Verified GTA 6 news, guides and tools, ahead of the November 19, 2026 release.https://gta6-life.com/en-UShttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/ambrosia/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/ambrosia/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTmapleonidarockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/an-extended-look/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/an-extended-look/Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look is the game's first official gameplay video. Its exact runtime, which Rockstar Games never published, sits in the YouTube duration field: 1,608 seconds.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTextended-looktrailersrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/best-tv-for-gta-6/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/best-tv-for-gta-6/Grand Theft Auto VI arrives November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and Rockstar North's Rob Nelson says console builds run at 30 frames per second. At that cadence, half of what a gaming TV advertises has nothing left to do.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThardwareps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/boobie-ike/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/boobie-ike/Boobie Ike is one of the nine people named across the eight character pages Rockstar Games put online on May 6, 2025. The studio describes an empire built on real estate, a strip club and a recording studio, and never names the club.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharactersvice-cityleonidahttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/brian-heder/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/brian-heder/Brian Heder is one of six supporting characters Rockstar Games gave an official page on May 6, 2025. He houses Jason Duval for free in the Leonida Keys, and his boat yard has never been given a name.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharactersleonidastoryhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/cal-hampton/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/cal-hampton/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharactersvice-cityextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/circoloco-records/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/circoloco-records/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoundtrackrockstarleakshttps://gta6-life.com/en/deals/console-prices-before-gta-6/https://gta6-life.com/en/deals/console-prices-before-gta-6/Two console price rises landed four months apart in 2026, one from Sony and one from Microsoft. With 82 days left before GTA 6, the number on the box only means something read next to the ones it replaced.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpriceps5xboxhardwarehttps://gta6-life.com/en/deals/controllers-and-headsets-worth-it/https://gta6-life.com/en/deals/controllers-and-headsets-worth-it/Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19, 2026, and the PlayStation and Microsoft listings both file it as a one player game. The 12.8 milliseconds that separate two premium controllers have nobody to be spent against.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThardwareps5pricehttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/digital-foundry-measured-the-extended-look/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/digital-foundry-measured-the-extended-look/Digital Foundry published its Extended Look analysis on August 28, 2026, and the roundups kept the compliments. The same text describes softness, visible geometric aliasing, shimmer on fine details and noisy ray-traced reflections.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTps5xboxextended-lookhardwarehttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/drequan-priest/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/drequan-priest/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharacterssoundtrackleonidahttps://gta6-life.com/en/deals/edition-prices-tracked/https://gta6-life.com/en/deals/edition-prices-tracked/The official price of the Standard edition has not moved since pre-orders opened on June 25, 2026: $79.99 in the United States. No American retailer has been recorded selling the boxed copy below that figure.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpricepre-ordereditionshttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/everything-to-do-outside-missions/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/everything-to-do-outside-missions/Twenty categories of open world activity were counted in the Extended Look of August 27, 2026, from scuba diving to pool. Rockstar Games has never published a list of its own, and several of those twenty are only half playable.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgameplayextended-lookleonidahttps://gta6-life.com/en/deals/expansion-ssd-prices/https://gta6-life.com/en/deals/expansion-ssd-prices/Rockstar Games has published no install size for GTA 6, so the one figure worth comparing before November 19, 2026 is the price of a terabyte. In the United States it ran from $162 to $462 in June 2026.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThardwareps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/fake-gta-6-demo-steals-passwords/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/fake-gta-6-demo-steals-passwords/Malwarebytes published its analysis of the campaign on August 24, 2026. Four domains dressed up as Rockstar Games offer a GTA 6 demo that does not exist, and deliver a 1.1 MB credential stealer instead.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTleaksrockstarextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/grassrivers/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/grassrivers/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTleonidamapextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-6-characters-explained/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-6-characters-explained/Rockstar Games has published eight character profiles on its GTA 6 site, and nothing else. They name nine people, spell out who knows whom, and carry no cast credit of any kind.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharactersstoryrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/gta-6-is-carrying-the-2026-console-market/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/gta-6-is-carrying-the-2026-console-market/Newzoo published its 2026 forecast for the global console market on August 27, 2026: $46.9 billion, up 5.1 percent. Without Grand Theft Auto VI, the firm says, that growth would not be there.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTtake-twopricehardwarehttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-6-language-options/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-6-language-options/Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19, 2026 with thirteen languages on its store page and no label telling you which ones you will hear. Only one audio track has ever been described anywhere: English.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrockstarps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-6-parents-guide/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-6-parents-guide/Grand Theft Auto VI reaches shelves on November 19, 2026 with no final rating from the ESRB or from PEGI. Every official storefront checked on August 28, 2026 served an empty descriptor table.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTesrbps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-online-what-we-know/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-online-what-we-know/Rockstar Games sells Grand Theft Auto VI as a single-player experience and has announced no online mode for November 19, 2026. GTA Online, meanwhile, has had two content updates in a year, going by Take-Two's own filings.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgta-onlinerockstartake-twohttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/gta-series-history/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/gta-series-history/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrockstartake-tworelease-datehttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-heists-work-in-gta-6/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-heists-work-in-gta-6/A GTA 6 heist is a trade between speed and greed, and the money it produces is now something the main story asks for. Everything known about it comes from the Extended Look of August 27, 2026 and the interviews around it.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgameplaypoliceextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-long-is-gta-6/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-long-is-gta-6/Rockstar Games has never published a story length for Grand Theft Auto VI. The 80 hours in circulation since August 27, 2026 come from one developer's playthrough, optional goals included, and every figure compared here says what it measures.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTstorygameplaycharactershttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/how-many-copies-will-gta-6-sell/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/how-many-copies-will-gta-6-sell/Six named analysts forecast GTA 6 sales between May 22 and June 24, 2026, landing anywhere from 30 million units to nearly 60 million. The spread shrinks the moment you check what window each number actually covers.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTtake-tworockstarps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-much-storage-you-need/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-much-storage-you-need/Rockstar Games has published no install size for GTA 6 on any platform, and nothing says one will appear before pre-load opens on November 12, 2026. Two numbers are checkable today: the space each console leaves you, and the price of a terabyte.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThardwareps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-the-jason-and-lucia-bond-works/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-the-jason-and-lucia-bond-works/Rockstar Games runs two separate systems around Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos. Only one of them is optional, and the headlines published on August 27, 2026 disagreed about which one.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharactersstorygameplayhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-the-police-system-works/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-the-police-system-works/Rockstar Games has published no fact sheet on how GTA 6 plays. Everything known about its police comes from the 26 minutes and 48 seconds of the Extended Look on August 27, 2026 and from an IGN interview with Rob Nelson the same day.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicegameplayextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-to-avoid-gta-6-spoilers/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-to-avoid-gta-6-spoilers/Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19, 2026, 82 days from now. Footage has been circulating since August 18 that Rockstar Games has never commented on, and going looking for it runs straight into a credential-stealing campaign documented on August 24, 2026.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTleaksrockstarrelease-datehttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-to-spot-a-fake-gta-6-leak/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/how-to-spot-a-fake-gta-6-leak/Rockstar Games has named zero actors and published zero unlock times, yet both circulate as fact. Five questions sort a real leak from a fake, and each one is tested here against a hoax that is already dated and documented.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTleaksrockstarpre-orderhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/is-the-ps5-pro-worth-it/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/is-the-ps5-pro-worth-it/The PS5 Pro has cost $899.99 since April 2, 2026, three hundred dollars above a PS5 Digital Edition. That gap buys no extra frames in Grand Theft Auto VI, because the component holding the game at 30fps is the one the Pro barely improves.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTps5hardwarepricehttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/leonida-keys/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/leonida-keys/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, and named no island in the archipelago.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTleonidamapextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/mount-kalaga/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/mount-kalaga/Mount Kalaga National Park is one of six Leonida destinations Rockstar Games has named and described. The studio gave it two sentences on May 6, 2025, and almost everything else in circulation comes from screenshots and press readings.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTleonidamapextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/netflix-held-twitch-fell/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/netflix-held-twitch-fell/Netflix carried all 26 minutes and 48 seconds of the Extended Look on August 27, 2026 without a lasting failure. Twitch, which Rockstar had cleared creators to stream from 3 p.m. ET, was reporting a major outage an hour later.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTextended-looktrailersrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/no-disc-for-ultimate-edition/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/no-disc-for-ultimate-edition/Grand Theft Auto VI reaches shelves on November 12, 2026 in a single box, priced $79.99 and holding a download code. Rockstar's support page rules out any physical Ultimate Edition, against the pre-order tables that still list one.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTeditionspre-orderpricehttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/pc-version-when/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/pc-version-when/Rockstar Games has announced no PC version of GTA 6: no date, no window, no system requirements. Seven dated ports, from GTA III in 2002 to Red Dead Redemption in 2024, are enough to build a range and to say what it rests on.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpcrockstarhardwarehttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/port-gellhorn/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/port-gellhorn/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 has added nothing to it since.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTmapleonidarockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/raul-bautista/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/raul-bautista/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 runs the getaway shown in An Extended Look.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharactersextended-lookrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/real-dimez/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/real-dimez/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharacterssoundtrackgameplayhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/rockstar-north/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/rockstar-north/Rockstar North builds Grand Theft Auto VI in Edinburgh. The studio started life as DMA Design with roughly two dozen staff, and Rob Nelson and Aaron Garbut run it today.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrockstartake-twovice-cityhttps://gta6-life.com/en/deals/screens-worth-buying/https://gta6-life.com/en/deals/screens-worth-buying/Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19, 2026 targeting 30 frames per second, or 33.3 ms per image. At that cadence a television is judged on its game mode latency, not on the 165 Hz printed across its spec sheet.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThardwareps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/soundtrack-and-radio-stations/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/soundtrack-and-radio-stations/Rockstar Games has credited two songs for GTA 6, one per trailer. With 82 days to go before November 19, 2026, no station list, no licensed track count and no soundtrack release have been published.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoundtracktrailersextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/still-no-pc-version/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/still-no-pc-version/Rockstar's support page, updated June 24, 2026, still lists PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S and nothing else. With 82 days to go before November 19, 2026, the studio's own port record runs from seven months to fourteen years.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpcrockstarps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/the-best-gta-6-setup/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/the-best-gta-6-setup/Console builds of GTA 6 run at 30 frames per second, according to Rockstar North co-director Rob Nelson. That single line deletes half of the usual shopping list and puts the November 19, 2026 floor at $579.98, on an Xbox Series S.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThardwarepriceps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/the-criminal-profile-is-not-karma/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/the-criminal-profile-is-not-karma/Rob Nelson, co-studio head at Rockstar North, described two trackers to IGN on August 27, 2026 that never feed into each other. The Criminal Profile logs long-term behaviour, and what a mission demands stays out of it.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgameplaypolicerockstarextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/the-official-cover-art/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/the-official-cover-art/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, with one box the series had never given to an animal.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTvice-cityrockstarpre-orderhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/trailer-1-december-2023/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/trailer-1-december-2023/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTtrailersrockstarsoundtrackhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/trailer-2-may-2025/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/trailer-2-may-2025/The second GTA 6 trailer arrived on May 6, 2025, a week after the game slipped to May 26, 2026. Four songs play across its 167 seconds, and the official description names exactly one.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTtrailerssoundtrackrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/trailer-view-records/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/trailer-view-records/The counters on all three official GTA 6 videos were read on Rockstar Games' YouTube channel on August 28, 2026. Trailer 1 is past 291 million views, and it is still not the most watched trailer on the platform.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTtrailersrockstarextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/ultimate-edition-contents/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/ultimate-edition-contents/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 the Standard Edition never gets.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTeditionspricevehicleshttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/vice-city/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/vice-city/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTvice-citymapleonidahttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/vintage-vice-city-pack/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/vintage-vice-city-pack/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.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpre-ordereditionspricehttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/what-the-press-previews-revealed/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/what-the-press-previews-revealed/The press event Rockstar Games held at Rockstar North in July 2026 was hands-off. The previews filed on August 27, 2026, IGN's and the New York Times' included, describe a game none of their writers has played.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTextended-lookgameplayrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/where-the-600000-animations-figure-comes-from/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/where-the-600000-animations-figure-comes-from/Rockstar Games gave The New York Times three animation totals for Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, 2026. The eleven-times comparison with GTA V that followed a day later came from the press, not from the studio.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgameplayrockstarextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/deals/where-to-find-a-ps5-at-the-old-price/https://gta6-life.com/en/deals/where-to-find-a-ps5-at-the-old-price/Microsoft is the only console maker with a discount in writing against the raised prices: certified refurbished machines up to $100 under list. On the PlayStation side, no US refurbished figure was recorded for this page on August 29, 2026.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpriceps5xboxhardwarehttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/why-netflix-got-it-first/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/why-netflix-got-it-first/Netflix premiered Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look six hours before YouTube on August 27, 2026. Strauss Zelnick gave two reasons for that order, then declined to put any number on the deal itself.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTextended-looktake-tworockstartrailershttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/cancel-a-pre-order-and-get-refunded/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/cancel-a-pre-order-and-get-refunded/The PlayStation Store charges the moment you pre-order, and its cancellation policy stops applying as soon as the main download begins. Preload opens on November 12, 2026, which makes that date the real refund deadline.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpre-orderps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/car-theft-is-no-longer-one-button/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/car-theft-is-no-longer-one-button/Rob Nelson described to IGN, on August 27, 2026, the system that replaces the single button press of GTA V. Some parked cars in Leonida stay shut until the player picks up a Slim Jim or a key cloner.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgameplayvehiclespolicerockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/eighty-hour-playthrough/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/eighty-hour-playthrough/Rockstar hosted the New York Times, which reported on August 27, 2026 how long one developer's playthrough ran: about 80 hours. Two sites read that same sentence and came away with opposite numbers.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTstoryrockstarextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/every-song-in-the-extended-look/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/every-song-in-the-extended-look/Rockstar Games published no track list for its August 27, 2026 presentation. The press identified fourteen licensed songs by ear, VICE only thirteen, and the whole gap comes down to a single track.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoundtrackextended-lookrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/extended-look-everything-shown/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/extended-look-everything-shown/Rockstar Games put 26 minutes of GTA 6 gameplay on Netflix on August 27, 2026, then on YouTube six hours later. Here are the eleven blocks of that edit in order, the timestamps the press actually published, and what the video leaves out.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTextended-lookgameplayvice-citymaphttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/gta-6-30fps-on-console/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/gta-6-30fps-on-console/Console versions of GTA 6 are running at 30 frames per second during this phase of development, according to Rob Nelson remarks reported on August 27, 2026 by a Brazilian creator. Rockstar Games itself has published no figure.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTps5xboxrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-6-faq/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/gta-6-faq/Grand Theft Auto VI launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19, 2026, 83 days out from August 28, 2026. These 43 answers each carry their date, their source and how solid that source is.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTfaqrelease-datepriceps5https://gta6-life.com/en/news/gta-6-has-no-age-rating-yet/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/gta-6-has-no-age-rating-yet/83 days before November 19, 2026, the public ESRB and PEGI databases hold no listing for Grand Theft Auto VI. The six official storefronts checked on August 28, 2026 all serve a provisional label and not a single content descriptor.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTesrbrockstarps5https://gta6-life.com/en/news/is-the-map-really-3x-rdr2/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/is-the-map-really-3x-rdr2/Rob Nelson, co-studio head at Rockstar North, gave the number to a YouTuber in July 2026, and Kotaku published it on August 27. Rockstar has published no map of Leonida and no measurement, and the two games used as yardsticks cover the same ground.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTmapleonidaextended-lookrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/jason-duval/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/jason-duval/Jason Duval is one of the two playable characters in GTA 6, alongside Lucia Caminos. Rockstar Games gave him his full name and his own character page on May 6, 2025, and has still not named the actor who voices him.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharactersstoryleonidahttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/lucia-caminos/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/lucia-caminos/Lucia Caminos walks out of the Leonida Penitentiary and into the first playable female lead the main Grand Theft Auto line has had. Rockstar Games has published five short paragraphs about her, and no age, no surname for her parents, and no voice credit.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcharactersstoryleonidahttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/no-microtransactions-no-generative-ai/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/no-microtransactions-no-generative-ai/GTA 6 will ship without microtransactions and without generative AI, according to Rob Nelson. The answer is a spoken one, reported on August 27, 2026, and Rockstar has published nothing of its own on either subject.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgameplayrockstargta-onlineesrbhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/no-multiplayer-at-launch/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/no-multiplayer-at-launch/With 83 days to go until November 19, 2026, Rockstar has given Grand Theft Auto VI one label: “a single-player experience”. That describes what ships. It excludes nothing, and Take-Two counts no online revenue in its 2027 outlook.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgta-onlinerockstartake-twohttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/november-12-preload/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/november-12-preload/Preload for GTA 6 opens on November 12, 2026 at midnight local time, seven days before release, for digital buyers and code-in-box buyers alike. Rockstar has published no download size, which leaves one job: clearing room.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrelease-datepre-orderhardwarehttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/november-19-date-holds/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/november-19-date-holds/With 83 days to go, Grand Theft Auto VI is keeping its date. Rockstar Games reaffirmed it on August 26, 2026 in its statement about the leaks, and the Extended Look a day later changed nothing in the calendar.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrelease-daterockstartake-twohttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/price-and-editions-which-to-buy/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/price-and-editions-which-to-buy/Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19, 2026 in two editions, $79.99 and $99.99, and no others. The 16 items behind that $20 gap include exactly two things to do, and the upgrade can be bought later for the same total.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpriceeditionspre-orderhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/ps5-or-xbox-series-x/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/ps5-or-xbox-series-x/Grand Theft Auto VI ships November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and nowhere else. With no official comparison published, four things separate the four consoles: price, storage, the controller and a disc drive this game never uses.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTps5xboxhardwarehttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/release-date-and-unlock-time/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/release-date-and-unlock-time/Grand Theft Auto VI launches on Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with preload opening on November 12. The hour the game actually unlocks has never been published by Rockstar Games.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTrelease-datepre-orderrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/rockstar-breaks-silence-on-leaks/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/rockstar-breaks-silence-on-leaks/Eight days after the first GTA 6 gameplay videos appeared online, Rockstar Games published a letter to its community on August 26, 2026. It acknowledges the leaks, holds the November 19, 2026 release date and sets up the Extended Look for the next day.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTleaksrockstarextended-lookhttps://gta6-life.com/en/news/six-star-wanted-system/https://gta6-life.com/en/news/six-star-wanted-system/The maximum wanted level in GTA 6 goes back to six stars, one more than GTA V. Rockstar has explained how a chase starts and how the police build a description of you, and said nothing about the final tier.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgameplaypoliceextended-lookrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/database/the-state-of-leonida/https://gta6-life.com/en/database/the-state-of-leonida/Rockstar Games has described six destinations in Leonida, published on May 6, 2025 alongside 70 4K screenshots. The studio has never released a map of the state, and has never given a single measurement of its size.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTmapleonidavice-cityrockstarhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/what-a-download-code-costs-you/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/what-a-download-code-costs-you/The physical edition of GTA 6 is a box with a download code inside and no disc. Once that code is redeemed the copy belongs to the account, and in the United States the box saves you nothing over buying digital.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpre-ordereditionsps5xboxhttps://gta6-life.com/en/guides/where-to-pre-order-gta-6/https://gta6-life.com/en/guides/where-to-pre-order-gta-6/GTA 6 has been on pre-order since June 25, 2026 at $79.99, across Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, GameStop and the three official stores. None of them undercuts the others, so the choice comes down to when the money leaves and when the code arrives.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpre-orderpriceeditions