Rockstar Games have broken their months-long silence on Grand Theft Auto 6 with a slight update to the name of the game that you may have missed.
The Grand Theft Auto developers are notoriously difficult to get new information from. Rockstar hasn’t shown anything off to the public at events like Gamescom or Summer Games Fest for a number of years, and any announcement is on their terms.
They proved that back in May by announcing a delay to Grand Theft Auto 6’s release date. The GTA devs shifted the release from Holiday 2025 to May 26, 2026, and dropped the long-awaited second trailer in the aftermath.
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Since then, Rockstar have gone back to being ultra secretive about Grand Theft Auto 6. They’ve not even dropped a mention about it in GTA Online. However, they have broken their silence.
Subtle GTA 6 title change mentioned by Rockstar
As spotted by Rockstar Intel, the Grand Theft Auto developers posted a job listing for a Lead Software Engineer in Data Engineering at Rockstar New York.
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In the listing, the game developers note that their upcoming title “will be the largest game launch in history.” That is obvious, but they also referred to the game as GTA 6 for the first time.
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“With the continued growth of Grand Theft Auto Online and the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto 6,” the listing reads. As Rockstar Intel points out, the developers have regularly used Grand Theft Auto VI to this point, not the number six. They have also just referred to the game as “a new Grand Theft Auto.”
They also noted that it could very well be a mistake from whichever recruiter posted the listing for Rockstar. Yet, you would assume that it would at least be looked over with a fine-tooth comb because of how rabid Grand Theft Auto fans are.
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It’s not like Rockstar are going to wedge a mention of Vice City or even Jason and Lucia into the title anytime soon, but the slight tweak is noteworthy.
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