We could’ve known about the GTA 6 trailer a long time ago, if only fans had looked a little closer at a GTA 5 Online in-game T-shirt.
Rockstar has announced that it’ll publish the first ever GTA 6 trailer on Tuesday, December 5 at 2pm GMT and the internet has, as you would expect, gone wild with expectation.
If that wasn’t enough, new footage of the game was leaked by what’s alleged to be the art director’s son, seeming to confirm that the game’s set in Vice City.
One fan, however, thinks that Rockstar announced the date of the trailer months ago via a secret code imprinted on a T-shirt in GTA 5 Online, and that it may indicate the release date as well.
Back in October there was an event in GTA 5 Online where you got abducted by a UFO and given a T-shirt called the ‘??? Tee’ that has a numerical code going around the outside of its design.
Naturally, fans cracked the code, which said ‘ONEDAYWILLREVEALALL’, and it’s thought that this message hinted at the trailer launch for GTA 6. That, or it could just be a generic message designed to sound mysterious (you did get the T-shirt by being abducted by aliens after all).
Now, however, one Twitter user found a forum post that suggests a date was also included in the code on the T-shirt, which is 12523. That’s December 5 2023 but in the American format, and coincidentally – or not – the date of the GTA 6 teaser trailer.
The next numbers in the code are 09, which is the time when the trailer is released in Eastern Time in the US, as noted by YouTuber LegacyKillaHD on Twitter.
It’s clear that the code and the date match up, although it’s always possible that Rockstar retrofit the reveal time to match the code, rather than the other way round.
Where things start to become properly dubious though is that there’s another code – 040125 – which if you use the American date system works out as April 1.
You could now imagine that that’s the release date but knowing Rockstar it’s more likely just them trolling, since it’s April Fool’s Day.
It’s unclear whether the release date will be officially announced this week, but in theory April 1 could be the date, as recent rumours suggest that GTA 6 has been delayed until 2025 and April 1 is a Tuesday that year, when most games are released (although Red Dead Redemption 2 was a Friday).
So maybe they were already looking for a release date sometime around then and Rockstar thought that April Fool’s Day would be funny.
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