Edge's 16-page GTA 6 cover feature goes free online tomorrow, October 29: what we know

Edge magazine has a 16-page Grand Theft Auto VI cover story coming out tomorrow, Thursday, October 29, and the whole feature will be free to read online the same day. The magazine visited Rockstar's development headquarters in Edinburgh, interviewed the studio's leaders and has new screenshots. It lands three weeks before the game does.

What is confirmed

• The date. Edge issue 430, out October 29.
• The size. A 16-page report, with interviews with Rockstar and screenshots taken for the feature.
• Free online. PC Gamer and GamingBolt both report the full feature goes up free for everyone on the 29th, not just in the print issue.
• The cover. The print edition has a gatefold cover with artwork of Jason and Lucia.

Edge, which is published alongside GamesRadar+, has described GTA 6 in its announcement as the most ambitious game in Rockstar's history.

What is not

Not a trailer. Nothing suggests new video on October 29. This is a magazine feature: words, interviews and still images.

Not story spoilers, as far as we know. Rockstar has kept the plot close all year, and nothing in the announcement suggests that changes now. We will flag anything that looks like a spoiler before we write about it. Our spoiler survival guide still applies.

Our guess. Expect the feature to go deep on how the world works rather than what happens in it: Leonida's towns and wildlife, how the two leads switch, and how the studio built it. That is where Rockstar's recent interviews, including Bloomberg's in October, have gone.

What we will do with it

We will read the full feature on Thursday and post what is new the same day, with every fact marked as Edge's reporting or Rockstar's words. Anything that changes a page on this site, from the wiki to the map, will be updated with a source.

Everything else on the way to launch is in the launch week calendar.

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