GTA 6 LIVE: Worldwide release times revealed

GTA 6 worldwide release times revealed

Official PlayStation Store listings appear to have revealed the exact time GTA 6 will be available in each region.

GTAVice.net spotted the most anticipated game of all time will have a staggered midnight launch in each time zone and not a universal one.

That means wherever you are in the world, GTA 6 will be available to play on 19 November at 12.00am in your local timezone.

However that also means those in New Zealand get to play the game 19 hours ahead of those in Mexico and other Central American countries.

For example, using UTC, the game releases at 12.00am in the UK but 5am UTC in the ET timezone and 8am UTC in the PT timezone.

Rockstar devs expected GTA Online to fail

A former Rockstar Games developer revealed he and a number of others who worked on GTA Online thought it would fail as "it was an afterthought".

Matt Freedman, who led technical cinematic work and mission design on GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Max Payne 3, told Eldorado: "When we were working on GTA Online, it was an afterthought. And we were all positive it was going to fail."

Speaking about a potential online mode for GTA 6, he added: "I'm really interested to see what they do with GTA 6 Online.

"The thing that's going to be interesting is GTA 6 Online would have started development when games as a service were huge and it would have finished development as games as a service are crashing.

"So, the thing is a lot of smart people are working at Rockstar and I've got a feeling they probably saw the crash coming because the writing has been on the wall for a long time."

Conflicting claims about GTA 6 respawns

There are conflicting claims about GTA 6 respawns doing the rounds on social media.

In previous Grand Theft Auto games, if players get 'wasted', they respawn from a hospital and lose some money due to hospital fees.

Creator MikeShowSha claims GTA 6 will work in the same way as previous titles in that regard - however according to Kinda Funny Games, players will now spawn much closer to where they were wasted, allowing them to jump straight back into the action much more quickly.

It's not officially known how GTA 6 respawns will work at the time of writing.

Latest GTA 6 marketing plans revealed - and they're huge

The latest GTA 6 marketing plans have reportedly been revealed and if they happen, they will be absolutely huge.

Francisco Alvarado, a freelance journalist who writes for The Miamian, reports Miami officials are keen for rules to be relaxed to allow temporary GTA 6 banners, building wraps and promotional displays to be put up in the city.

Six banners are proposed at a cost of $202,000 each, resulting in a total cost of more than $1.2m. That money is understood to be earmarked for a heritage trail.

The signs would be permitted from 15 October to 31 December, Alvarado reports, with a draft of the legislation saying these signs would be approved by Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar's parent company.

However downtown Miami homeowner associations would have to agree to the deal before it gets the green light.