Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer leaked early

The much-anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has been released early by Rockstar Games after it was leaked online a day before release.

Rockstar Games put a teaser trailer on X (formerly Twitter) over the weekend which attracted more than 175 million views and said the official trailer would be released 3am Wednesday NZT.

However, they posted it today with the message: “Our trailer has leaked, so please watch the real thing on YouTube.”

The trailer reveals that the game will be launched in 2025, more than 10 years after the fifth instalment of the series was made available for gamers.

The trailer includes a female protagonist called Lucia and confirms a return to Vice City, a Florida-based setting.

Grand Theft Auto 5 has amassed a reported US$5 billion in profit over the last decade, having sold around 190 million units since 2013.

It’s also the second-best-selling video game of all time after Minecraft, and still makes regular appearances in monthly game sales charts.

Where is Grand Theft Auto 6 set?

GTA6 will return to Vice City, a fictional city based on Miami and Miami Beach. It first featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which was set in 1986 and the storyline followed the rise of mobster Tommy Vercetti.

When will Grand Theft Auto 6 be released?

All we have from the latest trailer is a year, 2025. Previous instalments Vice City (Oct 2002), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Oct 2004) and Grand Theft Auto V (Sep 2013) were all released later in the year heading into the North American winter.