Rockstar was supposed to make a GTA 6 Trailer 2 announcement today, November 22, according to a moon theory that had sent the Grand Theft Auto community into overdrive.
A year on from Rockstar’s internet-breaking GTA 6 Trailer 1 release, information-starved fans have taken to looking at images of the moon as they hunt desperately for clues on Trailer 2.
Why are they doing this? Because the moon theory was proved true for Trailer 1. Two months before Trailer 1 came out, Rockstar released a GTA Online image that included the moon in a phase (Waning Gibbous) that ended up corresponding with the day Rockstar announced the release date of Trailer 1.
Fast forward to the start of November 2024, and Rockstar’s release of another GTA Online image, below, that – you guessed it – includes the moon in the Waning Gibbous phase. The real-life moon ends its current Waning Gibbous phase today, November 22, and from tomorrow moves on to the Last Quarter phase. And so, fans thought today would be the last possible day for either Trailer 2 itself or an announcement on when it would drop.
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Unfortunately for its supporters, the moon theory turned out to be false this time. 9am Eastern, when Rockstar’s New York-based parent company Take-Two tends to make its announcements, has been and gone without a peep.
The GTA community is struggling to cope with this, taking to social media, Discords, and subreddits to question their world view.
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It is remarkable that Rockstar has gone nearly a year without following up GTA 6 Trailer 1 with any new information at all. With GTA 6's fall 2025 release window on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S still on the cards, according to Take-Two, you’d expect Rockstar to pipe up sooner rather than later. But will the moon show fans the way? Or is Rockstar just messing with its fanbase, as it’s done many times in the past?
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
