{"id":647213,"date":"2026-06-19T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647213\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:34:09","slug":"gta-6-price-release-date-pre-orders-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/647213\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6: Price, release date, pre-orders and everything else you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To put it simply, the GTA franchise is one of the biggest and most profitable entertainment properties in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GTA 5 has sold nearly 230 million copies, making it one of the best-selling games of all time &#8211; which has generated billions of dollars in revenue for Rockstar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game&#8217;s sandbox gameplay, where players can explore vast open worlds with considerable freedom &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4671429.stm\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sometimes controversially<\/a> &#8211; has seen it be continuously lauded as the ultimate expression for what the interactive medium can do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freelance video games journalist Vic Hood said each entry in the series &#8220;continued to push technical and gameplay boundaries&#8221;, with GTA Online helping to &#8220;pioneer the live service model as we know it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that the games were also &#8220;extremely culturally relevant&#8221; too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rockstar has always had its finger on the pulse of music, entertainment, societal, political, celebrity, and online culture trends, and they&#8217;ve never shied away from satirising these things in GTA games,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speculation as to how a sixth game can top even the gigantic heights of its predecessor has meant that any latest news, no matter how small, has been met with a flurry of hype and excitement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both of GTA 6&#8217;s previous gameplay trailers currently have a total of roughly 447 million views combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To put it simply, the GTA franchise is one of the biggest and most profitable entertainment properties in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-647213","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\/647213","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=647213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}