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GTA 6 news
What Rockstar has actually said, when. Speculative items are labelled and kept out of the evergreen guides.
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Rockstar releases the GTA 6 Launch Trailer
Five weeks before launch, Rockstar posted the GTA 6 Launch Trailer without warning. It debuts a new Justice song and ends on the November 19 release date.
- Speculative
Report: GTA 6 PC version planned for early 2027
Unconfirmed: GamesBeat reports, citing four anonymous sources, that GTA 6 will reach PC in the first quarter of 2027. Rockstar has not announced a PC version.
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Rockstar: Leonida is its biggest map yet, about twice GTA 5’s
In Game Informer’s cover story, Rockstar called Leonida its biggest map “by some degree”, reported as about twice the size of GTA 5’s, and described localised weather and more than 170 animal species.
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GTA 6: An Extended Look shows 26 minutes of in-game footage
Rockstar’s first long look at GTA 6 being played premiered on Netflix, then arrived on YouTube and the GTA VI website the same evening.
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Take-Two reaffirms November 19 and reports a strong start to pre-orders
Take-Two’s August earnings kept GTA 6 on November 19, 2026, and said pre-orders had made an exceptional start.
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Rockstar announces An Extended Look, premiering on Netflix
A 26-second teaser announced GTA 6: An Extended Look for August 27, premiering on Netflix before YouTube and the GTA VI website.
- Confirmed
GTA 6 pre-orders open: $79.99, Ultimate Edition $99.99, and no disc in the box
Take-Two set GTA 6 at $79.99, with a $99.99 Ultimate Edition, opened pre-orders on June 25, and confirmed that boxed copies contain a download code rather than a disc.
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Rockstar reveals the GTA 6 cover art and a pre-order date
A short video revealed GTA 6’s official cover art and announced that pre-orders would open on June 25, 2026.
- Speculative
Where the GTA VI map-size estimates come from
A look at how community map-size estimates are produced — and why they disagree so much with each other.
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GTA 6 delayed to November 19, 2026
Rockstar moved GTA 6 a second time, from May 26, 2026 to November 19, 2026, saying the extra months would let it finish the game to the standard players expect.
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Rockstar releases GTA 6 Trailer 2
Seventeen months after the first trailer, Trailer 2 arrived with new pages on Rockstar’s site that named Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, introduced the supporting cast and mapped out the regions of Leonida.
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GTA 6 delayed from fall 2025 to May 26, 2026
Rockstar’s first delay moved GTA 6 out of 2025 and gave it a specific date for the first time: May 26, 2026.
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GTA 6 revealed with a return to Vice City
Trailer 1 confirmed Vice City, the state of Leonida and Lucia as a lead, with a 2025 release window. It went up a day early after leaking.
