a song called "Welcome to Vice City" just showed up in a music rights database with Bad Bunny and Diplo credited as writers (spotted by @TexFunz2). not confirmed for GTA 6 yet, but that title is hard to ignore
rockstar confirmed it: GTA 6 targets 30fps on every console, PS5 Pro included. the Pro gets PSSR and ray-traced shadows no one else gets. for a world this dense, i'm fine with it
GTA 6 is now reportedly the most pre-ordered game ever. Sensor Tower estimates 9.69M pre-orders, passing Cyberpunk 2077's 8M record, with almost 2M added in the last week alone.
Zelnick says AI-assisted reverse engineering is turning into a bigger piracy problem, so Take-Two is stepping up its technical defenses and legal action. unofficial GTA 6 PC ports are clearly on their radar
UK workers have apparently booked around 83,000 days of annual leave for GTA VI across November and December ๐ญ
That's from BrightHR, who looked at leave data from 1.2 million employees at 70,000 UK businesses. What's even crazier is that more than twice as many people booked launch day off for GTA as for their honeymoon. One person took a full fortnight off just to finish the game.
And the reasons people typed into their requests are perfect. "GTA release, I'll resign if this is denied" is my favorite so far.
Honestly I get it. We waited 13 years for this, a day off feels like the bare minimum. I'm not booking two weeks, but launch day is not a work day for me.
are you taking time off for it, or playing after work like a responsible adult ?
๐จ GTA 6 IS GETTING A MASSIVE LAUNCH CELEBRATION IN MIAMI!
A special live event called โGrand Theft Auto VI: The Festivalโ is set to take place on November 21 at Mana Wynwood in Miami!
The event will feature a star-studded lineup of artists from GTA 6 and its official soundtrack.
Fans can enter a pre-sale ticket lottery by signing up at https://t.co/klOeCAmuTl and creating a https://t.co/0PDi63Yfvl account before November 10 at 4 PM ET.
Selected fans will get their chance to purchase tickets on November 11 at 12 PM ET! ๐ฅ
One of the most iconic things about GTA was basically made in a single evening.
Back in 2001, GTA III was nearly done when 9/11 happened. Rockstar delayed it and went back through the game: the police cars lost their NYPD-style blue and white look and turned black and white, a plane's flight path was changed so it didn't look like it was flying into a skyscraper, and a mission referencing terrorists was cut.
But the biggest change was the box. Rockstar felt the original cover was too raw, so a new one was put together in an evening, inspired by 60s movie posters like The Thomas Crown Affair. Sam Houser said they instantly liked it more. That panel layout became the look of pretty much every GTA cover since. Europe actually still got the original one.
Kinda wild that the most recognizable art style in gaming came out of a last-minute rethink. And with GTA 6 getting pushed back more than once too, I'm starting to think Rockstar's best stuff comes out of those extra months ๐
did you grow up with the panel cover or the European one?
55. That's how many achievements GTA 6 reportedly has set up on Xbox right now, according to dataminer @TexFunz2, and @PlaystationSize says the PS5 trophy count is 55 too.
Nothing official from Rockstar yet, so no names, no descriptions, no list. But one detail has me hooked: 54 of the entries look normal, while one carries a 1000 value. Tex thinks that's either an "unlock everything else" achievement or a placeholder for an Xbox Mythic achievement.
For context, iGrandTheftAuto points out RDR2 launched with 34 single-player trophies. Going this far past that tells me Rockstar wants us digging into every corner of Leonida, not just rolling credits and calling it a day.
So is 55 the sweet spot for a map this big, or too few? My take: it's perfect, as long as there's no "collect 100 hidden things" nightmare buried in there. Where do you land?
Nick DiGiovanni just recooked the Prairie sandwich from GTA 6 in real life, and I can't stop staring at it.
It's that Chacey's box meal from the in-game TV ad โ cowboy-hat bun, a ridiculous pile of meat, and the punchline that it only has 30,000 calories. It's pretty clearly the game's version of Arby's Meat Mountain, except they made the parody even more unhinged.
What's wild is this isn't just some random chef challenge. A full GTA 6 promo shows up in his new video: the official artwork, the gameplay, even a glowing VI box on the set. They're going after people who don't already live on GTA accounts, the same kind of move as that read on Druski's Coulda Been Records.
And honestly, this was the perfect thing to recreate. The sandwich in the game already looks like a dare. Seeing it built for real, sheriff star on the bun and everything, makes the joke hit even harder.
Would I eat the whole thing? Not a chance. I'd take one bite for the story and then immediately start negotiating with my stomach.
A new GTA VI advertisement has appeared in a YouTube video by @NickDiGiovanni
The video features a real-life recreation of the Prairie Burger from Chacey's, GTA VI's fictional fast-food chain.
The burger contains four types of meat and a whopping 30,000 calories!
I've been seeing so many people finish Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time lately, and I can't explain why that makes me this happy.
GTA 6 is right around the corner, so it makes sense. A lot of people are sitting down with the last world Rockstar built before Leonida โ not as homework, just because they finally want to feel what everyone has been talking about for years.
And the best part is they don't know yet.
They don't know how quiet a ride back to camp can be. They don't know a stranger on the road can steal a whole afternoon in the best way. They're still in that window where the map feels too big and every little town might matter.
I remember thinking it was slow the first time I played it. Then it clicked that the slowness was the point. You weren't supposed to rush through it like a checklist. Watching people hit that same realization now, right before a new Rockstar game drops, feels kind of special.
There's something really beautiful about a bunch of people having their first campfire, their first snow in the mountains, their first "wait, this is what this game actually is" moment, all at the same time.
If you're one of those first-timers: take it slow. Don't look anything up. And if you already finished it years ago... are you a little jealous of them right now?
Because I am.
these GTA 6 details just got allegedly confirmed and i need someone to look me in the eyes and tell me they're fake
โข jason has to ask lucia for the bank account password
โข the safehouse has two-factor authentication. guess who has the other code
โข jason's getaway driver rating is sitting at 2.1 stars
โข mid-shootout prompt: press โณ to apologize
โข "this purchase needs approval from lucia"
โข they split the take 60/40. she takes 60
โข shared location is on 24/7 and she still texts where are you
โข fast travel stays locked until you go pick her up
โข the game only autosaves if you remembered the anniversary
โข there's a whole side mission and it's just couple's counseling
โข you can't sell the car because she has memories in that one
โข Find My, but it's the stolen civic
โข jason texts "you up?" at 3am. the heist starts at 3:15
โข the cops track them through a shared apple id
โข lucia drops a voice note in the middle of a chase and it's just "don't forget milk"
โข add a stop. during a police chase
โข "i'm five minutes away" lasts 40 minutes
โข the dog from the trailer has to be walked or stealth is ruined
i'm putting all my money on the bank password one. which of these is making it into the final game?
I keep coming back to the people in GTA 6's screenshots more than the cars or the skyline.
This bar looks like everyone was halfway through their own night before the camera showed up. The pink sunglasses, the drinks, the couple by the stage. Nobody looks placed there just to fill space.
That's what I want from Leonida: places that don't need Jason or Lucia to be interesting. I'd happily put a mission on hold just to sit here and people-watch.
am I the only one zooming in on the background characters? ๐
The @PlaystationSize account which revealed the estimated file size for GTA 6 (amongst many other games) explained that they also know how many trophies the game will include. Although there's no details yet, it probably won't be long until that data begins to appear ๐