Grand Theft Auto 6: Everything You Need to Know

It’s been almost a decade since Grand Theft Auto 5 was launched—however what’s going to the sequel carry?

The massively fashionable open-world motion franchise has bought over 405 million copies thus far, placing it within the pantheon of the all-time best-selling sport sequence. And that success has ignited widespread pleasure over the following entry.

Leaks, rumors, and sparse bulletins from developer Rockstar Video games have left followers to take a position on the highly-anticipated sixth installment of the sequence. Here is what we all know thus far about Grand Theft Auto 6.

What’s Grand Theft Auto 6?

Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) is the tentative title for the sixth deliberate core installment of the smash online game sequence. Its predecessor, Grand Theft Auto 5, supplied gamers each single-player and multiplayer sport modes, the place avid gamers might do issues like embark on cooperative heist missions, assassinate targets, put money into its artificial inventory market, purchase companies, rob residents, drive automobiles, and extra.

No official trailers, movies, or photographs have been launched but, and Rockstar Video games has not but shared what platforms the sport shall be playable on, both.

When is Grand Theft Auto 6 popping out?

Rockstar Video games confirmed that the following Grand Theft Auto sport was in growth in February 2022. 

Final yr, Bloomberg reported that GTA 6 has been in growth since 2014 however doesn’t but have a launch date but. Sources beforehand instructed Bloomberg that as of 2022, GTA 6 was “at the least two years away”—in order that implies that the sport could possibly be launched as quickly as 2024. 

In an August 2023 interview with CNBC, Strauss Zelnick—CEO of Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar’s mum or dad firm—mentioned that the studio expects “report ranges of working efficiency” in its 2025 fiscal yr, a remark that will recommend that GTA 6 might launch someday between April 2024 and March 2025.

“We depart the announcement of upcoming titles to our labels and we’ve mentioned we’ve a really sturdy pipeline of titles and we’ve an awesome outlook for fiscal 2025 the place we’ve reiterated our perception that we’ll generate about $8 billion in web bookings,” Zelnick mentioned within the interview.

Rockstar Video games’ longtime VP of Writing Michael Unsworth—who labored on Grand Theft Auto 5—left the studio in August after 16 years, IGN reported Friday. It’s unclear, nonetheless, whether or not Unsworth merely completed engaged on GTA 6 earlier than he left, or whether or not his departure might sluggish the sport’s growth.

What was leaked about Grand Theft Auto 6?

In September 2022, a GTAForums consumer named “teapottuberhacker” posted roughly 90 items of leaked content material from Grand Theft Auto 6 to the discussion board. Whereas the content material has since been eliminated resulting from a copyright infringement declare, it contained quite a few leaks for the upcoming sport that will have been swiped from bug reviews from high quality assurance (QA) testers, PC Gamer reported. 

{The teenager} behind the hack, 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj of the cybercriminal group Lasus$, was convicted within the UK in August 2023 for hacking into Rockstar Video games and leaking the delicate info. 

Final yr, PC Gamer reported that in one of many leaked movies, a playable Latina character named Lucia in addition to a white man named Jason, robbed a waffle restaurant and took hostages.

There was additionally the presence of a Vice Metropolis Police Division (VCPD) car, a element that means Grand Theft Auto 6 could also be set in Vice Metropolis, a Miami-esque locale that first appeared in 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice Metropolis. Leaked footage additionally comprises a reference to the Vice Metropolis Metro—one other signal that Grand Theft Auto 6 will probably be set in that area. 

And since one character was seen with a smartphone, it’s probably that Grand Theft Auto 6—in contrast to the Eighties-set GTA Vice Metropolis—shall be set in a comparatively trendy time interval.

Different potential leaks embrace some wild potential experiences gamers might encounter, like a “satanist home,” “UFO Animal Home,” “Warehouse Intercourse Robots,” “Massive Cat Mansion,” “Drug Lab,” and extra.

What’s new in Grand Theft Auto 6?

Bloomberg additionally reported in September 2022 that Grand Theft Auto 6 may have a feminine character as a playable protagonist—a primary for the franchise. That is probably Lucia, with Jason being the second playable protagonist.

The sport might even have an “evolving” world, that means that Rockstar could implement seasonal modifications or different continued updates to remodel the sport’s maps over time. 

Rumors have been swirling for years that GTA 6 might provide gamers in-game crypto rewards, or in any other case function cryptocurrency indirectly, however these rumors at present stay unsubstantiated. 

In Could, Sport Rant speculated {that a} faux cryptocurrency could not really be deployed in GTA 6, however that the sequel could merely make crypto “the butt of many jokes.” Such an evaluation aligns with Bloomberg’s perspective that GTA 5 is “a satirical depiction of America” and presents “a nihilistic parody that threw insults at every part.”

Contemplating that Rockstar Video games banned crypto and NFTs from fan-run Grand Theft Auto 5 servers in November 2022, it’s unlikely that any actual cryptocurrency like Bitcoin would make its manner in Grand Theft Auto 6 by way of some type of blockchain integration, not to mention as an artificial in-game foreign money. 

Nonetheless, Take-Two Interactive is engaged on NFT video games by means of Zynga, which it acquired in 2022, so the corporate’s broader stance on crypto and NFTs stays unclear.

As Grand Theft Auto 6 rumors proceed to unfold, followers must proceed to attend till Rockstar releases one other assertion—or the sport itself. In response to a fan asking GTA 5 voice actor Ned Luke—who performs “Michael” within the sport—about GTA 6, Luke had a easy response: “Gonna be well worth the wait.”