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23 OctAnalysis
Since March 2025, publishers have said privately that they would steer clear of GTA 6. In 2026, two games planned for the fall did it: Fable moved to February 2027, and Squadron 42 named GTA 6 as the reason for its delay.
22 OctEntry
Take-Two, Rockstar's parent company, trades on the Nasdaq as TTWO. Its shares fell 8.1% on November 7, 2025, the day after GTA 6 slipped to November 19, 2026, and closed at $206.16 on October 21, 2026.
19 OctGuide
GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, 1,749 days after Rockstar first spoke about the project. In between came two delays, three trailers and an ESRB rating, all dated here.
27 SeptGuide
GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026, three weeks before The Game Awards on December 10. Games must be on sale by Friday, November 20 at 9 p.m. PT to qualify, which gives GTA 6 one day to spare.
18 SeptGuide
Metacritic tops the series out at Grand Theft Auto IV and its 98, drawn from 86 critic reviews. OpenCritic counts differently and puts Red Dead Redemption 2 ahead on 95, from 223 critics.
17 SeptGuide
Rockstar Games ran its own GTA 5 review round-up on September 16, 2013, with the countdown to launch measured in hours. Red Dead Redemption 2 reviews went live at 4AM Pacific on October 25, 2018.
17 SeptGuide
Rockstar Games put out a 3.30GB Launch Day Title Update the day before Red Dead Redemption 2 shipped in October 2018. GTA 6 comes with a download code in the box, so every buyer goes through the store this time.
11 SeptNews
Vice City is Rockstar's take on Miami, and the studio wants space in the real one. The September 10, 2026 vote passed 4-3 on a campaign that Miami New Times, which publishes the agreement, describes as approved.
4 SeptNews
English-language gaming sites have spent the past week repeating that GTA 6's launch day will cost the US economy more than $1 billion. The figure traces back to one outlet's back-of-the-envelope arithmetic.
4 SeptNews
The November 19, 2026 release date has turned into a retention tool. An Army engineer battalion in Georgia is trading four days of leave for a new contract, timed to the launch.
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 AugGuide
Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on November 19, 2026. Footage has circulated since August 18, 2026 without Rockstar Games authenticating a single clip, and since August 26 it has carried story details from the prologue.
28 AugFAQ
Grand Theft Auto VI launches on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19, 2026, at midnight Eastern on the US PlayStation Store. These 43 short answers were revised on October 26, 2026, from the unlock time to the age rating.
28 AugGuide
Preload for GTA 6 opens on November 12, 2026 at midnight local time, seven days before release, for digital and code-in-box buyers alike. The job before then is clearing room on the console.
28 AugNews
Grand Theft Auto VI is still dated November 19, 2026. Rockstar Games restated the date on August 26 in its statement about the leaks, and Take-Two's filings stay in line with it.
28 AugGuide
Grand Theft Auto VI launches on Thursday, November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and preload opens seven days earlier, on November 12. On September 7, 2026, IGN put the unlock at midnight local time.