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The weekly reset has landed in GTA Online, and the month-long Halloween celebration is still going. This week brings back familiar scares, adds new Kortz Center Heist targets, and rotates the usual vehicles, bonuses and discounts. Everything below is live from October 8th through October 14th. Halloween Rewards Several Halloween payouts are available, some with deadlines past this week: Twilight Knife T-Shirt: Free from in-game clothing stores. Rockstar's listing gives October 7th as the end da

A new batch of GTA 6 gameplay details has surfaced from an extended interview between IGN and Rob Nelson, Rockstar Games' Head of Development and Co-Studio Head. IGN was shown a live play session, with Nelson answering questions as he moved through a section of the game. A strange encounter in a dumpster The first notable moment came as Nelson played as Lucia and ran into a man in a dumpster. The scene offers a choice: hand him some pills or walk away. Players who return later can get legal advi

A new leak points to a collaboration between Rockstar Games and Discord, with Wumpus Central, a well-regarded Discord dataminer, finding parts of a GTA VI campaign in the latest build of the app. Wumpus Central says the references turned up in Discord's Canary build. The promotion is reportedly codenamed "Hexagon" and designed as a limited-time event. According to the leak, it would bring several GTA VI-themed cosmetic features to the app: A GTA VI app icon A GTA VI-themed app theme A custom d

A report that Xbox had locked up exclusive streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI lit up the community on Tuesday. Within hours, the claim was being scaled back by the reporter who broke it and by Xbox's own strategy chief. What was reported The Verge reported on Tuesday that Xbox had landed exclusive game streaming rights for GTA 6, with Xbox Cloud Gaming as the only way to stream the game when it launches on November 19. The report said Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees at an internal all-h

A new Grand Theft Auto VI screenshot and a batch of developer interviews have arrived with the release of issue 27 of LOVE magazine. The French fashion title landed on Monday with an exclusive GTA VI feature and cover. Inside, Rockstar staff discuss how they approached the story, the characters and the world of Leonida. The magazine's preview earlier this month already produced a few quotes and images. The full issue adds more. Writing Lucia Rockstar writer Alexa D'Agostino explained that she bu

Fans hoping to hear from the man behind Grand Theft Auto will have to keep waiting. Rockstar Games co-founder and president Sam Houser has pulled out of a long-planned GQ interview, according to the journalist who was set to conduct it. Houser is one of the most private figures in the games industry. Only a handful of interviews with him have ever been published, and he has largely let Rockstar's games speak for him. With Grand Theft Auto VI arriving on November 19, GQ's profile would have been

Grand Theft Auto VI has started turning up in age rating databases, and the descriptions attached to those classifications go further than anything Rockstar has shown publicly. The game carries an 18+ rating, or the local equivalent, in every region, which will surprise no one. What stands out is the specific reasoning behind it. PEGI, the rating body covering Europe and the UK, listed GTA VI with content descriptors for violence, sex, drugs and in-game purchases. The accompanying write-up outli

Rockstar Games has handed fans another small batch of GTA 6 material, this time through a fashion and culture magazine. LOVE magazine published an exclusive feature on Grand Theft Auto VI on Friday, complete with two previously unseen screenshots and a cover starring Lucia and Jason. What's in the issue Issue 27 of LOVE pairs the new imagery with interviews from a range of writers discussing the game, including Rob Nelson, Co-Studio Head and Head of Development at Rockstar North. The cover art

The Miami Heat have partnered with Rockstar Games on a limited merchandise line themed around Grand Theft Auto VI. The "Vice City Collection" went live on the team's online store today, October 2, and shoppers moved fast. Within minutes of the shadow drop, several items had already sold out in certain sizes. The launch follows the franchise's recent announcement that it will rebrand as Vice City for one night only on the eve of GTA VI's release. The Heat will take on the Bucks at the Kaseya Cent

Rockstar Games' marketing push for Grand Theft Auto VI is spilling out of the gaming world and into professional basketball. The Miami Heat have announced a one-night collaboration with Rockstar in which the NBA franchise will temporarily rebrand as Vice City, trading its usual look for the neon pink aesthetic the series is known for. The event, billed as "A Night in Vice City," takes place on November 18, the night before GTA VI hits shelves. The team will host the Milwaukee Bucks at Kaseya Cen

A large-scale Grand Theft Auto VI mural appears to be under construction in New York City, continuing a Rockstar Games marketing tradition that fans have been waiting to see revived for the next entry in the series. The first sighting came from a Reddit user, who shared a photo of the wall in its early stages. The image shows the outline of the artwork: the stacked Grand Theft Auto logo sits at the center, flanked by protagonists Jason and Lucia, both armed, with palm trees framing the scene. No

GTA Online reached its 13th birthday today, and Rockstar Games is marking the occasion with a new in-game gift for players. The reward is a 13th anniversary Party Hat, and it is available now to anyone whose character is old enough to qualify. A milestone for a rocky start It has been more than a decade since GTA Online launched in 2013, and the debut was far from smooth. GTA V had become the fastest-selling piece of entertainment in history only weeks earlier, so expectations were enormous. The

Los Santos is getting spooky again. A new GTA Online weekly update has begun, and the month-long Halloween event has returned with new and old spooks plus rewards. Rockstar says the event runs from October 1st through October 7th. That first week brings returning scares, boosted payouts and a long list of freebies. Free rewards and the big payday The headline giveaway is the Cheerleader Massacre 3 T-Shirt, which is free through October 7 and must be claimed from in-game clothing stores. Players

With the November 19 launch now less than two months away, Rockstar Games has begun showing off its upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI merchandise, and this time the preview came by courier. A mystery box for a creator Call of Duty YouTuber TmarTn, a longtime friend of the studio, published a video unboxing a package Rockstar sent him. It was a black box with the Rockstar logo, a short note, and several of the items that leaked from the Rockstar Store a week ago. Most of the gear is in blue colorways

Grand Theft Auto VI is being treated as a lock for Game of the Year, but the awards calendar may not cooperate. Its November 19, 2026 release date could keep it from receiving a Game Awards nomination at all, and several outlets are now pointing out that the game's own launch window is the problem. The Game Awards timing problem The concern comes from games writer and former journalist Alanah Pearce, who has sat on The Game Awards jury several times. She says GTA 6 might not qualify for GOTY bec

Dutch police have arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam as part of an investigation into ShinyHunters, the hacking collective that breached Rockstar Games earlier this year. The case has taken a serious turn, with the suspect also under investigation for the attempted incitement of two murders. Police stress that this suspicion is separate from the ShinyHunters inquiry. What police say The man was arrested on September 15 and appeared in court on Tuesday. He is suspected of participating in

Rockstar Games has finally opened up on how Leonida will actually feel to live in. Game Informer's long-awaited GTA VI cover story, published in issue 382, is a 14-page deep dive with senior Rockstar designers. It reveals confirmed hurricanes, a re-engineered weather system, more than 170 animal species and a long list of activities spread across the studio's largest map to date. A weather system that evolves Red Dead 2's According to Game Informer, GTA VI runs on a re-engineered, localized and

A dozen new GTA 6 screenshots have been released by Rockstar Games, separate from the 20-plus images that arrived last month alongside the Extended Look. With launch now on the horizon, Rockstar is continuing to show more of the game. Where the images come from The screenshots are part of Game Informer's October 2026 issue, number 382, which is available digitally now ahead of a print release next month. The digital issue is the centerpiece of a 14-page cover story built from interviews with se

Rockstar Games is about to pull back the curtain on Leonida once more. Game Informer has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto VI is the cover star of issue 382, with a 14-page feature built around exclusive interviews with Rockstar's lead designers. The digital edition goes live on September 29. A long-running tradition continues For more than two decades, Rockstar has used Game Informer as a launchpad for major reveals, and GTA 6 is no exception. Fans had speculated about a cover story for months, a

Rockstar Games has officially unveiled its GTA 6 collector's offering, Grand Theft Auto VI: The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection. Anyone expecting a traditional collector's edition should note the catch: the box doesn't include the game. There's no case, disc or download code inside. It's a merchandise bundle, and it stands in for the kind of collector's edition Rockstar has released alongside past titles. The reveal follows a series of leaks pointing to a wave of GTA VI collectibles, and t

GTA Online's Business Rivalries event enters its final week, running September 24th to 30th. Rockstar is closing the month with the spotlight on Nightclub owners, plus a free property, a free car and fresh changes to the Kortz Center Heist. The event is the first business-themed bonus month in a couple of years. Earlier weeks covered Executives, Bikers and Gunrunners, and this week the nightclub scene takes over. Nightclub Week Nightclub Goods Missions pay double GTA$ and RP through Yohan. Night

With roughly two months left before Grand Theft Auto VI launches, Rockstar's real-world marketing push into Miami has officially begun — and it starts on a rooftop. Travelers flying into Miami International Airport from over the ocean will now spot a large "Welcome to Vice City" sign, accompanied by GTA VI branding, perched atop the Kaseya Center, home of the NBA's Miami Heat. Local outlet WPLG Local 10 News captured aerial footage of the installation, which took place on Tuesday when a helicopt

GTA Online Hit by Cheat Wave as New PS4 Jailbreak Opens the Door for Modders GTA Online players on PS4 are dealing with a fresh outbreak of cheaters, and this time it traces back to hardware rather than the game itself. A newly released jailbreak for PS4 firmware 13.52 has given users on that version a way back onto PlayStation Network, and modders have wasted no time flooding lobbies with mod menus. The fallout is familiar to anyone who's played GTA Online during a bad cheating spell: god mode,

YouTube has commissioned a new original series built around GTA RP server NoPixel, timed to land alongside the rollout of NoPixel V — the server's biggest and most ambitious version yet, now backed directly by Rockstar Games. The show, called NoPixel News, comes from prominent NoPixel streamer Buddha, who announced the project in a tweet describing it as a weekly catch-up on the "biggest moments, storylines, and chaos" happening across the server. New episodes are set to drop every Monday at 10:

Rockstar Games has published an updated modding policy just weeks before GTA 6 launches, and the fine print spells trouble for a number of community projects that have been in the works for years. The publisher's relationship with modders has always been complicated. Rockstar and parent company Take-Two have pursued legal action against people reverse-engineering decades-old titles in the past, even while the company bought Cfx.re — the studio behind FiveM and RedM — and threw support behind the