WillGTA VI be released in 2025...? Dan Houser, former co-president of Rockstar Games, told our GQ colleagues in 2018 that he necessarily 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 about the project's proper conduct until its 2025 release. On November 7, 2024, after Donald Trump's victory at the polls, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two (owner of Rockstar Games), clarified whether or not the opus would be released during a Q&A session with investors. And he was reassuring, indicating that the software is still scheduled to be released on the announced date.
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!
