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The artists teasing GTA 6 artwork means a soundtrack is coming

After a dozen artists posted matching GTA 6 artwork on 15 September, the same images went up on Spotify branded billboards in Los Angeles, New York and Miami

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Answered on 17 September. Rockstar announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, 34 original tracks made with Atlantic Records, out on 19 November alongside the game, with the first six singles available the same day. The artists posting artwork were teasing their own tracks. What Spotify's billboards were for has still not been spelled out by either company, and the album is on every major service rather than one.

Rockstar Newswire, 17 Sep 2026

Latest official announcement: Justice's GTA 6 score gets its own album on 11 December, October 29, 2026 (0 days ago). Everything below is from Rockstar Games, Take-Two or, for hardware, Sony, directly, or from interviews Rockstar's developers gave the press, credited by name. The moment anything official lands, it goes here first.

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Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album wide artwork, from Rockstar's official music page
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Justice's GTA 6 score gets its own album on 11 December

October 29, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

Rockstar has announced Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score, composed by the French duo Justice (Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay). Rockstar describes it as an adaptive score, tuned to the different ways players engage with Vice City and Leonida through Jason and Lucia's story. The album has 30 tracks, including Flower in a Hurricane featuring Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard from the Launch Trailer, and a new single, Pusher featuring Gesaffelstein, which is out now. It arrives on 11 December on streaming services, CD and vinyl, including a limited Triple Crystal Clear vinyl, with digital bonus tracks across all formats. That is after the game's 19 November launch, and it is a separate release from Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, which comes out on launch day. Source ↗

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The GTA 6 Launch Trailer is out, with a Justice single and the score's composers named

October 15, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

Rockstar has published the Grand Theft Auto VI Launch Trailer, 90 seconds captured in-game on PlayStation 5. It introduces the story in Rockstar's words: Jason and Lucia, an easy score that goes wrong, and a criminal conspiracy across the state of Leonida. The trailer carries new music from Justice, and Rockstar says the French duo composed the game's original score. Their standalone single, Flower in a Hurricane featuring Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, is also on Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, which is up for pre-save and for pre-order on vinyl and CD. Rockstar says more on the music is coming, including the official score album. The release date and platforms are unchanged: 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Source ↗

Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album wide artwork, from Rockstar's official music page
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Rockstar names six GTA 6 radio stations and adds podcasts

October 8, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

Rockstar has named the first six radio stations in GTA 6: Cocoteo FM (modern Latin), Back Country Radio (country), AfroBank FM (African music), The Chamber 106.6 (metal), Flash FM (pop) and Dirty South Classics (Southern rap and hip hop). For the first time in the series there are also on demand podcasts, and both radio and podcasts can be heard in vehicles or on foot through headphones and earbuds connected to Jason and Lucia's phones. Previews of all six stations are on the Music section of Rockstar's official site. Rockstar says more stations and details of the game's score are still to come, so the full station list is not known yet. Source ↗

The Goodtime State Vice City artwork with Macca the Gator and Chunkee the Manatee
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Rockstar opens a GTA 6 merch collection on its store

October 8, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

Rockstar has put an official Grand Theft Auto VI Collection on the Rockstar Store. It includes heavyweight cotton tees in black, blue and pink with the VI logo or the classic Rockstar Games logo, Goodtime State tees featuring characters from Macca the Gator (a hit TV show in Leonida, styled after what Jason and Lucia wear in the Ultimate Edition), Flexfit caps with the VI logo and palm trees, the original Rockstar cap up for pre-order in GTA 6 inspired colours, a two sided keychain, a Vice City money clip, a Vice City Zippo lighter, canvas tote bags and two sets of vinyl stickers. Rockstar says much more will be added to the collection. Prices are listed on the store rather than in the announcement, and this is separate from the Vice City Collection collector's box and the Miami Heat range. Source ↗

Jason and Lucia in a car, from Rockstar's official GTA 6 artwork
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GTA 6 is rated PEGI 18 in the UK and Europe

October 3, 2026 · PlayStation Store, UK

PlayStation's UK store now shows GTA 6 as PEGI 18, with four content descriptors beside the badge: Drugs, Extreme Violence, Nudity and Sexual Content, plus the In-Game Purchases notice. The French store shows PEGI 18 too. That makes three boards in three days: M in the US, R 18+ in Australia and PEGI 18 in Europe, each the same level GTA 5 holds. Longer descriptions quoted elsewhere came from a PEGI listing that has since been taken down, so they are left out here. Source ↗

Jason and Lucia, from Rockstar's official GTA 6 artwork
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GTA 6 is rated M for Mature in the US

October 2, 2026 · Rockstar Games, GTA VI page

Rockstar's official GTA 6 page now carries the ESRB Mature badge. The content descriptors printed beside it are Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Mature Humor, Nudity, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, and Use of Drugs and Alcohol, along with the In-Game Purchases notice. M is the same rating GTA 5 carries. The ESRB had not yet published its own rating summary for the game when the badge appeared. Source ↗

Jason and Lucia at a motel, from Rockstar's official GTA 6 artwork
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GTA 6 is listed R 18+ in Australia

October 2, 2026 · PlayStation Store, Australia

PlayStation's Australian store now shows GTA 6 as R 18+, with three reasons listed beside the badge: Drug Use, High Impact Violence and Sex Scenes. The New Zealand store shows R18 as well. R 18+ is the same classification GTA 5 holds in Australia, which restricts the game to adults. This is the rating as PlayStation displays it; the Classification Board's own register had not shown the decision when we checked. Source ↗

Vice City, from Rockstar's official GTA 6 artwork
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The Miami Heat will play as Vice City the night before launch

October 2, 2026 · Miami HEAT, Vice City uniform collection

The Miami Heat have announced a Vice City game for 18 November 2026 at Kaseya Center, the evening before GTA 6 releases. The team says it will play on special hardwood built for that one night, in a completely reimagined Vice City uniform that has not been shown in full yet, and calls it a historic partnership on the eve of Grand Theft Auto VI. A Vice City apparel range is already on sale at the Miami HEAT Store. Source ↗

Dolphins alongside the Shitzu Squalo, from Rockstar's Ultimate Edition artwork
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Game Informer's cover story: over 170 animal species, and storms and hurricanes

September 29, 2026 · Game Informer, interviewing Rockstar's lead designers

Rockstar gave Game Informer a 14 page GTA 6 cover story built on interviews with its lead designers, and two of its details are out in the open. Leonida has more than 170 animal species across land, air and sea, several of them new to any Rockstar game: flamingos, manatees, pelicans and alligators, plus invasive species from green iguanas and cane toads to feral cats and rhesus macaques. Some animals are graded Rare, Discoverable or Legendary, and Rockstar is keeping the hardest to find a secret. The weather is local rather than map wide: a storm can roll over one area while another stays dry, puddles stay after the rain, rainbows can follow, and tropical storms and seasonal hurricanes are in. How often a hurricane hits, and what it does to play, is not known yet. The full story is in Game Informer issue 382. Source ↗

The Goodtime State Vice City artwork with Macca the Gator and Chunkee the Manatee
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GTA 6 gets a Vice City collector's box, and the game is not in it

September 24, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire; price from the Rockstar Store

Rockstar opened pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State, Vice City Collection, a limited edition collector's box built around Macca the Gator, a hit TV show inside the game. It costs US$399.99 on the US Rockstar Store, arrives on 19 November while supplies last, and holds eleven items: a six inch Macca figure with a stash compartment, matte black Oakley Frogskins with Prizm Sapphire lenses, a New Era 9FORTY snapback, a Macca magnetic mirror, a Vice City swizzle spoon, a razor blade keychain, a Leonida Keys crossbody bag, a Chunkee the Manatee shot glass, an enamel pin set in a metal tin, stickers in a stash bag and a double sided poster of the whole Leonida landscape. The game itself is not included: Rockstar's post says it is sold separately. Pre-orders are open on the Rockstar Store, and Rockstar says details for Asia, Latin America and Australia are still to come. Source ↗

Real Dimez in a recording studio in Grand Theft Auto VI
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GTA 6 gets an official album, out on launch day

September 17, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

Rockstar announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, an official soundtrack of 34 original tracks made with Atlantic Records, arriving on 19 November alongside the game. Six singles are out now: Yung Lean with Future and Metro Boomin, Travis Scott, a track from CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso with PinkPantheress and Fred again.. and Etienne de Crecy, Morgan Wallen, Rauw Alejandro, and Keith Richards. The album can be pre-saved on the major streaming services, and there are vinyl and CD editions for launch, including a liquid filled vinyl and a splatter vinyl sold only through the album's own site. This is what the artists were teasing when they posted matching artwork on 15 September. Source ↗

Grand Theft Auto VI official key art
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Rockstar publishes official Mod Guidelines

September 10, 2026 · Rockstar Games

Rockstar has published Mod Guidelines covering its games. Multiplayer modding is limited to Rockstar's own licensed Creator Platform, and that platform is the only place mods can be sold: everything else has to be strictly non-commercial, and paid mods can only go through storefronts Rockstar approves. The guidelines also rule out mods that combine maps or assets from one Rockstar game into another, mods that change Rockstar's official stories or characters, cheat menus that touch official online services, and using a real person's voice or likeness without written permission. They cover Rockstar's games in general rather than GTA 6 on its own, and they say nothing yet about when or how GTA 6 can be modded. Source ↗

The black and white GTA VI limited edition DualSense controllers
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Two limited edition GTA VI DualSense controllers announced

September 3, 2026 · PlayStation Blog, written with Rockstar Games

Sony and Rockstar revealed a black and a white DualSense for GTA VI, both with a colour shifting finish and palm tree details moulded into the pad. $84.99 in the US, £74.99 in the UK, €84.99 in Europe, on sale from 19 November with pre-orders from 10 September. No console bundle was announced. Source ↗

A helicopter above Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V
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Rockstar backs nopixel V, GTA roleplay through its own launcher

September 1, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

Rockstar has officially announced nopixel V, the next version of the best known GTA V roleplay community, with a closed beta from 8 September that invited players reach through the Rockstar Games Launcher. Rockstar's post credits nopixel with pushing GTA roleplay forward through character immersion and its own changes to the GTAV map, and says nopixel V reworks character customisation, adds a new Pixel Hotel and Casino and a six block revamp of Cypress Flats, and brings refreshed visuals, new ways to earn on either side of the law, and smarter, more reactive pedestrians. Watching GTA roleplay streams on Twitch between 8 and 30 September earns the Burger Shot Tracksuit and up to GTA$1,500,000 in GTA Online. Rockstar also says more is coming, including an in game PC overlay and wider access to nopixel V. It reads across to GTA 6 because Rockstar is now distributing a community run multiplayer version of its own game through its own launcher, and nine days later its Mod Guidelines limited multiplayer modding to a licensed Rockstar Creator Platform. Rockstar has still said nothing about roleplay or modding in GTA 6 itself. Source ↗

A police pursuit in Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look
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An Extended Look is out

August 27, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, roughly 27 minutes of footage captured in game on PlayStation 5. It went to Netflix first at 3pm ET, then to Rockstar's YouTube channel and the official Grand Theft Auto VI site at 9pm ET the same day, free and with no subscription needed. It is the longest look at the game so far. The release date is unchanged at 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Source ↗

Port Gellhorn in Grand Theft Auto VI
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Take-Two reiterates the November 19 date at Q1 earnings

August 7, 2026 · Take-Two Interactive

In its first quarter fiscal 2027 results, Take-Two reiterated its full year Net Bookings outlook of $8.0 to $8.2 billion and pointed to the November 19 launch of Grand Theft Auto VI as a reason for it. Net Bookings for the quarter were $1.39 billion. The release schedule in the same filing still lists Grand Theft Auto VI on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S for November 19, 2026, with no PC version listed. Source ↗

An Extended Look announced for August 27
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An Extended Look announced for August 27

August 6, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

Rockstar announced Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET on Thursday 27 August and arriving free on Rockstar's YouTube channel and the official GTA VI site at 9pm ET the same day. Rockstar restated the 19 November 2026 release date in the same post. It has not called this a trailer and has given no runtime. Source ↗ Our full breakdown

Jason and Lucia, official artwork
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Pre-orders open worldwide

June 25, 2026 · Rockstar Newswire

GTA 6 pre-orders are live: $79.99 Standard Edition and $99.99 Ultimate Edition. Every pre-order placed before launch includes the Vintage Vice City Pack, and digital pre-orders add one month of GTA+. A major retailer reported six times Call of Duty's entire pre-order period within 24 hours. Source ↗

The official Grand Theft Auto VI cover art
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Official cover art revealed

June 18, 2026 · Rockstar Games

Rockstar unveiled the official Grand Theft Auto VI cover art featuring Jason and Lucia, one week ahead of pre-orders opening. Source ↗

The Vice City skyline in Grand Theft Auto VI
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Take-Two reaffirms the November 19 release date

May 14, 2026 · Take-Two Interactive

At its May 2026 earnings call, Take-Two reaffirmed that Grand Theft Auto VI launches November 19, 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Source ↗

Vice City, official GTA 6 screenshot
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Trailer 2 becomes the biggest video launch of all time

May 6, 2025 · Rockstar Games

Trailer 2 released alongside a full rockstargames.com/VI site update revealing the cast and the state of Leonida. It reached 475 million views across platforms in 24 hours, the biggest video launch of all time. Source ↗

Lucia Caminos, official GTA 6 screenshot
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Trailer 1 breaks YouTube records

December 4, 2023 · Rockstar Games

The reveal trailer hit 93 million views in 24 hours, a Guinness World Record for a game reveal, and confirmed the return to Vice City. Source ↗

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Vice City at night in Grand Theft Auto VI
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