How we verify

Where the information comes from

We sort every source into one of four kinds:

• Rockstar and Take-Two. Newswire, the game’s website, trailers, support pages, financial reports.
• Stores and platforms. PlayStation Store, Xbox Store and rating boards: ESRB, PEGI, USK, CERO.
• Media. Interviews, hands-on previews and reports that name their sources.
• Community. Wikis, fan sites and forums. We use them to find leads, and a claim found there stays a rumor or a theory until something stronger confirms it.

How a claim gets its status

There are seven statuses. The number next to each shows how many of the 187 claims in the fact registry have it right now.

• Official116confirmed by Rockstar Games, Take-Two or an official platform
• Seen in footage5visible in official footage, but Rockstar hasn’t said anything about it
• Reliable source49reported by a journalist or a source with a verifiable track record
• Rumor9not officially confirmed
• Fan theory3a community conclusion based on analysis of the materials
• Debunked3the information turned out to be wrong
• Outdated2it was true but has changed, for example an earlier release date

Rules we follow

1. “Official” means Rockstar, Take-Two or a platform said it directly. A journalist retelling Rockstar’s words gets “reliable source” until we find the original.
2. Something visible in official footage but never described by Rockstar is “seen in footage”, even when it looks obvious.
3. A report without a named source, a screenshot of unknown origin or a single post on social media is a rumor.
4. When a new source appears, the status changes and the old one stays in the claim’s history. Every change goes to the public changelog.
5. Each source has a publication date, and each claim shows when we last checked it.
6. The English and Russian versions are written from the same sources. If the original is in another language, we say so next to the link.

What we don’t publish

• Leaked materials, and names or details known only from leaks.
• Screenshots and files of unknown origin presented as fact.
• Invented numbers: file size, mission count, map size or system requirements before Rockstar publishes them.
• Images other than official Rockstar Games materials.

If you find a mistake

Send a correction with a link to a source: an editor checks every suggestion. What nobody knows yet is collected on the open questions page, and every change to the site is in the changelog.

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