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Rockstar Games previewed Cocoteo FM, Back Country Radio, AfroBank FM, The Chamber 106.6, Flash FM, and Dirty South Classics for Grand Theft Auto VI. It also confirmed on-demand podcasts that can be heard in vehicles or on foot.

Game Informer released the digital version of its November 2026 issue featuring Grand Theft Auto VI. The issue contained Game Informer's GTA VI cover-story coverage and Rockstar Games developer interviews.

Rockstar Games opened pre-orders for The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection, which is sold separately from Grand Theft Auto VI. Video Games Chronicle reported that the collector's box costs $399.99 and contains 11 merchandise items.

Rockstar announced a 34-track official soundtrack made with Atlantic Records, launching on November 19 alongside the game itself, with the first six singles released the same day and vinyl and CD sets open for pre-order.

U.S. pre-orders opened through PlayStation Direct for the black and white Grand Theft Auto VI Limited Edition DualSense controllers. TechRadar reported that both controller pre-orders were underway at the U.S. PlayStation Direct Store.

Miami-Dade Commissioner Juan Carlos Bermudez and Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz opposed using County resources for a proposed Grand Theft Auto VI promotion. The County release said the Mayor's Office was exploring a Rockstar Games partnership that could temporarily rename Miami International Airport "Vice City Airport."

Within two days of Rockstar's extended GTA 6 look, the $899 PS5 Pro was gone from Best Buy and Target and listed at up to $1,300 by third-party sellers, with PlayStation Direct the only major retailer at list price. Memory-constrained production met a demand spike for the last big game of the generation, with GTA 6 due November 19 and Sony expected to restock before then.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rockstar Games scheduled Trailer 1 for December 5 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. GameSpot reported that Rockstar had indicated the first trailer would arrive on December 5.

Twenty-one months after confirming development, Rockstar posted a short message thanking players for 25 years of Rockstar Games and saying the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto would be released in early December. It was the first date Rockstar had attached to the game.

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.

Nine years after GTA V, Rockstar used a Newswire post about GTA Online updates to confirm for the first time that active development of the next Grand Theft Auto was well underway, promising to share more when ready. It did not name the game, a platform or a date.