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A day in GTA 6 lasts much longer than in GTA 5
Rob Nelson told Edge that with GTA 5’s timings everything felt too fast at the new level of detail, so sunsets now last longer and nights are longer too. Rockstar hasn’t given the length of a day in real minutes. The roads were narrowed as well, to a more believable size.
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- October 29, 2026OfficialRockstar North developers described it in Edge’s preview
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A dedicated team of writers in Los Angeles writes what pedestrians say in GTA 6
Rupert Humphries told LOVE that Rockstar has a specific team of pedestrian dialogue writers in LA and a team of advertising and comedy writers across New York, Los Angeles and London. None of them see that work as background, he said.
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- October 5, 2026OfficialRockstar’s interview with LOVE magazine
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Ambrosia’s jobs come from the Allied Crystal sugar refinery
Rockstar places Ambrosia in the heart of Leonida and writes that the Allied Crystal sugar refinery provides the jobs, while the local biker gang provides almost everything else.
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- September 24, 2026OfficialChecked against Rockstar’s description of Ambrosia
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Bullet holes stay on walls and scratches stay on cars
El País describes realistic wear in the world: bullet marks on walls, scratches on cars, and wounds and grazes on the player character after taking damage.
Status history (1)
- August 27, 2026Reliable sourcePress preview at Rockstar North
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GTA 6 has a wind system that moves hair, debris, water and plants
Owen Shepherd, Rockstar’s vice president of art for lighting and rendering, described it in Game Informer: offshore breezes after sunset, updrafts over ground the sun has heated, and buildings that block the flow. Gusts swirl hair and debris on rooftops, put ripples on the water and bend the grass in the swamps.
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- September 29, 2026OfficialRockstar described the wind to Game Informer
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GTA 6 has its own fashion labels, including Nola, Ferruccio Tucci and This/That
Dazed captioned the screenshots Rockstar gave it like a fashion shoot, crediting the outfits to Stock 305, Nola, Ferruccio Tucci, This/That and Blagueurs, with jewellery by Caliber. GTA BOOM notes that these labels belong to the in-game fashion economy.
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- August 26, 2026OfficialThe brands appeared in Dazed’s captions
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GTA 6 has more than 170 animal species
Rockstar gave the number in Game Informer’s issue 382: over 170 species on land, in the air and at sea, among them more than 60 kinds of birds and more than 30 land mammals. Flamingos, manatees, pelicans and alligators live there alongside invasive iguanas, cane toads, feral cats and macaques.
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- September 29, 2026OfficialRockstar gave the number to Game Informer
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GTA 6 has the biggest and widest-ranging selection of in-game radio in the series, Rockstar says
Rockstar’s announcement of October 8, 2026 says the stations range from classic rock to talk radio. It revealed six of them that day and hasn’t given the total number.
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- October 8, 2026OfficialRockstar revealed the first radio stations
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GTA 6 has well over 600,000 animations
For comparison, GTA 5 had about 55,000 and Red Dead Redemption 2 about 300,000, according to the same New York Times report.
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- August 27, 2026OfficialRockstar gave the figure to The New York Times
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Leonida has tropical storms and hurricanes
Rockstar confirmed both in Game Informer’s issue 382, as part of a weather system built to match the tropical climate of Florida. How often the big storms come, and what they do to missions and driving, the studio hasn’t said.
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- September 29, 2026OfficialRockstar described the weather to Game Informer
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Leonida’s nickname is the Goodtime State
Rockstar uses it in the name of the Collector’s Box, The Goodtime State – Vice City Collection, and on its poster, which invites you to plan a road trip to every corner of the Goodtime State. Florida’s nickname is the Sunshine State.
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- September 24, 2026OfficialThe nickname appeared on official merch
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Leonida’s politics come through election signs, campaign robocalls, radio ads and political talk shows
Rupert Humphries told LOVE that Rockstar avoids being specific about any real person, event or movement, but has filled Florida’s version with culture wars. You can see a sign for an election, get a robocall from a campaign, hear a commercial or listen to political talk shows on the radio.
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- October 5, 2026OfficialRockstar’s interview with LOVE magazine
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More than 50 real street artists designed murals for GTA 6
Dazed reports that Rockstar brought in more than 50 street artists to design murals in places like Vice City’s Stockyard, which is based on Miami’s Wynwood district.
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- September 6, 2026Reliable sourceDazed reported it
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Mount Kalaga National Park lies against Leonida’s northern border
Rockstar calls Mount Kalaga a national landmark up against the state’s northern border, with prime hunting, fishing and off-road trails. It is the only region whose position in the state Rockstar has described.
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- September 24, 2026OfficialChecked against Rockstar’s description of Mount Kalaga
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On November 19 Rockstar will add a free printable GTA VI poster with a map of Leonida to the official site
It’s the cover art poster and the map of Leonida, as a free digital download. Shortly after launch, a double-sided printed version goes on sale in the Rockstar Store for $0.99, or comes free with any purchase there.
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- November 3, 2026OfficialAnnounced in the pre-load post
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Pedestrians differ in height and build far more than in earlier games
Rob Nelson told Famitsu that earlier games had only about two heights for people; GTA 6 takes height and build into account. IGN writes that animations adapt to body size, so people handle objects and each other convincingly.
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- August 27, 2026OfficialPress preview at Rockstar North
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Rain in GTA 6 is local: it can pour in one place and stay dry in another
Clouds move across Leonida and bring weather from clear skies to a downpour. Rockstar says storms are localized, so you can see rain falling in the distance, and the ground stays wet afterwards: puddles and wet surfaces remain after the storm passes, with a rainbow in the right light.
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- September 29, 2026OfficialRockstar described the weather to Game Informer
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Roads are narrower and closer to real width, with more traffic
Rob Nelson told Famitsu that the roads in GTA 6 are narrower than in earlier games, closer to the width of real roads, and that there is also more traffic.
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- August 28, 2026OfficialRob Nelson’s interview with Famitsu
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Rockstar has named six regions of the state of Leonida
Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia and Mount Kalaga National Park, in the section about the people and places of Leonida on the game’s website.
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- May 6, 2025OfficialThe regions appeared on the website with the second trailer
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Rockstar names Ocean Beach, Little Cuba, the Tisha-Wocka flea market and VC Port as parts of Vice City
In the People and Places section of the game’s website, Rockstar writes that each Vice City neighborhood has something to offer: art deco hotels in Ocean Beach, bakeries in Little Cuba, bootleg brands at the Tisha-Wocka flea market and cruise ships at VC Port.
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- September 24, 2026OfficialChecked against Rockstar’s description of Vice City
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Shops keep opening hours, and some close at night
Kinda Funny reports that shops have opening hours and that what clothes and cosmetics are on sale can depend on where you are, so stores make geographical sense.
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- August 31, 2026Reliable sourceKinda Funny’s preview
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Some GTA 6 animals are Rare, Discoverable or Legendary
Rockstar says animals in those three categories can be tracked, and it keeps their names secret until release. In Red Dead Redemption 2 legendary animals were one-off hunts with their own trail and their own pelt.
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- September 29, 2026OfficialRockstar described the categories to Game Informer
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The central Florida theme parks are not in GTA 6
Paul MacPherson, senior vice president of environment art at Rockstar, told Game Informer that Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and the Orlando area around them are not in Leonida, and neither is the space coast with its launch pads. By his account the studio picks places that add up to the full Florida.
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- September 29, 2026OfficialRockstar answered the question in Game Informer
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The first six stations revealed are Cocoteo FM, Back Country Radio, AfroBank FM, The Chamber 106.6, Flash FM and Dirty South Classics
Rockstar named them on October 8, 2026 and posted a short preview of each on the official music page: modern Latin, renegade country, African music, metal, pop and Southern rap classics.
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- October 8, 2026OfficialRockstar revealed the first radio stations
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The game is set in the state of Leonida, and its main city is Vice City
Rockstar showed the state and the city in the first trailer and described them on the game’s website.
In the database: Vice City
In articles: Will Trevor, Tommy Vercetti, CJ or Los Santos be in GTA 6?, GTA 6 as your first GTA: what newcomers need to know, Vice City in 2002 and 2026: what GTA 6 kept from GTA Vice City and what it changed, GTA 6 real-life locations: the Florida behind Vice City and Leonida, How Rockstar built Leonida: a research team in Miami, 50 street artists and race-car drivers, WWE drops its “Vice City” trademark application, GTA 6 map: the state of Leonida, its six regions and Vice City neighborhoods
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- December 5, 2023OfficialShown in the first trailer
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The game starts in the Leonida Keys, where Jason’s first house is
Rob Nelson named the Keys as the starting area in his Famitsu interview. Unexplored parts of the map stay hidden until you visit them.
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- August 28, 2026OfficialRob Nelson described it to Famitsu
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The GTA 6 map is bigger than GTA 5’s
Rockstar told The New York Times that Leonida is three times the playable area of Red Dead Redemption 2. Rob Nelson told Flow Games that Vice City alone is about twice the size of Los Santos. In Game Informer’s issue 382 Aaron Garbut called Leonida the biggest map the studio has made, about twice the size of GTA 5, with more interiors.
In articles: GTA 6 in Edge: 90 minutes of play at Rockstar North and what’s new, Will Trevor, Tommy Vercetti, CJ or Los Santos be in GTA 6?, Vice City in 2002 and 2026: what GTA 6 kept from GTA Vice City and what it changed, GTA 6 and Red Dead Redemption 2: what Rockstar carried over from its last game, GTA 6 vs GTA 5: everything confirmed to change so far, No Disney World in GTA 6: what Rockstar left off the map of Leonida, GTA 6 map size and NPCs: three times RDR2 and 600,000 animations, GTA 6 map: the state of Leonida, its six regions and Vice City neighborhoods
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- September 21, 2026OfficialRockstar gave the map size to The New York Times
- September 13, 2026Fan theoryClaim added to the registry
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The map will have other major cities besides Vice City
Rockstar has named six regions, including Port Gellhorn and Ambrosia, but so far only Vice City has been shown as a major city.
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- September 13, 2026Fan theoryClaim added to the registry
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The radio hosts are voiced by artists including Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Morgan Wallen, Burna Boy, Robyn and Slayer’s Kerry King and Tom Araya
Rockstar’s own pages give only the hosts’ in-game names. Music outlets such as Consequence list 13 performers across the six stations, also including RaiNao, Jeremy Dufrene, Palms Trax, Alex Consani, Trick Daddy and Trina. Several of them have talked about their roles in interviews.
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- October 8, 2026Reliable sourceRockstar revealed the first radio stations
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The world changes over time less than in Red Dead Redemption 2
IGN asked about changes like the construction projects in Red Dead Redemption 2, where you could return to find buildings finished. Nelson said that is included much less in GTA 6 because it is not as big a part of the story.
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- October 7, 2026OfficialRob Nelson in IGN’s full interview
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Unexplored parts of the map stay hidden until you visit them
Rob Nelson told Famitsu that areas of Leonida you haven’t been to are hidden on the map and appear once you actually go there.
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- August 28, 2026OfficialRob Nelson’s interview with Famitsu
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WWE abandoned its application to trademark “Vice City”
WWE filed to register “Vice City” for wrestling shows and entertainment on August 4, 2026, asked to withdraw the application on September 2, and the US Patent and Trademark Office confirmed the abandonment on September 21. The filing doesn’t mention Rockstar or GTA, and no reason is given.
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- September 21, 2026OfficialUSPTO issued a notice of abandonment
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You can go inside a huge number of buildings
Asked about buildings while playing for TroisCouleurs, Rob Nelson answered that you can enter “a lot, a huge number”. Aaron Garbut of Rockstar North later told Game Informer that the map has more interiors than any of the studio’s earlier games.
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- August 27, 2026OfficialRob Nelson showed the game to TroisCouleurs