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News · 18 October 2026 · updated 5 November 2026 · By Alex Biscayne

GTA 6 launch countdown: every confirmed date between now and 19 November

The confirmed GTA 6 launch calendar: Take-Two's results on 9 November, pre-load on 10 November (up to 212 GB), code-in-box copies on 12 November, launch day and Rockstar's official Leonida map on 19 November, Justice's Original Score on 11 December. Plus the 18 November review date, which is reported but not announced.

Vice City skyline, official GTA VI still
Image: Rockstar Games
How sure we are. Every date below is Confirmed from Rockstar's Newswire (the pre-load times, the 212 GB size and the official map come from Rockstar's 3 November pre-load post), Take-Two's investor site, Take-Two's pre-order announcement or, for the two Miami nights, the organisers' own event pages (E11EVEN's ticket page, the Miami Heat's event page). The launch-day unlock time and the review date are listed as not announced, because they aren't; the figures going around are labelled Rumoured. Rockstar's Newswire was re-read on 3 November 2026; Take-Two's press releases and E11EVEN's ticket page on 2 November; the Rockstar Store's pre-order page on 3 November. Selfridges' 9 November date comes from its own Instagram post and Spectrum's offer from Charter's press release (both read 5 November). What the labels mean.

GTA 6 is just over two weeks away. Here is everything with a confirmed date between now and launch, in order, with nothing guessed. When a date changes or a new one is announced, this page and the tracker change the same day.

5 November — Rockstar’s Launch Gallery (added 5 Nov)

Rockstar published 39 new screenshots on its official site. No new dates or launch details came with them.

6 November — E11EVEN becomes NINE1NINE for a night (added 2 Nov)

The real Miami club that GTA VI parodies is playing along. E11EVEN’s own ticket page bills Friday 6 November as the “IRL grand opening of NINE1NINE Vice City’s Sexiest Nightclub”, with Flo Rida, “in celebration of GTA6”. It’s 21+ and ticketed. Nothing on the page says Rockstar is involved, so read it as the club’s own event. NINE1NINE is on our map, Confirmed in trailer footage. More Miami tie-ins.

9 November — Take-Two’s last results before launch

Take-Two reports its second-quarter fiscal 2027 results on Monday 9 November, with the call at 21:30 UTC. That’s the publisher’s last scheduled corporate update before the game ships. Earnings releases are where publishers restate launch plans, so if anything about the date, platforms or editions were going to change in public, this is the likeliest place.

Also on 9 November (added 5 Nov): Selfridges says a GTA VI experience starts there, though it hasn’t said at which stores. And in the US, Spectrum’s free speed boost for eligible customers begins, running to 30 November. You have to opt in.

10 November — pre-load opens (updated 3 Nov)

Rockstar announced on 3 November that digital pre-load starts on Tuesday 10 November, two days earlier than the 12 November in Take-Two’s June pre-order announcement:

Pre-load lets you download early, not play early. Anything offering to let you play before the 19th is a scam (how to spot them).

12 November — code-in-box copies in shops

Physical copies, which are a download code in a box rather than a disc, are due at retailers from 12 November. Rockstar repeated that date in the same post (details).

18 November — the Heat’s “A Night in Vice City” (added 19 Oct)

On launch eve, the Miami Heat host the Milwaukee Bucks at 7:00 PM ET as “Vice City”, on a one-night-only court and in a reimagined uniform. That’s from the team’s own event page, which calls it “a historic partnership” timed to the game’s release. It’s a basketball game, not a game event, but it’s the only launch-week event with a confirmed time and place. Every real-world Vice City tie-in, checked.

19 November — launch day

11 December — Justice’s Original Score (added 2 Nov)

Rockstar announced on 29 October that “Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score” by Justice comes out on 11 December: 30 tracks on streaming services, CD and vinyl. It’s separate from the 19 November album. It includes the Launch Trailer song “Flower in a Hurricane” and a new single, “Pusher” feat. Gesaffelstein, out now.

Not announced yet

These are the questions everyone is asking that Rockstar has not answered, as of 5 November:

Why a page like this

Launch month is when bad dates spread fastest: a screenshot of a store page, a “leaked” unlock time, a confident thread. Our rule is the one the whole Leonida Map runs on: if we can’t point to the first-party source, it doesn’t go on the list.

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