Forget infinite petrol. GTA 6 is making you actually watch the fuel gauge.

Rockstar North co-director Rob Nelson confirmed the change during an interview with Brazilian creator DavyJones, who got an early look at the game in July. Cars, and even electric vehicles, will need refuelling or recharging as you play. Nelson described hijacking a car mid police chase only to find it a quarter full, turning a shootout into a race against the fuel light too.

Rockstar says it won’t be a chore

Nelson insists the system won’t punish you every five minutes. A full tank should last a good while, so this sounds more like added texture than a new grind. I reckon that’s the right call. Refuelling only works if it creates the odd tense moment, not a constant errand.

It fits a bigger pattern too. Rockstar’s own boss has said past protagonists felt “a bit all-powerful,” and GTA 6 seems built to strip some of that away. Between fuel, a beefed up carjacking system, and everything else, this is Rockstar’s most grounded open world yet, closer to Red Dead Redemption 2 than any past GTA.

We’ll see how it holds up when GTA 6 launches on Nov. 19. If refuelling turns annoying, Rockstar can always dial it back.

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Rockstar Games has finally said something about the GTA 6 leak mess that’s been swallowing gaming Twitter for a week.

A group calling itself CYBERLEEK has been dumping GTA 6 clips online, dressing it up as some kind of protest against the death of physical PlayStation discs. Cute story. Then the paid polls showed up, letting people vote on what leaked next for cash, and the whole “we’re doing this for gamers” act fell apart instantly.

Heartbreaking for our GTA 6 team

Rockstar posted its response on social media on 26 August, calling the situation heartbreaking for the team. Fair enough, honestly. Watching months of work leak out for someone else’s crypto grift would sting.

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— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) August 26, 2026

Here’s the twist though. Tomorrow, Rockstar, Take-Two, and Netflix are dropping an official GTA 6 documentary, and it’s going to make CYBERLEEK’s grainy clips look like a joke. Cinematic, built from the latest build, and actually sanctioned. Sometimes the best clapback is just releasing the real thing.

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Turns out most people aren’t blinking at GTA 6‘s $100 price tag. New data from Sensor Tower shows 89% of all pre-orders for the game are going towards the Ultimate Edition, not the standard one.

That number lines up with what Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick already hinted at: buyers are leaning premium. Karl Kontus, SVP at Sensor Tower, told GamesIndustry.biz that this figure will likely drop as more casual players jump in closer to launch, but the split should still land well above what’s normal for the industry. His words: “I expect the split for these to be much closer to 50/50… GTA 6 is very hard to forecast, given it lives in a league of its own.”

Xbox and PS5, GTA 6 buyers are basically twins on this

The console breakdown barely moves the needle. Xbox sits at 90% Ultimate Edition pre-orders, PlayStation is close behind at 88.5%. Whatever platform people are on, they’re paying up.

Marketing for the game hasn’t even properly started yet, and Kontus expects most pre-orders to land in the final week before release. So this 89% figure is really just an early read, not the full picture.

There’s more hype coming too. A Netflix look at GTA 6 is landing later this month, and Zelnick has already been talking up that partnership. Rockstar clearly isn’t worried about people opening their wallets wide.

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