Rockstar Games announces a Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer will arrive early next month, the first official word on an inevitable new installment in the open-world crime series. This follows a Bloomberg report (may require registration or subscription) that Rockstar was finally set to announce the sequel as early as this week. To call a new GTA game highly anticipated seems like an understatement, as Grand Theft Auto V has remained a bestseller since launching over a decade ago, and has sold over 180M copies. Lifetime sales of the series are now well over 380 million. The story was originally unconfirmed, attributed to "people familiar with [Rockstar's] plans," but Jason Schreier is a very reliable source, and his report supported an indication or two from financial reports from Rockstar parent Take-Two, as well as a few other hints. Now there's a news post about this, celebrating next month's 25th anniversary of Rockstar Games:

Thanks to the incredible support of our players worldwide, we have had the opportunity to create games we are truly passionate about — without you, none of this would be possible, and we are so grateful to all of you for sharing this journey with us.

In 1998, Rockstar Games was founded on the idea that video games could come to be as essential to culture as any other form of entertainment, and we hope that we have created games you love in our efforts to be part of that evolution.

We are very excited to let you know that in early December, we will release the first trailer for the next Grand Theft Auto.