The Making of GTA 6 | Full Documentary

GTA 5 came out in 2013. GTA 6 comes out on November 19, 2026. This is the whole story of the 13 years in between: the game that paid for everything, Project Americas, Red Dead 2 swallowing Rockstar, Dan Houser leaving, three bosses and a "dark period", the pandemic, the hacker in a hotel room, the trailer that leaked a day early, two delays, the 34 firings, CyberLeek, and what Rockstar was actually building all that time. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 GTA 6 was supposed to come out in 2025 1:10 The game that paid for everything 3:47 Project Americas 6:20 The dark period 11:08 The hack 13:10 The reveal 15:37 What they were building 19:23 The nightmare year 24:43 Why it took 13 years 📚 Every fact is sourced on screen: Rockstar, Take-Two's SEC filings and earnings calls, Bloomberg Businessweek ("The Making of Grand Theft Auto VI", Jason Schreier, Oct 2026), Kotaku, Vulture, the BBC, the Guardian, VGC, Eurogamer, IGN, Game Informer, GamesRadar and court records. No leaked footage or leaked images are shown. 📷 Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Sam and Dan Houser by Anthony Parello (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Leslie Benzies by Austin Hargrave (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Strauss Zelnick by Christopher Michel (CC BY 2.0) · Jason Schreier by Alecto Chardon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Lazlow Jones by Porkrind (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Beyoncé by Billy Briggs (CC BY 2.0) · Rockstar North by Discott (CC0), Alexander Kirwin (CC BY-SA 2.0) and Chabe01 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Edinburgh by Aneza Palaiou (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Southwark Crown Court by Jorge Franganillo (CC BY 2.0) · Miami-Dade police car by Dickelbers (CC BY-SA 4.0) · City of London Police van by Chris Sampson (CC BY 2.0) · Travelodge Hereford by Peter Mackenzie (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Travelodge Bicester by Colin Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Travelodge room by Andy Li (CC0) · PlayStation 3 and 4 by Evan-Amos (public domain), PlayStation 5 by Osh33m (CC BY-SA 4.0), every PlayStation by JDC808 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, 1933 (public domain). Rockstar North's atrium: Robert Ormerod for Bloomberg Businessweek. 📷 Aaron Garbut: Ian West / PA Images (BAFTA Games Awards, 2014) · Rob Nelson's quote cards and photo: IGN (Aug 2026) 🗺️ Maps, scaled and cropped: GTA V satellite map tiles by gtadb.org and contributors · GTA VI map: Yanis's GTA VI Community Map v17, via gtadb.org · both CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Red Dead Redemption 2 map: Rockstar Games 🎮 Cyberpunk 2077 launch bugs (Dec 2020): players' captures by Sparooga, theowem, Nittany Lion Roar Gaming and u/Szynite · Venom (2018), Sony Pictures 🎞️ Stock footage: Pixabay, Mixkit, Pexels 🐦 X and Twitter logos: X Corp. (Wikimedia Commons; the Twitter bird under the Apache License 2.0) 🎵 Music: Epidemic Sound 🎙️ Narration uses an AI voice generated from the creator's own voice. Official Rockstar Games footage used for commentary and analysis. Not affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. #GTA6 #GTAVI #Rockstar