Every GTA 6 trailer and the Extended Look on 27 August

13 August 2026 · 5 min read

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There are two official GTA 6 trailers so far, and the third showing already has a date: “An Extended Look” arrives on Thursday 27 August 2026. Below is the full timeline from the primary source (Rockstar’s own Newswire), the exact UK time, and an honest answer to why calling the August video “Trailer 3” is wrong.

Short timeline

Trailer 1 — 5 December 2023

The first trailer was meant to go out on schedule, but hours before the premiere a low-quality watermarked copy leaked online. Rockstar reacted immediately: it pushed the real video out early, on the evening of 4 December, and asked people to watch the original rather than the leak. The Newswire post is dated the following day — 5 December.

The result went into internet history. Guinness World Records logged 90,421,491 views in the first 24 hours — two records at once: most viewed videogame trailer in 24 hours, and most viewed non-music YouTube video in 24 hours. The previous non-music record belonged to a MrBeast video with 59.4M.

What it showed: Vice City, the two lead characters — Lucia and Jason — and a closing “2025” card.

Trailer 2 — 6 May 2025

The second trailer arrived four days after Rockstar announced the first delay: on 2 May 2025 the release moved from 2025 to 26 May 2026. So the video went out into an already-changed reality, with a new date attached.

The numbers here are trickier, and this is where most people get it wrong:

• 475M+ views in 24 hours — but that is the total across all platforms combined: YouTube, TikTok, social feeds. By that measure it was the fastest video launch in internet history.
• On YouTube alone it drew fewer views than the first trailer. That is why Rockstar did not collect a second Guinness record: the category counts YouTube only.

The reason is simple and has nothing to do with popularity. The first trailer existed only on YouTube — to see it, you had to go there. The second one Rockstar published everywhere at once, and the audience spread across platforms.

⚠️ If you see a headline saying “the second trailer beat the first one’s YouTube record”, that is two different numbers being added together.

An Extended Look — 27 August 2026

On 6 August 2026 Rockstar announced the third showing. The wording in the announcement is literal: “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look”. Not “Trailer 3”.

Two premieres on the same day:

The gap is six hours. Netflix gets it first, but this is not an exclusive: the same video lands at 2 a.m. UK time on Rockstar’s YouTube channel and on rockstargames.com/VI, free and without a subscription.

The conversion is from US Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) to British Summer Time (UTC+1) — a five-hour difference.

Why “Extended Look” and not “trailer”

The word choice is not a detail. A Rockstar trailer is a cut piece of 90–120 seconds with no commentary. An “extended look”, in industry practice, usually means something longer: more footage, sometimes gameplay, sometimes developer explanation.

What we know for certain: the name, the date, the times and the two platforms. Rockstar has not announced the runtime, the format or whether there is gameplay. Everything you will read about “15 minutes of gameplay” or “a mechanics showcase” is guesswork until the video is out.

The Netflix partnership is worth noting separately. Rockstar has never before given a third-party service the first showing of GTA material. It has not explained why.

What the trailers did not contain

Briefly, to close out the most common questions:

• ❌ a PC release date — not once, in any of the videos;
• ❌ any mention of multiplayer — Rockstar describes GTA 6 as a single-player game;
• ❌ system requirements — none have been announced at all;
• ❌ the map size in square kilometres — Rockstar has never given that figure; every published estimate was made by fans working from trailer frames.

The bottom line

Two official trailers — December 2023 and May 2025. The third showing, “An Extended Look”, is on 27 August 2026: Netflix at 8 p.m. UK time, YouTube and Rockstar’s site at 2 a.m. on the 28th.

We will break the showing down on the day it airs — based on what is actually on screen, not on second-hand retellings. If Rockstar changes the time or adds detail, we will update this page.