Returning protagonist confirmed in Trailers 1 and 2 — the first playable Latina lead in mainline-GTA history, paired with Jason Duval in a Bonnie-and-Clyde framing.
Two protagonists are confirmed by name: Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval. Beyond them, every named character is unconfirmed or rumor-only. Here's the canonical roster — what Rockstar has actually said vs what the internet is guessing.
Returning protagonist confirmed in Trailers 1 and 2, paired with Lucia Caminos. Drifter / criminal background and likely former military, set against modern-day Leonida.
Lucia and Jason are not just two protagonists — they're romantically and criminally entangled. That's the first time mainline GTA has built a flagship around a couple. The structural consequences for mission design, narrative arc, and replayability are genuinely new.
Trailer 1 dropped December 5, 2023. After 2.5 years of community frame-by-frame analysis, here are the eight details that turned out to matter most — and what they signal about the game we're getting.
Trailer 3 lands within 17 days. Probably on a Tuesday. Here are nine specific bets — characters, neighborhoods, vehicles, the marquee track, gameplay, pre-orders — with the evidence for each.
Trailer 3 is historically Rockstar's gameplay reveal. Based on the GTA V and RDR2 patterns, here's what GTA 6's T3 will probably show — driving, combat, the boat traversal, the protagonist switch — and what it almost certainly won't.
GTA Online doesn't shut down on November 19, 2026. Your characters and money don't follow you to GTA 6 either. Here's what actually happens — sourced, not speculated.
Trailer 3 drops on a Tuesday in May — almost certainly before Take-Two's May 21 earnings call. Here's the marketing pattern Rockstar has run since GTA V, and why May 21 is the deadline.
GTA 6 takes place in the fictional state of Leonida — Rockstar's modern Florida. Vice City is the urban anchor, the Leonida Keys are the coastal chain, and at least one secondary city plus a wide hinterland round out the map. Here's the canonical reference, sourced and updated.
Pre-orders aren't open yet. When they open, here's where to buy on each platform, how the storefront bonuses will likely differ, refund policies you can actually use, and a checklist of what to verify before you click confirm.
Martin Madrazo's wife in GTA V — central to V's middle-act Trevor-Madrazo crisis through an unexpected friendship that develops at Trevor's Sandy Shores trailer, one of the franchise's most-discussed unusual character pairings.
Former Grove Street Families member turned Ballas-affiliate in GTA V — released from prison early in V's storyline as Franklin Clinton's primary South-LA antagonist, and one of V's late-game 'Deathwish' kill targets.
Michael De Santa's daughter in GTA V — aspiring Vinewood actress whose family-arc storyline drives Michael's protective register and surfaces the Devin Weston leverage threat across V's late-act tension.
Leonida — the fictional Florida-analog state that hosts the entire GTA VI map. Vice City is its primary urban anchor; Leonida Keys is its southern coastal chain.
The fictional Florida-Keys analog of GTA VI's state of Leonida — a coastal island chain south of Vice City, confirmed in trailer footage and Newswire copy.
The primary urban core of GTA VI's state of Leonida — a modern-day reimagining of the Vice City franchise setting, last visited in 2002's GTA: Vice City.
GTA V's south-Los Santos neighborhood — Crenshaw / South-Central-coded working-class geography that anchors Franklin Clinton's origin storyline and overlaps with Ballas territorial presence.
GTA V's south-Los Santos neighborhood — South-Central-coded working-class geography adjacent to Davis and Chamberlain Hills, home to the Vanilla Unicorn strip club Trevor Philips acquires in V's middle act.
GTA V's pivotal Michael-and-Trevor reunion mission — Trevor's return to Los Santos after discovering Michael is alive, structurally launching V's three-protagonist mid-game arc and resolving the Prologue's nine-year-old narrative thread.
Michael De Santa's son in GTA V — younger De Santa child, stoner / videogame-and-marijuana-coded teen-young-adult character anchoring V's family-disengagement satirical register.
GTA V's mid-act armored-truck heist — a single-mission setpiece coordinated under Madrazo Cartel pressure, with Trevor flipping the target with a tow truck while Michael grabs the bag and Franklin drives the getaway.
Vice City returns in 2026 after a twenty-year canon silence. The 1986 version satirized Reagan-era excess and cocaine money. The 2026 version satirizes gig-economy precarity and hurricane Florida. What changes when the same fictional city does the same job forty years apart.
GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026 — exactly 198 days from today. The pre-launch cycle is ~50% longer than V's or RDR2's. By V and RDR2 standards, Trailer 3 is overdue. Here's the comparison, with every date sourced.
GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026. The live countdown below ticks every second. Plus: every confirmed milestone in the launch cycle, regional unlock times, and what to watch for in the final pre-launch window.
Franklin Clinton's best friend in GTA V — Chamberlain Hills loyalist, comic register anchor, and one of the most enduringly meme'd characters in modern Rockstar storytelling.
A Leonida city named on the official GTA VI promotional postcards Rockstar released during the Trailer 2 marketing window — branded "LIVE HARD" in Rockstar's marketing copy.
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