Avid fans are searching for any information they can about Grand Theft Auto 6, and some think they’ve found it in an image promoting the next Grand Theft Auto Online update. Kicker? It’s about the phases of the moon.
Grand Theft Auto Online is a huge moneymaker for Rockstar Games, and as such, the game continues to receive updates more than a decade after it was first included as a multiplayer component in 2013’s Grand Theft Auto 5. The next big expansion is scheduled for December, but it looks like Most people are instead focusing on a single image used to promote upcoming content due to its possible connection to a future Grand Theft Auto 6 announcement.
“A gibbous moon is waning in Rockstar’s latest post,” Reddit user tnasstyy posted on the r/GTA6 subreddit on November 1. “The next moon phase will occur on November 17. Who let me out of my straitjacket?”
Additional research by the commentators found that the moon phase identified in the image may occur later in the month, sometime around November 22. But why do we give so much importance to the moon’s movements in the first place, and what does this have to do with Grand Theft Auto 6?
Many believe that this is not the first time that Rockstar Games has announced a trailer release date through an image of the moon. Two months before the developer shared the December 5 release date for the first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer, it released a screenshot from Grand Theft Auto Online’s in-game Moon Festival celebration. The moon in that image was a waning gibbous indicating December 1st, which happened to be the day of the aforementioned announcement.
While the premise itself is somewhat lacking, this kind of enthusiasm is just more than we’ve come to expect from the Grand Theft Auto community. Back in the days of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, die-hards were obsessed with finding Bigfoot lurking across that game’s giant expanses of wilderness, a decade-long commitment that was finally rewarded when the daemon appeared in Grand Theft Auto 5. Recently, people have been digging into Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer for any information they could find, such as a brief shot of the serial numbers on a $100 bill, possibly indicating the year in which the game takes place.
Rockstar Games did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, we won’t have to wait long to find out if this moon theory works again.
