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DAYS UNTIL GTA 6 — GRAND THEFT AUTO VI LAUNCHES NOVEMBER 19, 2026

The Leonida Reports

A live countdown to the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI — and an independent newsroom covering the road there. The run-up is flooded with fakes, so we track every claim and tag it official, confirmed or rumor: you always know what’s real.

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01 · THE METHOD

How we know what we know

One rule since day one: nothing goes on the board without a tag saying how well we know it. No leaks, no stolen builds, no bait. And when we get something wrong, we say so where everyone can see it.

OFFICIAL

Rockstar Games or Take-Two said it themselves. Nobody had to interpret or translate anything.

CONFIRMED

We can name where this came from and when, and we say how it reached us. The line under each claim tells you what it rests on - a document we read, someone else's reporting, an account that reached us second hand, our own record, or a number we read from someone else's tool. That, more than the tag, is what tells you how much weight it carries.

RUMOR

It is going around, and nobody has verified it. We tell you it exists. We do not tell you it is true.

SPECULATION

A theory, not a report. Someone is reading what is visible and saying what it might mean, and they call it a guess themselves. We show it so you can judge the reasoning. We do not vouch for it.

UNKNOWN

We have seen the claim and could not check it either way yet. It waits here until we can, and we say so rather than guess.

DEBUNKED

We checked it, and it did not hold up. It stays on the board so you know what to stop believing.

WITHDRAWN

We put it out, then took it back. The line under it says why - either what refuted it, or what was wrong with how we sourced it. Anyone who heard it from us sees the correction too.

02 · LIVE REGISTER

The claim board

UPDATED 2026-09-24 · 149 CLAIMS ON RECORD

OFFICIAL24

  • OFFICIALGTA 6 releases November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.Rockstar Games Newswire, Nov 6, 2025 ('Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Set to Launch November 19, 2026'); same-day Take-Two Q2 FY2026 results release, Nov 6, 2025 (take2games.com/ir): 'Rockstar Games will now release Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19, 2026' (see C043) · 2026-08-28
  • OFFICIALThe preload for GTA 6 opens on November 12, 2026.Take-Two / Rockstar Games press release 'Rockstar Games Announces Pre-Orders for Grand Theft Auto VI', Jun 24, 2026 (take2games.com/ir; Business Wire): 'Players who pre-order digital versions of Grand Theft Auto VI will be able to begin pre-loading on November 12, 2026'; physical version with download code available from November 12, 2026 · 2026-08-28
  • OFFICIALTwo editions announced: Grand Theft Auto VI at $79.99 and the Ultimate Edition at $99.99 ('an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia's story').Take-Two Interactive IR press release, 24 June 2026; Rockstar Newswire, 24 June 2026, 'Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25'. · 2026-08-28
  • OFFICIALThe physical version of GTA 6 comes with a download code inside the box and will be available from November 12, 2026 to support pre-loading. That is Rockstar's own wording.Rockstar Newswire, 24 June 2026, 'Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25'; Take-Two Interactive IR press release, 24 June 2026. · 2026-08-28
  • OFFICIALEvery pre-order, and every purchase made before November 20, 2026, includes the Vintage Vice City Pack. That is Rockstar's own wording: 'all Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders and purchases before November 20'. Digital pre-orders also get a free month of GTA+.Rockstar Newswire, 24 June 2026, 'Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25'; Take-Two Interactive IR press release, 24 June 2026. · 2026-08-28
  • OFFICIALGTA 6 ships as a single-player experience on November 19, 2026.Rockstar note to IGN (Jun 24, 2026) + PlayStation.Blog post co-signed by Rockstar + PS Store listing · 2026-08-28
  • OFFICIAL'An Extended Look' premiered on August 27, 2026 on Netflix, then on Rockstar's YouTube channel. Rockstar says it was captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5. The rest is our own measurement, not Rockstar's statement: the download on Rockstar's server is 14.1 gigabytes, about 70 megabits per second, and runs 26 minutes 48 seconds.Rockstar Newswire, 27 August 2026, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look - Now Playing'; file size and bitrate: our own HEAD request on Rockstar's media server and our downloaded copy (28 August 2026); TweakTown, 28 August 2026. · 2026-08-28
  • OFFICIALThe official Ultimate Edition asset pack includes 'Electric Fang' branding, neon tattoo-parlor imagery, among its exclusive content.Rockstar official Ultimate Edition screenshot pack, files ULTIMATE_EDITION_ELECTRIC_FANG_01-04, downloaded 28 August 2026 from rockstargames.com/VI/downloads (GTAVI_Ultimate_Edition_Benefits.zip). · 2026-08-28
  • OFFICIALThe single-player GTA 6 has no monetization and no generative AI. That is Rob Nelson's statement, and its scope is the campaign shipping November 19, 2026.Rob Nelson (co-studio head, Rockstar North) speaking to Kinda Funny, Edinburgh press showing (embargo Aug 27, 2026); scope caveat as stated · 2026-08-30
  • OFFICIALRockstar describes GTA 6 as 'a single player experience'. That is Rockstar's own wording, from June 24, 2026.Rockstar Newswire, 24 June 2026, 'Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25'; Rockstar note to IGN, 24 June 2026; PlayStation.Blog post co-signed by Rockstar, 24 June 2026; PS Store product page. · 2026-08-30
  • OFFICIALnopixel V, the largest GTA V roleplay server, enters closed beta on September 8, 2026, launched from the Rockstar Games Launcher. Invite-only. The nopixel team builds it; Rockstar supports it.Rockstar Games Newswire, Introducing nopixel V (Sep 1, 2026); independent same-day coverage: Game Rant, PCGamesN and others · 2026-09-01
  • OFFICIALRockstar announced a Twitch Drops campaign tied to the nopixel V closed beta: starting September 8, viewers can earn up to GTA$1.5 million (GTA Online) plus the Burger Shot Tracksuit; press coverage of the program gives the Drops window as September 8-30, 2026.Post by @RockstarGames on X, Sept 1, 2026 (verbatim: 'tune in beginning on September 8 ... earn up to GTA$1.5M and more with @Twitch Drops'). Program details (window to Sept 30, Burger Shot Tracksuit): Dexerto Sept 1, Sportskeeda Sept 1-2. · 2026-09-02
  • OFFICIALRob Nelson, co-studio head of Rockstar North, said in an interview with Davy Jones (Flow Games) that GTA 6 targets 30 FPS on consoles at launch, and that whether a 60 FPS option is possible - at launch or later - is a question he would have to put to the technical team. He also said he did not have details on resolution or other technical qualities.Rob Nelson (co-studio head, Rockstar North) interviewed by Davy Jones for Flow Games, September 2026. Reported by TechRadar, Tom's Hardware, Kotaku, TweakTown and eXputer. · 2026-09-02
  • OFFICIALSony announced two limited-edition Grand Theft Auto VI DualSense wireless controllers, one black and one white, in a PlayStation.Blog post dated September 3, 2026, credited to Isabelle Tomatis (Vice President, Global Marketing, Sony Interactive Entertainment) and co-signed by Rockstar's R*Q. Pre-orders open September 10, 2026 - 7am Pacific in the United States and 10am local time in nine named European markets. The controllers start launching November 19, 2026 at a recommended price of 84.99 USD / 84.99 EUR / 74.99 GBP / 12,480 JPY. Sony's own footnote states that the exact release date and availability can vary by country. The black variant is a direct.playstation.com exclusive in limited quantities.PlayStation.Blog post, Sept 3, 2026: 'First look at the Grand Theft Auto VI Limited-Edition DualSense Wireless Controllers', credited to Isabelle Tomatis (VP Global Marketing, SIE) and R*Q (Rockstar Games). Revealed during State of Play. · 2026-09-04
  • OFFICIALRockstar Games says it is 'proud to support nopixel'; the nopixel V closed beta arrives September 8, 2026, with invited players accessing it through the Rockstar Games Launcher. Watching nopixel V streams on Twitch from September 8-30 can earn up to GTA$1,500,000 and the Burger Shot Tracksuit via Twitch Drops.Rockstar Games Newswire, 'Introducing nopixel V' (Announcements), September 1, 2026 - the publisher's own post. · 2026-09-04
  • OFFICIALGrand Theft Auto VI's release date moved twice: from a planned Fall 2025 window to May 26, 2026 (announced May 2, 2025), and from May 26, 2026 to November 19, 2026 (announced November 6, 2025).Take-Two Interactive SEC Form 8-K exhibits (the publisher's own press releases): (1) EX-99.1, May 2, 2025, New York: "Grand Theft Auto VI, which was expected to launch in Fall of 2025, is now planned for release on May 26, 2026"; Strauss Zelnick, Chairman and CEO: "We support fully Rockstar Games taking additional time to realize their creative vision for Grand Theft Auto VI". (2) Fiscal Q2 2026 results release, November 6, 2025: "Grand Theft Auto VI now launching November 19, 2026"; "Rockstar Games will now release Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19, 2026". Rockstar Newswire posted the same announcements on those dates. · 2026-09-04
  • OFFICIALIn its Q1 FY2027 earnings release (Form 8-K exhibit, August 7, 2026) Take-Two reiterated its Fiscal 2027 Net Bookings outlook of $8.0 to $8.2 billion, explicitly citing 'excitement around the November 19th launch of Grand Theft Auto VI'; Q1 Net Bookings were $1.39 billion and GAAP net revenue $1.53 billion.Take-Two Interactive, Form 8-K exhibit 99.1 (Q1 FY2027 earnings release), August 7, 2026, SEC EDGAR. Verbatim: "With these positive trends and excitement around the November 19th launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, we are reiterating our Fiscal 2027 Net Bookings outlook of $8.0 to $8.2 billion." · 2026-09-05
  • OFFICIALTrailer 2 was captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5, in equal parts gameplay and cutscenes (publisher's own wording)Rockstar Games, official video description for 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2' (YouTube, VQRLujxTm3c), May 6, 2025 - the publisher's own words. · 2026-09-06
  • OFFICIALTake-Two Interactive's 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders is a virtual, audio-only meeting on 17 September 2026 at 9:00 a.m. (the filing says 'local time'; the company's webcast notice gives Eastern Time) at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/TTWO2026, record date 23 July 2026. The definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on 27 July 2026 lists four voting items: election of 10 director nominees; a non-binding advisory vote on named executive officer compensation; a certificate of amendment to limit the liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law; and ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as auditor for fiscal 2027 - plus 'other business that may properly come before the Annual Meeting'. Grand Theft Auto VI appears in the document only in the narrative letter ('led by the planned November 19th release of Grand Theft Auto VI'), not in any voting item.SEC EDGAR: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., Definitive Proxy Statement (DEF 14A) filed July 27, 2026, signed by Strauss Zelnick and Matthew K. Breitman; company webcast notice for the September 17, 2026 meeting. · 2026-09-11
  • OFFICIALAt Tokyo Game Show 2026 (17-21 September 2026, Makuhari Messe, Chiba; business days 17-18, public days 19-21) the PlayStation booth includes a dedicated 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' theater: the existing extended-look video published on 27 August 2026 is shown on a roughly 300-inch screen with a floor that vibrates in sync with the picture and sound. Sony's announcement describes it as a screening of the already-released video - it does NOT announce new footage, a demo, or a playable build. Entry is open to booth visitors without reservation, first come, first served; theater viewers receive an original T-shirt (L size only, one per person, limited quantity).PlayStation Blog Japan (Sony Interactive Entertainment), TGS 2026 PlayStation booth announcement, 10 September 2026 - primary source, read on 12 September 2026. · 2026-09-12
  • OFFICIALThe end card in the current Trailer 2 file on Rockstar's GTA VI downloads page shows 'NOVEMBER 19, 2026' and one platform line: PS5 | CAPTURED ON PS5 | XBOX SERIES X|S; no other platform is listed. Trailer 2 premiered May 6, 2025, when the date was May 26, 2026, so this is an updated version of the card.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • OFFICIALRockstar's official GTA VI site (rockstargames.com/VI, 'Only in Leonida' -> 'Places') lists six places: Vice City, Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga. Read on September 24, 2026, 12:28 CEST.https://www.rockstargames.com/VI - page source, navigation entries under only-in-leonida/places (vice-city, leonida-keys, grassrivers, port-gellhorn, ambrosia, kalaga); read September 24, 2026, 12:28 CEST · 2026-09-24
  • OFFICIALRockstar's official press screenshot pack (GTAVI_Screenshots.zip from rockstargames.com/VI/downloads, downloaded August 28, 2026) groups its images in 'Places' folders by the same places: Vice City (12), Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park (6 each).01_sources/official/screenshots/manifest.json (source: media-rockstargames-com.akamaized.net/VI/downloads/screenshots/GTAVI_Screenshots.zip) + the pack's Places/ folder structure · 2026-09-24
  • OFFICIALRockstar Games Store, product page 'Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State - Vice City Collection' (read at the source on September 24, 2026, around 23:50 CEST): 'Note: Grand Theft Auto VI game sold separately.' The box lists 11 items, including a 'Double-Sided Souvenir Poster with Map of Leonida', described as having 'a full view of the Leonida map featured on the back'. It is a merchandise box, not an edition of the game.Rockstar Games Store product page, https://store.rockstargames.com/merchandise/gtavi-goodtime-state-vice-city-collection (read September 24, 2026, ~23:50 CEST) · 2026-09-25

CONFIRMED117

  • CONFIRMEDGTA 6 has no PC version at launch. The release window for a PC version is unknown.Rockstar/Take-Two platform announcements: Take-Two Q2 FY2026 results release, Nov 6, 2025 (November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S) and the pre-order press release, Jun 24, 2026 (take2games.com/ir): 'for PlayStation 5 ... and Xbox Series X|S ... for $79.99' - no PC version mentioned in either (read Sept 11, 2026) · 2026-08-28
  • CONFIRMEDTrailer 2 drew 475 million views in 24 hours, reported as the all-time record. The figure is Rockstar's, reported by The Hollywood Reporter and Gamereactor.Rockstar Games figure reported by The Hollywood Reporter (exclusive) and Gamereactor (Alex Hopley), May 8, 2025: 475M views across all platforms in the first 24 hours; Trailer 2 released May 6, 2025 · 2026-08-28
  • CONFIRMEDRockstar told the press the main story runs approximately 80 hours.Vice, Engadget, TweakTown (Aug 28-29, 2026) · 2026-08-29
  • CONFIRMEDConsoles target 30 frames per second at launch. Kotaku, IGN and Digital Foundry reported it across August 28-29, 2026.Kotaku, IGN, Digital Foundry and others (Aug 28-29, 2026) · 2026-08-29
  • CONFIRMEDThe Extended Look reached number one on Netflix's daily Top 10 films chart in the United States. Sensor Tower analyst Abe Yousef, on record, estimates Netflix web visits rose 125% the day after, and mobile users about 50%. Analyst estimates, not Netflix data.Forbes (Tassi), GamesBeat and Tech4Gamers, independently citing Sensor Tower (Aug 28-29, 2026); caveat: analyst estimates, not platform data · 2026-08-29
  • CONFIRMEDGTA 6 has no full first-person mode at launch. The first-person view remains only when aiming certain weapons. Rob Nelson of Rockstar North said so, on record, to Flow Games.Flow Games / Davy Jones interview (sanctioned press showing); reported by Vice, ixbt, Beebom (Aug 28, 2026); caveat: a single interview · 2026-08-29
  • CONFIRMEDRockstar avoids satire that will date fast. Rob Nelson said that 'very specific political issues or memes will date fast'. Asked about Trump and Covid, he spoke of the risk of 'dating ourselves'. He did not say outright that neither appears in the game.Three independent Rob Nelson interviews: IGN, The New York Times, Trois Couleurs (Aug 27-28, 2026); Kotaku notes the absence of the quote elsewhere · 2026-08-29
  • CONFIRMEDJason and Lucia's apartment matches the Belmar Condominium in Edgewater, Miami. That building stood from 1973 to 2022 and was demolished. That is a community find, not a Rockstar confirmation.Discovered by @prettyboycuh (Instagram); reported by Dexerto and Game Rant, two independent outlets, August 2026 (recorded on 30 August 2026); not confirmed by Rockstar. · 2026-08-30
  • CONFIRMEDThe public GTA VI screenshot gallery grew from 70 to 99 standard press stills between August 28 and August 31, 2026. That is 29 more files. We found no announcement from Rockstar: the first page of its Newswire listing (entries dated June 30 to September 10, 2026, read September 12) shows no GTA VI post between 'An Extended Look - Now Playing' (August 27) and 'Introducing nopixel V' (September 1).Own measurement: 01_sources/official/screenshots/manifest.json, downloaded_at stamps 28 August (70) vs 31 August 2026 (99). Places searched for an announcement: Rockstar Newswire, first listing page as read on 12 September 2026 - 21 entries dated 30 June to 10 September 2026 (older entries sit behind 'More Stories' and were not read, except the 24 June 2026 pre-order post, read in full separately) - no GTA VI post between 27 August and 1 September 2026. · 2026-08-31
  • CONFIRMED'Jason and Lucia' appeared for the first time as a category in the screenshots section in this update.Own measurement: screenshots/manifest.json (13 x Jason_and_Lucia_*, all stamped Aug 31, 2026) · 2026-08-31
  • CONFIRMEDRockstar's public press-still pools held 162 images as of August 31, 2026: 99 standard screenshots, 51 from the Ultimate Edition Benefits set and 12 from the Vintage Vice City Pack.Own count of the downloaded press packs, Aug 31, 2026 (01_sources/official/{screenshots, screenshots_ultimate_edition, screenshots_vintage_vice_city}) · 2026-08-31
  • CONFIRMEDThe artwork pool held 121 files in 17 folders as of August 31, 2026: 11 sets of 6 wallpaper sizes, 4 logo-variant sets of 3, one set of 7 and a 36-file Postcards set.Own count: 01_sources/official/artwork/manifest.json, Aug 31, 2026 (11*6 + 4*3 + 7 + 36 = 121) · 2026-08-31
  • CONFIRMEDGTA VI adds suppressive fire — deliberately shooting wide to pin down or startle enemies. Rob Nelson, co-studio head at Rockstar North, told Famitsu that many encounters can be finished without killing anyone. He said many, not all.Rob Nelson (co-studio head, Rockstar North) interviewed by Famitsu (Japan), press wave after the Extended Look, Aug 27-28, 2026 · 2026-08-31
  • CONFIRMEDGTA VI has well over 600,000 non-player character animations, against roughly 55,000 in GTA V and about 300,000 in Red Dead Redemption 2. Aaron Garbut, co-head of Rockstar North, gave the figures to The New York Times.Aaron Garbut (co-head, Rockstar North) to The New York Times, own 30-minute demo session, Aug 2026; independent coverage · 2026-08-31
  • CONFIRMEDTake-Two filed two DMCA subpoenas in the Southern District of New York on August 20, 2026, demanding records from Microsoft (1:26-mc-00421) and Discord (1:26-mc-00422). Both set a September 4 deadline. They cover every account that communicated in three named Discord servers since June 1.SDNY court filings, motions of Aug 20, 2026; described by Ethan Gach (Kotaku, Aug 21, 2026) and Ernesto Van der Sar (TorrentFreak, Aug 23, 2026) · 2026-09-01
  • CONFIRMEDTake-Two filed a second, narrower DMCA subpoena application on Friday, August 28, 2026, asking the court to keep it under seal; it targets one additional Discord user and additional identifying information for a previously identified Discord user. Take-Two's filing states the investigation is 'rapidly evolving and ongoing'.Ernesto Van der Sar, TorrentFreak, Aug 31, 2026 ('Take-Two Says GTA 6 Leak Probe is Rapidly Evolving, Wants New Discord Demands Under Seal'), linking the SDNY filings. Context of the first subpoenas: C032. · 2026-09-02
  • CONFIRMEDThe fan-run GTA Base database documents 272 GTA 6 vehicles identified exclusively in official materials (both trailers, official screenshots, and the Extended Look), as of its August 30, 2026 update; Kotaku reported the count on September 1, comparing it to roughly 250 vehicles in GTA 5 at launch.GTA Base (gtabase.com/gta-6/vehicles/), updated Aug 30, 2026 - methodology verified at source on Sept 2: 'official trailers, screenshots, as well as the recent GTA 6 Extended Look', no leaks. Reported by Zack Zwiezen, Kotaku, Sept 1, 2026 (272 vs 252 at GTA 5's launch). · 2026-09-02
  • CONFIRMEDTake-Two's DMCA subpoenas require Microsoft and Discord to produce records by September 4, 2026. Take-Two filed the applications in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on August 20, 2026 and the court granted them the following day. The demands cover account-level data - device identifiers, registration and last-login IP addresses, linked accounts - for users who communicated in three named Discord servers since June 1, 2026. A second, narrower demand against Discord was filed later and Take-Two asked the court to seal it.Court filings: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, DMCA subpoena applications filed Aug 20, 2026, granted Aug 21. Sept 4 deadline stated by dig.watch. Reported by PC Gamer, Tom's Hardware, Kotaku and Variety (Aug-Sept 2026). · 2026-09-02
  • CONFIRMEDMikeShowSha, invited to an in-person presentation of GTA 6 at Rockstar's offices ahead of the Extended Look, reported in a Q&A video that sprinting is mapped to L3 (clicking the left stick) on PlayStation - replacing the repeated button taps used in Rockstar games for about 25 years. The same function is a left-stick click on Xbox.MikeShowSha, reporting from an in-person presentation at Rockstar's offices (Q&A video, September 2026); picked up afterwards by Vice, Insider Gaming, Push Square and Notebookcheck. · 2026-09-02
  • CONFIRMEDIn its own Top 10 report for the week of August 24, 2026, Netflix placed 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' at number one on its English-language film list with 31.1 million views. The figure is Netflix's own count on Netflix's own definition of a view.Netflix Tudum, Sept 1, 2026: 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look Soars to No. 1 in This Week's Top 10' by Ashley Lee and Caitlin Busch. Reported by Mariella Moon, Engadget, Sept 2. · 2026-09-04
  • CONFIRMEDScott Van Vliet, Chief Technology Officer of Xbox, posted on his verified X account on August 21, 2026: 'We are working closely with Take-Two and Rockstar Games to support efforts to protect creative works and intellectual property.' The post is a pledge to cooperate and nothing more - it names no subpoena, no records and no data handed to anyone.Post by @scottvanvliet on X, Aug 21, 2026, read at source. Reported by Pure Xbox (Aug 21, 2026) and GamesRadar+. · 2026-09-04
  • CONFIRMEDAccording to NielsenIQ figures supplied to The Game Business and reported by Christopher Dring on September 3, 2026, UK PS5 sales rose 33% and Xbox Series X|S sales rose 34% week-on-week in the week of the GTA VI 'Extended Look'.Christopher Dring, The Game Business, 'GTA 6 reveal causes Xbox and PlayStation sales to jump by a third', September 3, 2026; figures by NielsenIQ (UK retail). · 2026-09-04
  • CONFIRMEDThe public view counter on Rockstar's own YouTube upload of 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (video tJbzMqJGH4k) had passed 22 million views as of our own read via the YouTube Data API on September 4, 2026. The upload went live August 27, 2026, 9:00 PM ET, six hours after the Netflix premiere.Our own read of the public YouTube view counter (Data API v3, videos.list), September 4, 2026, 10:41 UTC; Rockstar Games channel. · 2026-09-04
  • CONFIRMEDUK console hardware sales through the end of July 2026 were down 14.4% year-on-year, primarily due to PS5 sales being down 32%; Xbox Series S and X sales were up 3.1% (NielsenIQ figures reported by Christopher Dring, The Game Business, September 3, 2026).Christopher Dring, The Game Business, September 3, 2026; NielsenIQ (UK retail). Verbatim: "In the UK, console hardware sales by the end of July are down 14.4% year-on-year." "This is primarily due to a fall in sales of PS5 consoles (down 32%)." "Xbox Series S and X sales are actually up 3.1%." · 2026-09-04
  • CONFIRMEDRob Nelson (Head of Development / co-studio head, Rockstar North) told Famitsu in an exclusive interview published alongside the Extended Look (August 2026) that GTA VI adds a 'suppressive fire' option: deliberately shooting near a target to intimidate or disorient it and buy time to escape, framed as a choice not to kill police or civilians while getting away; he gave a robbery as an example where the pair can leave before anyone is alerted.Famitsu exclusive interview with Rob Nelson (Rockstar North), August 2026 (published alongside the Extended Look); English wording via Kotaku's report: "Instead of shooting directly at your target, you can intentionally miss and shoot at a nearby target to intimidate or confuse them, buying you time to escape." · 2026-09-05
  • CONFIRMEDStreams Charts measured a peak of 3,970,738 concurrent viewers for the GTA VI gameplay reveal (August 27, 2026) across Netflix, Twitch and co-streams; more than 9,000 streamers covered it, generating 5.2 million hours watched; the peak exceeded Summer Game Fest 2026 (3.81 million).Streams Charts (streaming analytics), 'GTA VI Gameplay Reveal: 3.97M Peak Viewers on Twitch & Netflix', 2026; figures also reported by Inven Global, Eurogamer and TechPowerUp: 3,970,738 peak concurrent viewers; over 9,000 streamers; 5.2 million hours watched; Summer Game Fest 2026 at 3.81 million. · 2026-09-05
  • CONFIRMEDStreams Charts measured that in July 2026 Grand Theft Auto V drew 82.5 million hours watched on Kick against 49.5 million on Twitch (67% more), and 112.3K average viewers on Kick against 68.6K on Twitch (about 64% more). By the same count Kick first overtook Twitch on average viewers for GTA V in April 2026, and widened the gap over the following three months.Streams Charts (streaming analytics), Dmytro Murko, 'Kick Overtakes Twitch in GTA V Viewership: What's Driving It?', August 4, 2026. July 2026: 82.5M hours watched on Kick vs 49.5M on Twitch; 112.3K average viewers vs 68.6K; Kick ahead on average viewers since April 2026. · 2026-09-07
  • CONFIRMEDYouTube updated its advertiser-friendly guidelines for graphic in-game violence ahead of GTA 6's November 19, 2026 launch. The rule is based on WHEN the graphic scene first appears: within the first 7 seconds the video earns no ad revenue; between seconds 8-15 only advertisers who accept restricted content will place ads; after second 15 the video can reach the full ad-eligible pool. YouTube defines graphic gaming violence narrowly - brutal killings or severe injuries focused on bodily fluids or body parts, including dismemberment and beheadings - and obscuring or blurring such footage can change its classification.Dexerto, 'YouTube updates gaming violence monetization rules ahead of GTA 6 launch' (Sept 2026); GameSpot (Sept 2026); YouTube Help - Upcoming and recent ad guideline updates · 2026-09-07
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's official 'GTA VI: An Extended Look', the in-game navigation HUD shows the distance to the waypoint in MILES to two decimal places, and it counts down continuously during a single unbroken 39.7-second driving shot. Reading that number at eleven points gives 0.85 mi at 752 s and 0.29 mi at 788 s - 0.56 miles in 36 seconds of footage, an average of 56.0 mph (+/- 1.0 mph from the 0.01 mi readout resolution). This is our own measurement taken from the game's own HUD, not a figure published by Rockstar.Own measurement, 8 September 2026: Own measurement by The Leonida Reports from Rockstar's official 'GTA VI: An Extended Look', at 12:30-13:10 in the video (a single unbroken shot). The navigation readout was cropped from the source file at full 3840x2160 resolution at eleven points and read directly. · 2026-09-08
  • CONFIRMEDGTA VI unlocks at MIDNIGHT LOCAL TIME on 19 November 2026, rolling out in about fifteen separate regional windows spread over roughly nineteen hours. New Zealand is first (midnight NZDT on 19 Nov = 3 AM PT / 6 AM ET on 18 Nov); Australia and Japan follow, then Europe, then the Americas, with Mexico and Central America last, about nineteen hours after New Zealand. The United States is near the back of the queue. Which window applies to a player is decided by the country on their PlayStation Network ACCOUNT, not by where the player physically is.PlayStation Store listing timestamps (not a Rockstar announcement), reported 7-8 September 2026 by IGN, Digital Foundry, Eurogamer, VICE, Kotaku, GamesRadar+ and GosuGamers. · 2026-09-08
  • CONFIRMEDStealing a luxury car in GTA VI requires a 'key cloner' - a device that copies the data from an electronic key. Rob Nelson said this in an exclusive interview with the Japanese magazine Famitsu, published 28 August 2026.Rob Nelson (Head of Development, co-studio head at Rockstar North), exclusive interview with Famitsu, article 202608/85753, 28 August 2026. Read in the Japanese original: 盗もうとしている車が高級車の場合は、キークローナーが必要です。 - 'If the car you are trying to steal is a luxury car, you need a key cloner.' Not taken from a relay or a translation. · 2026-09-11
  • CONFIRMEDAfter a robbery in GTA VI the player can lower the wanted level by throwing away the weapon they were carrying - at the cost of losing that weapon. Rob Nelson said this to Famitsu on 28 August 2026.Rob Nelson, exclusive interview with Famitsu, article 202608/85753, 28 August 2026. Read in the Japanese original: 強盗した際に持っていた武器を捨てれば、それを失う代わりに警戒度を下げられます。 - 'If you throw away the weapon you were carrying during the robbery, you lower the wanted level at the cost of losing it.' · 2026-09-11
  • CONFIRMEDOn 10 September 2026 the Miami Beach City Commission voted 4-3 to move forward with a marketing agreement with Rockstar Games for a Grand Theft Auto VI campaign in Miami Beach, after more than half an hour of debate. Press reports describe the approved scope as 'VI' and 'Vice City' branding on privately operated beach concession equipment (chairs and umbrellas), with a reported start around 15 October 2026. Commissioner David Suarez opposed ('I certainly don't want to see our brand associated with this video game'); Commissioner Monica Matteo-Salinas supported ('This is a win for gamers and gaming nerds, such as myself'). The dollar amount is NOT in the publicly available documents: outlets report roughly 3 million or 4 million USD, and Notebookcheck states the figure does not appear in the public resolution. This vote concerns the CITY of Miami Beach; the separate Miami-Dade COUNTY ideas (Metromover wraps, an airport welcome, manhole covers) had not come up for any public vote as of 3 September 2026 per WLRN.Kotaku (Ethan Gach, Sept 11, 2026, citing the Miami Beach TV recording of the commission session); Beebom (Rishabh Sabarwal, Sept 11, 2026); Notebookcheck (Marius Mueller, Sept 11, 2026); WLRN (Sept 3, 2026) on the separate Miami-Dade County proposals. · 2026-09-11
  • CONFIRMEDPre-orders for the two limited-edition Grand Theft Auto VI DualSense controllers opened on 10 September 2026 as Sony had announced (7 a.m. Pacific in the US; list price 84.99 USD). Kotaku's Zack Zwiezen reported first-hand that PlayStation Direct returned an error page while he tried to order and that other shoppers 'were stuck in an hour-long queue or were unable to check out at all'; he reported Best Buy selling out within minutes and, citing Wario64, the white variant still available at Walmart and GameStop at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. Resale listings on eBay asked 130 to 195 USD against the 84.99 USD list price; Kotaku noted such listings 'likely won't sell'. Sony's own announcement had said both controllers are 'available in limited quantities' and that the black variant is exclusive to direct.playstation.com where available.Kotaku (Zack Zwiezen, Sept 10, 2026), first-hand account of the PlayStation Direct pre-order launch plus Wario64 stock reports; pre-order terms from Sony's PlayStation.Blog post of Sept 3, 2026 (see C040). IGN and Sportskeeda headlines of Sept 10 seen but not read - not counted as confirmation. · 2026-09-11
  • CONFIRMEDThe final hearing in the employment tribunal case brought by dismissed Rockstar Games developers, represented by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB), began on 10 September 2026 at the Glasgow Employment Tribunal and is scheduled to run until 16 October 2026 (per IGN). Rockstar dismissed 34 employees on a single day in October 2025 (31 in the UK, 3 in Canada, per IGN; 'October last year' per PA) after the company accessed a Discord server; PA reports 23 former employees as claimants in this hearing, while IGN and Dark Horizons describe the case as concerning the 34 (Dark Horizons: 31). Rockstar's position, in its opening statement: the employees breached confidentiality by discussing sensitive Grand Theft Auto VI information on a server of more than 300 people that included 'disgruntled ex-employees, competitors and a journalist', and the 'exceptional value and prestige' of the game explains its 'extreme protectiveness'. The IWGB's position: the employees were dismissed for trade union activity after membership reached about 10% of the workforce, on a single day, without notice, disciplinary process or a hearing; claimants' lawyers dispute that confidential information was shared and say many of the posts held to be 'egregious' were trivial. The tribunal has not ruled; no outcome exists to report.PA Media wire report (read via a Newsquest syndication copy), 10-11 September 2026; IGN, Wesley Yin-Poole, 11 September 2026 (read via Yahoo News syndication); Dark Horizons, 11 September 2026. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDIn its opening statement to the Glasgow Employment Tribunal (hearing from 10 September 2026), Rockstar Games described security measures around Grand Theft Auto VI: it says it 'was forced to put privacy films on its buildings after drones were used to try and photograph through office windows'; that 'most recently, in the last few weeks, a hacking group attempted to blackmail' the company; and that visitors must sign NDAs, contractors are escorted on site, remote working is restricted, external storage devices are banned, photography at work is forbidden and personal devices are blocked from company systems. IGN additionally reports the statement compares guarding the game's secrets to Apple protecting the iPhone and Coca-Cola its formula, and a full-time investigation team of five plus a director (IGN only - not on the card). These are Rockstar's assertions in litigation, reported by the press; we have not read the tribunal document.IGN, Wesley Yin-Poole, 11 September 2026 (via Yahoo News); Dark Horizons, 11 September 2026; PA Media wire, 10-11 September 2026. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDSecurity firm Huntress reported on 9 September 2026 that downloads presented as a leaked or pre-release build of Grand Theft Auto VI are malware lures: threat actors use SEO poisoning to rank in searches for the game and distribute ISO images on gaming forums, social media and torrent sites; some ISO files exceed 100 GB, padded with junk data to mimic the size of a AAA game. The installer, gta6installer.exe (carrying a GTA V icon), shows a Russian-language message that the product is unlicensed because it is a leaked, unreleased game, while installing in the background NJRAT and DCRAT remote-access trojans, the Mercurial Grabber infostealer, a Chaos ransomware variant used as a wiper, and the Yandex browser. Huntress states: 'There is no official GTA6 demo as of yet, nor is there currently any sign of an actual leaked, playable copy of the game being distributed online.' This is Huntress's assessment of what it observed - an absence of evidence, not a count.Huntress blog, Matt Poto and Ben Nahorney, 9 September 2026 (primary research); Help Net Security, Sinisa Markovic, 10 September 2026. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (published 27 August 2026), our own shot-change detector finds no cut in the first 165.07 seconds of the file (first detected cut at 2:45.07) and none between 1292.03 s and 1374.07 s (an 82.04-second take: a party by an elevator, the elevator ride, an office floor and a conference room). Measurement, not Rockstar's statement: ffmpeg scdet at threshold 6.0 over the whole file (0.0-1608.07 s) recorded in cuts.json on 8 September 2026 (249 cuts), re-checked on 12 September 2026 frame by frame with ffmpeg select=gt(scene,t) at t = 0.10, 0.20 and 0.30 - both windows returned only their closing cut. The first window contains the ESRB card (0-2.4 s) and a black/logo passage (2.43-6.60 s by blackdetect) before gameplay starts at about 6.6 s; those transitions are fades through black, not hard cuts (no scene change above 0.03 in 0-14 s). Known limit of the method: it detects hard cuts and strong visual changes; a hidden stitch inside a dark frame or a slow dissolve could pass undetected.Our own measurement of Rockstar's official 'An Extended Look' (27 August 2026): ffmpeg scene-change detection over the whole file (registered 8 September 2026), re-verified frame by frame on 12 September 2026; black-frame detection for the opening cards. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDNeither Rockstar's pre-order announcement (Newswire, 24 June 2026) nor Take-Two's press release of the same day names any collector's, special physical or disc edition: the only editions named are the standard game and the Ultimate Edition (see C003), and the physical version is a download code in a box (see C004). This is an observation about what the 24 June 2026 announcements do NOT contain - not a Rockstar statement that no such edition will ever exist.Our own reading of the 24 June 2026 announcements: Rockstar Newswire, 'Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25', and the Take-Two Interactive IR press release of the same day (read 12 September 2026). · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDRockstar's description of the physical version of Grand Theft Auto VI mentions only 'a download code inside the box'. It does not mention a disc at all. This is an observation about what the wording says and does not say - not a statement that there is no disc in the box.Our own reading of the 24 June 2026 announcements: Rockstar Newswire, 'Pre-Order Grand Theft Auto VI on June 25', and the Take-Two Interactive IR press release of the same day (read 12 September 2026). The word 'disc' does not appear in either. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDRockstar has not announced any online mode for Grand Theft Auto VI: no name, no date, no feature list. This is an observation about what has been announced, as of 12 September 2026. A mention in a legal filing (see C070) is not an announcement.Our own reading of Rockstar's and Take-Two's announcements through 12 September 2026; Rock Paper Shotgun (11 September 2026) and GTA BOOM (10 September 2026) both note that Rockstar has not officially commented on a GTA 6 online mode. Places searched: Rockstar Newswire, first listing page as read on 12 September 2026 - 21 entries dated 30 June to 10 September 2026 (older entries sit behind 'More Stories' and were not read, except the 24 June 2026 pre-order post, read in full separately) - the only GTA VI posts are 6 August ('An Extended Look') and 27 August 2026 ('Now Playing'), neither announces an online mode. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDIn its submissions to the Glasgow Employment Tribunal (final hearing over the 2025 firings, from 10 September 2026), Rockstar states that two of the dismissed staff 'discussed an online 32 player format which was highly confidential at that time', and quotes studio director Jennifer Kolbe on 'online player numbers for a confidential project, not yet in the public domain'. The filing does not name the game. Reading it as a GTA 6 (or new GTA Online) feature is the inference of Rock Paper Shotgun and GTA BOOM, not the document's wording. It says nothing about whether or when such a format ships.Rock Paper Shotgun, Mark Warren, 11 September 2026 (filing emailed to RPS by Rockstar and Take-Two); GTA BOOM, Ray Ampoloquio, 10 September 2026 (quotes the filing paragraph). Both read the game as GTA 6; the filing itself does not name it. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDRob Nelson's 'no monetization, no generative AI' statement (C020) came with no promise about post-launch updates, and Rockstar declined questions about the next GTA Online. Headlines added the words 'at launch'; Nelson did not say that. This is an observation about what was and was not said - not a statement about what Rockstar will do after launch.Our own reading of Rob Nelson's Kinda Funny interview (Edinburgh press showing, embargo 27 August 2026) and of the headlines that relayed it; recorded until 12 September 2026 in the source note of C020. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDNo 60 frames-per-second mode has been announced for GTA 6 on consoles, as of 12 September 2026. This is an observation about what has been announced - not a statement that no such mode exists or will exist (a single report traced to a leak claims 60 fps on PS5 Pro, see C019).Our own reading of Rockstar's and Take-Two's announcements and of the press-showing coverage (Kotaku, IGN, Digital Foundry, 28-29 August 2026) through 12 September 2026. Places searched: Rockstar Newswire, first listing page as read on 12 September 2026 - 21 entries dated 30 June to 10 September 2026 (older entries sit behind 'More Stories' and were not read, except the 24 June 2026 pre-order post, read in full separately) - no GTA VI post about frame rate; the two GTA VI posts (6 and 27 August 2026) do not mention it. · 2026-09-12
  • CONFIRMEDTwo Take-Two executives sold shares on 2-3 September 2026, but the SEC filings state these were automatic 'sell to cover' transactions made under a Rule 10b5-1 election, not discretionary trades. Lainie Goldstein (Chief Financial Officer): 1,335 shares at $217.65 on 2 September. Daniel P. Emerson (Chief Legal Officer): 917 at $217.65 on 2 September and 744 at $217.03 on 3 September, the second under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted on 3 March 2026.SEC EDGAR, two Form 4 filings submitted 4 September 2026 for Take-Two Interactive Software (CIK 0000946581): 0000946581-26-000077 (Goldstein) and 0000946581-26-000079 (Emerson). Footnote 1 in both reads in part: “This sale was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 'sell to cover' election ... for the sole purpose to satisfy the Reporting Person's tax withholding obligation ... This sale does not represent a discretionary trade by the Reporting Person.” Emerson's footnote 2: “Sale of shares pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted on March 3, 2026.” The list of Form 4 filings under CIK 0000946581 was read on 15 September 2026: these two, filed 4 September, are the most recent. · 2026-09-15
  • CONFIRMEDIn Japan, pre-orders opened for the limited GTA VI DualSense controllers (black and white) at 12,480 yen including tax each, with a planned on-sale date of 19 November 2026 - the same day the game is due out. Famitsu writes 発売日 ... 予定, a PLANNED on-sale date; it says nothing about when a pre-order reaches the buyer. Famitsu lists the game's standard edition at 9,800 yen, so the controller costs more than the game it accompanies. Both figures are Famitsu's; the comparison is ours.Famitsu.com, pre-order article dated 13 September 2026, 21:50 (price and date first given at State of Play, 3 September 2026); game price from Famitsu.com, 24 June 2026. Japanese original: 「発売日は2026年11月19日（木）予定で、希望小売価格は¥12480円［税込］。」 Translation ours. · 2026-09-15
  • CONFIRMEDActor Stephen Root said he appears in Grand Theft Auto VI: “Yeeaahhh, you're gonna see me in that.” This reaches us second hand: the interview was given to the Associated Press and we know it from Kotaku's report (John Walker, 14 September 2026). We have not read the original.Kotaku, John Walker, 14 September 2026, reporting an Associated Press interview with Stephen Root. Kotaku gives neither a date nor a link for the AP piece, so we have not read the original. · 2026-09-15
  • CONFIRMEDGoogle Ads reports 'gta 6 map' at 90,500 searches a month in the United States. That figure is a twelve-month average (September 2025 - August 2026), which we read through DataForSEO on 15 September 2026; the monthly values behind it run from 40,500 to 301,000, median 49,500, with the two most recent months the highest - so the average understates current demand. These are Google's own modelled estimates, rounded to repeating buckets: not a count of people, and not a measurement we made.OUR OWN READING OF GOOGLE'S ESTIMATES (we ran the query; the numbers are Google's): DataForSEO, /v3/keywords_data/google_ads/search_volume/live, read 15 September 2026 14:45, location United States, language en, search partners off. Metric: Google Ads average monthly searches for September 2025 - August 2026, with the twelve monthly values returned alongside it. Full response kept in our repository; the monthly spread and medians above were recomputed from that file on 15 September 2026. · 2026-09-15
  • CONFIRMEDOn 12 September 2026 we withdrew our own claim C012 ('Map significantly larger than GTA V at launch') because its source read 'Unverified analysis of footage' - naming no author and no publication, so it could not be sourced after the fact. The withdrawal is public on our claims board, with the reason attached.OUR OWN DOCUMENTED DECISION: claims registry, entry C012, withdrawn field (date 2026-09-12, by MOZG); decisions P-120 and P-122. · 2026-09-15
  • CONFIRMEDOn 15 September 2026 at 14:43 UTC Travis Scott posted on his verified Instagram account (@travisscott) a caption that runs seven lines, opening with 'Phase 1' and ending 'See yall soon' / '@rockstargames'. We read that caption at the source. Both newsrooms that transcribed it the same day - Kotaku and Insider Gaming - dropped the opening line, and both corrected the author's spelling: Kotaku added an apostrophe ('y'all' for the original 'yall'), changed 'LETS RIDE' to 'LET'S RIDE' and 'ALOT' to 'A LOT'; Insider Gaming added a full stop after '@rockstargames' and wrote 'J.O.H' for 'J... O. H.....'. What the post means for the Grand Theft Auto VI soundtrack is UNKNOWN: the caption names no song, no radio station and no date, and Rockstar has announced no list.Travis Scott (@travisscott), Instagram, post timestamped 15 September 2026, 14:43:17 UTC - OUR OWN READING at the source on 15 September 2026 (two independent renderings of the same text: the embedded post caption and the post page metadata); the caption as it stood when we read it. Scope of what we checked: the seven lines of that one caption; 'yall' without an apostrophe confirmed on the code points (79 61 6c 6c). Compared transcriptions: Kotaku, Zack Zwiezen, 15 September 2026 (published 16:23 UTC), and Insider Gaming, Sam Sepiol, 15 September 2026. OUR OWN READING OF BOTH COMPARED TRANSCRIPTIONS: 15 September 2026, between 18:23 and 20:06 station time (CEST). The lower bound is the Kotaku article's publication time (16:23 UTC); the upper bound is the timestamp of the F13-20260916 material cards, which already carried this comparison at 20:06. We did not record the minute of the reading at the time, so we state a RANGE, not a point. A newsroom can revise an article silently, so our claim about someone else's text refers to the text as it stood in those two articles within that range - the same rigour we applied to the caption at the source. · 2026-09-15
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (published 27 August 2026), at 592 seconds into the file (9:52), an on-screen control prompt in the bottom right corner reads 'HOLD HANDS' with the R2 button icon. The shot runs from 574.83 s to 619.73 s (44.9 s with no cut per cuts.json). Read by us from a full 3840x2160 frame extracted from the source file on 18 September 2026; the prompt is a game HUD element, not an editorial caption.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 27 August 2026, 9:52 (own reading of the source file) · 2026-09-18
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 438 seconds into the file (7:18), the fridge door carries magnets with the FLEECA and LOM BANK logos and a green magnet reading 'Frugality is for Fools.'. The shot runs 418.03-445.17 s. Read by us from a full 3840x2160 frame on 18 September 2026. The claim covers ONLY what is visible in frame - not the origin of those brands or whether they appeared in earlier games in the series. NOTE FOR USE: in a 9:16 crop only the FLEECA logo is legible (verified by test render on 18 Sept); LOM BANK and the 'Frugality is for Fools' magnet fall outside the frame or disappear once the character closes the fridge - the material claims FLEECA only.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 27 August 2026, 7:18 (own reading of the source file) · 2026-09-18
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 1223 seconds into the file (20:23), the bottom right corner shows a race HUD: 'PROGRESS 7%', position '4 / 6' and a lap timer '00:06.57'; the bottom left shows a minimap with the route. The progress counter increases within the shot (7% -> 8%), so the HUD is live, not an editorial overlay. The shot runs 1222.23-1225.63 s (3.40 s). Read by us from a full 3840x2160 frame on 18 September 2026. The claim covers what is on screen - not whether the mode is story, side content or online.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 27 August 2026, 20:23 (own reading of the source file) · 2026-09-18
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'An Extended Look', in the window 976.6-992.07 s, the top-right corner shows a wanted bar with SIX star positions: four filled red and two empty (dark outlines). Below the bar sits a row of three round red badges: a silhouette of two people, a clothes hanger and a silhouette of one person. Read from full 3840x2160 frames on September 20, 2026. The claim is about WHAT IS VISIBLE - not how many wanted levels the game has or what the badges mean.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 27 August 2026 (own reading of the source file) · 2026-09-20
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'An Extended Look', at about 1137 s, a character-switch widget slides into the bottom-right corner: an 'R1' badge, Jason's portrait on the left and Lucia's on the right, a pink heart BETWEEN the portraits, and under each portrait a separate badge with a devil emoji (different shades and expressions). The white selection frame sits on Lucia at 1137.40-1137.467 s and on Jason from 1137.50 s - a jump within ONE frame, with no animation. At the same time the picture DIMS AND BLURS, and it turns sharp again once the widget closes. Read from full frames and from a contact sheet of 64 consecutive frames on September 20, 2026. What the heart and the devils mean, WE DO NOT KNOW and do not claim.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 27 August 2026 (own reading of the source file) · 2026-09-20
  • CONFIRMEDW 'An Extended Look' w oknie 761,5-763,7 s po prawej stronie estakady stoi przenosna drogowa tablica LED z bursztynowym napisem w trzech wierszach: 'TURN SIGNALS / NOT REQUIRED / IN LEONIDA'. Tablica stoi za pomaranczowa barierka robot drogowych. Odczytane z pelnych klatek 3840x2160 20.09.2026.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 27 August 2026 (own reading of the source file) · 2026-09-20
  • CONFIRMEDW 'An Extended Look' w oknie 1000,9-1002,0 s na zderzaku wisniowego vana widoczna jest tablica rejestracyjna: u gory LEONIDA, posrodku numer 'L1V 8M4' rozdzielony grafika dwoch nalozonych pomaranczy z listkami, u dolu haslo stanu 'GOODTIME STATE', w prawym gornym rogu zolta nalepka '07-12'. Odczytane z pelnych klatek 3840x2160 20.09.2026.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 27 August 2026 (own reading of the source file) · 2026-09-20
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'An Extended Look', a red Sentinel convertible carries the licence plate 'HRP RB9' above the word 'GLORIANA' and below the header '19 DISCOVER 78'. The same plate on the same car is visible in TWO shots: 527.8-535.5 s (day) and 1119.2-1122.4 s (night) - almost ten minutes later in the video. Read from full 3840x2160 frames on September 20, 2026. The claim is about the identity of the PLATE, not whether it is the same story scene.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', 27 August 2026 (own reading of the source file) · 2026-09-20
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (a 30 fps file), frames 31320 (17:24.000) and 31321 (17:24.033) are consecutive, 1/30 of a second apart. In the first, the man jumping off the pier is pitched forward with his back to the camera and his legs below his body. In the next, he is upside down, facing the camera, with his legs above his head. This describes the frames of the video file, not the in-game animation, and does not settle the direction of rotation.Rockstar Games / Take-Two, official sources (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn the same unbroken shot of 'An Extended Look' (17:22.233-17:25.000), dolphins leap out of the water in the background, ahead of the man running along the pier. Four are visible at once at 17:23.000 and 17:23.200: a pair on the left (one leaping vertically, the other arcing just below it), one in the middle and one on the right.Rockstar Games / Take-Two, official sources (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDRockstar Games posted 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' on its YouTube channel (video QdBZY2fkU-0) on December 4, 2023, at 23:07 UTC (6:07 p.m. ET). Our own read of the video's public metadata, September 23, 2026.Rockstar Games, official video (frame reading by The Leonida Reports) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDRockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' (31.03-32.57 s) and 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (992.07-999.40 s) show the same place: a toll plaza with four arches over the lanes and MPH markings in front of it, a tennis court to its left behind a hedge with lamp posts, a parking lot in front of the court, and the road continuing toward a waterfront skyline. Trailer 1 shows it at twilight (street lights and headlights on, a brighter band over the horizon), the Extended Look in daylight. The claim is about the place being the same, not about graphics quality or how either video was captured.Rockstar Games / Take-Two, official sources (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDAs of September 23, 2026 (probe of rockstargames.com/VI and Take-Two's SEC filings), neither Rockstar Games nor Take-Two had announced another change to GTA VI's November 19, 2026 release date. This is an observation about what has been announced, not a statement by the publisher.Rockstar Games / Take-Two, official sources (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), a card reading 'NOVEMBER 19, 2026 / PRE-ORDER NOW' is on screen from about 26:32 to 26:43, including at 26:40; the video then ends on the Rockstar logo.Rockstar Games, official video (frame reading by The Leonida Reports) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' the 'HOLD HANDS' (R2) prompt is on screen from 587.8 s through 602.7 s - about 14.9 seconds, not the whole 44.9-second shot; it is gone by 602.8 s. It appears as the pair, having left the elevator (about 585.5-586.5 s), walks from the elevator lobby toward the rooftop terrace door (they pass it at about 589.7 s). The pair's hands are joined from about 592.7 s until at least 602.7 s, about five seconds after the prompt appears. At 590.0 s the R2 icon changes appearance (a full white ring, greyed R2); we do not claim what that change means. Our measurement from full 3840x2160 frames, 23 September 2026.Rockstar Games / Take-Two, official sources (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDTrailer 1, 0:23.37-0:24.73: a speedboat throws spray off its bow as it passes a container ship (our frame reading; it says nothing about how Trailer 1 was captured).Rockstar Games, official video (frame reading by The Leonida Reports) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDTrailer 1, 0:11.07-0:11.5, aerial: a white yacht leaves twin parallel wakes (our frame reading).Rockstar Games, official video (frame reading by The Leonida Reports) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDAn Extended Look, 17:25.1-17:26.8: HUD minimap bottom-left; from about 17:26.0 a jet ski turns and throws spray (our frame reading).Rockstar Games, official video (frame reading by The Leonida Reports) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'An Extended Look' (17:10.0-17:11.8), at least three manatees swim beside the airboat: three rounded grey bodies visible at once, pectoral flippers, a rounded paddle tail, no dorsal fin. Our own reading of full 3840x2160 frames, 23 September 2026.Rockstar Games, official video (frame reading by The Leonida Reports) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Trailer 2 (1:58.9-1:59.5), a character wears a teal football jersey that reads 'MANATEES'.Rockstar Games / Take-Two, official sources (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Trailer 1 (0:20.8-0:21.6), a flock of flamingos lifts off a marsh while an alligator lies in the grass by the water.Rockstar Games / Take-Two, official sources (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's official GTA VI Trailer 1 (press file, 0:42.4-0:43.9), a backyard-pool alligator is shown inside a social-media post layout: account 'OfficialPOACH', a 'Follow' button and the caption 'Stay Alert VC! Remember to check for uninvited guests before the pool party'. A uniformed man holds the alligator on a pole with a loop. This is an observation of the frame, not a Rockstar statement.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's official GTA VI Trailer 1 (press file, 0:47.5-0:48.6), an alligator walks in through a store's open front door in a shot styled as security-camera footage: the top-left overlay reads 'FRONT DOOR' with a clock '09:58:47' that ticks to '09:58:48' at about 0:48.25. The overlay is part of the trailer frame, not our graphic.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDAt Take-Two's annual meeting of stockholders on September 17, 2026, CEO Strauss Zelnick said, as reported: 'We're launching GTA 6 as a single player experience on two major platforms', and that the PC platform is becoming 'more and more important' to the company. He announced no GTA 6 PC version and no PC date.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 9:04-9:06, as Jason eats chips from a red bag, an on-screen control prompt in the bottom right reads 'EAT' with the R1 button icon and 'DROP' with the circle button icon; it greys out right after the bite. Our own reading of full 3840x2160 frames, 23 September 2026.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn the same shot, right after Jason raises a chip to his mouth (9:05.0-9:05.2), a meter fades in at the top left: a heart icon and a bar of two pink segments (faint at 9:05.3, full colour by 9:05.7), shown full and kept to the end of the shot. It is not on screen earlier in the shot. The footage does not say what the meter tracks, and we do not claim it.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDThe man in this shot (9:04-9:06) is Jason Duval: his face matches Jason's portrait in the character-switch widget later in the same video and Rockstar's official 'Jason Duval' screenshots, and the on-screen control prompt shows he is the player character. Our own identification from appearance.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look', the shot at 1061.80-1067.47 s (17:41.8-17:47.5) shows a car race on a palm-lined circuit with wet asphalt. The bottom right corner shows a race HUD: 'LAP 1/2', a position counter 'x / 16' and a timer. The HUD is live: the timer runs from 00:18.12 (1061.80 s) to 00:23.82 (1067.43 s) and the position counter drops from 11/16 to 7/16 within the shot. 'LAP 1/2' stays on screen for the whole shot. Read by us from full 3840x2160 frames on 23 September 2026. The claim covers what is on screen, not the game mode.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'An Extended Look', the shot at 1114.80-1119.20 s (18:34.8-18:39.2) shows an off-road race on a sandy track among hills. The field has dirt bikes and at least one quad (around 1117.0 and 1118.1 s). The bottom right corner shows a race HUD: 'LAP 1/2', a position counter 'x / 12' and a timer. The HUD is live: the timer runs from 00:16.89 (1114.80 s) to 00:21.26 (the last frame of the shot, 1119.167 s) and the counter drops from 11/12 to 9/12 (10/12 from 1116.833 s, 9/12 from 1118.800 s). 'LAP 1/2' stays on screen for the whole shot. Read by us from full 3840x2160 frames on 23 September 2026. The claim covers what is on screen, not the game mode.Rockstar Games official material / media (see note) · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 17:18.7-17:22.2 (one shot), a woman bench-presses a barbell, seen from above; two HUD button icons, L2 and R2, sit on the bar, each inside a round ring (grey with a white arc). A game HUD element, not an editorial caption. Our own reading of full 3840x2160 frames, 23 September 2026.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (official source file), full frames at 1038.82, 1039.32, 1040.85, 1041.51 and 1042.067 s plus the 9:16 crops of the published Short; one shot 1038.7-1042.2 s per our cut registry. Same reading as our photo post of September 25, 2026 (bench and HUD rings). In-game source material per C008; own full-frame reading, like C079/C104. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn the same shot, the white share of the L2 and R2 rings is the same in every measured frame (within one point): about 63% at 17:18.8, falling to 0% at 17:20.6-17:21.0 (bar at its lowest), and back to 100% from 17:22.07 (arms extended). Our own pixel measurement, 23 September 2026; one repetition measured.Our pixel measurement of the L2/R2 rings in the same shot: 36 frames every 0.1 s over 1038.7-1042.1 s (1038.7 s: L2 66.5% / R2 67.4%; 1040.8 s: 0% / 0%; 1042.1 s: 100% / 100%), repeated on September 23, 2026 (1038.80 s 63%/64%, 1042.00 s 92%/92%, 1042.07-1042.13 s 100%/100%), plus a visual check of the icon strip (both grey at 1040.85 s, about a quarter arc at 1041.31 s, full at 1042.07 s). We do not claim what the ring means. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2' (2:21.83-2:23.73, one shot), a yellow seaplane on floats flies toward the camera and passes over a man riding a motorcycle; in the frame its wing sweeps just over his cap. The underside of the wing reads N57191C, fully legible at 2:23.267 and 2:23.300 (at 2:23.233 his cap hides the middle of it). Our frame reading; it does not say whether the shot is gameplay or a cutscene, who the rider is, or whether the number exists in any real register.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2' (official source file), one shot 141.833-143.733 s per our cut registry. Full 3840x2160 frames read on September 23, 2026 from 142.533 to 143.600 s, including every frame between 143.23 and 143.33 s used to read the text, plus the 9:16 crops of the published Short; frame identity confirmed with ffmpeg frame checksums. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDRockstar's Trailer 2 file runs at 30 frames per second; the three stills (2:23.233, 2:23.267, 2:23.300) are consecutive, distinct frames, 1/30 of a second apart.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2' file (30 fps): frame timing read with ffmpeg on September 23, 2026 - consecutive frames at 143.20-143.37 s have distinct timestamps (step 512 in a 15360 time base) and distinct checksums, so each is a separate frame. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDThe 0.25x slow motion is our own edit (frame interpolation); the three stills are single real frames of the file held on screen.Ta specyfikacja: S1, S2, S7 speed 0.25 + interp 'rife'; S3-S5 src_dur 0.03 + interp 'duplikacja'; opis linia 2: '0.25x slow motion made by us (frame interpolation)'. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDTrailer 1, 1:11.35-1:12.73 (one shot): a red muscle car slides past the camera; its rear tire spins in dust, then the car swings out, a dust cloud rolls up and clumps of dirt fly off the rear wheel (our frame reading; it says nothing about how Trailer 1 was captured).Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' file, source seconds 71.35-72.73; our own reading of full 3840x2160 frames and the production 9:16 crops, a pass every 0.05 s over 71.30-72.05 s and every 0.1 s over 70.4-72.8 s, and a 100% crop of the flying clumps at 72.53 s (September 23, 2026). · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDAn Extended Look, 6:09.75-6:11.14: a convertible drives toward the camera on asphalt with grey tire smoke coming off its passenger-side wheels, clearest at 6:09.75-6:10.0 (our frame reading).Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 369.75-371.135; our own reading of full frames and the production 9:16 crop, a 100% crop of the smoke at 369.75 s and a pass every 0.2 s over 369.4-372.2 s (September 23, 2026). · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMED0.25x and the 2x zoom are our own edit settings (EDL speed 0.25 on four segments, frame interpolation; zoom 2.0 on one segment).ta specyfikacja / edl.json materialu (pola speed i zoom segmentow). · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (18:47-18:57), a woman with a black-and-orange pack runs across a tower roof, jumps over the railing and free-falls over the city - a skyline across the water ahead, islands and canals below; in the next shot (18:58.1-18:58.4) she hangs under an open orange parachute (our frame reading).Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), full frames at 1127.65 s (running on the roof, panorama), 1129.30 s (at the edge), 1129.52 s (in the air, arms up), 1130.05 and 1130.37 s (free fall: towers above, islands and canals below) and 1138.14 and 1138.39 s (open canopy); shots 1127.533-1136.933 and 1136.933-1138.800 s per our cut registry. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'An Extended Look' (18:59-19:03), the camera looks straight down on beachfront hotels: rooftop helipads marked H in a circle, one also marked PVT, and a hotel with a round helipad right above a beach with umbrellas (our frame reading).Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), frames at 1139.70 and 1140.12 s (left helipad marked H), 1139.80 s (full frame with the H and 'PVT H PVT' markings, plus zoomed crops) and 1142.20 and 1142.52 s (helipad above the beach); one shot 1138.833-1143.700 s per our cut registry. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDTrailer 1, 0:12.9-0:13.6, aerial: over the surf to a beach packed with umbrellas, lifeguard towers and people, hotels behind (our frame reading; it says nothing about how Trailer 1 was captured).Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' file, frames at 12.95, 13.30, 13.45 and 13.556 s with the production 9:16 crops; one shot 10.967-18.367 s per our cut registry. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDTrailer 1, 0:35.7-0:37.4, aerial: a white seaplane (two floats under the fuselage) flies low over the water toward two long parallel bridges linking islands - a highway bridge with traffic and an older bridge beside it (our frame reading).Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' file, frames at 35.80 s (full frame, with a zoomed crop of the floats), 36.00, 36.50, 37.00 and 37.286 s with the 9:16 crops; one shot 35.667-37.433 s per our cut registry. · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDTrailer 2, 0:06.6-0:08.0, aerial: waterfront houses on turquoise water, a multi-level white house with a dock, seagulls in flight (our frame reading).Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2' file, frames at 6.62, 7.12, 7.62 and 7.986 s with the 9:16 crops; brightness measured over 6.3-7.9 s: 46.9, rising to 119.3 at 6.6 s, then 119.4-120.3; shot 0.167-8.133 s per our cut registry (it also contains the ESRB card and the logo before 6.4 s, outside the range used). · 2026-09-23
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 17:28.9-17:31.0 (one shot), a woman paddles a green kayak, seen from behind, with the HUD minimap in the lower left corner; ahead of her, a bird with a white head and grey, dark-tipped wings (a seagull - our reading of the plumage) sits on the water at 17:29.0-17:30.1 and takes off at 17:30.15-17:30.9. Our own reading of full 3840x2160 frames, 24 September 2026.01_sources/official/trailers/GTAVI_An_Extended_Look.mp4, 1048.93-1051.03 s; full frames and 4K crops (STORY-0064 QC) · 2026-09-24
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 15:43.3-15:49.9 (one shot), 'VICE BEACH POLICE' cars with lights on and a helicopter are over the street; at 15:47.9-15:49.75 three mobility scooters (blue, teal and red, each with a different rider) cross the intersection, and two of them end up right beside the front corner of a wood-paneled station wagon (15:49.2-15:49.75). Our own reading of full 3840x2160 frames, 24 September 2026.01_sources/official/trailers/GTAVI_An_Extended_Look.mp4, 943.27-949.90 s; full frames and 4K crops (STORY-0065 QC) · 2026-09-24
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' (December 4, 2023), at 0:24.87-0:27.40 (one shot), a woman in a short dress dances with her arms up in a moving red convertible at night; at 0:26.77-0:27.03 her ponytail flies out sideways, and at 0:27.07-0:27.40 it swings down behind her shoulder. Our own reading of full frames, 24 September 2026.01_sources/official/trailers/GTAVI_Trailer_1.mp4, 24.87-27.40 s; full frames (STORY-0066 QC) · 2026-09-24
  • CONFIRMEDThe Goodtime State - Vice City Collection box is priced at $399.99 / £349.99 and releases on November 19, 2026, the same day as the game - Push Square (Liam Croft, September 24, 2026) and Kotaku (Zack Zwiezen, September 24, 2026), both noting the game is not included.Push Square (Liam Croft) and Kotaku (Zack Zwiezen), both September 24, 2026 - read September 24, 2026 · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 7:44.50-7:47.57 (one shot): a riverside clearing with a deer, boars, rabbits and a yellow bird; at 7:45.93-7:46.07 a squirrel is in mid-air above a sitting boar's head without touching it, and at 7:46.13-7:46.25 the yellow bird takes off. Our own reading of full frames, September 24-25, 2026. The shot follows a TV showing a nature programme - we do not claim whether this is the game world or the TV programme.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 464.50-467.57; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 20:07.13-20:13.97 (one shot): night, a wet airport apron with puddles, HUD minimap in the lower left; at 20:08.00-20:09.40 a puddle under the SUV ahead carries an upside-down reflection of it, red lights included, moving along with the car. Our own reading of full frames, September 24-25, 2026; we do not claim which rendering technique produces it.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 1207.13-1213.97; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 17:04.90-17:06.15 (shot 16:59.67-17:06.23): a woman in a short grey hoodie, seen from behind, walks along a building wall toward the street; her curls bounce and swing side to side. Our own reading of full frames, September 24-25, 2026. We do not identify the character.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 1024.90-1026.15; our own reading of full frames during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 8:40.10-8:42.20: a red convertible ('HRP RB9') in city traffic, HUD minimap in the lower left; at 8:40.33-8:40.73 white puffs appear at both rear corners of a maroon car, and at 8:40.93-8:41.20 that car is right beside the convertible's right side. Our own reading of full frames, September 24-25, 2026; the puffs may come from the exhausts or the tyres.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 520.10-522.20; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 26:07.23-26:08.33 (one shot): the propeller in front of a radial engine on a float plane ('Lapwing' on the side) on a river; in every frame the blade is a motion-blur smear; behind it, two wading birds (one white, one grey) stand at the water's edge. Our own reading of full frames, September 24-25, 2026.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 1567.23-1568.33; our own reading of full frames during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' (December 4, 2023), at 1:05.63-1:06.67 (one shot): motorbikes on their rear wheels and a quad with its front up; the gold-rimmed front wheel stays in the air in every frame of the shot; on the right, two people hold phones up. Our own reading of full frames and a 4K crop, September 24-25, 2026. Trailer 1 carries no in-game statement.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' file, source seconds 65.63-66.67; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 15:22.60-15:24.57 (shot 15:16.67-15:42.03): a black sedan backs out of an alley, swings around with smoke at the tyres and drives off while a 'POLICE / VICE BEACH' pickup blurs past; HUD (wanted stars, minimap) in the full frame. Our own reading of full frames, September 25, 2026; we do not claim the police reacted.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 922.60-924.57; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2', at 2:24.53-2:25.33 (shot 2:24.40-2:25.50): an empty chopper-style motorbike with a red tank slides on its side toward the camera, throwing sparks, while a figure in a vest pulls themselves up onto a truck's flatbed (nothing in their hands). Our own reading of full frames and 4K crops, September 25, 2026. Trailer 2 carries no in-game statement; we do not identify the figure.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2' file, source seconds 144.53-145.33; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 13:08.45-13:09.75 (shot 12:30.17-13:09.90): a black SCHAFTER sedan on an elevated highway passes a yellow-and-black chevron crash cushion at a lane split right beside its rear-left corner (as seen in the 2D frame); HUD minimap in the full frame. Our own reading of full frames, September 25, 2026; we do not measure the real gap.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 788.45-789.75; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), in the shot 14:34.00-14:41.63: a black SCHAFTER sedan turns with smoke at a wheel and drives into a parking-garage gate (14:37.0-14:38.5), then police cars with red-and-blue light bars race along the street (14:39.5-14:41.4), the last one right past the camera. No HUD in frame. Our own reading of full frames, September 25, 2026; no police reaction to the garage is shown.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 877.00-881.45; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 12:27.30-12:28.80 (shot 12:24.67-12:30.17): a red helicopter crosses the skyline right under a plane towing a banner that reads 'YOU FLUSH - THEY WIPE' with a round logo (at 12:27.95 the plane is right above the helicopter). No HUD in frame. Our own reading of full frames and 4K crops, September 25, 2026.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 747.30-748.80; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'An Extended Look' (August 27, 2026), at 17:43.95-17:45.45 (shot 17:41.80-17:47.47): a race (HUD 'LAP 1/2', position 'x / 16', timer 00:20.24-00:21.79, minimap); the white car the camera follows passes the blue #46 on its left, and the position counter changes from '9 / 16' to '8 / 16' at 17:44.60. Our own reading of full frames, September 25, 2026; we claim nothing about contact.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' file (in-game footage per C008), source seconds 1063.95-1065.45; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2', at 2:29.40-2:30.57 (shot 2:29.27-2:30.80): a man in a dark T-shirt dives horizontally over the windshield of a moving convertible (empty hands) and lands in the back seat while the driver keeps driving, hands on the wheel. Our own reading of full frames, September 25, 2026. Trailer 2 carries no in-game statement; we do not identify the characters.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2' file, source seconds 149.40-150.50; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn Rockstar's 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' (December 4, 2023), at 1:06.80-1:07.53 (shot 1:06.67-1:07.67): a green dirt bike rides right up to the front of a green-and-white police car while a yellow-and-black bike passes on the far side of the car; police cars stand with lights on. Our own reading of full frames and 4K crops, September 25, 2026. Trailer 1 carries no in-game statement; we do not claim who is chasing whom.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1' file, source seconds 66.80-67.53; our own reading of full frames and 4K crops during scouting (2026-09-25). · 2026-09-25
  • CONFIRMEDIn An Extended Look (shot 364.900-369.300 s per cuts.json) a two-option prompt appears at a red car's door: SLIM JIM (triangle) and SMASH WINDOW (circle). The triangle icon fills white at 366.366-366.400 s (2 frames) and the prompt is gone from 366.533 s. At 366.9-367.1 s the man holds a thin rod and at 367.2-367.6 s slides it in by the window; an R-stick icon shows from about 367.0 s, with a pink arc from about 367.4 s. The driver's door swings open at 368.75-369.03 s and the window is not smashed.Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look (official; in-game footage per C008), 365.05-369.10 s. Our review on September 26, 2026: full frames every <=0.5 s with the windows drawn, the prompt frame by frame from 366.2 to 366.567, the hands every 0.1 s from 366.5 to 367.7, and the door every 2 frames from 368.7 to 369.03. · 2026-09-26
  • CONFIRMEDIn An Extended Look (shot 976.600-992.067 s per cuts.json; the HUD minimap and stars sit outside the 9:16 frame) the camera follows a maroon van toward a toll plaza with arches and a red roof. Oncoming cars pass on the left: a white car (990.13-990.63 s) and a blue coupe (990.45-991.13 s). The van rolls into a lane between yellow bollards (991.0-991.93 s); DO NOT STOP signs hang on the arch pillars, with ENTER and VICE PASS OR TOLL BY PLATE above the lane (readable in the window at 991.45-991.93 s).Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look (official; in-game footage per C008), 990.133-991.933 s. Our review on September 26, 2026: full frames every <=0.3 s with the windows drawn, the sign window every 0.08 s, and a native crop of the van's rear. · 2026-09-26
  • CONFIRMEDIn An Extended Look (shot 452.600-464.500 s per cuts.json; the TV picture switches at about 461.33 s) a TV in a room with flamingo wallpaper shows bison at a river with geese. At 461.9-462.45 s a goose flies in from the left with its wings up and lands on the water; at 462.5-463.3 s its skid throws a plume of spray up in front of the bison, and the goose then swims off to the right.Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look (official; in-game footage per C008), 461.55-464.35 s. Our review on September 26, 2026: full frames every <=0.5 s from 461.55 to 464.32 with the windows drawn, native crops of the landing every 0.1 s from 461.95 to 462.45. No gameplay claim: this is on-screen TV content inside the game. · 2026-09-26
  • CONFIRMEDTrailer 2 (shot 129.367-134.400 s per cuts.json): outside a window, a seagull walks left along a wooden deck (130.4-132.3 s), spreads its wings and lifts off the boards at 132.35-132.5 s, and at 132.6-132.97 s flies up and to the left out of the 9:16 frame. A second seagull stands in the same spot on the top railing for the whole shot.Rockstar Games, official 'Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2', 131.0-133.9 s. Our review on September 26, 2026: full frames with the windows drawn from 130.4 to 133.67, 9:16 window crops every 0.1-0.3 s, a native strip of the window edge and the end of S5. Trailer 2 makes no in-game statement, so the word 'gameplay' is not used. · 2026-09-26
  • CONFIRMEDIn An Extended Look (shot 750.167-789.900 s per cuts.json; the HUD minimap sits outside the 9:16 frame) the camera follows a black SCHAFTER sedan along an elevated road under a DRAWBRIDGE SIGNAL sign while a dark helicopter hangs in the sky. From about 781.05 s a flock of 5-7 birds flies left and up toward the helicopter. At 782.30-782.43 s the birds are above and beside the helicopter in the frame (at 782.433 s one is directly above the fuselage). The birds grow in the frame while the helicopter does not. The image does not show depth, and we claim no contact.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (official; captured entirely in-game per C008), source seconds 780.95-782.45 (13:00.95-13:02.45). Birds in the window from 781.30, above the helicopter 782.30-782.43. Full frames with the 9:16 windows reviewed every 0.5 s (scouting and judge, September 26, 2026). · 2026-09-26
  • CONFIRMEDIn 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (1121.00-1122.20 s, in-game footage per C008) an R1 prompt with two portraits (a man, a woman) and a pink heart shows in the bottom-right HUD for about 0.57 s. The white highlight moves from the man's portrait (up to 1121.300 s) to the woman's (from 1121.333 s). The minimap turns from blue to red (1121.500-1121.967 s), with 2 of 5 stars lit.Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (official, captured entirely from in-game footage, C008), source seconds 1121.00-1122.20 (18:41.00-18:42.20). Frame-by-frame reading of the 4K 30 fps file: prompt 1121.067-1121.633, highlight switch 1121.300 -> 1121.333, minimap red 1121.500-1121.967. Full frames with the 9:16 windows reviewed every 0.5 s (scouting and judge, September 26, 2026). · 2026-09-26
  • CONFIRMEDIn An Extended Look (shot 949.933-969.600 s per cuts.json; the HUD minimap and stars sit outside the 9:16 frame) the camera follows a black SCHAFTER sedan toward a gatehouse with a red-and-white barrier arm in front of a covered parking structure. From 950.77 s the arm lies level across the entrance at roof height. From about 951.00 s its left end lifts and the arm swings diagonal, at 951.15-951.20 s its stripes sweep across the top of the frame, and from 951.22 s the arm is out of frame. The car keeps driving. The frame does not show the car touching the arm (the camera is behind the car).Rockstar Games, 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' (official; in-game footage per C008), source seconds 950.10-951.90 (15:50.10-15:51.90). Arm level from 950.77, swing 951.00-951.20, out of frame from 951.22. Full frames with the 9:16 windows reviewed every 0.5 s (scouting and judge, September 26, 2026). · 2026-09-26

RUMOR4

  • RUMORAndy Robinson, editor-in-chief of VGC, said a PC version 'might arrive sooner than some people might expect'. He gave no timeframe. The phrase 'within a year' was TweakTown's summary of his words, not his words. Rockstar has announced no PC version at all.TweakTown, Jak Connor, 5 September 2026, quoting VGC editor-in-chief Andy Robinson; Robinson's original format and date not stated. · 2026-08-28
  • RUMORConsoles target 30 frames per second at launch; several newsrooms confirmed that (see C015). A single report traced to a leak claims the PS5 Pro will run GTA 6 at 60 fps. We have not verified it, and we do not treat leaks as sources.A single report traced to a leak (Vice, Aug 29, 2026); contradicts C015 (30 fps widely confirmed); no Rockstar statement · 2026-08-29
  • RUMORPaul Tassi, writing in Forbes on August 29, 2026, said 'we are a year or two out, at least, from GTA 6 Online'. That is his estimate, not a report. We read it via Game Rant. Rockstar has announced no online mode for this game.Forbes, Paul Tassi, 29 August 2026, 'Why Rockstar Has Said Nothing About GTA 6 Online So Far' (via Game Rant, Daniel Morris, 6 September 2026). · 2026-08-30
  • RUMORAccording to one community researcher, only about three of the 29 added files were images never previously available through the website. The rest had circulated in press kits.Community researcher videotech, via Techtroduce (Aug 31, 2026); original post not reached; not confirmed by Rockstar · 2026-08-31

SPECULATION1

  • SPECULATIONA building visible in Rockstar's official Extended Look 'seems like a modified version' of the apartment used in the Dexter series - the Bay Harbor Club in Bay Harbor Islands.Saukko505 (GTA VI mapper), post on X, Aug 27, 2026 21:11 UTC; reported by Dexerto and GameSpot (Aug 27-28, 2026); frame from the Extended Look · 2026-09-01

UNKNOWN1

  • UNKNOWNSeveral details circulating since 9 September 2026 as 'new information from the Famitsu interview' - a map showing gang hideouts with the amount of cash and drugs stored inside, a 'Heat' system tracking the player's clothing and description, and story-driven locks on character switching - reach English-language readers ONLY through a fan translation whose own author describes it as an approximation. We have NOT verified these lines in the Japanese original. We do not claim they are false; we state that we cannot confirm them.GTAVice.net, 'GTA 6: Famitsu's Full Rob Nelson Interview Translated Into English', 9 September 2026 - a fan translation carrying its own editorial note: 'Some words, phrases or meanings may differ slightly in translation'. Reprinted by GamingBible on 10 September 2026 with attribution, which is a reprint, not a verification. Context: three English relays of Nelson's answer about the release date differ from one another; Notebookcheck (via GamesRadar+) rendered it as 'it will be released on time' where the Japanese says きちんと ('properly'), and the headline escalated that to 'delay ruled out' - which Nelson did not say. · 2026-09-11

WITHDRAWN2

  • WITHDRAWNGTA Online 2 would be revealed before the console launch.Origin: community speculation, no named source. · 2026-08-28Why we pulled it: Refuted by Rockstar's own wording - they call GTA VI “a single player experience” (C021) - and by the absence of any announced online mode for the game (C069). We called it a myth ourselves on air on 10 September 2026, and this line is the same correction.
  • WITHDRAWNMap significantly larger than GTA V at launchUnverified analysis of footage · 2026-08-28Why we pulled it: Its source line read “Unverified analysis of footage” - it named no author and no publication, so there was no way to source it after the fact. We withdrew it on 12 September 2026 rather than leave it standing on nobody.

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