Everything confirmed about GTA 6

GTA VI has been in public view since December 2023 and the confirmed record is still short enough to read in one sitting. Almost everything else written about the game is inference from what Rockstar has shown. This is the part that is not.

That date has moved before, and Rockstar has been unusually plain about it each time. An earlier 2025 window became 26 May 2026, and 26 May 2026 became November. The current date has held since the announcement and pre-orders are already open against it.

This is the shortest section and the one most often reported incorrectly. The platforms above are the announcement in full. Nothing has been said about a PC release, and the absence of an announcement is not a hidden confirmation of one.

Vice City is the return people reacted to, but the state around it is the more interesting confirmation. The regions Rockstar has named reach well past the city limits — a structure closer to Grand Theft Auto V's county than to the original Vice City's islands.

Rockstar publishes a profile for each one it bills by full name, and none of them is a bystander. The company the leads keep divides cleanly between the city and the water — clubs, studios and property in Vice City, boats and the work that moves through them down in the Keys.

Until 27 August, Rockstar had shown nothing of how the game plays. The Extended Look changed that, and our report on it goes through what the footage shows.

Still not confirmed:

• The size of the map.
• The length of the story, and how much of Leonida is open at the start.
• Whether there is an online mode at launch, and what form it would take.
• A release on anything other than PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, PC included.
• How high the wanted level goes.