June 18 (Reuters) – Take-Two Interactive’s highly awaited “Grand Theft Auto VI” will become available to \u200cpre-order on June 25, the game’s developers \u200csaid on Thursday, likely sealing its November 19 launch after \u200bmultiple delays.<\/p>\n
“GTA VI” is expected to be the world’s largest videogame launch, bringing in billions of dollars in sales within days of release due \u200cto the franchise’s \u2060heft and strong track record of its creator Rockstar Games.<\/p>\n
Here are some \u2060more details:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Shares of Take-Two rose around 4% in morning trading.<\/p>\n
\u2022 With pre-orders beginning next week, \u200bgamers will \u200bbe at ease \u200bafter having waited for \u200cover 13 years and experienced leaks and two delays for the next installment in the best-selling franchise.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Expectations for “GTA VI” are extremely high, largely due to the blowout success of its \u200cpredecessor, “GTA V”, which is one \u200bof the best-selling games of \u200ball time with \u200bnearly 230 million units sold.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u200cThe “GTA” series is a sandbox \u200bgame, giving \u200bplayers freedom to explore the environments, buy weapons, and flashy clothing and vehicles.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Take-Two previously \u200bsaid launch \u200cmarketing for “GTA VI” is expected to begin \u200bthis summer.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Devika Syamnath)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 18 (Reuters) – Take-Two Interactive’s highly awaited “Grand Theft Auto VI” will become available to \u200cpre-order on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,121614,123244,35885,61],"class_list":["post-745382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-grand-theft-auto-vi","tag-gta-vi","tag-take-two-interactive","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}