The GTA community got very excited earlier this week, but probably more than they should have. As players logged into GTA Online on PC, a message came up on their dash promising that a reveal for GTA VI would come soon, with a 2019 release date in mind.
The messages were promptly rubbished by Rockstar though, who maintained that the notification had emerged thanks to players modding the game (a huge problem for the title's PC edition).
More likely, is that GTA VI will release in 2021 at the absolute earliest. Industry analysts have pointed towards that or 2022 as being the most likely windows for the next instalment in the franchise to drop, and while that might seem like a long time, Rockstar fans will at least have Red Dead to tide them over, as well as a fully supported GTA Online too.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
