What is officially confirmed about GTA VI so far: the cast, Leonida, the release date and the dates leading up to it, updated as more is announced.
Every official date on the way to release, in the order they fall.
Pre-orders opened on 25 June 2026.
Checked 12 October 2026
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look premiered on 27 August 2026.
On Netflix at 3 p.m. ET, then on Rockstar's YouTube channel and the official Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9 p.m. ET the same day.
Checked 12 October 2026
Pre-loading for digital pre-orders is dated to 12 November 2026.
Checked 12 October 2026
The physical version is dated to 12 November 2026, with a download code inside the box.
A week ahead of release, to support pre-loading.
Checked 12 October 2026
Thursday 19 November 2026.
Checked 12 October 2026
Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, an official soundtrack of 34 original tracks, is dated 19 November 2026 — the game's own release day.
Made with Atlantic Records and announced on 17 September 2026, with singles released ahead of it and vinyl and CD editions on pre-order.
Checked 12 October 2026
Every date above was re-read against the official announcements on the day shown beside it.
Thursday 27 August 2026
The longest look at Grand Theft Auto VI since the game was announced.
Everything Rockstar confirmed is now part of this page — the essentials, the cast and the map of Leonida below all reflect it.
Grand Theft Auto VI — An Extended Look
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The date, the platforms, the setting and the story — the confirmed answers to the questions people are actually asking.
Confirmed by Rockstar
Thursday 19 November 2026.
Announced, not yet happened
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look premiered on 27 August 2026.
On Netflix at 3 p.m. ET, then on Rockstar's YouTube channel and the official Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9 p.m. ET the same day.
Pre-orders opened on 25 June 2026.
Pre-loading for digital pre-orders is dated to 12 November 2026.
Announced, not yet happened
The physical version is dated to 12 November 2026, with a download code inside the box.
A week ahead of release, to support pre-loading.
Announced, not yet happened
The game was previously scheduled for 26 May 2026.
That date was itself a move from an earlier 2025 window. The current date is 19 November 2026.
Rockstar published Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look on 27 August 2026, and states it was captured entirely from in-game footage running on a PlayStation 5.
It closes on Rockstar's own cards: the title, the capture note, and 19 November 2026.
Rockstar's description
Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, an official soundtrack of 34 original tracks, is dated 19 November 2026 — the game's own release day.
Made with Atlantic Records and announced on 17 September 2026, with singles released ahead of it and vinyl and CD editions on pre-order.
Announced, not yet happened
Two editions are on sale: the Standard Edition, digitally or as a code in a box, and the Ultimate Edition, digitally.
In the US, the Standard Edition costs US$79.99 and the Ultimate Edition US$99.99.
Rockstar describes the Ultimate Edition as a collection of premium vehicles, weapons, clothing and activities, with further items reached chapter by chapter as the story goes on.
Rockstar's description
Pre-ordering adds the Vintage Vice City Pack: a two-tone ’55 Vapid Stanier sedan with a garage near Ocean Beach, period outfits and hairstyles for Jason and Lucia, and a weapon pattern modelled on Tommy Vercetti's palm-tree shirt.
It comes with every pre-order, and with every purchase made before 20 November 2026.
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PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Rockstar has not announced a version for any other platform.
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Grand Theft Auto VI is set in the state of Leonida.
Vice City returns, as Leonida's principal city.
Rockstar has also named Leonida Keys, Port Gellhorn, Grassrivers, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park.
It names other places in the state without yet saying which region they lie in: the Leonida Penitentiary, Gambit Bay, Washington Beach, Stockyard, Watson Bay and Lake Leonida.
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Jason and Lucia are the game's two leads.
A score that goes wrong pulls the pair into a criminal conspiracy running across the state.
Lucia has served time in the Leonida Penitentiary, and has got out.
Jason is in the Keys, working for the drug runners who operate there.
Jason Duval grew up among criminals and spent time in the Army before the Keys.
Jason Duval lives rent-free at one of Brian Heder's properties, in exchange for helping with local shakedowns.
Lucia Caminos was taught to fight by her father, and her mother has wanted a better life since the two of them lived in Liberty City.
Rockstar leaves the pair's relationship unresolved: Lucia Caminos sees a life with Jason as her way out, while for Jason Duval meeting her could be the best or the worst thing that has happened to him.
In Rockstar's words, Jason “knows how he'd like it to turn out but right now, it's hard to tell.”
Raul Bautista works with a crew he recruits, and his escalating scores are pushing them toward a decision.
The presentation opens on Jason and Lucia collecting goods connected to Boobie Ike at a run-down residential block. The job is compromised, police arrive, and it ends as a running gunfight through corridors and rooms.
Strongly evidenced
Seen in official material
Jason and Lucia work as getaway drivers for Raul Bautista, who directs them from the back seat. They lose a four-star pursuit, burn the getaway car, leave in a van, and are paid afterwards.
Strongly evidenced
Seen in official material
The pair are hired as security for a media executive at the Vice City launch of Megamundo, a Spanish-language broadcaster opening its first American headquarters. Armed men storm the tower and take hostages, and Jason and Lucia end up fighting on separate floors.
Rockstar has printed no spelling of the executive's name.
Strongly evidenced
Seen in official material
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Rockstar has named nine characters: Lucia Caminos, Jason Duval, Cal Hampton, Boobie Ike, Dre'Quan Priest, Real Dimez, Raul Bautista, Brian Heder and Wyman.
The first eight are billed by full name in reader-facing copy on three separate surfaces: the People navigation, each character's own page heading, and the title of each character's clip in the video library. Wyman, a collector and fixer, is named in the Ultimate Edition copy.
Real Dimez is a duo — Bae-Luxe and Roxy.
Boobie Ike and Dre'Quan Priest are partners in a record label, Only Raw Records.
Rockstar describes it as the venture Boobie is most invested in, and as one that has yet to produce a hit.
Real Dimez are signed to Only Raw Records by Dre'Quan Priest.
Real Dimez had an early hit single with a local rapper, DWNPLY, before signing to Only Raw Records.
Rockstar puts five years and, in their words, “a whole lot of trouble” between that single and the signing.
Dre'Quan Priest has been booking acts into Boobie Ike's strip club.
Rockstar suggests that may be ending: with Real Dimez signed, he is setting his sights on the wider Vice City scene.
Cal Hampton is an associate of Brian Heder's, as Jason is.
Brian Heder's third wife is Lori, and the two of them work his boat yard together.
Seen in official material
Jason and Lucia are both playable, and the presentation shows the player moving between them: while the pair travel together, in the middle of a fight, and when they are on different floors of a building.
Rockstar has shown the switch rather than described it. No first-party page states the rule, so when it is available, how long it takes and whether a mission can withhold it are all open.
Strongly evidenced
The protagonist the player is not controlling acts on their own rather than trailing behind: in the opening raid Lucia fights through the building alongside Jason, and in the Bautista pursuit the passenger handles the shooting while the driver drives.
Strongly evidenced
The Wanted Level returns and governs immediate police attention. Four stars are on screen during the Bautista pursuit, which draws patrol cars, a helicopter and a sustained chase across the city.
Four is the level the presentation shows, not an established maximum. Rockstar has not said how high the scale goes.
Strongly evidenced
Stealing a vehicle is no longer one universal action: the presentation offers a choice of ways in at the door, including breaking the window and using a slim jim.
Strongly evidenced
A slowed-down aiming mode appears in the closing sequence, picking out regions of a target's body in red and in yellow.
Rockstar has not named the mode and has not said what the two colours mean.
Strongly evidenced
The in-game social feeds are working interfaces rather than set dressing: a live stream, its scrolling comments and the phone it runs on all appear inside active gameplay rather than in a cutaway.
Strongly evidenced
A prompt system runs through the whole presentation, offering specific actions on whatever is in front of the player — people, animals, vehicle doors, lifts, and objects around the flat.
Strongly evidenced
Outside the jobs, the presentation shows fishing, kayaking, diving, jet skis and airboats, parachuting, weight training, basketball, a shooting range, circuit and off-road and street racing, nightclubs, and backyard wrestling.
Most of these appear in a montage. That they are in the game is what the footage supports; that each is a repeatable activity with its own rules is not.
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Rockstar's edition material names seven vehicles: a ’95 Grotti Cheetah sports car, a ’55 Vapid Stanier sedan, a ’67 Vapid Dominator Buggy, a Dinka Enduro motorcycle, a Shitzu Squalo boat, a Crest kayak, and Jason's own Vapid Ganado pickup.
Each is named as an edition or pre-order item, so this is not a list of the vehicles in the game. No official list has been published yet.
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Rockstar's edition material names three firearms: Jason's Girardi ES9 pistol, Lucia's Klose K17 pistol, and a Hawk & Little Morgan revolver in his-and-hers versions.
All three are named through Ultimate Edition items, so this is not a list of the weapons in the game. No official list has been published yet.
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Start here: what to know before 19 NovemberStandard vs Ultimate: the editions comparedEvery official announcement
The leads and the people around them, as Rockstar has introduced them so far.
Protagonist
Lucia learned to fight before she learned much else, and defending her family is what put her inside the Leonida Penitentiary. She comes out with a plan and no intention of going back — after the life her mother has been describing since their Liberty City days, and done waiting to be given it.
Protagonist
Jason grew up among people who made their money at the edges of the law, and a stretch in the Army did little to change the direction of travel. He is in the Keys now, earning from the drug runners who work that water, and telling himself it is temporary.
Jason's friend
Cal keeps to himself with a scanner tuned to Coast Guard traffic and a drink within reach. He is content at the bottom of the map and would happily stay there. The trouble is that Jason is not.
Vice City businessman
A Vice City name who made the crossing from the street to the balance sheet and never lets anybody forget either half of it. His holdings run to property, a club and a recording studio.
Music promoter
More dealmaker than enforcer. Dre'Quan sold on the street with his attention somewhere else entirely — music was always the plan, and he is working the Vice City scene from the business side of it now.
Bae-Luxe and Roxy
Bae-Luxe and Roxy have been a double act since school. They turned a sideline relieving local dealers of their takings into an audience, built on hard tracks and a feed that never stops.
Bank robber
A bank robber of long standing who recruits on charm and nerve. Every job he plans carries more risk than the last, and the crew around him will eventually have to choose between following him up and walking.
Keys smuggler
A survivor of the Keys smuggling era who still moves product through his boat yard, with his third wife Lori alongside him. Jason has a roof from him, and the rent is paid in favours.
Collector and fixer
An eccentric collector who also works as a local fixer, and the one behind the Classic Car Collection: finding abandoned classics and half-finished project cars and restoring them.
Vice City is where it starts. The state around it is where Rockstar says the story actually runs.
State
The state the game takes place in, and the reach of the conspiracy Jason and Lucia end up inside. Vice City is its best-known address, but the state runs a long way past it.
City
The city Leonida is known for, and the centre of gravity for most of what happens in it — the money, the music business and the people with an interest in both.
Region
The island chain at the southern end of the state, and long-standing ground for anyone moving product by water. Jason works here; Brian has been working here a great deal longer.
Region
Leonida's forgotten coast. The tourists stopped coming back and left cheap motels, dead attractions and empty strip malls behind them; the economy that took over runs on painkillers, malt liquor and whatever the truck stops sell.
Region
The wetlands, and the part of the state nobody has managed to tame. Alligators are what the place is known for; they are not the most dangerous thing in the water, and the mangroves hide stranger things still.
Region
The middle of the state, where industry and old-fashioned values still hold, whatever it costs to keep them. The Allied Crystal sugar refinery is what the place works for; the local biker club runs most of what it does not.
Landmark
A national landmark on the state's northern border, and the outdoors end of Leonida — hunting, fishing and off-road trails through thick backwoods. The people living out in them have gone to some trouble to be left alone.
Every official video released for the game so far.
The gameplay presentation: two leads, the jobs they take and the state they take them in, running on a PlayStation 5.
The second look at Leonida, and the trailer that introduced most of the cast Rockstar has named so far.
The announcement trailer: the first sight of Vice City rebuilt, and of Lucia.
What is confirmed, what it means, and what is still open.
Rockstar showed twenty-six minutes of Grand Theft Auto VI running on a PlayStation 5. Here is everything it establishes about how the game plays, everything it only suggests, and the difference between the two.
Rockstar Games has addressed the Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay footage that leaked over the past week, calling it heartbreaking for the team, apologising for how long the wait has been, and confirming that the Extended Look goes ahead tomorrow. The release date still stands.
Leaked footage circulating under the same alias as the current Grand Theft Auto VI leak wave appears to show around four and a half minutes of Lucia under direct player control inside a correctional facility. We have reviewed it, and we are not publishing what it reveals about the story.
1068 vehicles catalogued and searchable — every one identified by manufacturer, class and in-game model, with further detail added as it is recorded.
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PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S
