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Rockstar announced The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection on 24 September. It is eleven pieces of merchandise in a box, it ships on launch day, it is limited to one per customer, and it includes no copy of Grand Theft Auto VI, no download code and no in-game content.
Rockstar dismissed 34 staff across its UK and Canadian studios on 30 October 2025. Thirty-one of them are now in front of an employment tribunal in Glasgow that runs until mid-October, and Rockstar's own filings have become the first place the studio has ever referred to a GTA VI online format.
A helicopter lifted WELCOME TO VICE CITY onto the roof of the Miami Heat's arena on 22 September. Miami-Dade County is collecting $975,000 for it, Miami Beach has voted 4-3 to take at least $3 million more, and Rockstar has said nothing publicly about either. Here is what the public records actually show.
Six wanted stars are back, and underneath them sits a row of icons showing exactly what the police have on you — your face, your clothes, your car, your partner, the CCTV. Here is how the heat system works in Grand Theft Auto VI, and what Rockstar still has not said.
Rockstar has published a company-wide modding policy that forbids fan-made story expansions, cross-game map merges and unofficial ports, and limits multiplayer modding to one licensed platform. It covers Grand Theft Auto VI — a game with no PC version announced.
Take-Two has pursued Cyberleek through DMCA subpoenas rather than a lawsuit — an instrument a court clerk issues without a hearing and without anyone being sued. The filings demanded identifying details for everyone who had spoken in three Discord servers since 1 June, and the most recent one is sealed.
Rockstar North's Rob Nelson answered no to both — no microtransactions in Grand Theft Auto VI, no generative AI used to build it. Neither answer was published by Rockstar, both reached the public through a podcast, and only one of them is supported by anything else on the record.
Sony announced two limited-edition Grand Theft Auto VI DualSense controllers on 3 September and opened pre-orders on 10 September. What they cost, which of the two is genuinely hard to get, why they ship on launch day, and why the game that refused to press a disc now has official hardware on only one of its two platforms.
Take-Two held its annual meeting on 17 September 2026, and Strauss Zelnick was asked directly about PC. The exact wording of his answer, the one number that genuinely supports a PC version, and why 'GTA 6 on PC sounds inevitable' is reading a company platform policy as a game announcement.
Rockstar and Atlantic Records announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album on 17 September, with six songs out now and the rest on 19 November. Here is what the announcement actually establishes, why an album of original music is a break with how GTA soundtracks have always worked, and everything about the in-game radio that remains unannounced.
Stephen Root told the Associated Press on 13 September that he is in Grand Theft Auto VI, playing Keys smuggler Brian Heder — the first GTA 6 role any actor has confirmed. Rockstar has still published no cast list. Here is what that one confirmation establishes, which names are still fan identification, and which actors have gone on record to deny being in the game.
Rockstar is shipping the biggest game of the generation as a download code, fourteen months before PlayStation stops pressing discs for new games. Here's every statement on the record from Take-Two, Sony and Microsoft, the sales figures behind them, and what is still not confirmed.
Grand Theft Auto VI returns to Vice City 24 years after the PS2 game, in the present day instead of 1986. Everything Rockstar has actually connected between the two — which turns out to be a store page — and every callback that is really a viewer identification.
Grand Theft Auto VI has been delayed twice — from 2025 to 26 May 2026, then to 19 November 2026. Here is every date Rockstar and Take-Two have given, what the studio actually said each time, and how its record on GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption, GTA V and RDR2 reads with 65 days left.
Ninety videos of Grand Theft Auto VI went online on 18 September 2022 and Rockstar confirmed them the next day. Four years on, here is what the files actually contained, what the court case established, the handful of things the leak got right, and the much longer list it never touched.
Grand Theft Auto VI is rated Mature 17+ by the ESRB, according to a PlayStation marketing email. Nothing has been published by the ESRB itself, by PEGI or by any other ratings board, and Take-Two's own press release calls the game not yet rated. Here's every rating on the record, the descriptors, the 2005 precedent, and the one country where the rating changes how you log in.
Grand Theft Auto VI launches on 19 November 2026 as a single-player game, in Take-Two's own words, and GTA Online keeps running. No successor has been announced: no mode, no date, no scope. Here's every statement on the record, the precedent from 2013 and 2018, and the reports that are not confirmation.
Story footage from Grand Theft Auto VI is already circulating, reviews will land the day before launch if Rockstar follows its own record, and the unlock looks set to roll around the world over 19 hours. Here's what to mute, which console settings help, and why the unlock model decides who gets exposed.
Preload for Grand Theft Auto VI opens on 12 November at local midnight for digital pre-orders and redeemed codes. Here's how to make it start on its own on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, how to trigger it by hand, and what Rockstar still has not said — starting with the install size.
Rockstar has not published an install size for Grand Theft Auto VI, so plan for 250 GB free before preload opens on 12 November. Here's how much space each PS5 and Xbox Series X|S model actually has, what to delete, which expansion drives let you play from them, and which only store the game.
The Grassrivers is the only region of Leonida that Rockstar answered with a new vehicle. Here is what has actually been written about the wetlands, every time the airboat has been shown, what is known about the alligators and the predators Rockstar says are worse, and what nobody has confirmed.
Mount Kalaga National Park is the one region of Leonida that Rockstar has placed in words, and the one it has shown least. Here is the whole of what has been written about it, what the six official stills add, what Rob Nelson has said about hunting and fishing, and what remains unconfirmed.
Leonida is Florida with the serial numbers filed off. Vice-Dale is Miami-Dade, Ambrosia is Hendry County's sugar town, Port Gellhorn is Panama City, the Keys and the Everglades share a county, and the mountains are borrowed from Georgia. Here is each mapping, where the county names actually come from, and which of them Rockstar has never said.
Three times Red Dead Redemption 2's playable area, twice GTA V, Vice City twice Los Santos. Rockstar has given four ratios and no area at all — here is what each one means, why the square-mileage figures you have read are worthless, and what the numbers still do not tell you.
Vice City is twice the size of Los Santos and Rockstar has named four places inside it. Every confirmed district, what the trailer road signs add, the real Miami neighbourhood behind each name, and why the fan district maps are running well ahead of the evidence.
Over 50 real street artists painted the murals, an entire Rockstar office does nothing but pedestrians, and the animation count is more than ten times GTA V's. Here is what Rockstar has actually confirmed about Grand Theft Auto VI's world density, and where the word 'lived-in' stops meaning anything.
Eat badly and they put on weight. Train and the muscle shows. Skip sleep and it lands on their faces. Here is what Rockstar has confirmed about the body system in Grand Theft Auto VI, what San Andreas and Red Dead 2 did with the same idea, and the part nobody has answered yet.
Rockstar says choices in Grand Theft Auto VI carry repercussions cutting deeper than any honour system it has built. Here is the criminal profile, the wanted system that identifies you, the relationship that cannot break, and how much of it is still only a promise.
Cover, focus aim, targeting limbs and a suppressive fire option that is new to the series. Here is what Rockstar has said about combat in Grand Theft Auto VI, what the showcase demonstrated, and how much of what you have read comes from leaked footage instead.
Cars need petrol, you cannot take every vehicle you walk past, and racing drivers were brought in to tune the handling. Here is what Rockstar has actually said about driving in Grand Theft Auto VI, what the Extended Look showed, and what is still only leak material.
Rockstar has now explained when you can swap between Jason and Lucia and when you cannot. Free in the open world, decided mission by mission inside the story — and here is what that means, plus the parts of the system nobody has described yet.
Raul Bautista is the bank robber who escalates Jason and Lucia from shakedowns to real scores. Here is what Rockstar has actually established about him, what the Extended Look showed of one job, and why nobody yet knows how heists in GTA VI are structured.
Brian Heder is Jason Duval's boss, landlord and nearest thing to a mentor — a smuggler from an era that ended without him. Here is what Rockstar has established about Brian, Lori, Cal Hampton and the Keys operation they run, and what is still guesswork.
Dre'Quan Priest, Real Dimez, DWNPLY and Boobie Ike form the music-industry half of GTA 6's cast. Here is what Rockstar's bios actually establish about the label, the duo and the favour that started it — and what is still guesswork.
Jason Duval is the second playable lead in Grand Theft Auto VI — ex-Army, running product in the Keys, and the reactive half of the pair. Here's what Rockstar has confirmed, what the previews added, and what is still guesswork.
Grand Theft Auto VI is an adults-only game and every console can block it — but only if the settings are in place before launch night. Here's the exact setup on each platform, and what these controls genuinely cannot do.
Preload opens 12 November and launch is 19 November — but Rockstar has not said what time the game actually unlocks. Here's both scenarios, what each means for your timezone, and why the per-country tables circulating are unreliable.
Grand Theft Auto VI launches 19 November 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Here's the confirmed date, preload timing, why there is no online mode at launch, the delay history, and what is still unannounced.
Lucia Caminos is the co-lead of Grand Theft Auto VI and the first playable woman in a mainline GTA. Here's what the trailers confirm, what her story looks like, and why her voice actor is still a rumour.
Leonida is Rockstar's Florida, it is three times the size of Red Dead Redemption 2, and six regions are confirmed. Here is each one, the real place it is built from, and what has actually been shown of it.
Rockstar has now named eleven characters across Vice City and the Keys. Here is every one of them, what their official bios establish, how they connect to Jason and Lucia, and what is known about who plays them.
Rockstar's 26-minute Extended Look was the first real gameplay we've seen. Here's what it confirmed about combat, driving, character switching and the little details.
Rockstar has confirmed the boxed version of GTA 6 contains a download code and nothing else. Here's what that changes for resale, pre-order bonuses and storage — and which version is actually worth buying.
Every GTA 6 PC requirements table circulating right now is invented — there is no PC version, no specs and no date. Here's what Rockstar's past ports actually required, and the one upgrade worth making today.
Grand Theft Auto VI comes in two editions at $79.99 and $99.99. Here's what separates them and how to think about the $20 gap before launch.
Grand Theft Auto VI launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with no PC date announced. Here's what Rockstar has actually said, and what past releases imply about the wait.