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Rockstar Games has launched its official Grand Theft Auto VI Collection, a new line of apparel and collectibles available now through the Rockstar Store. The drop was announced in a Rockstar Newswire post on Thursday, October 8. It follows the Goodtime State – Vice City Collection reveal on September 24, which drew plenty of debate. Where that box came with a roughly $400 price tag, this collection is built around everyday wearables and small collectibles. Tees Rockstar is offering heavyweight cotton tees in black, blue and pink, with designs featuring either the VI logo or the classic Rockstar Games logo. There are also Goodtime State and Macca the Gator tees, the latter tying into the TV mascot that appeared in the Vice City Collection. Hats The Flexfit caps are stretch-fitted cotton, with palm trees nested inside the VI logo. The original Rockstar baseball cap also returns in GTA VI-inspired colors. Both are available to pre-order, and the colorways run blue, pink and black. Collectibles and accessories A chrome metal keychain, laser-etched with the Rockstar Games logo on one side and the VI logo with palm trees on the other A Vice City and GTA 6 branded money clip A Zippo lighter carrying the Rockstar Games and Vice City logos Tote bags and sticker packs More to come Rockstar says this isn't the full collection and that more items will be added over time. That fits the leaks of the past few weeks, which pointed to roughly 55 unreleased products in Rockstar Store data, including parody tees, dad hats and sports items. Not all of those have appeared yet, so there's room for further drops. The bigger picture The launch is part of Rockstar's weekly Thursday cadence of GTA 6 announcements. It landed the same day as a first look at the game's radio stations, and a little under six weeks before Grand Theft Auto VI arrives on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on November 19. Some fans online have already joked that this line looks better than the Collector's Edition contents. Everything in the collection is available exclusively through the Rockstar Store. Stay with us for any new additions as they appear. View full article

Rockstar Games has pulled back the curtain on the sound of Grand Theft Auto VI, and the lineup is stacked with real-world music names. A new music page on the official site confirms six in-game radio stations, each with celebrity hosts and a short sample of what players can expect to hear in Leonida. Radio and podcasts, on foot or on wheelsRockstar describes the lineup as the biggest and most varied collection of in-game radio and podcasts the series has offered, spanning everything from classic rock to talk radio. The bigger gameplay news is that listening is no longer tied to the driver's seat. Rockstar confirmed that Jason and Lucia can use headphones and earbuds linked to their in-game smartphones, so radio and podcasts will play both in vehicles and while walking around. The game will also include on-demand podcasts that go beyond what's broadcast over the airwaves. Fans have asked for this kind of feature for years. Meet the stations Cocoteo FM covers modern Latin music, from bachata and merengue to dembow and reggaeton. The hosts are El Martillo, played by Bad Bunny, and La Gata, played by RaiNao. Rockstar's tagline for the station promises a party that never shuts off. Back Country Radio is the home of renegade country. It's hosted by MW (Morgan Wallen) and Delta Dawne (Lana Del Rey), and it broadcasts across the Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn and beyond. The station also features a roving reporter and "swamp meteorologist" named Mud Dog Mike, who is Delta's not-so-secret lover and checks in from an airboat in the Grassrivers. He's voiced by Jeremy Dufrene, Del Rey's real-life husband. AfroBank FM is run by Burna (Burna Boy) and Palmsy (Palms Trax). The pair play African music from 20th-century classics and lesser-known gems through to amapiano and 3-step. The Chamber 106.6 is the metal station, hosted by DJ Kerry (Kerry King) and DJ Tom (Tom Araya). Expect classic metal from the '80s onward, with a nod to Leonida's deep metal roots. Flash FM returns as the Vice City pop institution, now hosted by Robyn and Alex Consani. Dirty South Classics is hosted by Trick and Trina and focuses on regional rap and hip-hop classics, repping Leonida and the South. What the talent is sayingRaiNao said Cocoteo FM captures Latin culture, including its slang, traditions and pride. She said she was never an extreme gamer, but that GTA was a favorite, and that being part of it is "mind-blowing." Why it mattersRadio has always been a defining part of Grand Theft Auto, and this reveal suggests Rockstar is expanding that idea rather than just repeating it. Between the genre spread, the big-name hosts and the new headphone and podcast options, the soundtrack looks set to be part of how players spend time in Leonida, not just background to the driving. View full article

Rockstar Games has released a fresh batch of Grand Theft Auto VI screenshots, giving fans another look at Vice City as the game's release approaches. The images arrived with a new page on Rockstar's website dedicated to the music and radio stations of GTA VI. Three of the screenshots are standard in-game captures, and all of them can be viewed in full 4K resolution. Neon, puddles and crowds The new shots focus on atmosphere. Neon signs reflect in puddles on the pavement, and busy streets are packed with cars and pedestrians. After months of gameplay footage, trailers and leaks, a polished still frame still lets fans study the scale and density of the city without a camera moving past it. One screenshot also includes the game's two protagonists, Jason and Lucia, who can be spotted among the scenery. Rockstar hasn't pointed them out, so finding them is left to fans. Bonus in-engine images Alongside the three screenshots, Rockstar published three more images taken in-engine. These are background visuals made as promotional material for various in-game radio stations. They are heavily edited, so they don't represent the raw look of the game, but they do come from in-game assets. More GTA 6 news this week The release comes amid a busy stretch of GTA 6 news. A leak has reportedly revealed a Discord collaboration with Rockstar, and roughly 25 minutes of unreleased footage has surfaced, including what appears to be a first-person driving view. Neither has been officially confirmed by Rockstar. GTA VI is scheduled to launch on November 19. View full article

A new GTA+ month has started in GTA Online, and October's lineup comes with two free vehicles, fresh chameleon paints, Halloween clothing, steep discounts and boosted payouts on seasonal activities. Month 55 began on October 8th and runs until November 4th. Membership costs $7.99, £6.99 or €7.99 a month. This month's exclusive GTA+ items Free vehicles: Two vehicles are free to members this month. Pegassi Oppressor: Members can pick this up at no cost through The Vinewood Car Club, where it is marked FREE for GTA+ subscribers. It stays exclusive to members for a week, and it normally costs $2,750,000 at Warstock Cache & Carry. The Skulls livery can be applied to it. MTL Brickade 6×6: This one is free at The Freakshop in Mirror Park for members. It is also exclusive for a week, and the regular price is $1,450,000. Free chameleon paints: The Red/Orange Flip Chameleon Paint and matching Wheel Paint are free for members. Take an eligible vehicle to any Auto Shop or Vehicle Workshop and choose from the Chameleon Color Group. The free options are flagged for GTA+ members only. Free clothing: Four new items are free this month, covering the Halloween theme and the Ride or Die set: Mummy Outfit Skeleton Bodysuit Ride or Die Chore Jacket Ride or Die Jeans Free weapon skins: Members also get the Trippy Baseball Bat and Trippy Knife skins. Discounts Free: Acid Lab Supplies 60% off: MC Businesses and Upgrades 50% off: the Nagasaki Chimera, Shotaro, Stryder, BF400 and Shinobi. The Shotaro is even cheaper at The Vinewood Car Club in the Docks. Halloween bonuses Halloween Survivals (Ludendorff Cemetery Survival, Cayo Perico Survival and Alien Survivals): 3x GTA$ and RP, rising to 6x from October 8th to 14th. Jack O' Lanterns: 2x GTA$ and RP, or 4x during the October 8th to 14th window. Ghosts Exposed: 4x GTA$ and RP. The Vinewood Car Club lineup The Vinewood Car Club is a members-only location where a rotating selection of vehicles can be test driven and bought at 20% off. This month's selection: Pegassi Oppressor Pegassi Oppressor Mk II Imponte Deluxo LCC Sanctus Albany Brigham HVY APC Bravado Buffalo STX Declasse Weaponized Tampa Vapid FMJ Mk V Principe Deveste Eight Permanent GTA+ benefits These perks carry over every month: Extra aircraft storage: Members get 5 additional aircraft slots, and the McKenzie Field Hangar isn't required. The hangar itself adds 15 more slots. Vinewood Club Garage: A 100-space garage in Pillbox Hill with in-garage customization through the Vinewood Club Workshop. You keep access to stored vehicles if you lapse, but you can't add new ones until you resubscribe. Vinewood Club App: Claim business earnings from your phone and manage staff remotely at the Hangar, Warehouses and Bail Office. Mansion owners with the Vehicle Workshop upgrade get the same mod options as the garage, including Hao's Special Works, Benny's Original Motor Works and Drift Tuning. Games library: The GTA Trilogy – Definitive Edition on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, plus GTA Online and GTA V Story Mode. Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire and Bully are also included, along with several mobile GTA titles. Lucky Wheel: Two spins every 24 hours. Taxi service: Free fast travel to points of interest, which normally costs $1,000. The cooldown is 5 minutes instead of 48. Gun Van: Always shown on your map, with bigger discounts and exclusive weapon skins. Free vehicle requests through the Interaction Menu. $500K monthly cash: GTA$500,000 every month. 15% Shark Card bonus: The Megalodon pack gives $11,500,000 instead of $9,200,000, and the Whale pack gives $4,887,500 instead of $4,025,000. The Great White pack gives $1,725,000 (up from $1,437,500), and the Bull Shark pack $690,000 (up from $575,000). The Tiger Shark pack gives $287,500 instead of $230,000. Free abilities: MC, CEO and VIP abilities. Will you be signing up for GTA+ this month? Tell us in the comments. View full article

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 date, so check in-game whether it's still claimable. Payphone Hits: Complete five through October 14th for GTA$500,000, paid within 72 hours. Weekly Challenges: Complete every one through November 4th for GTA$2,000,000, also paid within 72 hours. GTA+ Members: Can claim a free Pegassi Oppressor with the Skulls livery, plus extra Halloween perks. Halloween Content Returns The seasonal activities are all back, so collectors and thrill-seekers have plenty to do: Slashers and Clone Slasher Phantom Car Cerberus Surprise Possessed Animals Ghosts Exposed Jack O' Lanterns Peyote Plants Halloween masks, face paints, horns, bobbleheads and casino decorations Kortz Center Heist Gets New Primary Targets The Kortz Center Heist rotates in new Primary Targets this week: Pumpkin, A Winding Road Home and Winter, Nowhere in Particular. The first-completion bonus resets, and finishing the heist without anyone dying earns an extra GTA$400,000. FIB Priority FileThis week's FIB Priority File is The Black Box File, and Priority Files pay double. Salvage Yard Robberies The McTony Robbery: Pfister Growler The Gangbanger Robbery: Albany Fränken Stange The Podium Robbery: Willard Eudora Casino and Vehicle Rotations Podium Vehicle: The Annis Savestra is up for grabs on the Lucky Wheel. It normally costs $990,000 at Legendary Motorsport. GTA+ members get two spins every 24 hours. Prize Ride Challenge: Place in the top four in an LS Car Meet race two days in a row to unlock the Declasse Walton L35. It costs $1,670,000 at Southern San Andreas Super Autos. Hao's Premium Test Ride: The Maibatsu MonstroCiti, for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC Enhanced players. Test Track: The Declasse Vamos, Dewbauchee Seven-70 and Ocelot Locust. Luxury Autos (Rockford Hills): The Dewbauchee Rapid GT X and Übermacht Sentinel XS4. Premium Deluxe Motorsport: Simeon's lot has five cars: the Albany Brigham, Albany Fränken Stange, Albany Lurcher, Declasse Tornado Rat Rod and LCC Sanctus. Gun Van Stock Discounts are on offer again. Percentages show the standard discount, with the GTA+ price in brackets. Weapons Knife, El Strickler, Combat Shotgun, Precision Rifle: 10% off (GTA+ 20%) Up-n-Atomizer, Unholy Hellbringer, Widowmaker: 10% off (GTA+ 50%) Service Carbine: 30% off (GTA+ 30%) Baseball Bat and The Shocker: free Throwables: Pipe Bombs, 10% off (GTA+ 20%) Body Armor: All five tiers, from Super Light to Super Heavy, are 10% off (GTA+ 20%) Races and Time Trials Premium Race: The Commute HSW Time Trial: Tongva Valley Time Trial: Terminal Discounts 40% off Agency properties, including upgrades and modifications Albany Brigham Albany Fränken Stange Albany Lurcher Declasse Tornado Rat Rod LCC Sanctus 30% off Annis Remus Benefactor Terrorbyte BF Club Bravado Greenwood Dinka Jester RR Emperor ETR1 Grotti Itali GTO Karin Hotring Everon Pegassi Tempesta Übermacht SC1 Bonus Payouts3x GTA$ and RP Halloween Featured Series: Slasher and Ramius – Slasher Halloween Survivals: Ludendorff Cemetery Survival, Cayo Perico Survival and Alien Survivals (6x for GTA+ members) San Andreas Super Sport Series: Hotring Races and Random Transform Races Community Race Series 2x GTA$ and RP Bail Office Standard and Most Wanted Targets Dispatch Work UFO Business Battles Jack O' Lanterns (4x for GTA+ members) 2x GTA$ only Ghosts Exposed (4x for GTA+ members) Weekly ChallengeWin in two Adversary modes this week to earn GTA$1,000,000 and the Pink Skull Emissive Mask. View full article

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 advice from him, and they can also climb into the dumpster with him. The encounter was unscripted, which fits Rockstar's long habit of filling its worlds with odd, optional moments. Showers confirmed, with nudity Right after that scene, Nelson switched to Jason, who was in the shower and naked. This confirms that GTA 6 includes shower scenes with nudity, though the interview gives no further detail on how or where players will see them. Texting and calling between the leads The biggest systems news is how far communication between the protagonists goes. While you play as one of them, you can text or call the other at any time. IGN saw Lucia answer a message from Jason with "Sweet, I'll come to you." Those exchanges also feed into the relationship between the two. Players are free to spend an entire day apart, but the other character may check in. In one example, they text that they're heading to bed and locking up, and ask if you're okay. A short reply, such as "Ok, goodnight" or "I'll see you later," keeps things fine. Ignoring the message will chip away at their connection, though only slightly. Social media is look-only In-game social media works differently. Players can follow accounts and browse posts, but can't post updates as Jason or Lucia. What to take from it None of this changes the basic picture of GTA 6, but it adds depth to the two-protagonist setup. The relationship system now has small day-to-day consequences instead of resting only on story missions. Rockstar hasn't said how much a neglected relationship matters over a full playthrough. GTA 6 is scheduled for release on November 19. Source: IGN's interview with Rob Nelson. View full article

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 display name font in the style of the game A possible Discord Quest with an as-yet-unknown reward Dates found in the code suggest the campaign would start on November 17, 2026 at 18:00 UTC, end for free users on December 8, and continue for Nitro subscribers until February 15, 2027. That timing puts the launch two days before GTA 6 releases on November 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Wumpus Central also shared a screenshot of the desktop theme, which reportedly uses a Vice City-style gradient. It's unclear what the Quest would ask users to do or what they'd earn. One outlet speculated the reward could be Discord Orbs, which can be spent in a possible GTA 6-themed shop, but nothing in the leak confirms that. Not Their First Team-UpRockstar and Discord have worked together before. Watching the first GTA VI trailer on Discord earned viewers a short Nitro subscription, and linking accounts earned GTA Online cash. The campaign also fits Rockstar's current marketing push. Recent activity has included exclusive cover stories, murals in New York and a Miami Heat collaboration with its own merchandise and a rooftop billboard. The leaked start date also falls a day before the Miami Heat's GTA 6-themed game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Treat It as a Leak for NowNeither Rockstar nor Discord has confirmed the collaboration. Dates and features found in unreleased code can change or be scrapped before launch. The leak has also prompted some talk about a future PC version, but the datamine offers no concrete evidence that a PC release is coming sooner than expected. If the details hold, Discord users will be able to show off their GTA 6 hype with a themed app within weeks. View full article

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-hands meeting that Microsoft was doing something around GTA 6 that "no other platform holder is doing." The implications looked big. The arrangement would have let players reach GTA 6 through Xbox's cloud service on supported PCs, smart TVs and mobile devices rather than needing a console. That mattered because Rockstar Games has not announced a PC version of the game. The walk-back The framing didn't hold. Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball responded to the report by saying Xbox is looking forward to launching GTA VI on November 19, "though the game will not be streaming exclusively or to PC." Tom Warren said he corrected his story because the Xbox cloud streaming rights deal appears to be more complicated than he originally reported. Some outlets also reported the arrangement as non-exclusive. One report said the deal appears to cover Xbox console streaming specifically, which suggests players on web browsers or mobile apps may not be able to stream GTA 6 that way. No one has publicly detailed exactly what the deal covers, and neither Xbox nor Rockstar has confirmed the arrangement. Why it matters The timing is notable. Microsoft is preparing to sell streaming hour packages, and Xbox is due to introduce a pay-as-you-go cloud option in November. Game Pass subscribers will also face monthly streaming limits starting that month: five hours on Essential, 10 on Premium and 15 on Ultimate. It is also unconfirmed whether or how either change would apply to GTA 6. There is also a catch for anyone hoping to dodge a console. Players would need to buy a copy of GTA 6 on Xbox, and with no PC version announced, it's unclear that the purchase would carry over to PC later. What's confirmed GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with a PC release yet to be announced. Beyond that, the cloud streaming picture is still unsettled. Whether Xbox has any exclusivity, how long it lasts, and which devices are covered are all open questions until Rockstar or Xbox says more. We'll update this story as official details emerge. View full article

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 built Lucia from the women she knows, including her own mother, an immigrant who grew up in Newark, New Jersey, not far from Lucia's hometown of Liberty City. D'Agostino said the character came naturally to her. The goal was a fully realised person with her own wants, flaws included, rather than an idealised hero. She said that approach is what lets Lucia stand alongside Arthur Morgan and Niko Bellic. Elizabeth Gauvey-Kern told LOVE that the actress playing Lucia brought a great deal to the role. Rockstar has still not publicly confirmed who she is. Gauvey-Kern said Lucia needed to be tough and cool, and that the performance helped make her a strong GTA protagonist. Rockstar wanted both leads to be vulnerable and flawed, sometimes right and sometimes wrong, and able to learn from each other. Raul, meanwhile, serves as the guide. He carries the local and criminal knowledge Jason and Lucia lack when they reach Vice City, filling the "older mentor" role Rockstar wanted. A world that talks back Rupert Humphries, Rockstar's Senior Vice President of Narrative, said Leonida is filled with characters and culture wars meant to make it feel alive. Much of that comes through ambient media rather than face-to-face encounters. Players might spot an election sign, get a robocall from a campaign, or catch political talk shows and commercials on the radio. Humphries contrasted GTA VI with Red Dead Redemption 2, which he described as a historical recreation. GTA VI uses many of the same tools but pushes everything toward the satirical and grotesque. It holds up a mirror to the real world while keeping the series' trademark absurdity. Writers at scale To make that work, Rockstar has a dedicated team of pedestrian dialogue writers in Los Angeles. A separate group of advertising and comedy writers is spread across New York, Los Angeles and London. Open-world writer James Horton called the job "profoundly technical," since dialogue has to hook into many interconnected game systems. Horton said the studio set out to dream bigger this time. Hundreds of writers were brought together to reach a new level of realism. The aim is a city that holds up whether the player sprints past a hundred snatches of conversation or stops to listen closely to just one. GTA VI is set to launch on November 19. Rockstar has also teamed up with the Miami Heat for a Vice City-themed game on release week, and a GTA VI mural is being painted in New York City. View full article

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 a landmark moment for fans, a chance to hear from the executive who has led the studio for more than two decades. Four years in the making The news came from writer Sam White, who revealed on X that the interview is no longer happening. White said he had spent roughly four years in conversation with Rockstar about getting time with Houser. Rockstar confirmed back in April that the interview would go ahead. That changed in recent weeks. According to White, Houser decided to step back "mostly for personal reasons." White said he had already prepared his questions for the day, and relayed Houser's response with a shrug: "I'm good, lads." White added that he respects the decision. Still, he didn't hide his disappointment. White described coming away empty-handed after such a long effort as "gutting," and said he had considered Houser a perfect subject for what could have been the biggest GQ profile of his career. He noted that it had been a difficult year personally, and said he is moving on to the next project. A missed opportunity for fans The timing makes the cancellation sting. GTA VI is widely seen as the culmination of Houser's long run leading Rockstar, a project that has reshaped expectations for open-world games. Few insights from the company's president have ever reached the public, so a wide-ranging conversation about the game, the studio and his own views on the medium would have been a rare find. There is no indication from Rockstar that another interview with Houser is planned before launch. For now, the game itself remains the main way he is communicating with players. More GTA 6 news in the run-up to launch Rockstar's promotional push is picking up in other ways. New screenshots have appeared in a fashion magazine, a GTA 6 mural is being painted in New York City, and the Miami Heat are rebranding as Vice City for a release-week game, part of a wider collaboration with Rockstar. View full article

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 outlined several mechanics and content details that hadn't previously been confirmed. What PEGI's listing described Drug use: Players can carry cocaine and snort it directly from their hand at any time. Sexual content: The game contains strong sexual themes, including nudity, scenes of intercourse and occasional references to fetishes. Nightclub interactions: Players can pay for private dances in clubs, and the game lets them touch the dancers during those scenes. Animals: Domestic animals exist in the world and can be harmed by the player, though the injury detail is less graphic than what can be inflicted on human characters. Language: Strong profanity is frequent, with an especially harsh expletive appearing occasionally. Discriminatory language: Such language can be heard on in-game TV shows and radio stations. In-game purchases: Optional items can be bought, but the game is fully playable without them. This likely refers to the Ultimate Edition upgrade. Violence remains front and center Anyone who watched the recent Extended Look trailer won't be shocked by the violence descriptor. PEGI describes the game's free-roaming violence as bloody and highly realistic, with certain weapons capable of causing extreme damage, including detailed decapitation and dismemberment. The listing was pulled Shortly after the details began circulating, PEGI removed the GTA VI rating page. As of this writing, there has been no explanation for the removal, and it's unclear whether the entry was published early or simply taken down for review. Rockstar has not commented on the rating or the details in it. The rating arrives during a busy stretch for GTA VI news. New screenshots appeared in a fashion magazine this week, a GTA VI mural is going up in New York City, and Rockstar has teamed with the Miami Heat for a Vice City-themed release day game. With the game's November 19 launch approaching, expect more rating boards to publish their own assessments, which may fill in the picture PEGI started. View full article

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 and screenshots are available to view in the gallery above. It's the latest in a run of magazine-driven GTA 6 reveals. Following the Game Informer cover story and the Dazed autumn issue, the LOVE feature continues Rockstar's pattern of using print and editorial partners to drip-feed new looks at the game ahead of its November 19 release. Rockstar's writers on the game's tone An excerpt from the feature has been released, featuring Rockstar's narrative team explaining the thinking behind GTA 6's world and characters. Rupert Humphries, Senior Vice President of Narrative at Rockstar Games, says the setting is meant to be a pressure cooker, and that a game recreating today's world has to push things further than reality itself, or players could simply step outside. He describes Lucia as a character defined by her determination to build a better life and refusing to let obstacles stand in her way. In his view, there's something hopeful and naïve about a crime spree on the run, and the modern American dream has become more modest: a family home and debts paid off rather than spectacular success. He singles out Miami and southern Florida as a front line in that struggle. Writer Elizabeth Gauvey-Kern explains that the team wanted both protagonists to be vulnerable, tough and flawed, sometimes right and sometimes wrong, and able to learn from one another. That, she says, is what makes them authentic and a strong team. Fellow writer Alexa D'Agostino adds that when writing a fully realized person with their own desires, the result is bound to be "perfectly imperfect," a mix of cliché and something undeniably real. What it means for fans The quotes reinforce what Rockstar has been signaling across recent interviews: a heightened but grounded take on modern America, with Jason and Lucia's partnership at the heart of the story. With release day now weeks away, expect more of these editorial drops to follow. More GTA 6 news In other recent GTA 6 coverage, a mural is being painted in New York City, and Rockstar has teamed up with the Miami Heat for a special Vice City collaboration. View full article