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24 stories on Rockstar, newest first. Everything here is on 6 Insider because Rockstar, or somebody reporting on Rockstar, actually said it.
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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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