We Got This Episode Before GTA 6 (Premium E288) Sample

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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There is no bigger franchise in the video game business than Grand Theft Auto by Rockstar Games. So naturally, fans of open-world criminal mayhem descend into wild dot-connecting in the years before each hotly-anticipated release. The next installment, GTA 6, has been delayed and is now slated for release on May 26th of 2026. This is despite many assurances from Rockstar that everything was on track for the game to come out in 2025. Alas, this will be another Christmas without an ultra-violent crime simulator wrapped beneath the pine tree. Sad! But at least Rockstar’s long silence gave us some great theories. Rockstar’s trademark hush-hush routine has turned GTA fandom into a sweaty detective bureau: Reddit sleuths pore over patent filings, numerologists map release dates to moon phases, and anonymous “insiders” drop breadcrumbs. In this episode we sift the signal from the speculation and ponder whether weaponized silence is part of the new marketing playbook. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. /// SOURCES: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5584612/ https://www.pcgamer.com/grand-theft-auto-6-fans-have-become-so-desperate-for-information-theyve-convinced-themselves-that-the-moon-is-teasing-an-upcoming-reveal/ https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/gta-6-fans-are-convinced-that-a-new-trailer-is-going-to-release-on-december-27-because-the-moon-and-a-license-plate-told-them-so/

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0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well, if you're hearing this, well done.
0:34.2	You found a way to connect to the internet.
0:36.7	Welcome to the QAA podcast, premium episode 288. We got this episode before GTA6. As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, and Travis Vue. Has an empire in decline ever been this entertained, this stimulated? As the calendar of things falling apart extends before us, so too does the calendar of video game releases.
1:00.0	And there is no bigger franchise in the business than Grand Theft Auto by Rockstar Games.
1:05.0	GTA 5, the last game in the series, was released in September of 2013.
1:10.0	In the nearly 12 years since then, it has generated over $8.6 billion in revenue and sold
1:17.0	more than 200 million copies aided in large part by GTA Online.
1:21.8	It's wildly successful multiplayer mode that let Rockstar get in on the micro-transaction racket.
1:27.0	Have you ever bought a shark card or whatever?
1:29.6	Like the bucks?
1:30.1	Oh, I've spent hundreds.
1:32.1	I've spent, yeah.
1:33.6	The trick that they really, I think, accomplished is like,
1:36.3	I feel like everybody with any platform has bought this game at some point,
1:40.2	maybe even on multiple platforms, because they've released like remasters.
1:53.0	And I don't know. Like I myself, replayed this video game from beginning to end, which I had not done the original time, I think like two years ago or a year and a half ago or so. And it's so fucking good.
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