GTA VI will be revealed this week, if you believe the fans

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Rockstar are about to properly announce Grand Theft Auto VI, going by some hectic speculation surrounding a TwiX image for GTA Online's upcoming in-game Red Happy Moon Tee festival. A child in the ways of the internet might glance at said image and merely conclude that if you play GTA Online at any point this week, you can scoop up a seasonal cosmetic. But look again with unclouded eyes, young one. What does your heart say to you?

The image shows two characters standing in front of GTA V's Vinewood sign, in such a way that only "VI" can be fully made out on the left hand side. Cue reply thread of people posting Leonardo diCaprio pointing-at-TV gifs. This follows a separate discussion of the positioning of certain planes and powerlines in new promotional GTA V art - look, those criss-crossing wires sort of look like a "VI" that's been turned on its side. And did you know some swimming pool in GTA: Vice City Definitive Edition now has six shiny points in it?

Other fans are pivoting to astronomy for insight. As passed on by NME, the moon in the top right of the new GTA Online promotional image is a waning gibbous moon, and the date of the next waning gibbous moon (depending on your timezone) is tomorrow Tuesday 3rd October. Could that be the release date for the first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer? I'm guessing the answer lies somewhere between "probably not" and "no", but I would love to eat my words.

Here's what we know for sure: Rockstar announced that a new GTA game is well underway in February 2022. Ne'er-do-wells subsequently leaked a bunch of early build footage, which led to a heated discussion about games seldom looking that great while they're in development, actually. Rockstar pronounced themselves "extremely