Rockstar Games delays Grand Theft Auto VI – once more – to late 2026 | Grand Theft Auto VI

Rockstar Games’s Grand Theft Auto VI, which was because of launch on 26 May subsequent yr, has been delayed once more – this time to the tip of 2026. It has now been almost two years because the sport was introduced, and greater than 12 years because the launch of Grand Theft Auto V.

“Grand Theft Auto VI will now release on Thursday, November 19, 2026,” reads Rockstar Games’s assertion on X. “We are sorry for adding additional time to what we realize has been a long wait, but these extra months will allow us to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve.”

The long-anticipated sport stars a romantically entwined pair of criminals named Jason and Lucia in Rockstar’s sun-bleached model of Miami, Vice City, and the broader Florida-like state of Leonida. It has been improvement at Rockstar North in Edinburgh, with help from the corporate’s different studios in New York and worldwide, since 2018. Its authentic launch window was late 2025.

It has been hoped that GTA VI would revive an ailing video games business, which has seen a contraction after a Covid-era increase. According to sport writer Take-Two’s most up-to-date monetary studies, its predecessor Grand Theft Auto V has generated $8.6bn since its 2013 launch. Rockstar’s final sport, the critically acclaimed Red Dead Redemption 2, was launched in 2018 and reached $725m in gross sales over its opening weekend.

Players, in the meantime, have had a really very long time to sit up for Rockstar’s newest: even by the requirements of the video video games business, the place six-year improvement intervals for blockbuster video games are usually not uncommon, the greater than 12-year look ahead to Grand Theft Auto VI has been in depth.