Previously, the stars seemed to be aligning for some sort of Red Dead Redemption-related announcement. Not only did Wiethoff say that "cannot think about anything else, especially playing this game" during his stream, but asked if he knew "what the Red Dead news is Rob mentioned," Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur Morgan actor Roger Clark said "yes," seemingly confirming it really is something to do with the🌞 series.

Now though, 𓆉in a on his YouTube channel (highlighted by @jonbranham_ on Twitter), Wiethoff says that while "I do have something I'm really excited about, I truly am, and I think you will be too," he now realises that he "possibly misled some people when I announced that I have something to announce ꦆthat I can't talk about right now.

"Just please recognize – and I know that you know this, but let me remind you, I guess – I do not make announcements for Rockstar Games.෴ We all know that, I'm just reminding you I do not make announcements for Rockstar Games. Rockstar Games makes announcements for Rockstar Games, and they don't use me to do that," he laughs. "So ꦏplease know that, and again I still think that a lot of you are going to be really excited about this news, absolutely."

Wiethoff says he still "can't share it with you yet, and I'm so sorry" about that, but assuming his original teaser still holds up, we should be finding out whatever it is in the next few days. Again, Clark's previous comment does indicate that there's something related to Red Dead going on, but anyone hoping for something like a remake, port, or new game should probably temper their expectations at this p🎉oint.

15 years later, Red Dead Redemption's John Marston is playing the open-world cowboy game for the first time and reveals why "John is screaming at people for no reason" when riding a horse.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA Online is a behemoth now with Rockstar making enough cash from 10-year-olds buying Shark Cards that the studio probably didn't even need to make GTA 6. However, it took until GTA 5 for Rock❀star to really nail down the online game, with GTA 4 and Red Dead 𓆏Redemption being pretty simple in comparison.

But – who worked at Rockstar from the Space Station Silicon Valley days in 1998 until the secret best GTA game, Chinatown Wars in 2009 – both Rockstar "North and NY had wanted to make this happen si🐎nceꦰ the GTA 3 days."

"For༺ GTA3, I prototyped a simple deathmatch. Players could kill each other, drag each other from cars, and respawn around the city," he says, adding, "It was promising, but we ran ou💞t of time. We needed lobbies, scripts working over [the] network etc. We decided to cut the effort."

Vermeij said that the studio tried again the year following with GTA Vice City, saying that Rockstar hired network coders for the role, but it was cut once again due ✱to deadlines.

But for the final PS2-era game, San Andreas, Vermeij says, "we didn't even try… not worth the effort." And then the Xbox 360 era was the one where Rockstar nailed it, with GTA 4 having an online mode in the same vein as the proposed ones for the PS2 games. Vermeij gives props to the "4 programmers and several level designers" who worked "full-time" to make it work.

Speaking of former Rockstar devs, Leslie Benzies' new game 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mindseye isn't doing so hot.

Late last week, John Marston actor Rob Wiethoff broke the internet while streaming Red Dead Redemption as he teased that he's "got such exciting news" he can't currently share. Whatever it is, he suggested we should probably find out soon: "By the end of this week, hopefully sooner... definitely𒉰 before Friday."

How mysterious. Obviously, everyone immediately began speculating that it could be something Red Dead Redemption-related, whether that could possibly be a next-gen update for RDR2, a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 port, or something else entirely. Curiously, he also mentioned that he "won't be the only one shar༒ing" the news, and now, Red Dead Redemption 2'𝐆s Arthur Morgan actor, Roger Clark, claims he's also in the know.

Asked on Twitter if he knows "what the Red Dead news is Rob mentioned," ღClark simply says "yes," sharing a GIF of a dog giving a smug smile.

Although he's not revealed exactly what the news is, it looks like he might have given something away by the fact that he was specifically asked about some "Red Dead news," and still 🃏responded with a metaphorical thumbs up. Even though fans quickly made the assumption, Wiethoff never actually said out loud that his announcement would bꦅe related to the series, so it appears that Clark may have inadvertently confirmed that.

It really feels like the pair are taking notes from the Persona 4 cast, of which three actors (from the original game and the Golden re-release) ended up speaking publicly about not returning to the JRPG's remake… before 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Persona 4 Revival was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:actually announced. Needless to say, the remake's reve🐲al wasn't exactly a shock when it was finally shown, but it was very good news nonet𓄧heless.

Now, it's Red Dead Redemption fans' time to wait and see what the two actors are teasin🗹g. If Wiethoff's original statement holds up, we'll hopefully find out by the end of the week.

15 years later, Red Dead Redemption's John Marston is playing the open-world cowboy game for the first time and reveals why "John is screaming at people for no reason" when riding a horse.

"I think it's already starting to happen," Clark tells . "What's also starting to happen is that class﷽ic games, games that did well, and games that still are able to hold on to their fandom are getting remastered now more than e💯ver before. So, I don't know, the data isn't going anywhere, but the technology to refine its graphics is only just going to keep getting better and better."

We've seen plenty of Rockstar games get remasters or ports to modern consoles, and I'm not even talking about GTA 5. There was the GTA Trilogy remaster (that had a bunch of bugs in it) and the PC port of Red Dead Redemption, which has finally got John Marston actor Rob Wiethoff playing the game some 15 years after it first released.

"I don't think a remake of [Red Dead Redemption 2] is something that we can writ💯e off for the future, or a remaster," Clark adds. "We've already started to see it for GTA 5 and the original Red Dead Redemption. So, I think possibly it'll remain in the limelight with modern versions of the same game, because the stor♔ies are what keeps the players coming back."

Red Dead Redemption 2 doesn't even have a current-gen update and it still looks amazing, so maybe we'll at least get t🐟hat♉ patch sometime in the future. If Rockstar goes big enough, a PS5 and Xbox Series X-level modernization could very well pass for a remaster.

In the meantime, check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest 2025 schedule so you can keep up with everything that's going on over the weekend.

"We did performance capture for this game too, ⛄but during moments like this꧟, when you're riding with someone, riding and talking, this was actually recorded in a sound booth," Wiethoff explains.

Now, I know Weithoff is the actor for John, but it's uncanny how much he just natura🌠lly sounds like him. I always assumed he was putting on a voice when he was actually working on John, but now I think that's just how he talks.

"What I have seen on here, which is so funny, is that John is screaming at people, for no reason sometimes [...] I remember them saying, 'You have to say your lines in a way that they would definitely be heard even if you are riding at a full gallop next to a freight train in a thunderstorm.' So jus🅘t really scream them out loud because you definitely want the other person to hear you."

As an open world game with dynamic weather and day a🍎nd night cycles, there really could be times when that exact scenario was happening, so Joh✱n would need to be shouting to be heard. But it doesn't make much sense for him to be screaming when you're trotting next to someone on a nice sunny day.

"But that was before [Rockstar] had the technology they have now, where if you're within a certain distance, the game knows it somehow and it will use the quieter version," Wiethoff says. "So in the second game we recorded everything twic🎉e, in this game we just did it once.

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As well as regaling us wit🔯h tales of how the game was made, it turns out Weitoff's a real-life cowboy, because he shoots a hat out of the air without dead eye in the tutorial level for the game's iconic ꦍmechanic.

"Come on, throw it!" he shouts just before a characte𒅌r tosses their hat in the air. Then, without using dead eye like he's supposed to, 🎶he simply aims up and shoots the thing. "Oh ho hooooo, I thought I missed it," he shouts excitedly. Maybe the loudness in the first game isn't actually due to technical reasons after all.

After that trip down memory lane, check out our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best retro games of all time.

Echoing Fallout creator Tim Cain's recen💟t YouTube video about hefty, 100-ho🔯ur games, Benzies tells in a new interview that "I don't think you can𓆏 have filler content in games."

"I think people want the meat, and they want the potatoes," Benzies continues to say about MindsEye, which so far sounds like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查𓄧询:a more linear, action-oriented Cyberpunk 2077. 🐓"Weܫ've tried to make as much meat as we can, if that makes sense."

The game will take "20is𝕴h" hours to beat, which Benzies concludes is a "good length for a game."

"What you alꩵso find through data," he says, "is that [with] big games, people don't play them all. The majorit𒅌y of people – 60% or 70% of people – don't actually play games to the end."

"So when you're making something, I would prefer [...] [that] you had the whole experience from start to finish, and not create this 200-hour game," Benzies explains. "Create something that is🌠 finishable, but have some side things that will 🅘fill out the universe."

At the moment, MindsEye𝐆 is set to release on June 10 at $60. "On price," adds Benzies, "the world's in a funny place. People are worried about the price of eggs. So value for money, I think people appreciate that when times are difficult."

Exec on former GTA 5 lead's new open-world game MindsEye says negative reactions have come from a "financed" and "concerted effort to trash the game and the studio"

A GTA fan has already uploaded 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:every single frame of the new trailer, and from studying each frame a (spotted by ) realised that Rockstar made a 🌜single mistake and showed that light from the gunshot is lighting up Jason's arm before the actual shot leaves the gun.

I know, t🅷his is a massive deal, and the c𝓀omments on the thread agree, with users saying These people are the most rational ones in the comments, given the severity of this situation.

Obviously, myselfღ and the fans on Reddit are (hopefully) exaggerating for a joke, but it does speak to how massive Rockstar's games are, that the single most minor mistake was able to be picked up on because fans are so eager to see every detail in this game.

It's a testament to the s🌃tudio's reputation for being massive perfectionists that something like this is even notable enough to point out. Now that someone has pointed it out, it will no doubt be fixed in the full game, so don't𝓰 cancel that pre-order just yet.

Grand Theft Auto 6 looks beautiful, but I'm convinced Jason and Lucia's love story will be the real secret sauce that makes it worth the 13-year wait

It's pretty much a shot-for-shot remake of the trailer but in GTA: San Andreas' art style. My only complaint is that Jason isn't shirtless right at the sta𝓀rt, he's wearing a vest. Boo. Boo I say.

The animations also aren't spot on, but they weren't back in the day, either. I remember CJ's fingers being permanently glued together and still thinking San Andreas was the peak of graphical realis🃏m at the time.

The best thing about this new fan-made demake is hoꦛw well🎃 it showcases just how far graphics have come since 2004. Yep, San Andreas is 21, old enough to buy a beer now – do you feel old?

When you compare the two trailers side-by-side, it's incredible to s🌳ee just how much movement there is in modern console games. Hair swishes around as people turn, booze sloshes around in bottles and glasses, and characters can actually touch each other without looking like they're about to clip through each other's models.

Unfortunately, GTA 6 is still a year away, because 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a delay was announced earlier this month. Now, what is maybe the most-anticipated game of all time is releasing May 26, 2026, instead of sometime later this🍒 year.

While you wait, check out all the upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:video game release dates so you know what to play between now and next year.

While we were all too focused on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6, with a lot of focus being on what the eventual price will be (or, if you're GTA 5's Micheal voice actor – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the in-game buttcheeks), with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:fans worried it could cost $100, Rockstar has casually thrown out a little price rise elsewhere. noticed that both Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2 have been bumpeꦉd up in price on Xbox – with the backwards compatible version of the first game going up to £29.99 and the sequel now being £59.99; £5 more than th✤ey were last month.

Then sister site noticed the same thing had happened over on PlayStation, with the PS4 versions of both games getting an increase. However, while Red Dead 2 got the same £5 bump as on Xbox, the PS4 port of the original Red Dead Redemption got bumped up by £10, meaning the 2023 port (that had very little in the way of improvements) of the 2010 game will now run you £49.99.

Looking at the price charting website it looks like Rockstar is being very selective about which regions get this priceౠ rise. So far, we've seen the bump in the UK, Australia, and Brazil (although only for Red Dead 2 for the latter), while the US, Japan, and most of Europe are unaffected by the change. Funnily enough, the Steam and Nintendo Switch editions of the first game are also untouched in most regions (with Brazil getting a price rise on Switch back in March).

It's unclear whether Rockstar plans to extend this price rise across all regions eventually, but for now, the US is unaffected by these changes.

Both Red Dead Redemption games are pretty high up on our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Rockstar games list. But you should maybe wait for a sale now.

When faced with𒆙 the shot in the trailer of our new protagonist, Lucia, walking away from the camera in a dress, Luke abruptly stops. "Okay! Hold it right there! This is what I'm talking about" before lifting up his laptop with the image of Lucia's backside planted firmly on it. He then sits in silence while we are faced with the implications of posteriors i🦩n GTA 6.

Then, as if in awe of the virtual cheeks, he stumbles over his words a few times before simply saying, "okay, I know everybody loves that big ass" adding, "but, that's proportionate, see? That's what you like, that prꦗoportionate one" giving the stamp of approval to Lucia's buns. He then goes, "but when you get into the strip club…" before getting distracted by a new character in the trailer.

In Luke'🍷s previous assessment of asses, he called for some less giant cabooses (cabeese?), saying "I gotta talk with these guys, we gotta get some not-huge asses in there," so clearly this latest trailer has gotten the stamp of approval.

Despite his apparent doctorate in derrière, Luke's stream was not fully dedicated to✨ the tush of Vice City. Earlier in the trailer, he voiced his displeasure with Jason looking ripped and shirtless, in his introduction (presumably compared to the first look at Michael being less attractive by comparison). Luke said, "Are you kidding me with this guy? This is how you get introduced!" adding, "Shirtless! Look at this fucker, are you kidding me?" before going into a rant about how Jason is almost too hot... no comment about his hindquarters though.

And just🌠 like the rest of us, Luke was very positive about the showing: "Needless to say, I'm very impressed with that trailer. I think it's an awesome trailer." Before adding, "I🌄 don't think there's any question that this will be the biggest game."

From jiggle physics to individually modeled blades of grass, this game dev proves how GTA 6 is taking Red Dead Redemption 2's visuals to the next level.

When GTA 6 was properly unveiled last year, Rockstar Games had only said it would come out sometime in the latter half of 2025 – a time frame Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick held onto firmly in the months since. But the developer recently pushed its highly-anticipated b🐲lockbuster out of this year, to May 26, 2026.

Speaking to , Zelnick 𝓀said the "most important thing to do is to support your teams in their search for perfection," even though the "delays pain me - how could they not?"

Even more notably, though, when asked about how confident he is in GTA 6's new launch, Zelnick simply pointed to the fact that Rockstar Games rarely delays something after they attach a 🥃solid date to it. "I think historically when we set a specific date, generally speaking, we've been very good about reaching it," he said.

Looking back, he's not wrong either. Red Dead Redemption 2 was delayed from fall 2017 to spring 2018 to, finally, October 2018 where it actually strolled into release. The same thing happened with GTA 5, too. After missing its original launch window of early 2013, the evergreen open world was pushed to that same September and m🐈ade it onto store shelves as planned.

So, yeah, historical precedent is on the studio's side. The first delay is almost a formality at this point. Plus, there's no reason to think Rockstar Games would ann𝐆ounce a date it's not confident it can meet – it would be like setting a doomsday countdown.

Take-Two's CEO says GTA 5 is the "standard-bearer for our industry," but even he found the GTA 6 hype "pretty astonishing"

As part of its , publiꦑsher Take-Two confirmed that GTA 5 has sold-in 215 million units, up from 210 in the last quarterly report. That'll include some physical stock being held by retailers that hasn't yet been sold through to consu🌼mers, but that's a pretty negligible caveat, especially considering that Take-Two reported another 5 million copies of GTA 5 sold every single quarter this year.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is also selling by the wagonload, with 4 million copies sold in the past three months. Citing venerable industry analyst group Circana, Take-Two says💯 RDR2 is the "best-selling title of the past 7 years in the US based on dollar sales."

That sales record might actually rankle long-time fans of the game, since Red Dead Online has effectively been aba💟ndoned by Rockstar despite all this success, and its lack of uꦬpdates continues to be a point of contention in the community.

There's no such shortage of content for GTA Online, however. During yesterday's investor Q&A, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick called💯 GTA 5 the "🧸standard-bearer for our industry," and honestly, it's tough to argue against that point. No wonder the everyo🔜ne expects GTA 6's sales success to be downright astronomical.

Here are the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:games like GTA you need to play while waiting for GTA 6.

During the company's latest earnings call, the CEO of Take-Two (Rockstar Games' parent company) talks about GTA and what it means for the industry, saying, "Grand Theft Auto 5 has been the standard bearer, not just for our company, but for the industry. Since it was launched, it's not only survived through three console generations, it's thrived, and here it is this many years later, and still theꦿ number one title."

However, even with GTA 5's overwhelming success an🍎d the GTA fever in the industry over the last few years, the response 𝕴to the trailer still took Zelnick by surprise.

"Obviously, 475 million trailer views in 24 hours tells you something. It's not just that, 'Wow, that was a great trailer.' It tells you something more than that. And we, of course, do market research around here, and the market research that we've done is pꦍretty astonishing."

Despite the 🔯fact that GTA 6 is obviously going to be a massive release when it comes to sales, Zelnick says, "we're not in the business of claiming success until it happens."

Of course, the other side of this is that GTA fans are afraid that the game will 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:cost up to $100, and you have to wonder if that has factored into that "pretty astonishin💙g" market researcജh. Undoubtedly a game that is this hyped up will have a large number who will eat the cost, but a higher price point could end up biting Rockstar.

GTA 6 fans think a blurry screenshot proves the game will be the first in the series to feature children: "That's gotta be a kid FR."

Asked about the difference between the growing tre🐲nd for $80 games and Mafia's discounted tag, Zelnick said that Take-Two has "always had variable pricing," but that it makes pricing decisions based on a "rubric [...] of deliver💧ing way more value to consumers than we charge."

"We aim to make the best entertainment on Earth and bring that to all consumers, wherever they are, and we need to deliver value in so doing," he continued. In the case of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mafia: The Old Country specifically, he sa𒊎ys "we think it's extraordinary. It looks amazing, and we want to get it into as many hands as we possibly can."

"Our view is that if you create a huge hit, and everꦦyone wants it and everyone buys it, the revenue is going to take care of itself."

It's an interesting line around Mafia, which developer Hangar 13 revealed last week to be a linear exper💝ience - a significant departure from the series' open-world roots. However, that change of scope is reflected in the price – $50 for a full-fledged AAA release from a major publisher is ce✤rtainly a drop from the $60+ figures we've started to see with increasing regularity over the past few years.

Unfortunately, if Take-Two, which owns 2K and Rockstar Games, is going to be in the habit of pricing games according to scope, it might mean that GTA 6 players do take a bigger hit than normal to their wallets. Trailer 2, which dropped earlier this month, offered a dizzying array of new details, including se🐟veral astonishingly i🍷ntricate graphics and animation offerings. It's clear Rockstar is♒n't aiming for a cheap experienc💜e.

Behold, all 5,000-plus frames of GTA 6's latest trailer, which have been uploaded online as detectives work to uncover all of Rockstar's secrets.

"A kid spotted🅠 in #GTAVI screenshot," update account TheGTAVerse says on Twitter, adding a wide-eyed emoji for punctuation. In the accompanying screenshot that's so zoomed-in I can't even really imagine what inspired anyone to make it, there are three blobs suggesting the sha♌pe of human beings: two seem to be older people with gray hair, and the third appears relatively smaller with short brown hair. The latter is GTA 6's alleged child pedestrian.

Since the original image showcases Leonida's smoggy urban sprawl from about 1,000 feet away, I find🦄 it hard to believe that the magnified, vague ball of dust that's "proof" of childhood teach us anything about GTA 6 outside of the fact that, yes, it will𝓰 be inhabited by people. But many others disagree. At the moment, TheGTAVerse's post has nearly 30,000 likes.

"That's gotta be a kid fr," says news account GTA6Plus in that's already earned almost 2,000 likes on its 𝐆own.

"Me when I see a kid on the pc version," says , which includes a clip from the 1980s cult 💯horror film Maniac, when a guy's head explodes like a beached whale.

This kind of, let's say, antisocial approach to children is exactly why the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 devs de🐎cided t𝕴o exclude kids from their game. That alone makes me believe GTA 6 won't be any different from th💧e rest of its franchise. But, after this many years, who knows what Rockstar has in store?

GTA 6 fan theories are now focusing on the smallest details, from a potential Manhunt tattoo to a background film made by GTA 5's Michael.

You might remember the GTA 5 mission that sees co-star Michaeꦬl De Santa fulfil his life-long dream of producing a movie, Meltdown, which you can then watch in one of the in-game theatres. Well, eagle-eyed Redditor Merstty zoomed all the way into an animated image from and somehow spotted the smallest,ꦍ blurriest version of a Meltdown DVD displayed on a shelf.

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"I wonder if 𝕴he'll get mentioned dur𒀰ing the story," one . "By the time the game comes out Michael will have been a producer for 13 years, I think."

Others reckon GTA 6 might find some slyer ways to include Michael. Maybe you'll find posters of his new movies around. Maybe you'll randomly hear him being interviewed on the radio. I can already hear you asking over the int𒁏erweꦓbs, 'isn't Michael kind of dead in some people's saves, though?'

You see, GTA Online strongly implies that the 'canon' ending to the game is Ending C, so GTA 5's main trio should still be alive by the time GTA 6 rolls around, as long as they didn't get wrapped up in another dead🔥ly heist in the meantime🥂.

The other fan theory revolves around Rockstar's Manhunt, the graphically violent stealth series about snuff films. Twitterer GTAVoclock clocked that one character called Cal appears to have Manhunt's Piggsy, a "cannibalistic serial killer who wears the 'rotting head of a 💮one-eyed pig as a maskཧ,'" tattooed onto his knee.

Cal's official bio explains that he's deep into online rabbit holes and conspiracy theories, so while it's unlikely that Piggsy himself will show up, there might be some clues littered around connecting Manhunt to GTA. The upcoming game's second trailer has 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:more concretely tied Red Dead ❀and GTA together, already, so anything's possible here.

Rockstar says GTA 6 trailer 2 was "equal parts gameplay and cutscenes," and I'm wondering where the gameplay was

Vermeij worked at DMA Design-turned-Rockstar North from 1995 until 2009; during that time he worked on t�ꦜ�he likes of Space Station Silicon Valley, Manhunt, and some of those GTA games that people seem to like. When asked by a fan how he feels about the rumours of the port of what was one of the last games he worked on at Rockstar, he was keen to see it.

"I hadn't heard those rumours. I think GTA 4 should be remastered. It's a great game and there have been a number of successful remasters recently♍," he responds.

Rockstar is one of the companies which hasn't really gone to the remaster well all that much, with the initially disastrous Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition being the only real attempt. However, when talking about a GTA 4 remaster in the past, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Vermeij mentioned the q🐽uality of the t🥃rilogy, saying: "It wo﷽uld be better if Rockstar did quality remasters of their classic games."

The company typically goes for straight rereleases over updated games, as seen with the previous LA Noire and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Red Dead Redemption ports (the latter of which 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:did get a 60fps patch, to be fair). So if and when a GTA 4 re-release does come to pass, I'd put my money on it being a port with minimal improvements ovཧer a full remaster situation.

Hopefully it does happe𝓀nꦓ, and we get to go bowling with our cousin again to pass the time until GTA 6 releases next May.

An ex Rockstar dev has suggested that GTA 6 production really started in 2018 despite the 12-year wait.

In a post on , Tez said, "Someone at Rockstar hinted at the IV port, and by now it should've gone up a year in development. We may end up seeing it drop later this year." Considering that Tez uses the word "port" as opposed to remaster, it's probably safe to assume anything that comes out will be a conversion like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:2023's Red Dead Redemption releases on Nintendo Switch and PS4 (and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:eventually, PC in 2024).

Considering GTA 4 is currently and unavailable on modern consoles outside of Xbox backwards compatibility, it would be great to h♔ave a new way to play a GTA game that seems way less popular than the PS2-era titles or GTA 5, despite being one of the better stories the series has. Plus, if GTA 4 gets a 60fps pꦅatch, that would be great too.

Tez also mentions that "if they (Rockstar) follow their plan laid out from the pandemic days, they'll do a Max Payne 3 port" while hinting that this could arrive around the time of Remedy's upcoming remakes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Max Payne 1 and 2.

But of course, it's always best to take things like this with a grain of salt, especially since Tez2 made a name for themselves with their data mining efforts rather than insider info.

After Suicide Squad's $200 million flop and a massacre of studios, Warner Bros. acknowledges it has "no releases" out, it's spending 66% less on game content, and the Hogwarts Legacy boom is wearing off.

It looks like Rockstar Games' fictional Floridian metropolis is just as fixated on the decade as it was back in 2002. Vice City carved an identity for itself out of the unserious, neon-warped marble of the 80s, with peppy disco beats, soaring pop-rock ballads, and cheesy radio shows framing the world outside Tommy Vercetti's car window as a caricature of hedonism. Flash FM might not have been mentioned in Trailer 2 or any other GTA 6 promotional materials – yet, dare I hope? – but even without whacky ads describing doughnuts in disturbing anatomical detail, the new Grand Theft Auto game's heart still beats for one e꧙ra alone and riffs off those wild vibes to a T.

But it's not just an aesthetic. Much like how Tommy's world was textured by the gaudy hues of the 80s, GTA 6's two current trailers turn that music into a tool – not only to remind us of that shared setting, but to hint at how our new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 characters might elevate Vice City through their 🌄ﷺown unique story.

Steaming up

If Trailer 2's purpose could be encapsulated as one single thing, I'd consider it a GTA 6 character study. With loved-up GTA 6 protagonists 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval sharing the spotlight, The Pointer Sisters' searing 80s jam "Hot Togethe🧸r" has never felt more apt.

The duo's whirlwind Bonnie and Clyde romance seems to be at the heart of GTA 6's narrative journey, which will itself break new ground for the Rockstar series. For the first time in franchise history, love (or lust) is the driving force behind our protagonists, more so than money, clout chasing, or scaling the rungs of criminality as seen in past entries. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:character information supplied by Rockstar on its website 🐈illuminates that further – fresh out of prison, Lucia wants to clean up her act and give her mother the "good life" she's long dreamed of, while Jason s🎐ees Lucia as the first good reason he's ever had to turn over a new leaf.

Not only does "Hot Together" evoke the sense of a fiery, tempestuous, addictive love between the two in a lyrical sense – "we could dance this dance forever" – it speaks to the crushing heat of Vice City as a place. As a city in the Florida Keys, it's hot temperature-wise. But it's also hot on the crime map ✱– and Jason and Lucia seem to play no small part in that particular sweat-fest.

Growing up and glowing up

We also learn a lot about GTA 6's modern day take on Vice City from the snippets of radio music peppered throughout. Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" can be heard on the car radio at one point, a throwback to the bands' presence on the GTA Vice City soundtrack, along with Tammy Wynette's country ballad𝕴 "Talkin' To Myself" and even a little Joan Jett crackling in the background of a TV advert. To me, this speaks to how GTA 6 is a thoroughly modern game whose world still finds representation in the diverse cultural cacophony of the 1980s – but Rockstar's comment on whether that's a good thing could be very different this time around.

True enoughꦍ, the developer seems to be staying true to the identity of Vice City. It's a sleazy, sun kissed slice of the American South, and much like 23 years ago, Rockstar uses music to complicate that personality further in its two GTA 6 trailers. The 80s was a great time for pop culture and a weird time for most everything♈ else, perfectly laying out Tommy's view of Vice City as a world of idealized potential, but GTA 6's romantic core is a game changer.

Here, the hyperbolic elements of a thriving city so stuck in the past are contrasted by the very real, very human story being told about Jason and Lucia. How much room for kitsch is there in what is, essentially, a game about a love story? And how far will those more humanized elements take on a little levity to k🙈eep it all from getting too heavy?

There's only so much I can glean from the trailers about that so far, but suffice it to say, I'm feeling good about the direction Rockstar is driving in. GTA 6 could be the most mature Grand Theft Auto game ever if it stays on brand while tapping its toe to a brand new melody – and if it has to forgo some of the silliness to make that point, I'd be more than♏ happy to see it sing.

GTA 6 is one of the most exciting 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games on the way in 2026

Environment artist David O'Reilly – who worked at Rockstar during the development of GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, and GTA 6 be⛎fore leaving in 2023 – has posted a video on his YouTube channel, Game 🎉World Art, reacting to the new GTA reveals. However, during the start of the video "Ex-Rockstar Artist Reacts to GTA6 Trailer 2 Screenshots" he said, "I worked on GTA 6 from 2018 to 2023, [I] went on to it after we wrapped on RDR2." Considering pulled together to work on the Red Dead Redemption sequel, it's pretty much a confirmation that GTA 6 didn't actually go into full development until 2018.

That being said, that doesn't mean nothing was being done with the game until then; preliminary work on Red Dead Redemption 2 was being done before GTA 5 was released. It's safe to assume that it's probably the same case for GTA 6 – with pre-production 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:reportedly starting in 2014. However, this gives us a good idea🐟 of when things really got put into motion.

Even though he only left a couple of years ago, O'Reilly was still wowed by the trailer, saying, "everyꦚthing looks so different than when I last saw it" before adding, "I think it's going to be pretty indicative of what we're going to see on the release."

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But those weren't enough for some, which is why GTA Forums (via ) posted that they had captured all 5,002 frames of the GTA 6 trailer and shared them online for would-be detectives to search through for even more hidden details. One user, already gone on the hunt, picking up details like characters having realistic body🃏 hair, Jason's watch actually working, coins in the cash register moving with their own physics, and even Jason's hair changingꦏ depending on how wet it is.

Another interesting tidbit from the trailer is that Jason can be seen wearing earpods during a scene where he is working out, which the user points out could hinꦫt at the existence of an on-foot radio💃 in GTA 6. Of course, that's just speculation, but the ability to walk down the streets of Vice City with some Wang Chung blasting in your ears would be a much appreciated feature.

Of course, this is only the beginning. Now that all 5,002 frames of the trailer are available in high quality, we'll no doubt be fi📖nding details in this trailer for a long time to come as GTA sleuths go through every segment. I mean, what else are they going to do, play another game?

Ex Rockstar dev says GTA 6 would be worth the "$80 bucks or whatever" for its detail and realism: "You think Mario Kart competes with a game like this?"

In a tweet in the wake of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2, one Rockstar fan pointed to the level of cloth simulation that could be seen in the new footage. From the arrival of Jason's landlord at the star𓆏t of the trailer, we get to see clothing swaying, creasing, and deforming accurately across a number of different characte💧rs.

Whether it's J🦹ason's tank top or Lucia's hi-vis jacket, clothing crumples and creases as it would in real life. In one shot, we can even see Jason's chain swaying against his chest as he rides his motorcycle. It's the kind of detail that most studios wouldn't invest so much time in, because it's often the kind of thing that players don't notice, but I guess that's not Rockstar's style.

Of course, clothing isn't the only way that Rockstar is flexing on the industry. From its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:dedicated beer bottle tech to jiggle physics and individually-modelleꦯd blades of grass,🎐 there's a huge amount of attentioꦯn to detail throughout the trailer, and there's a good chance that all that🐼 will translate to gameplay when the game eventually arrives.

Ex Rockstar dev says GTA 6 would be worth the "$80 bucks or whatever" for its detail and realism: "You think Mario Kart competes with a game like this?"

Editor Derek Lieu, who's helped make a ton of game trailers, including ones for Half-Life Alyx and Psychonauts 2, tells that the upcoming game looks "amazing," but its trailer doesn't convey much about what this story is actually about, apart fr✅om t🐎he fact that we play as a couple of crime-doers.

"A trailer is designed to do this thing well, which is to incite our emotions and show a bunch of stuff from this new thing that we haven't seen before," Lieu says. "This trailer, or a bunch of B-roll with music over it, can kind of achieve the same thing. But that doesn't make it a good trailer. Just because people get hyped, doesn🌠't mean it's a good trailer."

Continuing, Lieu adds that "the only thing we know about these characters is: They do crime and they're a co🧸uple," before questioning what th💎eir motivation is. "Why are they doing crime? Are they being forced to do crime? What's the reason?" Beyond just getting rich, that is.

Rockstar Games' 𒊎webs🌼ite gave us more info about Jason and Lucia, our ambitious protag duo, w🍷ho apparently get caught up in a job gone wrong, but much of it isn't in the trailer.

The second trailer primarily had one job, though: to soften the blow of GTA 6's delay to next year. And it did that. The internet was immediately set ablaze at the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:almost unbelievable tech on display, while more niche fan bases got to work 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:trying to accurately create its map a full year before launch.

And to play devil's advocate, I'd agree with Lieu in the sense that, yeah, the second trailer doesn't really tell us anything important that we didn't know from its first look. But think about the little slice of life moments we get throughout the trailer – Jason going about his daily chores and getting ogled by women, a random NPC canoeing, Lucia coming home from community service, throwing her keys onto the table and then collapsing into Jason's arms. How rare is it💦 that a AAA game this expensive shows genuine signs of life?

Rockstar says GTA 6 trailer 2 was "equal parts gameplay and cutscenes," and I'm wondering where the gameplay was.

In an online , Francesco "FR3NKD" Piacenti, who describes himself as a "professional game artist," highlights "some of the technical details I noticed in the new GTA 6 trailer." It's an impressive collection of details, to say the least, consisting of screenshots from the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2, starting with one of protagonist 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Jason Duval that showcases how 🧸"muscles deform realistically" in the upcoming game.

Next, the screencaps show car mirrors with detailed reflections and light passing through glass and producing refractions. Sweat drips and glimmers on characters' bodies, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史෴查询:beer forms realis♌tic bubbles and foam, and cars have dirt particles that could potentially fo𓃲rm over time.

The artist also highlights hair with "complex physics simulat꧅ion," body parts that jiggle with movement, individually modeled blades of grass, coins in cash registers, and more.

Much like in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Red Dead Redemption 2, the environments are very aesthetically impres𒉰sive with enhanced lighting and water rendering, but that's not all. The💛y're also brought to life by fine details like raccoons rummaging through garbage bins and leaves piling up against building corners.

It's ex🐲citing, to say the least, even if it might spur concerns relating to performance. As one person comments, "I don't think comme🎃rcial graphic cards can handle it."

Piacenti isn't the only dev impressed by the new trailer, either. Various others have been reacting to Rockstar's second big reveal, proclaiming that "Grand Theft Auto 6 looks li💞ke a AAA game fro♉m the future" and has "incredible graphical fidelity." Series veterans are praising it, too, including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA creator Mike Dailly himself, who calls the ti𒐪tle's eꦯnvironment "lovely" and states "things are moving much better."

There's no telling just yet how environmentally and visually stunning GTA 6 truly will be in action, but one thing's for certain – come the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new May 2026 release date, players will get to find out for themselves.

GTA 6's new trailer has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to Red Dead Redemption 2, further proving they're set in the same universe

I've been dying to get my eyes on some GTA 6 gameplay footage since the first trailer dropped more than a year ago, and while the new trailer is a stunning display of big budget AAA glitz💛, I was admittedly just a tiny bit bummed that we🤡 didn't actually see the game, outside of cutscenes, in motion. But wait, apparently we did.

In a tweet poꩵ🐷sted on Wednesday, Rockstar declares: "Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 was captured entirely in-game from a PlayStation 5, comprised of equal parts gameplay and cutscenes."

We knew the footage was capturܫed on a bas🥀e PS5, but it being approximately 50% gameplay is news to me.

I know you can see a tiny glimpse of a transition into gameplay when pꦡrotagonist Jason is walking into hiꦜs house, but what else am I missing?

I suppose there's no way to💎 know exactly how Rockstar defines "gameplay," but in my house it's the parts of the game that aren't cutscenes, shown from the view of a player controlling the game.

It could be that there are parts of the trailer that look like cutscenes, but are actually gameplay footage, which would be pretty impressive. I'm not by any means calling Rockstar out, I just genuinely can't decipher which portion of the trailer is cutscene footage and which half is supposed to be gameplay. Perhaps that's high praise for the graphical fidelity, but it doesn't help me parse how this thing plays.

Ultimately, we can only assume from Rockstar's tweet that there are scenes shown in the trailer that are representative of how the game looks outside cutscenes, although to my eyes there's still no knowing how the game me🏅chanics and controls actually look and work. Granted, GTA games generally follow a familiar feel and formula, but I'd still like to see this thing run.

"Grand Theft Auto 6 looks like a AAA game from the future": Game devs react to GTA 6 trailer 2, wowed by Rockstar's "incredible graphical fidelity."

In case you've done your mental health the bountiful blessing of staying offline this week, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 is the talk of the town. Everyone from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:other game developers to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the creator of GTA himself is talking about the new trailer, and now Mike York, who was an animator at Rockstar from 2012 to 20𓃲17, is chiming in.

It'd be one thing if it was a current GTA 6 dev saying this, but York presumably has no skin in the game at♐ this point, and he's still mighty impressed, saying in a lengthy reaction video that he sees a noticeable improvement in the game's lighting from the first trailer to this new one.

"Sometimes during production you figure out something that changes everything, and in here it could be lighting," York says (via ). "Theyꦐ're like, 'Oh no', they figured out how to solve this new thing to make the lighting look much better, and then they just crank that up to 10, 11.

"They start really focusing on changing a lot of stuff and redoing all the lights, because they found𒐪 this new kind of method maybe to do the lighting – the reflections and all the different stuff for the ray tracing."

Rockstar has yet to unveil the price for GTA 6, which is now scheduled to launch on May 26, 2026, but with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo ไfloating $80 gam💙es like Mario Kart World, wall🌟ets the world round are shaking in their leather-bound folds. Regardless, York says no mat😼ter how much GTA 6 ends up costing, it'll be well worth the investment.

"All these other games 💧that come out for 70 bucks, 90 bucks, I mean look you've got Mario Kart for $90 – you think Mario Kart competes with a game like this, as far as how much stuff they've got to put into a game?"

At various points in the video, York can be seen oohing and ahhing at GTA 6's admittedly next-level visual detail, and, in particular, guesses "they've done something to the lighting🐽" in the time between the two trailers' releases.

As other folks have said, GTA 6 trailer 2 really does look like something that traveled back in time from the future, although the footage is 99% cinematic, so there's still no telling what gaജmeplay in the final product will look 🤪like.

EA CEO won't call out the GTA 6 delay by name, but says the new Battlefield release window is "clearer than it was before."

Naturally the GTA fanbase is in full sleuth mode trying to find out who will be taking GTA into the next generation, which has led some prominent voice actors to make a statement that they aren't in 🐽the game.

Over a year ago, The Last of Us actor 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Troy Baker shot down rumors that he will be playing the now named co-protagonist Jason in the upcoming game. And now, over a year and a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 delay later, Sonic the Hedgehog himself, Roger Craig Smith, has also cꦕrossed his name off the bꦓoard.

Smith took to Twitter with a simple message: "Nope. Not me. Just to clarify. #GTA6." While it seemed pretty cut and dry what he meant, the actor, who also voiced Chris Redfield in the li🍸kes of Resident Evil 5 and 6, as well as Ezio in Assassin's Creed, had to post a follow-up message, saying: "LITERALLY attempting to clarify that it is NOT my voice in that trailer. Just to clarify my earlier clarification." Although he did praise the trailer, calling it "amazing."

That being said, the GTA fanbase seems to have centered on two actors in particular for our protagonists, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gregory Connors pegged to be Jason and .

This would match Rockstar's previous casting choices, opting to cast lesser-known actors over established gaming actors for their lead roles. Red Dead Redemption 2's Arthur – Roger Clark – had only been in a handful of films before being cast in the game, and the same goes for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 5's Trevor – Steven Ogg.

That's not to say the game won't have any established voice actors, as fans reckon Brian Heder (the old guy talking to Jason at the start of the trailer) is voiced by Coen brothers . Which seems pretty likely considering he sounds like Buck Strickland, who Root played on the animated sitcom King of the Hill, but we'll just have to wait and see.

While we don't know any of the voice actors yet, here are all of the GTA 6 characters we know of right now.

Multiple 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 devs took to Twitter after the trailer was revealed to share their work, including graphics programmer Víctor Ávila, who : "Chat did we cook?" Based on the fact that the trailer accumulated 19 million views on YouTube in just two hours, with views continuing t❀o soar beyond 69 million since, I think it's safe to say that, yes, they did.

Fellow graphics programmer Arthur Medeiros is and is clearly super excited ไtoo, as he procla🏅ims that "WE'RE COOKINGGGGG." Any GTA dev fully deserves to unleash some caps lock-fuelled hype on Twitter given what they've contributed to, let's face it.

That sense ♎of pride was echoed by Mariah Jankie, a senior QA tester for functionality who : "So proud. I hope y'all enj💮oy the trailer. First thing I did was call my mum to show her. Working hard pays off."

Rockstar Games senior environment artist that "we have been working hard," and looking at the incredible attention to detail and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:graphical fidelity alone, it's not at all hard to believe him. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Beer bottles have tiny bubbles in them even when they're not the focal point of the shot, for crying ou🎐t loud.

Elsewhere, Alex Hadjadj, vice president of technology and technical director of graphics at Rockstar, shares a quote from GTA 6 co-protagonist Jason, : "'If we're gonna do this, we're doing it right.'" While the dev might just be sharing a line fro🙈m the game, it sounds like it could also be a behind-the-scenes thought process from Rockstar in relation to the development itself, but that's just speculation. It would tie into the studio's obvious commitment to quality, though.

Hyped? You should be, although the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:unfortunate🦩 news from las💖t week remains – there's now over a year to go before GTA 6 will actually be in our hands, with that fall 2025 release window now a distant dream. Here's hoping it'll be worth the wait wh🍃en it launches on May 26 next year – it certainly looks promising so far.

85 new GTA 6 screenshots and images drop alongside new trailer, providing an in-depth tour of Vice City and all its surrounding locations.

Sharing his thoughts after the newly released 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2 in a recent online, Douse seemingly praises the upcoming game and its predecessors for their ability to encapsulate pop culture: "Once again GTA perfectly captures the broadest impression of contemporar𒉰y culture without compromise while the entire industry around it selectively files away the burrs of reality through fear of ???????"

The publishing lead continues, clapping back at any potential critics who might say the new game has no "modern audience" that would enjoy it: "Meanwhile yo🧜u have some out of touch dude like 'there is no modern audience, it is science' lmao," he writes. "Yes there is and they're playing GTA 6 and understanding all of the references because life is rich and expensive and niche and granular."

Douse concludes with a bit of an explanation behind his post-trailer thoughts, saying he loves Rockstar's open-world gems as each entry "humbles" the gaming industry by going big with a release and then taking years, in t༒his case 12, before their next. "I really like the GTA series because it humbles an industry that constantly argues about everything all the time by doing everything all at once and then peacing out for a de🎉cade."

He isn't the only person in the industry impressed after the new GTA 6 trailer, either. Various devs have been reacting to Rockstar's second big reveal, proclaiming that "Gra🍌nd Theft Auto 6 looks like a AAA game from the future" and has "incredible graphical fidelity." Series veterans are praising it, too, including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA creator Mike Dailly himself, who calls the title's environment ൩"lovely" and states "things are moving much better."

Following Red Dead Redemption 2's realistic horse anatomy, Rockstar doubles down with dedicated beer tech for GTA 6

After it was announced that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 is delayed until next May, I was expecting radio silence from Rockstar for a while, but the studio decided to throw us a bone and released a new GTA 6 trailer out of the blue. The trailer is an exciting ride that gives us a proper introduction to the new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 characters, including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:our dual protagonists Lucia and Jason, as well as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the supporting cast. It looks super impressive, with even the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:CD Projekt Red talking up how good it looks.

Despite only being a couple of minutes of footage, fans have already picked up on some of Rockstar's massive attention to detail on show – not surprising from the studio that programmed realistic horse testicles that shrink in the cold and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:extremely accurate rivers for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Red Dead Redemption 2.

While Jason is watching his TV and seeing what seems to be a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:resurrected Phil Cassidy, Twitter user picked up on the tiniest of details in the s𒉰cene. If you zoom in on the beer bottle on Jason's table, you can see it has bubbles fizzing to the top of it. Not only that, but there are realistic reflections of the TV screen in a nearby picture frame and on the glass coffee table.

Obviously these are cinematics, and that level of detail is unlikely to be present in the moment-to-moment ga🦹meplay, but it's still undoubtedly super impressive for Rockstar to make something so realistic looking, even if 99% of people playing GTA 6 won't even notic🐽e it.

Even though we've been waiting for GTA 6 longer than the majority of people you run into on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA Online have been alive, it's clear Rockstar has made the most of it, if the cinematics are anything to go by.

Rockstar also released a whole host of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 screenshots on its website, giving a better look at its characters and locations.

GTA 6 will take players back to Vice City's hot pavement and way beyond it, too, with opportunities to explore everything from Leonida's wetlands and mountains to the concrete pits꧑tops you wouldn't want to see under a blacklight.

The scenic and tropical Leonida Keys floats on the edge of "some of the most beautiful and dangerous waters in all of America," says a press kit, while the Grass🥀rivers wetlands promises both snarling alligators and "weirder discoveries among the mangroves."

Further along the shore, the "forgotten" Port Gellhorn is littered with empty malls and bottles of "malt liquor, painkillers, and truck stop energy drinks," the press kit continues. But inland doesn't sound much better –𝔍 in the town Ambrosia, the "Allied Crystal sugar refinery provides the jobs, while the local biker gang provides almost everything else."

But at least players will have the opportunity to soar above all the tear-stained debauchery on Mount Kalaga, which offers "room to𒁃 breathe on the state's northern fringes."

"A national landmark up aga♍inst the state's northern border," the pres🐭s release continues. "Mount Kalaga offers prime hunting, fishing, and off-road trails. In the lush surrounding backwoods, hillbilly mystics and paranoid radicals live far from the prying eyes of the government."

Given that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 characters include a Cal Hampton, proud conspiracy theorist, bird denier, and certified private browser, I wouldn't be surprised if Mount Kalaga beckons him with its secrecy. It could even invite its own 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mount Chiliad mystery, who knows?ꦜ I mean, anyone wants to 🌞believe after a certain number of Jack and Cokes.

Liberty City lives on in spirit as GTA 6 reveals new protagonist Lucia is from GTA's New York.

In case you're just now reading about it, surprise! The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2 dropped out of nowhere today just a few days after 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the game's delay to 2026 was announced. There's still no gameplay, sadly, but it is a very cool trailer that'll sure to take some of the sting out of having to wait anꦺother several months for the long, long-awaited sequel.

The trailer begins with protagonist Jason Duval climbing down from a rooftop and telling a nearby character he's "just fixing some leaks." Obviously, there's no way to be 100% certain this is a reference to the September 2022 leak of 90+ videos and screens from the game, or the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:early release of the original t൲railer, but c'mon, it's the first line of dialogue in the trailer from one of the main protagonists. Rockstar isℱ stil♔l salty.

I don't blame them either! Purely from a financial standpoint, Rockstar told a UK court in December 2023 that the leak cost the⛄m $5 million on ♕top of "thousands of hours of staff time," and that's not even considering the mental and emotional toll something l✤ike that would have on hundreds of de❀velopers, marketing and PR people, and even fans who would've been hoping to experience the big reveal unspoiled.

Thankfully, the new trailer includes a whole lot more than a subtle reference to an old leak. First of all, it's so darn pretty one ♔game🌟 dev said it "looks like a AAA game from the future," which I'd agree with.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:💟We also finally know Jasไon and Lucia's full names, there's confirmation that a classic Vice City location 🎃is back and more obnoxiously Am🌳erican than ever, and there's even a mysterious, conspicuously PlayStation-looking consꦯole hidden in the background. Oh, and the cherry on top is tℱhe release of 85 beautiful new screenshots giving an in-depth tour of Vice City and the surrounding areas.

"IS THAT PHIL CASSIDY": New GTA 6 trailer seems to resurrect a fan-favorite GTA 3D loser years after he disappeared from the franchise.

One of those details is related to the apparent return of Phil Cassidy♌, everyone's favorite dirtbag from GTA: Vice🌌 City. If the trailer doesn't confirm that Phil hopped over from 3D canon and into the HD universe housing GTA🐼 6, it definitely confirms that his ammo shop, lovingly dubbed Phil's Depot in Vice City and Vice City Stories, 📖has been re-realized in GTA 6... except now it's even more unabashedly, stupidly American.

At around the 2:10 mark in the new trailer, a man that looks to be Phil Cassidy can be seen in an advertisement for an ammo shop he calls – brace yourself sweet, delicate UK readers – Phil's Ammunation.

That's right, in a prototypical display of either ignorance or proud defiance of established language conventions, this all-American badass pronounces it Ammun-ation.

"Come to Phil's Ammunation today. 🎃We've got more guns than the law allows," he barks, flanked by bikini-clad women before firing off semiautomatic rounds from a rooftop.

Anyway, yes, it appears Phil's Depot has been re-named Phil's, ugh, Ammunation. It's even spelled that way on 𝓡the sign, which confirms Phil isn't just riffing on the name. He friggin' re-named it that, on purpose. It's the Gulf of 🌳Phil, now, folks.

Grand Theft Auto creator reacts to GTA 6 trailer 2: "Now that's more like it. That environment is lovely, and things are moving much better."

As this post goes live, the new trailer has already amassed 19 million views, 312k comments, and 3 million likes on YouTube, just a few hours after its 9:30am ET d🎐ebut. The numbers will certainly be even higher by the time you read this, as I've already had to go back and update those figures by the millions multiple times as I put this write-up together.

The trailer is currently #1 on YouTube's trending list, ahead of various pieces of Met Gala coverage, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Squid Game season 3 teaser, and a golf video I could not begin to unpack.

The original GTA 6 trailer amassed 93 million views in the first 24 hours after its launch, which marked a record for any non-music-video YouTube debut. Given all the hype for the game, at this point I'd be more surprised if the second trailer didn't beat that record.

For anyone who's speculated about GTA 6 trailers appearing at events like Summer Game Fest ♉or The Game Awards, there's a reason Rockstar doesn't bother participating in industry shows for major news drops. The studio can just drop a trailer on a random Tuesday morning and still make the kind of impact other developers can only dream🅺 of.

For a breakdown of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 characters or the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 locations we now have a lot more insight on, you know where to click.

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2 provides us with the first real look at the long-awaited game's story, its primary protagonists 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, as well as its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:other quirky characters.

Along with the glimpse the trailer gives of GTA 6's Florida-based setting and its inhabitants, ﷺit's impossible to ignore the stunning visuals and impressive movie-like quality of GTA 6꧂'s second trailer – for fans and devs alike, apparently.

Gotham Knights, Star Wars Battlefront 2, and Star Wars: Squadrons writer Mitch Dyer serves as proof, reacting to the new 🎐trailer in an online .

"Grand Theft Auto VI looks like a AAA game 🌜from the future," admits the dev, linking to Rockstar's video. "Holy smokes." He's not alone in the industry in thinking so, either.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:CD Projekt Red senior communication manager Pawel Burza seems to agreไe – as does his studio as a whole.

"There are these moments൩ when the whole office goes silent to watch a masterpiece," writes Burza in his own , adding a heart-eyed emoji.

The official Palworld account on Twitter looks to highlight Pocketpair's excitement,♈ too. Responding to today's GTA 6 trailer, it simply ♉that "gaming is saved."

Rockstar and series veterans feel similarly, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA creator Mike Dailly himself calling the e𒀰nvironment "lovely, and things are mov🌃ing much better."

Not all devs are on the same page, however. Ubisoft writer Rik Godwin shares his thoughts in a , "Minus the *incredibl💝e* graphical fidelity, that looked extremely rote." According to Godwin, the trailer's events come off as mechanical.

"I don't say this lightly," he explains, "but if you told an AI to make a GTA VI trailerꦿ this is what you'd get." He cites some of the characters' details, like Cal Hampton's, on Rockstar's site to back his opinion up.

"The protagonist's best friend is a conspiracy theoܫrist according t𝐆o the new GTA VI site. One of his outfits is a t-shirt emblazoned with 'Violence Is Good; Thanks Videogames.' Hmm x2."

Godwin does acknowledge that "two 2-minute trailers are obviously nowhere near enough to represent a product of this size," though, saying "I will Buy and Play this videogame." It's just that, after 12 years and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Red Dead Redemption 2, he expected "something a little different."

There's no telling just yet how impressive GTA 6 truly will be, but one thing's for certain – come the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new May 2026 release date, plenty of💙 folks will be playing Rockstar's game.

Liberty City lives on in spirit as GTA 6 reveals new protagonist Lucia is from GTA's New York

Many of the screenshots focus on six key 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 locations that'll appear in the game. There is, of course, Vice City itself – the glitzy town with a bustling nightlife heavily inspired𒁃 by Miami, Florida. Contrast that with Ambrosia, a rundown industrial town seemingly populated by rednecks and biker gangs.

The more rural pa𓃲rts of the map will include the swamps of Grassrivers, the tourist hotspots around the Leonida Keys, and the wilderness of Mount Kalaga National Park. Finally, there's Port Gellhorn, which looks like it might as well be a factory for producing Florid🃏a Men.

GTA 6 location screenshots

Vice City gets the most attention in these images, with nine screenshots (plus aꦜ postcard) dedicated to the location. Obviously, the town's had quite a glow-up since it last appeared on the PS2, with dense detail on the streets and crowded heavily crowded beaches on display. There's a particular focus on the nightlife, too.

Ambrosia is as far from the glitz of Vice City aꦜs you can get. Here we see a bunch of rural areas and industrial parks, with a particular focus on a biker gang apparently called the Final Chapter. The array of political signs and big billboard promising that a certain sweets shop is allied with "diversity 'n' treats" suggests Rockstar won't be ♐shying away from its usual takes on current events, either.

With Grassrivers we're getting into the swamps, complete with alligator hunters armed wi🍬th assault rifles and riding airboats. The image of a police vehicle chasing a pickup truck through swamp water multiple feet high is particularly compelling, since it suggests we're going to have a lot of offroading options, and the volume of live ꦚalligators throughout these screens indicate that we're going to be spending plenty of time dealing with local wildlife.

The Loenida Keys are clearly the most touristy of these ♛locations, with images showing waterside bars and beach shops, as well as more high-end activities like scuba diving and yachting. Exactly how many of these activities we'll be able to participate in as players isn't entirely clear, but given Rockstar's pedigree I wouldn't be surprised if they're all on the table.

Mount Kalaga National Park is largely wilderness, but it has a varied array of locations, including muddy dirtbike tracks, deep woodlands, canyon roads, and even streams suited for kayaking. I'm most interested, though, in the image of what looks like a Florida panther stalking some deer, as it looks like all the work Rockstar put into getting wildlife right in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Red Dead Redemption 2 is continuing to pay off.

Port Gellhorn looks like it might be the least appealing of t𒉰hese locations to visit, as home to cheap motels and rundown strip clubs, though it'll certainly provide an appropriate location for GTA's take on rural crime.

Alongside today's trailer, Rockstar also dropped last 𒊎names and backstories for protagonists Jason Duval 🍸and Lucia Caminos. Naturally, there are plenty of images of those characters amon𓆉g t♏he new screenshots.

GTA 6 Jason and Lucia screenshots

Lucia appears to take on a wide variety of roles throughout the game, as we see her her𝓀e training to fight, sitting on a motorbike in casual businesswear, and partying it up. Jason, meanwhile, is doing everything you'd expect of a GTA protagonist (mostly drinking and shooting guns), though I'm curious if the image of him on the boat means we're getting a proper fishing minigame.

Plus, we got a look at a big chunk of the supporting cast of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 characters, who we'll presumably taking many of the🌠 game's missions from.

GTA 6 character screenshots

According to Rockstar's official character descriptions, Boobie Ike is a business mogul whose efforts range from recording ꧙studios to strip clubs. Brian Heder is an 🎶old smuggler who offers Jason a place to stay. Cal Hampton is an online conspiracy theorist. Dre'Quan Priest is an aspiring music mogul. Raul Batista is a career criminal specializing in bank robbery. And lastly, the Real Dimez are a pair of influencers and rappers who've finally secured a record deal.

On top⭕ of all the screenshots, Rockstar has also given us an array of new character art for the whol♐e cast.

GTA 6 character art

After all these years, it's starting to look like GTA 6 might actually be a real video game – 🥃and leave it to Rockstar to build such hype that we're poring over screenshots like we're back in the ♔magazine era of video game coverage once again.

If GTA 6 is anything less than one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best open-world games it's going to be a disappointment.

While the last trailer gave Lucia a lot of screentime, her partner in crime, Jason, was the star of this new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer. But we got plenty of🧸 Lucia too, with us getting to see Jason pick her up from jail and dig into their romantic relationship being explored more.

However, as exciting and jam-packed as the trailer was, there was a ton more info released on Rockstar's website, including bios for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 characters including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:our protagonists and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the supporting cast. One of these bios has turned some heads,𒀰 with Lucia's page revealing that the new protagonist has moved to Vice City from none other than Liberty City.

Lucia's bio reads: "Mor🌊e than anything, Lucia wants the good life her mom has dreamed of since their days in Liberty City – but instead of half-baked fantasies, Lucia is prepared to take matters into her own hands."

For those unaware, Liberty City is the GTA universe's version of New York City, seen in the orig🧸inal game, GTA 3, Liberty City Stories, and, most recently, GTA 4 (as well as spinoffs like GTA Advance and the cr꧟iminally overlooked Chinatown Wars).

Now, what does this actually mean for GTA 6? Probably nothing; Rockstar always hides sly references to other games within their titles, with the likes of GTA: The Lost and the Damned's Johnny and Ashley appearing in GTA 5.

However, if we want to put on the tinfoil hat and look at GTA 5 for inspiration, that game opens with a heist segment in Ludendorff, North Yankton, and considering we've seen Lucia in jail a few𓃲 times, perhaps something she does in Liberty City could appear in a flashback during GTA 6. Even if not, perhaps the next GTA game will take place in Liberty City, but we'll need to wait for that to release in 20 years' time.

Lucia isn't the only Liberty City native to appear in GTA 6, as the new trailer might resurrect everyone's favorite one-armed arms dealer, Phil Cassidy.

Towards the end of the trailer, we see protagonist Lucia come home to her partner, Jason, who's sprawled out on the couch watching TV. While the first thing that jumps out here is the trailer for Ammu-Nation, seemingly confirming the 🐻return of the series' recurring weapons store in some form, it's the white device next to the screen that's (literally) turning heads. You can♏ take a look at the timestamp below.

While the console is definitely meant to look similar to a PS5, it's not quite the same. It looks a bit more slender, and also has a long blue light down the middle of it in addition to the power indicator lights the current console has. One could even argue that it looks like an evolution of Sony's current-gen device. You know, a bit like a PS꧂6?

"PS6 leaked!!" one eagle-eyed fan proclaims on Twitter, sharing a screenshot of the console on display. "We got a PS6 tease before GTA 6," , providing an unfortunate reminder of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:last week's big delay news.

Is this really what Sony's next-gen console will look like? Only time will🧸 🐼tell, but who knows, this could end up being surprisingly accurate (even if it'd be a pure coincidence if so).

Elsewhere in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2, some fans are convinced that fan-favorite loser Phil Cassidy might be back in the new Vice City adventure. The theory isn't super straightforward, however, thanks to alternate timeline shenanigans, but that's probably not going to stop anyone from coming up with ways to make it work. Or maybe Phil is just related to 🌱this new character, who knows.

Grand Theft Auto creator reacts to GTA 6 trailer 2: "Now that's more like it. That environment is lovely, and things are moving much better."

"Now that's more 💦like it," Dailly . "That environment is lovely, and things are mꦏoving much better..."

After the release of the first GTA 6 trailer, which Rockstar rushed out 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:after the whole thing leaked, Dailly agreed the game "looks pretty" but was critical of i💜ts animaﷺtions.

"Bloody hell guys, can't you animat𝕴e things properly?" at the time. "No one moves like that!"

Today, Dailly had more praise in the chamber. "Looks very pretty," he reiterated in a reply. Rockstar's animation work, particularly in physical interactions between characters, like one scene with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 protagonists Lucia and Jason lounꦉging on a couch, is arguably a high point 𒀰of trailer 2.

Dailly also supported Rockstar's decision to delay the game to May 2026.

"We hope you understand that we need this extra time to deliver at the level of quality you expꦫect and deserve," Rockstar said in 🐻its delay announcement, apologizing that "this is later than you expected."

"They made the right call to delay if there was any issue, be that bugs/gameplay to give gamers the best experience possible," Dailly said. "Many of us 🧸are old enough to remember the debacle that Frontier: Elite 2 had on the PC, where greed got in the way."

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said he "fully" supports Rockstar's decision to hold off, and remains confident that GTA 6 will be "a groundbreaking, blockbuster entertainment experience that exceeds audience exp🔥ectations." The CEO stopped just short of telling investors, a bit shaky after the abrupt delay, that it w🌳ill make a zillion dollars no matter when it's released.

Dailly noted that "even if they✨'d released it broken, it'd still have sold huge♔ly. So it's even more impressive they took the decision to delay it. Kudos to [Rockstar]."

Our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 live coverage has all the news, details, and analysis you need from the latest info drop.

Though, this idea is… complicated. First: who appears to be Phil in the new GTA 6 trailer has two arms. But the GTA 3D, dishonorable army vet is famously one-armed in his alternate univ🐼erse games.

Then, there's the matter of the alternate universe. Since GTA 6 is part of the HD canon and Phil was last spotted in 2006's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – an unconnected, 3D universe game – the matter of his sudden rise from the grave feels even less likely. At least🐽, that's what fans used to think.

"Who Else Wants To See Phil Cassidy Retuꦛrn In 🍨GTA 6?" asks from one year ago.

"How do people still not know the 3D and HD games are in different universes?" says a definitive꧒ . "Not happening."

But, this morning's new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer has G𝓀TA f💜ans ready to believe in miracles.

"IS THAT PHIL CASSIDY," a Reddit comment

"Phil would be at least 70 today if they keep the 3D Universe Phil…" . "I bet it's his son or something… or a rewrite. (Has 2 arms in the trailer)." But I mean, really, can you blame a guy for wanting to be reincarnated with two arms?

GTA 6's Lucia and Jason get full names and backstories as trailer 2 drops and Rockstar shares loads more details about its protagonists.

As seen in the newly released 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2, the upcoming entry's primary protagonists are 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos – a modern-day crime-committing couple akin to Bonnie and Clyde. Rockstar's official details the two, describing Jason as an army veteran now working for local drug dealers in the Keys. Lucia, on the other hand, has just done time at the Leonida Penitentiary. There's more to the game than t𒁃he protagonists, though.

The si⛎te also describes Cal Hampton, a beer-loving, conspiracy-believing hermit of sorts who is friends with Jason. According to Rockstar, "Cal feels safest hanging at home, snooping on Coast Guard comms with a few beers and some private browser tabs open." Then, there's Vice City legend Boobie Ikes, who went from the streets to overseeing "a legitimate empire spanning real estate, a strip club, and a recording studio."

Partnered with Ikes at Only Raw Records is young aspiring musician Dre'Quan Priest, who was "always more of a hustler than a gangster." As Rockstar writes on Priest, "Even when he was dealing on the streets to make ends meet, breaking into music was the goal." As GTA 6 unfolds, the music-motivated character has his eyes set on bღreaking into the Vice City scene properly and venturing outside of Ike'😼s strip club.

After Ike and Priest, the si𒊎te explores duo Real Dimez – Bae-Luxe and Roxy – "girls with the savvy to turn their time shaking down local dealers into cold, hard cash via spicy rap t𓃲racks and a relentless social media presence." Five years before the events of GTA 6, the two had an early hit single with local rapper DWNPLY. Since then, they've "signed to Only Raw Records, hoping lightning can strike twice."

There's also Raul Bautista, a cunning bank robber with plenty of charm and experience to boot, "always on the hunt for talent ready to take the risks that bring the biggest rewards." As seasoned a criminal as he is, he's also reckless – so much so, he "raises the stakes wit🐈h every score." Sooner or later, as Rockst🅘ar puts it, "his crew will have to double down or pull their chips from the table."

Last but certainly not least, it seems, is Brian Heder, "a classic drug runner from the golden age of smuggling in the Keys." The older character, who has "been around long enough to let others do his dirty work," is "still moving product thro🐎ugh his boat yard with his third wife, Lori" and allows Jason to live "rent-free" at one of his properties – "so long as he helps with local shakedowns," of 🐬course.

GTA 6 delay is a "bummer," former Rockstar technical lead says, but the release date announcement shows the devs are "clearly confident" in the new deadline

On the – if you can get it to load right now with everyone else tryi🌼ng to access it – the developer has shared character profiles for its protagonists🌳 and some of its supporting cast, revealing the full names of Lucia and her now-named partner in crime Jason, as well as a taste of their backstories.

Lucia Caminoღs seems to have had her share of bad luck, as her bio reveals that her "father taught her to fight as soon as she could walk. Life has been coming at her swinging ever since. Fighting for her family landed her in the Leonida Penitentiary. Sheer luck got her out. Lucia's lear🍌ned her lesson – only smart moves from here."

We see Lucia leaving the Penitentiary in the latest trailer, so perhaps that's something that happens near the start of the game? She also has ro𒁏ots in GTA 4's Liberty City, as her bio continues: "More than anything, Lucia wants the good life her mom has dreamed of since their days in Liberty City – but instead of half-baked fantasies, Lucꦛia is prepared to take matters into her own hands."

Then, we have Jason Duval, who "wants an easy life, but things just ke💫ep getting harder." He "grew 🎉up around grifters and crooks," and "after a stint in the Army trying to shake off his troubled teens, he found himself in the Keys doing what he knows best, working for local drug runners. It might be time to try something new."

Even though Lucia and Jason seem really close, his bio adds that meeting her "could be the b𒐪est or worst thing to ever happen to him." It continues: "Jason knows how he'd like it to turn out but right now, it's hard to tell."

After the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:game's delay was announced last week, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2 was exactly what fans needed to liftꦯ their spirits, and this has been the biggest look we've had so far at Rockstar's up🤪coming open-world blockbuster. There's no doubt that loads of details are going to be picked out from it over the hours, days, and even weeks to come, so stay tuned for that.

Analysts react to GTA 6 delay: "2025 will clearly be the year of Nintendo now" and "the delay isn't a stumble – it's Rockstar doing what it always does."

GTA 6 trailer 2 puts coupled protagonists Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval in the spotlight, with Lucia leaving prison and quickl🌱y joining Jason in a life of crime.

The glut of criminal activities available in Rockstar's open-world sandbo📖x, from smallಌ-time robberies to ambitious heists, is the backdrop for much of the trailer, though Jason seems to front a more honest living elsewhere.

On , Jason's character profile notes that he joined the A♌rmy to "shake off his troubled teens," only to wind up once again "doing what he knows best, working for local drug runners." He now dreams of aiming higher and doing "something new."

Lucia, meanwhile, learn💟ed "to fight as soon as she could walk" – an upbringing that eventually earned her a stint in the penitentiary on Leonida, the overall setting of GTA 6.

Vice City, a GTA holy ground, is just one area of GTA 6, and Liberty City only comes up in a passing reference to Lucia's past in today's content flood: "Lucia wants the good li🌸fe her mom has dreamed of si♉nce their days in Liberty City," her bio reads.

We're also introduced to Cal Hampton, a friend of Jason's, seemingly a bit of an accomplice in GTA 6, and a hardcore conspiracy theorist if his distrust of birds is anything to go by. "Cal feels safest hanging at home, snooping on Coast Guard comms wit✅h a few beers and some private browser tabs open," Rockstar says.

The Pointer Sisters' song Hot Together carries the trailer, contrasting Tom Petty's Love is a Long Road from the first tra✨iler.

Follow our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer 2 live coverage for analysis and reactions as they come in.

Turns out that I was absolutely not the only one to have this extremely clever, original realization. The ever-suffering Silksong subreddit is awash with the sentiment, with posts like and which is somehow disti🐎nct from the previous post with the exact same title.

Silksong has been confirmed for launch in 2025, and it's looking increasingly likely that it'll actually make that release window, what with its impending 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:appearance at an Australian museum and all. Meanwhile, we now know for certain that GTA 6 won't be out this year.

Memes about the many things we've gotten before GTA 6 have been going for years, shared by everyone from forum posters to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:WWE superstar John Cena. But given how legendary the pain of the Hollow Knight fandom has become in recent years, juxta🔜posed with the GTA community's long, re-release filled wait since GTA 5, perhaps this is ⛄the gag's ultimate form.

Now, all that's left is to ponder the next question to plague global society: what are we getting before 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Elder Scrolls 6?

Keep track of everything with our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games for 2025 and beyond.

Reacting to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 delay on Tw🉐itter, Obbe Vermeij, who worked on GTA 3, 4, Vice City, and San Andreas in his time at Rockstar before departing the company in 2009, does think that there's a positive to take from this latest announcement, at least. "The good news is that they are clearly confident they are going to make May," he argues. "Otherwise they wouldn't have given a date."

Further down in the thread, he agrees that it was "absolutely" a brave decision for t♌he company to make, adding: "I remember when we made the call for GTA 4. It's not an easy decision to make. You d🎐on't want to disappoint the fans."

Vermeij also walks back slightly on previous comments he made a few days ago, when he stated that if it was his decision, he "wouldn't release any additional trailers" for GTA 6, reasoning that "there is more than enough hype around 6, and the ele🦩ment of surprise is going to make the release only bigger as an event." Today, he suggests: "A 🐓second trailer would be nice now to wash away the disappointment."

While it sounds like the delay has potentially been inevitable for a while, with Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier reporting that "nobody I've talked to at Rockstar has believed fallꦐ 2025 was a🤡 real window for a very long time now," from the outside, Vermeij "thought it was 50/50" that GTA 6 would actually be released this year.

Not only are we now faced with a longer wait for the game, but the potential impact the delay could have on the industry might also be pretty bad. One veteran analyst, Circana's Mat Piscatella, told us that he doesn't think "anyone benefits in 2025 from this," while 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:other analysts have suggested to us that "the double whammy that w🍃as supposed to revitalize the game industry overall is now called off," and that "without GTA 6 to boost momentum, 2025 will be a cautious, quiet year."

Take-Two CEO "fully" supports Rockstar's GTA 6 delay, promises "a groundbreaking, blockbuster entertainment experience that exceeds audience expectations."

GTA 6 was meant to be a rising tide that lifts all boats this year, bringing people and spending and investment back to an industry that's largely been contracting or coasting for a while, particularly on console (GTA 6 hasn't been announced for PC, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:but a port seems inevitable).

It's also a๊n all-consuming blockbuster threatening to bury any adjacent releases. This delay may be a short-term opportunity for some other games and companies, but many analysts agree that the ga🐷mes forecast as a whole will be down at a time where a boost is needed.

CEO of Japan game industry consultancy Kantan Games, notes that "studios looking to release games in the second half of 2025 are probably breathing a sigh of🐻 relief now: No more danger that GTA 6 takes the oxygen out of the room anymore.

"Now Nintendo has half a year to prepare and market a potentially big holiday line-up, Sony can release 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ghost of Yotei in peace, and Microsoft has more room to possibly release its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox handheld," Toto tells GamesRadar+. "However, the double whammy that was supposed to revitalize the game industry overall is now called off." (As it happens, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ghost of Yotei pre-orders began just hours after the delay broke.)

Toto predicts that "2025 will clearly be the year of Nintendo now," with PlayStation and Xbox bringing milder offerings to the table much later in their console cycles while the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 comes out swinging.

One upside, Toto reiterates, is that devs can get a head start planning around Rockstar's May 2026 window, steering clear of the elephant in the room. Unless you're Devolver Digital – then you're lining up iron sights right on that elephant.

Joost van Dreunen, ♛who writes the and teaches at , agrees that "without GTA 6 sucking the air out of the room, Q4 just got a little more breathable for everyone else."

He tells us: "B🔯ig publishers like EA, Ubisoft, and Sony now have a shot at commanding attention during a window that would have otherwise been swallowed whole. 🗹It's an opportunity.

"At the same time, they can't rely on piggybacking off the cultural moment a GTA launch creates. Instead, they'll need to generate their own buzz, which is harder and costl⛦ier in a market where attention is fragmented and consumer enthusiasm is thinner than usuaꦉl."

The implications for Rockstar and GTA 6 itself are no concern, Van Dreunen reasons. "The delay isn't a stumb🐟le — it's Rockstar doing what it always does: waiting for the perfect moment. GTA 6 now lands in May 2026, giving it a bigger install base, less competition, and total narrative control. That's how GTA 5 managed to achieve its♋ success, too."

He highlights another key point: beyond additional development time, this del꧑ay gives Rockstar a chance to capitalize on the new PS5 and Xbox Series X owners the holiday season will bring.

David Cole of ꧒games industry marketing and research firm DFC Intelligence says it's "not entirely surprising that GTA VI has been delayed, but it is certainly a disappointment."

"There is still a significant consumer base that has not upgraded from the previous generation and DF🐼C Intelligence had projected GTA VI to be a major driver of PS5 and Xbox Series X|S hardware sales in 2025," he adds. "With rising tariffs, increasing prices and the absence of GTA VI to motivate consumers to upgrade from PS4, 2025 is shaping up to be𓆏 a challenging year for the industry."

Cole says DFC's updated forecast "will likely reflect these new realities," but agrees that "there is some upside" for the studios no longer competing🌃 with GTA 6 this year. "Additionally, the Nintendo Switch 2 may benefit as it will stand alone as the hot new product for 2025," he adds.

The sowing can sound good, but the reaping may come. As Circana games lead Mat Piscatella , the well-worn games mantra of 'survive to 2025' has now become 'survive through 2025' – a far more daunting challenge.

Likewise, Van Dreune🌳n reckons that "the rest of the industry, meanwhile, is pulꦫling back. Without GTA 6 to boost momentum, 2025 will be a cautious, quiet year."

Piscatella additionally told us that "I don't think anyone benefits in 2025 from this," ꧑putting the boost fro🎃m a GTA launch on the scales.

"It would have also, if successful, brought potential growth months to the industry (again, particularly on the console side) and may have even worked to 🍌reinvigorate investor interest in the segment," he stressed.

Meanwhile, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick is assuring shaky investors that the delay is justified and will be a net positive in the end, promising "a groundbreaking, bloཧckbuster entertainment experience that exceeds audience expectations."

On the heels of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a hefty price hike from Xbox, "this wee♛k has certainly beenౠ nightmare scenario territory for the video game industry forecast," .

"It wasn't looming over the holiday se🦄ason, it was going to be a big dr✅iver of what success potential the holiday season had," Piscatella told us of GTA 6.

GTA 6 delay was reportedly inevitable: "Nobody I've talked to at Rockstar has believed fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now."

"Nobody I've talked to at Rockstar has believed Fall 2025 was a real window 🍌for a very long time now," according to Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier, . "Too much work, not enough time, and what appears to be a real desire from management to avoid brutal crunch. GTA VI s🐼lipping to 2026 has seemed inevitable for months, if not longer."

Rockstar parent company Take-Two has repeatedly reasserted that GTA 6 would launch in 2025, though CEO Strauss Zelnick has acknowledged that𒅌 "there's alwaysꦕ a risk of slippage." Today, Zelnick wrote that the company will "support f𒐪ully Rockstar Games taking additional time to realize their creative vision."

Assuming that the delay is, indeed, partly down to a "real desire" to avoid crunch, it's a remarkable turnaround for Rockstar's work culture. Widespread reports of brutal crunch hung over the rele⛎ase of Red Dead Redemption 2 back in 2018, so hopefully things h🐭ave genuinely improved at the studio in the years since.

As players, though... well, we've already waited 12 years for GTA 6. We can handle one more – assuming you're not holding out fo🎃r the eventual PC version, that is🐷.

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Circana games industry analyst Mat Piscatella has previously spoken about how he believes GTA 6 could be the most "important thing to ever release in the industry," noting early last year that the games market had to "survive 2024" and "get to GTA 6 and hope." Needless to sꦜay, it'ꩲs no wonder that he doesn't think this delay is good news.

"Grand Theft Auto 6 is a game that would bring relapsed players back to the consoles in particular, and would have been a driver of incremental hardware sales," Piscatella tells GamesRadar+ following the dela💎y announcement today. "It would have also, if successful, b﷽rought potential growth months to the industry (again, particularly on the console side) and may have even worked to reinvigorate investor interest in the segment.

"I don't think anyone benefits in 2025 from this push," he continues. "It wasn't looming 𒁃over the holiday season, it was going to be a big driver of what success poten🉐tial the holiday season had."

Looking ahead to the rest of the year for the industry, Piscatella is now expecting total spending in the United States on gaming hardware, accessories, and content will "fall in the mid single-digit percentage range, with spending falling to the lowest level since before the pandemic." He adds: "D♐ue to further uncertainties around pricing and product availability, there is also the potential for significant downside from there."

Between GTA 6's delay and the massive Xbox price hike from earlier this week, Piscatella further as "nightmare scenario territory for the video game i๊ndustry forecast," adding: "C'mon ꧋people. It was 'survive TO 25' not through."

: "GTA 6 getting pushed does not mean there will all of a sudden be a whole bunch of dollars available for other games in 2025. It just means that a bunch of the dollars that would have been spent on gaming this year have disappeared.🧸"

Take-Two CEO "fully" supports Rockstar's GTA 6 delay, promises "a groundbreaking, blockbuster entertainment experience that exceeds audience expectations."

Instead, GTA 6 isဣ planned to launch on May 26, 2026. 𒅌Rockstar put out the news along with an apology on its Twitter account today, noting that it's "very sorry that this is later than you expected."

The statement continues: "The interest and excitement surrounding a new Grand Theft Auto has been truly humbling for our entire team. We want to ♒thank you for your support an🥂d your patience as we work to finish the game.

"With every game we have released, the goal has always been to try and exceed your ༒expectations, and Grand Theft Auto 6 is no exception. We hope you understand that we need this extra time to deliver at the le🐓vel of quality you expect and deserve."

Rockstar rounds off the st⛎atement saying that "we look forward to sharing more inꦦformation with you soon."

Even GTA 6 aside, it was clear even last year that 2025 was going to be a packed year for game releases, but there's no doubt that the next Grand The♈ft Auto game was the big one for m﷽any.

Back in February, the CEO of Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive, Strauss Zelnick, said "we feel really good" about the planned 2025 release, but acknowl💮edged that "there's always a risk of slippage." Unfortunately, that's exactly what's happened.

Coincidentally, just this week, Borderlands 4 got its release date moved forward by 11 days, which prompted many to speculate that since Gearbox is also owned by Take-Two, perhaps this could help narrow down GTA 6's release date. Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford was quick to say that this wasn't the case, and later doubled down to say he had no "insider information about some other game launch."

Here's hoping that GTA 6 will be worth the♓ wait when it's eventually here. At least we can officially mark our 😼calendars now – there's just over a year to go. Hang in there, folks.

GTA 6 will sell "for 10+ years," and because "there is no competition" Rockstar is "not going to release the game until they're 100% happy with it," reckons former GTA dev.

"I think folks want to be optimistic about things like Switch 2 and GTA 6 coming into🅠 the market," Piscatella tells GamesRadar+, "but this looming cloud of tariffs and the impact a🐻nd what's happening on the trade side of things, and how that might impact products like accessories and hardware and that type of thing, it's just, no matter what industry you're looking at, you're looking at this stuff going, okay, what happens next?"

A common refrain in the games industry last year was: "Survive 2024." After post-covid downturns, many developers hoped to simply get through the year, get to the Switch 2, get to GTA 6, let them br♉ing a whole bunch of people and spending and investment and opportunity back to the industry, and then reassess. Piscatella said he'd heard the same from many publishers and retailers. In the US, these new tariffs have complicated those hopes a fair bit.

Today, there's a lot of "contingency planning, trying to read the tea leaves," Piscatella says, and "trying to figure out the best way to move forward when the layout of the tariffs has been a little bit chaotic and hard to predict, to say the least. People are just kind of waiting and seeing what's happening and trying to plan accordingly, but hopeful that, with Switch 2, with GTA 6, when it comes to the tariffs, the increased presence of digital – which wouldn't be subject to those tariffs, at least not at this stage –🦄 lessens those kinds of burns a little bit. But everyone's still nervous, right?"

Piscatella said just last December that the c𝕴ombo of GTA 6🎃 and Nintendo Switch 2 is almost unprecedented in the games industry's history, and as interesting as these mega-releases are, at this point I selfishly find myself hoping to one day speak to him during quite precedented times.

These tariffs have affected much more than just games, of co⛎urse, and resulting economic knock-on effects can directly impact game spending as well if they reach daily essentials.

Piscatella dismi𝐆sses the old theory that games are especially resistant to inflation or other financial hardships – "I don't think that's right at all, I don't think the data even supports that idea," he says – and stresses that w🌌hen life gets more costly, games can face pressure just like any other non-essential.

"If things like groceries get a lot more expensive, or other everyday, essential categories get more expensive, then consumers are really going to have to pick and choose," he says. "And you know, are you going to pick food, or are you going to pick a new game? For most people, they'll pick the food. But you know, we have some💃 dedicated players that could pick a game and eat Top Ramen. Who the hell knows? But anyways, long-winded answer, I think everyone's just kind of waiting and seeing and trying to prepare for what may come next."

Even if people do choose to game through a recession, or shrinkflation, or what-have-you, Piscatella says we can still see "more people kind of shifting to free-to-play, to easily accessible products, to kind of offset what they're experiencing 🎶in other parts of their world."

Piscatella regularly em𓄧phasizes the power of today's biggest live service games – the Minecraft, Fortni🎃te, and Roblox of the world – being "the majority of what the mass market plays." As ever, "there's immense pressure on the market. And if you throw in things like a recession or higher prices on groceries and all this other stuff, I think it gets nasty."

"People talk about the competition thing and what's the biggest competition for Switch 2," he adds. "And I don't know, I think the biggest competi🅷tion for ℱSwitch 2 is going to be Switch 2 supply and the tariffs, but we'll see what happens."

Former Rockstar dev says we've seen enough GTA 6 trailers: "The element of surprise is going to make the release only bigger as an event."