{"id":645525,"date":"2026-06-18T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645525\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:41:08","slug":"gta-6-pre-order-date-and-cover-art-revealed-by-rockstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645525\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 pre-order date and cover art revealed by Rockstar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rockstar has revealed, external<\/a> the pre-order date and official cover art for Grand Theft Auto 6.<\/p>\n

The developer has said pre-sales of the title – one of the most anticipated gaming releases to date – will begin on 25 June, both on digital stores like PlayStation Store and other select retailers.<\/p>\n

GTA 6 will be released on 19 November for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X\/S, after it was delayed twice<\/a> from autumn 2025 and May.<\/p>\n

The previous game in the series, GTA 5, was released in 2013 and is the second best-selling game of all time.<\/p>\n

Rockstar did not use Thursday’s announcement to reveal GTA 6’s price.<\/p>\n

The question of how much the game will cost remains hotly debated amongst fans and analysts.<\/p>\n

A 2025 report, external<\/a> from gaming industry advisory company Epyllion suggested it could be the first to be priced at $100.<\/p>\n

Alongside announcing its pre-order date, Rockstar also revealed the official cover art for the game in a thirty-second video, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over a booming synth, the video shows the faces of the game’s protagonists Jason and Lucia above its title, as well as additional characters due to appear in the sequel.<\/p>\n

The game’s setting of the fictional US state of Leonida, inspired by Florida, also gets some nods in the form of flamingos and alligators.<\/p>\n

Living up to its namesake, fast cars, helicopters and motorbikes also grace the game’s brightly coloured cover, created in the series’ signature pop-art style. <\/p>\n

GTA fans are still eagerly anticipating a new gameplay trailer for the sixth game of the franchise, after previous reveals in 2023, external<\/a> and 2025, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both trailers, which took a deeper look at the game’s narrative and the lives of its protagonists<\/a>, currently have a total of 446 million views combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockstar has revealed, external the pre-order date and official cover art for Grand Theft Auto 6. The developer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}