GTA VI will be released in 2025! That's what Take-Two, the video game giant that owns Rockstar Games, which is developing the software, has announced, giving a few details about a release window. "Looking ahead, this calendar year is shaping up to be one of Take-Two's strongest ever," explains the publisher in a statement on the company's financial results published on February 6.We plan to launch Sid Meier's Civilization VII on February 11, Mafia: The Old Country this summer and Grand Theft Auto VI in the autumn".
However, nothing was certain... Dan Houser, former co-president of Rockstar Games, told GQ in 2018 that he didn't want the game to be released during Donald Trump's term in office, should he win the 2024 presidential elections. "We really don't know what we'd do [si],let alonehow upset people would be by what we'd do," the newspaper's columns read.
Except that since then, Donald Trump has been re-elected, and gamers, remembering that statement very well, have been wondering whether the project will actually be released in 2025. On November 7, following Donald Trump's victory at the polls, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two (owner of Rockstar Games), gave details of whether or not the opus would be released during a Q&A session with investors. He was reassuring, indicating that the game is still scheduled to be released on the announced date.
But there's no guarantee that the software will be released in 2025 - anything can still happen... "There's always a risk of things going wrong, and I think that as soon as you say something, you're jinxing yourself," Strauss Zelnick also told a shareholder, as reported by BFM Tech&Co. And when we know that Rockstar Games developers have made a habit of delaying the release of their games a few months ahead of schedule, as in the case of Red Dead Redemption 2, first expected at the end of 2027 and then postponed until May 2018... So, for the time being, we're sticking with autumn 2025 for GTA VI.
In September 2022, the game was already the talk of the town, unintentionally, as some 90 gameplay videos had leaked onto the Internet. On September 18, to be precise, the lively GTA Forum was surprised to see one of its members, sporting the pseudonym"teapotuberhacker", post a surprising message, accompanied by a downloadable file: " Here are 90 sequences / clips from GTA 6. It is possible that I will soon be able to release more data, source code and assets from GTA 5 and 6, the test version of GTA 6."
It only took a few hours for all these videos to flood YouTube, Facebook and Twitter worldwide. Inevitably, the authenticity of these videos has been called into question, all the more so when we see the mediocre quality of some of the clips. Now all we have to do is wait with bated breath for the release of GTA V!
