Mystery Developer Hints at GTA 6 Release Date

By Ray AmpoloquioUpdated Feb 22, 2026

Feb 24, 2025Updated Feb 22, 2026

The user, claiming to work on a major game, described a leak experience eerily similar to GTA 6's trailer leak.

Is Grand Theft Auto 6 coming out this 2025? It's a question that we'd all love to get an answer to, but unfortunately only Rockstar Games knows the truth. Until it confirms the official GTA 6 release date, the only official statement we have to go on is what Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick recently said and has kept on saying for at least a year now.

However, while official word about GTA 6's release date is still likely at least a few months away, we might have just gotten the closest thing to it, straight from someone who's deep in the trenches and dealing with Rockstar's return-to-office mandate. In a post on Reddit discussing an earlier leak of the still-to-be-confirmed_Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4_, one particularly interesting comment stands out about how developers feel when information about their titles are released before they're ready.

Mystery Developer Hints at GTA 6 Release Date

According to the user, leaks "don't discourage devs, but it can be an absolute mood killer." Normally, you'd think nothing of this comment, except he added that he's "at a studio working on a big 2025 release," and that the studio initially planned on making a big deal of their game's reveal trailer only for it to be leaked the night before.

The user explained that they had to find out about leak overnight via "Twitter/Reddit and group chats" as the entire incident had left them "gutted", explaining that the management definitely wasn't a huge fan about the entire thing. With that said, the user does warn readers to take his comments with a "pinch of salt," and in no form is it really any confirmation that they're one of the people working on_GTA 6_.

We'd like to remind you that this is exactly how the first_GTA 6_trailer played out. After Rockstar confirmed its initial reveal date, an unfortunate leak on X spoiled the fun and Rockstar had no choice but to release the trailer hours before they initially planned because things had already gotten out of hand. Of course, the entire ordeal didn't do anything to dampen the excitement surrounding_GTA 6_as the trailer still went on to break records and the hype surrounding the game continues to this day.

The coincidence is interesting. Not to mention, the user went as far as to edit their initial comment hours after it went live, changing the wording from "working on what will be 2025's biggest release" to "working on a big 2025 release." Anyway, if you're interested in doing a little bit of digging yourself, you can check out the user's profile on Reddit by clicking here.

While we can't take someone's word on the internet as fact, we can always cross-reference what they're saying with what has already happened and the fact that the user had to change how they phrased their initial comment hours after the fact is telling. For now though, we'll just have to do as the user says and take everything you read about_GTA 6_with a pinch of salt unless it comes from official channels.

If it's any consolation, Rockstar's schedule is pretty free after March 4. Once it releases the next content update for_Grand Theft Auto Online, which includesGrand Theft Auto: Expanded and Enhanced_and GTA+ but for PC, they've got nothing else outside of the routine weekly updates for_GTA Online_going for them.

When you consider that Take-Two has a much larger marketing budget for the next fiscal year and_GTA 6_has been rumored to have cost two billion dollars to make, there's a legitimate reason why pretty much every_Grand Theft Auto_fan has their hopes up for a second trailer within the next few months.