NEWS:
- Over 30 Rockstar employees who were fired last year have announced the Rockstar Workers Union and that many current employees have also joined, as they aim for pay transparency, flexible working and an end to crunch.
- Strauss Zelnick says review scores are important for GTA 6 and that “Rockstar’s scores are typically in the mid-90s, sometimes high 90s. Not many games can say that, and that’s a reflection on Rockstar’s commitment to quality.”
- He also expressed his love for Red Dead Redemption 2, stating that the increasing sales aren’t driven by the anticipation for GTA 6, but because it has a very loyal and engaged audience.
- Strauss doesn’t expect many employees to quit once the game launches and that “Rockstar has a lot of work to do after the launch of GTA 6.”
- Multiple people, including a German YouTuber stood in front of Rockstar North showing support and demanding Turkish language to be added in the game.
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Rockstar Games made over $5 billion just from Shark Cards in GTA Online, according to the leaked financial metrics.
One Xbox player in the US spent $1 million on the Megalodon Shark Cards in 2020.
Insane.
Insider Jason Schreier shares new GTA 6 details:
- The last he heard the game was NOT content complete
- He believes it’s really hard to say right now if the game will release in November, and doesn’t think anyone at Rockstar is 100% certain they’ll make it
- This release date feels a little bit more real than Fall 2025 or May 2026 did
- Developers are still finalizing missions, adding stuff and deciding what makes it into the final game
- He hopes they’re done with that soon so they can start the bug fixing phase
- Rockstar can’t settle for anything less than perfection as the stakes are high
- The entire stock of Take-Two lives or dies on this game
- They would rather let it slip again than release it in a compromised state
- Take-Two’s fiscal year ends in late March 2027, so they have a little bit of buffer if they still want to release the game in the same fiscal year
- He says PlayStation is the main platform for the game and Sony is planning its entire lineup around it
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Lead GTA and RDR writer, Dan Houser confirms he left Rockstar Games because the projects became bigger and tougher and took a long time to make:
“It can be a tough journey getting things at that scale with that many moving parts finished, you got 450,000 lines of dialogue and equal numbers of parts of other things all trying to assemble itself.
It’s this huge production experience and that swallows all of your time for many years, and I didn’t know if I had another one of those games in me.”
Current record for the longest development period for a videogame? 14 years and 43 days.
Officially announced on 28 April 1997 by developer 3D Realms, the FPS 'Duke Nukem Forever' was finally released on 10 June 2011.
Hi everyone,
Grand Theft Auto VI will now release on Thursday, November 19, 2026.
We are sorry for adding additional time to what we realize has been a long wait, but these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve.