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Virgin Media has launched an Ireland-only promotion that pays one randomly chosen entrant €100 an hour to play Grand Theft Auto VI for eight hours, GameSpot reports. Entries close on November 15.
Analytics firm Sensor Tower estimates weekly GTA VI pre-orders at 330,000, 370,000 and then 470,000 across three weeks in October. They are third-party estimates, not Rockstar data.
The second single from the Grand Theft Auto VI Original Score is already on Spotify in New Zealand. Everyone else gets it at midnight local time on October 29.
Sensor Tower puts Grand Theft Auto VI at about 7 million units and $675 million in revenue before launch, while Circana says purchase intent is the highest it has ever measured. Both are third-party figures.
The IWGB says Rockstar's UK developers will vote on recognising its union from November 12 to 26, a window that includes the November 19 launch of GTA VI.
A re-cut of the GTA VI launch trailer has aired on NBC Sports as the game's first TV ad. The Xbox logo is gone, and IGN and GameSpot disagree on which version drops the shower scenes.
Rockstar Games and Skinny Louie are turning the chain's Florida stores into Burger Shot until December 31, starting at the Miami Heat's Kaseya Center.
Pompeu Fabra University professor José García Montalvo projects about 1.5 million US workers could call in sick when Grand Theft Auto VI launches on November 19. It is an academic projection, not an official forecast.
US regulators have approved labels for three Grand Theft Auto beers from Miami-area brewery Tripping Animals. Neither Rockstar nor the brewery has announced them yet.
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier says the Red Dead Redemption 2 system behind GTA VI's NPC interactions began as a 2014 or 2015 prototype, one that was nearly kept away from Rob Nelson.
Ten days after the GTA VI merchandise launch, GTAVice.net found eBay sellers asking up to €425 for a keychain Rockstar sells for £13.99.
Real cars dressed as GTA VI vehicles, with Leonida plates and a police Lamborghini, were filmed driving through Miami. Rockstar hasn't commented, but the stunt fits its ongoing campaign in the city.
