The Grand Theft Auto 6 edition is widely awaited, especially after the latest trailer showing us a glimpse of the graphics and storyline changes. But the back-to-work mandate for several employees at Rockstar Games has prompted concerns over a potential delay in the GTA 6 release.
Towards the end of 2023, the gaming giants announced that GTA 6 would be making its way to consoles in 2025 and to PCs a year later. Now, it has been reported that the game could potentially miss its 2025 release window and slip to 2026. The rumours began after Bloomberg released a report suggesting that Rockstar games are asking their employees to return to the office five days a week starting in April. The decision was made considering that GTA 6 had entered its final stage of development.
Rockstar Games’ Head of Publishing Jenn Kolbe cited security and productivity reasons for this sudden development. Rockstar had previously faced several data breaches which included a massive dump of early game footage being released on the internet before the GTA 6 trailer launch.
Now a different report has emerged from Kotaku that suggests the development on GTA 6 has started falling behind”. As per the same report, the shortcoming now “has leadership at Rockstar nervous and worried about the game missing the 2025 window and slipping into 2026, and is another big reason the company is pushing for a return to the office in April.”
Responding to this sudden shift some Rockstar employees gave interviews to Aftermath. They told the news media outlet that the employees would no longer be able to answer Slack messages. They would also not be allowed to use other communication tools while working from home.
Despite this turn of events, Rockstar is still ‘aiming’ to meet their deadline by releasing ‘GTA 6’ in the Spring of 2025 with a 2026 release being their ‘fallback plan’. Regardless, it is quite evident that GTA 6’s final year of development is certainly going to be a challenging for the developer of the popular game.
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