'An Extended Look at Our Impatience': 23 GTA Memes for Gamers Counting Down to GTA VI's November Release

Celeste Mello • Writer and Editor

Aug 28, 2026 11:00 AM EDT

We needed something to keep us busy until the GTA VI release. November 19 is pretty close. This game release hasn't ever been so close! But we're impatient. These GTA memes are holding the GTA community over until GTA 6 finally arrives.

Is this the most ambitious Rockstar project? Reports say work on GTA 6 began roughly 13 years ago, around the time GTA 5 was released in 2013, which suggests Rockstar has been working on GTA 6 in some capacity for over a decade. This doesn't necessarily mean the game entered full production in 2013, but rather that it was in the early stages of development, like creating the concepts, doing the planning, the research and the pre-production.

One of the craziest things about this release is that we got a gameplay trailer. The Extended Look finally gave players a better idea of what the game will feel like in action. The gamer community can't believe their eyes. The scale and level of detail of the characters and the settings is just unbelievable. The extended footage didn't make the wait any easier. We're all thrilled to switch characters from Jason to Lucia, drive through Leonida and get to know the city and the missions this city is saving for us.

We actually already had an extended look before this. Just not an official one. We could call it an "unofficial extended look", since an anonymous leaker under the name CyberLeek began releasing clips that seemed to come from the actual game. I guess Rockstar had to do something to keep the mystery and to maintain the hype, since CyberLeek had already shown fans what GTA 6 looked like. The leaked clips showed Jason driving, fighting, and one of them even showed him spelling "LEEK" on a wall, proving that the footage wasn't recycled material and that this person was actually playing the game. The situation made the official presentation by Rockstar Games feel more challenging and significant. What were they going to show that wasn't already leaked? We can now confirm that CyberLeek clips were real, but we can also confirm that the thrill and the excitement remained untouched.