.
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Rockstar spent years trying to get rid of the weapon wheel in GTA 6. It is back
Trays, webs, no interface at all. Jason Schreier says the studio tried them all before going back to the wheel, and that the long stretch from 2019 to 2022 cost it some designers.
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GTA 6 has an estimated 6 million digital pre-orders, 148% ahead of Modern Warfare 2
Sensor Tower's store data puts it far ahead of every big launch it's tracked, with three in four pre-orders on PlayStation. These are estimates, they aren't Take-Two's numbers, and the scope matters.
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Take-Two reports on 9 November, ten days before GTA 6. What to listen for
It's the last scheduled earnings call before launch. Don't expect a sales number. Do expect the date to be restated, and listen for what's said about PC and online.
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Real GTA 6 cars are driving around Miami, led by a Vice City police Lamborghini
Six to eight cars in GTA VI liveries, with Leonida plates, crossed Miami to Key Biscayne while a blimp flew over. Rockstar hasn't said a word, and nobody's confirmed who built them.
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"Please tell me you're kidding": what Bloomberg's GTA 6 making-of says about the two delays
Rockstar's head of publishing had to call Take-Two's CEO twice. There wasn't one big crisis behind it. The game needed more characters than the studio could write and animate in time.
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Miami-Dade's commissioners stall the county's GTA 6 deal: "We're depicting Miami like a murder capital"
Rockstar is already paying $975,000 for the Welcome to Vice City sign. A vote on letting the mayor go further, into the airport, the port and transit, was pushed to Tuesday 20 October. Miami and Miami Beach have both said yes.
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GTA 6 makes The Game Awards cutoff by about a day. That does not make it a nominee
The window closes at 9pm Pacific on 20 November. GTA 6 is out on the 19th. The jury that picks the nominees will vote before almost anyone outside it has played it.
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How big is GTA 6? Nobody has the real number yet, and the one going round is fake
No store listing shows an install size. The 676.7 GB screenshot was doctored. But the numbers we do have give a decent idea of how much space to clear before preload opens on 12 November.
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The GTA 6 launch trailer is out, and it finally explains why Jason turned to crime
Ninety seconds, no warning, captured on a base PS5. A prison phone call, an army discharge, a lot of helicopters, and a new Justice single with three headline features.
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GTA 6's first six radio stations, who hosts them, and the change that lets you hear them on foot
Flash FM is back. Bad Bunny, Burna Boy, two members of Slayer and Trick Daddy are behind the microphone. And for the first time, the radio follows you out of the car.
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GTA 6 is rated M and PEGI 18. What the ratings say is in it, and the descriptor that is missing
Seven content descriptors in the US, an R18+ in Australia that names sex scenes, a withdrawn PEGI page, and no gambling label for the first time in a Rockstar open world on PS5.
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When do GTA 6 reviews come out? What has been reported, and what is still a guess
One report says review copies go out before the end of October. An earlier one said nobody would get a copy at all. Rockstar hasn't said a word, and its own history points to a very short gap.
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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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Rockstar built a second city for GTA 5, then deleted it. It was found in a sound file.
The cancelled Liberty City expansion left no map behind. What it left was audio data, and somebody plotted every zone marked as shoreline until a coastline drew itself.
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Rockstar put its own biggest secret in a court filing
Arguing that leaking is why it dismissed 34 people, Rockstar had to state in writing what was leaked. It's the first detail of GTA 6 Online the company has ever committed to paper.
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Game Informer's GTA 6 issue lands today, and the two systems it covers are the ones Rockstar has barely shown
Fourteen pages, twelve new screenshots and lead designer interviews on weather and wildlife. Here's what Rockstar has actually shown of both so far, so you can tell new from repeated.
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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.
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GTA 6 standard or Ultimate: what the extra $20 actually buys
Ultimate is outselling standard in pre-orders, which is unusual. Here's everything in each edition, what the extras are worth, and who should ignore them.
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Take-Two's CEO was asked if he should be replaced. His answer conceded the question.
An investor put years of delays and dependence on a handful of franchises to Strauss Zelnick at today's annual meeting. He reached for 2007, and then made the shareholder's point for him.
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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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Every GTA 6 vehicle identified so far, and how sure anyone actually is
Ninety-two vehicles, split four ways by how firmly each one is known. Fourteen have names from Rockstar. None of them come from a leaked spreadsheet.
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The GTA 6 Ultimate Edition does not unlock at once, and you can upgrade whenever
Twenty dollars buys items threaded through chapters you haven't reached yet. And since the upgrade's sold separately at any time, the standard edition is the safer purchase.
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Which SSD for GTA 6 on PS5, and when deleting things is cheaper
Sony publishes a hard requirement and most budget drives miss it. What the PlayStation 5 actually needs, what Xbox needs instead, and the case for buying nothing.
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PS5 or Xbox Series X for GTA 6, and where Series S sits
Both run it at a 30fps target with no performance mode promised. So the decision comes down to storage cost, the Pro question, and which one you already own.
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Does your GTA Online money carry over to GTA 6?
Rockstar hasn't said no. It hasn't said anything at all, about the one feature everybody keeps asking for, and that silence has been going on a while.
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Will GTA 6 come to PC, and when
No PC version has been announced. Rockstar's own history is the only guide, and it points somewhere between early 2027 and mid 2028.
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1.5 million Americans plan to skip work for GTA 6, and it could cost a billion dollars
An economist has put a number on the launch day sickie. Read the caveat before you repeat the headline.
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What time does GTA 6 unlock in your country? Every store region, read off the PlayStation Store
Midnight on 19 November, but whose midnight? The store lists one time per region, and for the US that's midnight in New York. Here's every region, and the part nobody's confirmed.
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Every GTA 6 activity confirmed so far
Fishing you can't profit from, diving with an air supply, and the San Andreas gym system coming back after twenty-two years.
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Every Vice City district named so far
Ocean Beach, Bayside, Stockyard and the port came off the footage. Watson Bay and Washington Beach came from Rockstar telling you where your bonus car is parked.
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The GTA 6 soundtrack: what is actually confirmed
Around twenty songs, no station names, and for once a music industry that's written into the plot itself.
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Take-Two goes back to Discord for data on the GTA 6 leakers
A fresh subpoena in a case that has been running since 2022, and a reminder of how differently Rockstar treats a leak from a trailer.
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Is there GTA Online at launch? No, and Rockstar has been unusually clear
Rockstar's own store listings call it a single-player experience. That's the whole answer, and the silence about what comes next is the interesting part.
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The GTA 6 launch checklist
Storage, preload, unlock time and the spoiler problem. Everything worth sorting before 19 November, in the order it matters.
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What to play while you wait for GTA 6
Seventy-three days is a long time to stare at a countdown. Six games that scratch the same itch, and what each one tells you about where GTA 6 came from.
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The Extended Look sold consoles: PS5 up 33%, Xbox up 34% in a week
Trailers sell consoles all the time. This one sold PS5s and Xboxes by almost exactly the same amount, two months before a game that's out on both.
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Sony's two GTA 6 DualSense controllers go up for pre-order on 10 September
Black and white, neon finish, palm tree decals and a VI on the touchpad. $84.99 each, limited run, and they ship on launch day.
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600,000 animations, and the team Rockstar built just to make strangers behave
Eleven times what GTA V shipped with, twice Red Dead Redemption 2, and a Los Angeles studio of writers and directors whose whole job was people you'll never speak to.
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Rockstar: no microtransactions and no generative AI in GTA 6's single player
It's a clear promise with a carefully drawn line around it, and GTA Online sits on the other side of that line.
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You can win a fight in GTA 6 without killing anyone
Suppressive fire, intentional misses and intimidation. Rockstar has built a way through some encounters that doesn't end in bodies, and it fits the police system exactly.
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The GTA 6 physical edition has no disc, and preloading starts 12 November
A box with a download code in it. What that means for you, including the 150 to 200GB you'll need to clear.
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A fan found Jason and Lucia's apartment in real Miami. It was demolished years ago.
The Belmar Condominium, thirteen units, built 1973, bought for $12 million and torn down during GTA 6's development. Rockstar rebuilt it down to the floor plan.
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Digital Foundry on GTA 6: a generational leap, with visible compromises on base PS5
Character work, hair and lighting are far beyond GTA V. Reflections are where the base console's already giving something up.
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GTA 6 has been in development since 2015, three years before most of Rockstar joined it
Early work began the year GTA V hit PC. Most of the team only joined after Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped in 2018, and that changes how the whole timeline looks.
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A Hitman developer says GTA 6's NPCs are ten years ahead of the industry
Praise from a studio that's spent twenty years building games where the only thing that matters is how strangers behave.
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Rockstar wants to turn parts of Miami into Vice City. Local officials are not having it
A pitch to Miami-Dade would rebrand stretches of the airport, the port and the transit system. A commissioner and the county sheriff have already come out against it.
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Rockstar will not promise a 60fps mode for GTA 6
Rob Nelson says the studio isn't ready to guarantee it, which is a careful answer roughly two months from launch.
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Rockstar put 29 GTA 6 screenshots online in 4K, and three had never been seen
The full press set is now public at native resolution. Three of the shots never appeared in any preview, and the rest are worth zooming right into.
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Lucia's taped-up pistol is the strongest hint yet at weapon condition in GTA 6
A sticker, tape around the grip and a scuffed slide. Small details, but they point at guns that carry a history.
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GTA 6 launches 19 November 2026, at midnight in each store region
The date's locked, the unlock rolls around the world at midnight, New Zealand first and Mexico last, and it's PS5 and Xbox Series X and S only.
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GTA 6 costs $79.99, and the Ultimate Edition is $99.99
Two editions, no collector's box, and the physical copy is a code in a case with no disc inside.
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Sprinting in GTA 6 is reportedly on L3, and the button mashing is over
A small change with a real effect: no more hammering A or X to cross the street.
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The six regions of Leonida, and what Rockstar has shown of each
Vice City is the headline, but the state around it runs from swamp to sugar refinery to a faded holiday coast.
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Seven GTA 6 mechanics hiding in the Extended Look
Car theft with actual tools, a wanted system built on evidence, a criminal profile per character and a focus mode that owes a lot to Dead Eye.
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GTA 6 ships single-player only. There is no GTA Online on day one
Rockstar's confirmed the launch is story mode alone, and it hasn't said anything at all about when multiplayer follows.
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How big is the GTA 6 map? Rockstar says three times Red Dead 2
Leonida is roughly three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2's world, and Vice City alone is about twice Los Santos.
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Every GTA 6 character Rockstar has confirmed, and how they connect
Two leads, a smuggler, a paranoiac, a club owner, a music manager and a rap duo. Here's who knows who.
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Rockstar let a terminally ill fan play GTA 6 before launch
A LinkedIn post about a family member with months to live reached the top of Take-Two, and the answer came back yes.
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The August leak wave: six-star wanted levels, fuel, and looting
A build's worth of systems went public last month. None of it's confirmed, and all of it came from an unfinished version of the game.
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Will GTA 6 get single-player DLC? History says be careful what you hope for
Nothing's been announced. Rockstar's last story expansion shipped in 2009, and neither GTA 5 nor Red Dead 2 got one.
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The GTA 6 gameplay reveal was the biggest gaming stream of the year
Just under four million people watched at once, across every platform carrying it.
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What GTA 6 players actually want, and which parts Rockstar has already answered
Smarter police, an economy where money means something, and the return of story expansions. Some of it's already in.
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GTA 6 is so large that nobody at Rockstar knows all of it
Rockstar North's co-studio head on a game that's been in development since 2015, with most of the team on it since 2018.
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