Characters, places, vehicles, weapons. What is officially documented. Everything you need to know before your first day in Vice City on November 19, 2026.
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17 OctEntry
On August 18, 2026, a site called Cyberleek began posting GTA 6 gameplay videos. The account then tied its leaks to a crypto token, and Take-Two went to a New York federal court to unmask it.
16 OctEntry
Ivan Pavlovich has overseen Rockstar Games' music since GTA V in 2013. A former Chicago label boss, he built the Los Santos radio dial and brought real club DJs into GTA Online.
16 OctEntry
Leslie Benzies produced every major GTA from 2001 to 2013 out of Edinburgh. His exit, made public on January 12, 2016, handed Rockstar North to the two men now shipping GTA 6 on November 19, 2026.
15 OctEntry
Rockstar Games was founded in New York in December 1998 by five people. Sam Houser, the studio's president, is the last of them still in place as GTA 6 heads for its November 19, 2026 launch.
15 OctEntry
Arion Kurtaj was 17 when his breach of Rockstar Games put GTA 6 in front of the public in September 2022. Sent to a secure hospital in December 2023, he is now in prison ahead of a new trial set for November 9, 2026.
14 OctEntry
Take-Two credits Rockstar Games with 10 in-house studios, from Scotland to Australia. Rockstar North leads development of GTA 6 in Edinburgh, and a team set up in Los Angeles works on the game's pedestrians.
14 OctEntry
Jennifer Kolbe started at the front desk of Take-Two and now runs publishing at Rockstar Games. In September 2026, her statement on a 32 player online format surfaced in Rockstar's filings at the Glasgow employment tribunal.
13 OctEntry
Karl Slatoff has been president of Take-Two Interactive, the publisher that owns Rockstar Games, since May 2013. He is the second voice on the quarterly calls after Strauss Zelnick, and here is what he said about GTA 6 from August 2025 to August 2026.
13 OctEntry
Michael Unsworth shared writing credits on GTA V and both Red Dead Redemption games with Dan Houser. He left Rockstar in summer 2023 after sixteen years and has led story at Absurd Ventures since October 2023.
12 OctEntry
Lazlow Jones wrote, produced and hosted Grand Theft Auto's satirical radio for nearly two decades. He left Rockstar in 2020 and is a founding member of Absurd Ventures, the studio Dan Houser runs.
11 OctEntry
Ocean Beach is one of four Vice City places Rockstar Games names in its official text of May 6, 2025. The studio gives it pastel art deco hotels and white sands, and the press keeps finding Ocean Drive in Miami Beach behind it.
11 OctEntry
Stockyard is the Vice City district Rockstar Games names on the Xbox listing for the Ultimate Edition upgrade, as the home of a streetwear shop. More than 50 real street artists designed murals for places like it, modeled on Miami's Wynwood.
10 OctEntry
Little Cuba is one of four Vice City places Rockstar Games names in its official copy. The line published on May 6, 2025 gives it bakeries and bootleg brands next door.
9 OctEntry
Jason Schreier has covered video games for Bloomberg News since April 2020. On GTA 6, his reporting has often landed before Rockstar's own announcements, and the record from 2022 to 2026 shows what was borne out.
8 OctEntry
Megamundo is the Spanish-language media group of GTA 6, which Game Informer reads as a take on Telemundo. Its first US headquarters, a Vice City tower, hosts the longest sequence of the Extended Look shown on August 27, 2026.
7 OctEntry
Dan Houser co-founded Rockstar Games in 1998 and led writing on the series through Red Dead Redemption 2. He left on March 11, 2020, and told IGN in September 2025 that GTA 6's story belongs to other writers.
6 OctEntry
Take-Two Interactive has owned Rockstar Games since the studio was founded in December 1998. Its fiscal year runs April to March, and the one ending March 31, 2027 is guided to jump from $6.72 billion to over $8 billion on GTA 6.
5 OctEntry
Sam Houser co-founded Rockstar Games in December 1998 and has produced the series since GTA III. His signature opened the GTA 6 campaign on November 8, 2023, before he handed the microphone to his studio heads.
5 OctEntry
Rupert Humphries runs narrative at Rockstar and has shared writing credits on the series since GTA IV in 2008. Since August 26, 2026, he has been the one explaining GTA 6's story to the press, from Dazed to Game Informer.
4 OctEntry
Aaron Garbut co-runs Rockstar North, the Edinburgh studio making GTA 6, and has shaped the look of the series since GTA III. On September 29, 2026, he was the one who gave Game Informer the size of the map.
4 OctEntry
Strauss Zelnick has run Take-Two Interactive, the publisher that owns Rockstar Games, since 2007. On GTA 6 he talks money and dates: nine of his quotes, dated and sourced, from the first delay to the September 17, 2026 stockholders meeting.
10 SeptEntry
Rob Nelson is head of development and co-studio head at Rockstar North, the Edinburgh studio building GTA 6. Since August 26, 2026, he is the only person at Rockstar Games talking about the game on the record.
29 AugEntry
Ambrosia is the industrial and farming middle of Leonida, one of the six destinations Rockstar Games described on May 6, 2025. A sugar refinery supplies the jobs there, and a biker gang supplies almost everything else.
29 AugEntry
Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, the game's first official gameplay video, aired on August 27, 2026. Its exact runtime sits in the duration field of its YouTube page: 1,608 seconds, or 26 minutes and 48 seconds.
29 AugEntry
Boobie Ike is one of the nine people named across the eight character pages Rockstar Games put online on May 6, 2025. The studio calls him a local Vice City legend whose empire rests on real estate, a strip club and a recording studio.
29 AugEntry
Brian Heder is one of six supporting characters Rockstar Games gave an official page on May 6, 2025. The Leonida Keys drug runner lets Jason Duval live rent-free at one of his properties, in exchange for help with local shakedowns.
29 AugEntry
Cal Hampton is one of the six supporting characters Rockstar Games gave a page to on May 6, 2025. Several outlets credit him with the voiceover closing the 26 minutes and 48 seconds of An Extended Look.
29 AugEntry
CircoLoco Records has been a working dance label since May 24, 2021, with an EP and a compilation to its name. It now turns up as a station in the sixteen names the press pulled out of the August 2026 leaks.
29 AugEntry
Dre'Quan Priest is the Only Raw Records producer in GTA 6, one of eight characters Rockstar gave a page of their own on May 6, 2025. That page spells out who funds the label and who has just signed to it.
29 AugEntry
Grassrivers is the wetland region of Leonida, one of six destinations Rockstar Games described on May 6, 2025. An Extended Look put it in motion on August 27, 2026, around the 17:10 mark, from a small boat.
29 AugEntry
The first Grand Theft Auto shipped in November 1997 on MS-DOS. Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19, 2026, at the end of the longest gap the series has ever put between two mainline games.
29 AugEntry
The Leonida Keys are one of the six destinations Rockstar Games has described for GTA 6. The studio published three sentences about them on May 6, 2025, under the title Gateway to Paradise.
29 AugEntry
Mount Kalaga National Park is one of six Leonida destinations Rockstar Games has named. The studio's two sentences from May 6, 2025 remain the official text, and everything else in circulation comes from screenshots.
29 AugEntry
Port Gellhorn is one of the six Leonida destinations described by Rockstar Games. The studio published its official text on May 6, 2025, under the title 'Live Hard', and that text is still the reference.
29 AugEntry
Raul Bautista is the career bank robber of GTA 6, one of the supporting characters Rockstar Games put online on May 6, 2025. He holds a panel of the official cover art and barks the orders from the back seat of the getaway car in An Extended Look.
29 AugEntry
Real Dimez is the rap duo of GTA 6, Bae-Luxe and Roxy, signed to Only Raw Records. Rockstar Games told Dazed that the pair's climb is followed through viral posts inside the game.
29 AugEntry
Rockstar North builds Grand Theft Auto VI in Edinburgh. The studio started out as DMA Design in Dundee, had about 22 staff in 1992 and around 650 by 2018, and Rob Nelson and Aaron Garbut run it today.
29 AugEntry
Rockstar Games revealed the official GTA 6 cover art on June 18, 2026 in a 33-second video. It reuses the panel grid Vice City established in 2002, and gives one box to an animal for the first time in the series.
29 AugEntry
The first GTA 6 trailer went up on December 4, 2023, a day before the slot Rockstar Games had booked for it. The YouTube timestamp reads 3:07:10 p.m. Pacific, which puts it 14 hours 53 minutes early.
29 AugEntry
Rockstar put the second GTA 6 trailer online with no warning on May 6, 2025, a week after pushing the game back to May 26, 2026. Four songs play across its 167 seconds, and the official description names exactly one of them.
29 AugEntry
The Ultimate Edition of GTA 6 adds sixteen items to the game, published one by one by Rockstar Games. Fourteen of them are an object or the shop that hands it over, and only two open an activity exclusive to the edition.
29 AugEntry
Vice City is the metropolis of Leonida and the main setting of GTA 6. Rockstar Games officially names only four places inside it, in a text published on May 6, 2025, and no game in the series has been set there since 2006.
29 AugEntry
The Vintage Vice City Pack comes with every GTA 6 pre-order, on both editions and at every retailer. Rockstar Games published its contents in three lines on June 24, 2026, and set the cut-off at November 20, 2026.
28 AugEntry
Jason Duval is one of the two playable characters in GTA 6, alongside Lucia Caminos. Rockstar Games introduced him with a full character page on May 6, 2025.
28 AugEntry
Rockstar Games has described six destinations in Leonida, published on May 6, 2025 alongside 70 4K screenshots. Those texts and images are the only official material on the state's geography.
28 AugEntry
Lucia Caminos walks out of the Leonida Penitentiary and into the first fully written female lead of the main Grand Theft Auto line. Rockstar Games' five-paragraph bio places her childhood in Liberty City, the city of GTA IV.