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A newly emerged job listing from Rockstar may have helped narrow down theGrand Theft Auto 6release window, suggesting that the highly anticipated game could hit the market as early as Q2 2025. But even if Rockstar is indeed targeting that time frame,Grand Theft Auto 6still has a chance to slip into the second half of 2025.
The sixth numbered entry in the iconic series was officially announced for the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in early December. The long-awaitedGrand Theft Auto 6reveal trailerstated that the game is coming sometime in 2025, without committing to a more concrete release window.
Rockstar Expects GTA 6 Localization To Be Done in Q1 2025
Three months later, the company alluded to some more specific market timing as part of a newly published job ad. Thelisting, first spotted by Reddit user TwistLT, describes an opening for a Russian localization tester at Rockstar Lincoln, one of the group’s three English branches. The ad explicitly states this to be a fixed-term position on a 12-month contract. Between the fact that Rockstar is currently wrapping up work on only one major project and its long-standing policy of involving all of its studios in its AAA titles, there is little doubt that the advertised position pertains to thedevelopment ofGrand Theft Auto 6, even if the game itself is never mentioned by name.
The description of the job opening seemingly excludes the possibility ofGTA 6launching in Q1 2025, thus narrowing down its official release window by three months. Some fans have interpreted the listing as a signal that theGTA 6release windowcould still fall in the first half of 2025, having speculated as much on social media. That is not necessarily the case, as even though localization work is traditionally done near the later stages of game development, it is rarely the last thing on any given studio’s agenda; the pre-launch period usually revolves around bug fixing and QA testing.
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Granted, the newly emerged listing does advertise an opening for a Russian localization tester instead of a localizer, indicating that the bulk of the localization work onGTA 6may have indeed been completed by now. But even if Rockstar is indeed planning to haveGTA 6go gold in early 2025, it remains to be seen whether it can actually hit that target. Only one mainline entry in the series managed to launch in the first half of its respective year, and all have suffered at least one major delay during development.
Between that and the fact that the holiday season is inherently more lucrative for developers than any other time of the year, a late 2025 release still seems like a plausible prediction. The eventual announcement of the game’s console release date should help narrow down the timing of theGTA 6PC port, which still hasn’t been officially confirmed but is expected to happen after the PlayStation and Xbox versions are out.
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