The world has modified loads since 2011. We have been by means of a pandemic, a brand new King in England, and the dying of Twitter. And thru all of that, the one fixed that is remained is Rockstar Video games’ Grand Theft Auto V. The primary trailer for Rockstar’s genre-defining sport was launched 12 years in the past, and since then, followers have been clamoring for the studio’s subsequent installment, Grand Theft Auto VI.
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There have been a number of leaks for what’s shaping as much as be an enormous gaming expertise. So we have gathered all the pieces we may discover on the web about when followers can anticipate a launch date, trailer, and extra for Grand Theft Auto VI.
GTA 6 launch date rumors
I hate to be the bearer of unhealthy information however do not anticipate a GTA VI launch date anytime quickly. The one official announcement from Rockstar about GTA VI got here within the type of an “it exists” assertion from the developer in February 2022. Since then, nothing.
Some on the web, like this Redditor, have appeared into latest statements by GTA writer Take-Two Interactive’s CEO Strauss Zelnick. Talking concerning the firm’s quarterly monetary studies in August, the CEO said that Take-Two would see a “important inflection level” in fiscal 2025. Which, in Wall Avenue converse, means a giant change is coming — like maybe a brand new GTA.
Subsequent 12 months will not be off the playing cards, nonetheless, due to Microsoft. In July 2022, Jason Schreier of Bloomberg reported that “present and former Rockstar employees” anticipated GTA 6 to be a minimum of 2 years away. On prime of that, throughout its, on the time, ongoing acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft wrote to the UK Competitors and Markets Authority (CMA) that “The extremely anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI is predicted to be launched in 2024.”
Past that, do not anticipate Rockstar or Take-Two to drop a launch date for GTA 6 within the close to future, because it appears to be like like we’re a minimum of a 12 months away from any information on that entrance.
GTA 6 leaks
Regardless of not even being near a possible launch, we do have a variety of data on a few of the fundamentals of the sport, due to some leaks. In September of final 12 months, we lined an enormous dump of an in-development construct of GTA 6 that gave us loads of juicy data. The most important of which is that, for the primary time ever, GTA will characteristic a playable feminine protagonist named Lucia.
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On prime of that, evidently the sequence could also be making a return to the Miami-inspired Vice Metropolis and that buildings can be enterable, with the sport inserting a good greater give attention to heists and robberies.
The leak was unprecedented and big and was scrubbed from the web. You would be hard-pressed to seek out any of the footage on Reddit or the official GTA boards, and should you ask for it you may get banned. A 17-year-old UK citizen was arrested final 12 months in connection to the Rockstar hack, and it appears he was affiliated with the identified hacker group “Laspus$.”
These are all rumors, in fact, and leaks of in-development gameplay are topic to alter. Grand Theft Auto VI continues to be a good distance away from being playable, however a minimum of we all know that Rockstar is capturing for the moon on this one, which is sufficient to excite any fan.