New job listings suggest Rockstar is confident about GTA 6’s release date next year, as the countdown continues.
Ever since Rockstar pushed back GTA 6 from autumn 2025 to May 26 next year, scarred fans have been dreading the possibility of another delay.
The concerns aren’t unwarranted. Rockstar is known for delaying its games, and while it has rarely done so twice for one title, the developer set a new precedent with Red Dead Redemption 2. The western epic was originally slated for the second half of 2017, but it was pushed back twice before it finally came out on October 26, 2018.
For anyone concerned the same could happen with GTA 6, new job listings at Rockstar might help shake off that anxiety – although it’s no guarantee.
As pointed out by Rockstar fan account GTA 6 Countdown, the studio’s London office is currently hiring for various roles in quality assurance and release management. These include marketing localisation QA testers in a range of languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Polish, and Chinese.
These roles are revolved around providing ‘dev support and localisation consultation’ to the ‘internal development, digital marketing, and publishing teams’, and unless the developer has been cooking up some secret game we don’t yet know about, it has to be connected to GTA 6.
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Notably, these 11 available roles are all on a 12-month contracts, with the possibility of extensions, which roughly lines up with the launch of GTA 6 on May 26, 2026.
While it’s possible Rockstar could still delay the title again and prepare the global marketing materials in advance, it’s certainly an indicator that, right now, it doesn’t expect that to happen.
They don’t want to employ extra staff longer than they have to, so this is a firm indication that they think it’s going to be out in May – especially as they haven’t had a hiring spree like this before, for similar roles.
There’s a chance these marketing hires could contribute to other games too. A Switch 2 port of Red Dead Redemption 2 has been rumoured for some time, along with a GTA 4 remaster.
Rockstar released a second trailer for GTA 6 shortly after the delay’s announcement, which has since racked up over 123 million views on YouTube. There’s no clue as to when we might hear anything new.
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