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GTA 6 announcement imminent, report suggests

UPDATE: Rockstar confirms first trailer coming.

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UPDATE 1pm UK: Rockstar has now confirmed it will release the first GTA 6 trailer next month, in December. See our full reporting for more.

ORIGINAL STORY 10am UK: Rockstar will officially announce GTA 6 in the coming days, it's been reported.

Bloomberg sources have laid out Rockstar's likely announcement plan for the game, with a brief announcement "as early as this week" and then a trailer for the game next month, in December.

December's trailer will come 25 years after the founding of Rockstar in December 1998, and a little over a decade since the original launch of Grand Theft Auto 5.

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While Grand Theft Auto 6 is yet to be officially announced, Rockstar has confirmed it has been busy building its next GTA game - and told investors to expect a windfall year in 2024, when the long-awaited project is expected to finally arrive.

GTA 6 is expected to be set in a modern day Vice City - the series' fictional version of Miami - and star a pair of protagonists, male and female.

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