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  "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI: From 'Well Underway' to Two Delays, the $79.99 Price and the November 19 Launch",
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      "title": "The leak: 90 videos of early GTA VI footage after a network intrusion",
      "summary": "Rockstar confirmed that an unauthorized third party had illegally accessed its systems and downloaded confidential information after a 3 GB file with 90 development videos was posted to GTAForums. It said it was extremely disappointed but expected no effect on live services or the development timeline; Take-Two issued takedowns within hours. The breach shaped Rockstar's secrecy for the next four years.",
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      "title": "A Message from Rockstar Games: the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto comes in early December",
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      "date": "2023-12-01",
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      "title": "Rockstar schedules Trailer 1 for December 5 at 9 a.m. ET",
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      "note": "Rockstar’s cited announcement states that Trailer 1 was scheduled for Tuesday, December 5 at 9 AM ET. GameSpot’s cited article reports that Rockstar indicated the first trailer would arrive on December 5, and both cited pages are dated December 1, 2023.",
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      "date": "2023-12-04",
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      "title": "Trailer 1 leaks, releases a day early, and sets a YouTube record: Vice City, Lucia, and '2025'",
      "summary": "The first trailer was meant for December 5 but leaked, so Rockstar posted it on the evening of December 4 with the note to watch the real thing on YouTube. It revealed a return to Vice City in the state of Leonida, the series' first female lead, Lucia, with her partner Jason, and a 2025 window. YouTube said it drew more than 93 million views in 24 hours, a record for a non-music video.",
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          "quote": "A trailer for “Grand Theft Auto VI,” the next installment of the wildly popular and violent game franchise, has been released early online after it had leaked. The trailer reveals that the sixth chapter is coming in 2025, according to developer Rockstar Games."
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          "quote": "YouTube announced that the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI reached the “extraordinary milestone” of generating more than 93 million views in the initial 24-hour period on the Rockstar Games YouTube channel — shattering the previous record for a non-music video debut on the platform."
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      "date": "2024-05-16",
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      "title": "Take-Two narrows the window to fall 2025 while posting a $2.9 billion quarterly loss",
      "summary": "With its fiscal 2024 results, Take-Two said Rockstar was targeting fall 2025 for GTA VI on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, narrowing the calendar-2025 window from the trailer, and guided fiscal 2025 bookings of $5.55 to $5.65 billion. The quarter carried a $2.18 billion goodwill charge; Zelnick said the company was not prepared to be more specific than 'fall'.",
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          "quote": "“Grand Theft Auto VI” has been slated for a release in the autumn of 2025 by Rockstar Games. The news was announced Thursday when Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive reported its fourth-quarter and full fiscal year 2024 earnings, revealing the company posted a $2.9 billion loss for the Jan. 1-March 31 period."
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          "quote": "Regarding GTA VI, Take-Two states, “We are highly confident that Rockstar Games will deliver an unparalleled entertainment experience, and our expectations for the commercial impact of the title continue to increase.”"
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      "date": "2025-05-02",
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      "title": "First delay: from fall 2025 to May 26, 2026; Take-Two shares fall 8 percent",
      "summary": "Rockstar said the game was now set for May 26, 2026, apologized that it was later than expected and said it needed the extra time to deliver at the level of quality expected. Take-Two, which had built fiscal 2026 around the launch, said it fully supported the decision and reiterated sequential bookings growth for 2026 and 2027; the stock dropped 8 percent at the open.",
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          "quote": "Grand Theft Auto VI is now set to release on May 26, 2026. We are very sorry that this is later than you expected."
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          "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/tech/gta-6-release-delayed-may-2026",
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          "quote": "Take-Two Interactive on Friday pushed the release of “Grand Theft Auto VI” to May 26, 2026, extending the wait for the most hotly anticipated title in video-gaming history and sending its shares tumbling 8% in early trading."
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          "quote": "“We support fully Rockstar Games taking additional time to realize their creative vision for Grand Theft Auto VI, which promises to be a groundbreaking blockbuster entertainment experience,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said."
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      "date": "2025-05-06",
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      "title": "Trailer 2, four days after the delay: 475 million views in 24 hours",
      "summary": "Rockstar released the second trailer, opening with Lucia's release from prison and Jason waiting for her, set to the Pointer Sisters, and showing the two leads playable together or apart across Leonida. Rockstar told The Hollywood Reporter it was watched 475 million times across platforms in its first day, which it called the biggest video launch of all time.",
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      "date": "2025-05-15",
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      "title": "Take-Two's first post-delay guidance: $5.9 to $6.0 billion for fiscal 2026, with GTA VI now outside the year",
      "summary": "Reporting fiscal 2025, Take-Two guided fiscal 2026 net bookings of $5.9 to $6.0 billion, a year that no longer contained a Grand Theft Auto VI launch after the May 2 delay, while reiterating that both 2026 and 2027 would set sequential records. The number was raised three times over the following year and finished at $6.72 billion.",
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      "date": "2025-11-06",
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      "title": "Second delay: November 19, 2026, 'to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect'",
      "summary": "With Take-Two's second-quarter results, Rockstar moved the game another six months to Thursday, November 19, 2026, apologizing for adding to a long wait. Zelnick said Rockstar believed a limited amount of additional time was required for polish, and that fiscal 2027 would still set record bookings. The announcement came a day after Rockstar dismissed 30 to 40 UK staff it said had shared confidential information, which a union called union-busting.",
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          "quote": "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."
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          "url": "https://www.take2games.com/ir/news/take-two-interactive-software-inc-reports-results-fiscal-3",
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          "quote": "Rockstar Games will now release Grand Theft Auto VI on November 19, 2026, and we remain both excited and confident they will deliver an unrivalled blockbuster entertainment experience. With the most robust pipeline in our Company’s history, we expect to achieve record levels of Net Bookings in Fiscal 2027, which will establish a new baseline for our business and set us on a path of enhanced profitability.”"
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          "quote": "“In this instance, of course, we’re seeking to release the most extraordinary title anyone’s ever seen in the history of entertainment,” Zelnick told Variety in an interview ahead of the announcement Thursday. “That’s a tall order. And in this instance, Rockstar Games believes a limited amount of additional time is required for polish to support that view.”"
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      "date": "2026-05-21",
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      "title": "Fiscal 2026: record $6.72 billion bookings, and $8.0 to $8.2 billion guided for the GTA VI year",
      "summary": "Take-Two closed fiscal 2026 with record net bookings of $6.72 billion, about $750 million above its initial guidance, and told investors fiscal 2027 would set new records driven by the November 19 launch, guiding $8.0 to $8.2 billion. The guidance locked the date in financially: a third delay would push the year's centerpiece out of the fiscal year.",
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          "quote": "We believe Fiscal 2027 will establish new record levels of operating performance driven by the November 19th launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, along with strong execution across our portfolio."
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      "date": "2026-06-24",
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      "title": "Priced: $79.99 standard, $99.99 Ultimate, pre-orders from June 25, single-player only at launch, and no disc",
      "summary": "Rockstar and Take-Two set the standard edition at $79.99 and an Ultimate Edition with exclusive vehicles, weapons and apparel at $99.99, with pre-orders opening at midnight local time on June 25 and a Vintage Vice City Pack for purchases before November 20. Rockstar described a single-player experience with no mention of an online mode at launch, and the physical edition ships as a code in a box rather than a disc.",
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          "quote": "Launching November 19, 2026, for the PlayStation® 5 computer entertainment systems and Xbox Series X|S games and entertainment systems for $79.99, Grand Theft Auto VI features a single-player experience set in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the series yet."
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          "quote": "The Grand Theft Auto VI: Ultimate Edition amplifies this experience with an exclusive collection of premium vehicles, weapons, apparel, and action threaded across all aspects of Jason and Lucia’s story, and will be available for $99.99. All Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders and purchases before November 20, 2026, will include the Vintage Vice City Pack, a collection of items that flash back to when the neon burned brightest, alongside a free month of GTA+ for digital pre-orders, which will be the best way to get the most out of the ever-evolving world of GTA Online and instantly redeemable so that players can jump into Grand Theft Auto V and other classic Rockstar titles as part of the GTA+ Games Library."
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      "date": "2026-08-06",
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      "title": "'An Extended Look' announced for August 27, premiering on Netflix before YouTube",
      "summary": "Rockstar said a Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look would premiere on Netflix at 3 p.m. ET on August 27 and reach its own YouTube channel and the GTA VI site at 9 p.m. ET, a first-of-its-kind partnership in Netflix's words. It would be the first new footage since the May 2025 trailer.",
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          "quote": "“Grand Theft Auto reveals have become cultural moments in their own right. The anticipation and fandom around Grand Theft Auto VI is unprecedented, and we’re honored that Rockstar Games has partnered with us to debut the next part of the Grand Theft Auto story with Netflix members first,” Netflix VP Brandon Riegg said (via The Hollywood Reporter)."
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      "date": "2026-08-07",
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      "title": "Q1 FY2027: Zelnick calls pre-orders 'unprecedented and astonishing' but won't claim victory",
      "summary": "Take-Two reported $1.39 billion of first-quarter bookings and reiterated the $8.0 to $8.2 billion outlook and the November 19 date. On the call Zelnick said the five days of pre-orders in the quarter had been an exceptional start, unprecedented and astonishing, but so unprecedented that the company did not know how they would translate into sales and would not claim victory before it occurred.",
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          "quote": "With these positive trends and excitement around the November 19th launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, we are reiterating our Fiscal 2027 Net Bookings outlook of $8.0 to $8.2 billion."
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          "quote": "“I can say that the level of preorders is unprecedented and astonishing, and we’re very grateful for that,” Zelnick said. “But they are so unprecedented that we just don’t know how it’ll translate into sales, which is a question I answered earlier."
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      "date": "2026-08-18",
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      "title": "Gameplay leaks again: two clips and the map of Leonida, met with DMCA takedowns",
      "summary": "Nine days before the Extended Look, two roughly minute-long gameplay clips of Jason and a screenshot of the full Leonida map, a compressed south Florida with a Miami-like city in the east, appeared online from a leaker calling itself CyberLeek, and Rockstar began issuing takedown notices within hours. More than a dozen clips followed over the next week.",
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      "date": "2026-08-26",
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      "title": "Rockstar calls the leaks 'heartbreaking for our team' and says the game is nearly finished",
      "summary": "On the eve of the Extended Look, Rockstar acknowledged for the first time that the leaked clips were real, said they might contain spoilers and that this was not how it intended fans to see the game after all this time, apologized for how long everything had taken, and said it was nearly finished making GTA VI.",
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          "quote": "The publisher — publicly acknowledging for the first time that the clips are legitimate — called the leaked videos \"heartbreaking for our team\" and indicated they may include some spoilers. It added that \"this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all this time.\""
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      "date": "2026-08-27",
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      "title": "The Extended Look: 27 minutes of PS5 footage on Netflix, and Rockstar says it runs at 30 frames per second",
      "summary": "Netflix streamed the 27-minute Extended Look at 3 p.m. ET, captured entirely on a base PlayStation 5, with the cinematic and gameplay story of Jason and Lucia across Vice City, before it went to YouTube that night. The same day Kotaku relayed Rockstar North co-head Rob Nelson telling a visiting creator that the consoles were running the game at 30 frames per second during development, with a 60 fps option still to be decided by the technical team.",
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          "quote": "Netflix dropped 27 minutes of new “Grand Theft Auto 6″ content Thursday at 3 p.m. ET in a collaboration with Rockstar Games ahead of the highly anticipated title’s November release."
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          "quote": "The “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” content was captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5 (the game will be released for PS5 and Xbox Series X and S on Nov. 19), per Netflix and Take-Two Interactive-owned publisher Rockstar."
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          "quote": "According to Rob Nelson, Lead Developer and Co-director at Rockstar North, during this development period, the consoles are running the game at 30 frames per second. > > > According to the director, it is still necessary to consult the technical team to determine if there will be a 60 FPS option at launch (or in the future)."
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      "date": "2026-09-10",
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