Our Most Wanted Games of 2026 – #3 Grand Theft Auto VI

4 thousand, eight hundred and eleven days. 100 and fifty-eight months and two days. 13 years, two months and two days. No matter approach you need to body it, it’s going to have been a heck of a very long time between the launches of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto VI, ought to the latter handle to hit its latest release date on 19th November 2026.

Grand Theft Auto VI takes us all again to Vice Metropolis for Rockstar’s newest crime opera, and from what little we’ve seen of the sport to date, it seems to be like they’re totally embracing all of the wild extra and craziness that you just’d anticipate from a fictionalised rendition of Miami and the Florida Keys.

It seems to be like this will probably be a little bit of a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde fashion story with its two protagonists. Lucia Caminos is the collection’ first feminine lead, who’s coming contemporary out of a stint in jail, whereas Jason Duval is working for the native drug gangs. The pair are thrust collectively after a failed financial institution theft, and are then swept up in a grand conspiracy.

Nearly as good as will probably be to have a brand new GTA single participant story, Rockstar and Take Two are actually banking on the following rendition of GTA On-line selecting up the place GTA V’s has left off. It’s this mode that has ballooned Take Two’s coffers over the previous decade, and the web platform has grown and advanced massively to provide gamers extra issues to do, extra missions, extra profession paths to observe, and to entrance for user-generated content material. A brand new GTA On-line will essentially get again to fundamentals with out feeling too hole. A sluggish rollout of content material was a giant a part of Crimson Useless On-line’s speedy decline, although Rockstar may have a reasonably singular focus for GTA.

However will it truly arrive in November? Rockstar video games are liable to at the very least a pair delays, and GTA 6 has already had two. With its official announcement and reveal in December 2023, the tail was pinned on a 2025 release date, however as the upper ups lifted the blindfold to see in the event that they’d hit the goal, they realised they’d must have one other go. So it was that by the center of final yr, they determined to get a bit more specific and target May 2026 as an alternative. Any nearer? Not fairly. Let’s attempt November 2026 now.

The issue is that, whereas there’s nonetheless an terrible lot of individuals excited for the following GTA, every delay and announcement has stored the sport launch at the very least a yr into the long run. That’s distant sufficient that you may completely think about the crew attending to that newest six month deadline and realising they, as soon as once more, want a bit extra time. Within the right here and now, which means we nonetheless have GTA 6 proper up there inside our prime 5 Most Wanted Games of 2026, however we’re a contact extra excited for a few different titles…