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About The Unlock Report

The Unlock Report is an independent, unofficial fan guide that tracks the launches gamers actually count down to — starting with Grand Theft Auto VI. We do one job: tell you what is confirmed, what is rumoured, and what is simply not true, with the receipts to tell the difference.

Original sunset coastal-city artwork — the visual identity of The Unlock Report

01 — What this site is

Unofficial, on purpose

The Unlock Report is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive — or to Sony, Microsoft, or any other publisher or platform holder we cover. "GTA" / "Grand Theft Auto" and all game and console names are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify the products we track. All text, tools and artwork on this site are original; the sunset-skyline artwork is our own illustration, not game art, and we reproduce no game assets.

What we publish: launch countdowns and unlock times, preload planners and storage tools, honest edition comparisons, and trackers that separate confirmed facts from rumours — currently for GTA 6 (launching Thu 19 Nov 2026 on PS5 + Xbox Series X|S), with other major releases, such as Fable (23 Feb 2027), on the same radar. Everything is free to read; the site is supported by clearly labelled advertising and affiliate links, disclosed on the home page.

02 — Editorial standards

Confirmed means confirmed

Gaming hype runs on screenshots of screenshots. Our rule is simple enough to print on the wall:

Confirmed

Label

Stated by the publisher, platform holder, or an official store listing — and checked against the primary source, not a summary of it. Dates, prices and sizes on this site carry this label only when we have seen the source ourselves.

Rumour

Label

Reported by press or leakers but not confirmed officially — like the GamesBeat report suggesting a possible early-2027 PC window for GTA 6, based on anonymous sources. Rumours are always attributed, always labelled, and never upgraded silently: a rumour becomes "confirmed" only when an official source says so.

Not announced

Label

When something doesn't exist yet — a PC version, system requirements, a Steam page — we say so plainly instead of filling the gap with guesses. "Not announced" is a complete answer, and padding it out would be a disservice.

History

Label

Past patterns (like Rockstar's console-first, PC-later history with GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2) are context, clearly labelled as history — useful for expectations, never presented as news about the future.

03 — Corrections

When we get it wrong

Launch information changes — preload times move, editions get clarified, dates shift. When a fact changes, we update the page and the "facts checked" date in the header, and when we have made an outright error, we correct it in the open rather than quietly rewriting history. Spotted something wrong, or something we have labelled rumour that has since been confirmed? The contact and corrections route is on the home page — corrections from readers are read first, before anything else in the inbox.

One promise we will keep making: if we don't know, we say we don't know. A hype tracker that invents certainty is just marketing with extra steps — and you can get that anywhere.

Start with the countdown

The live GTA 6 countdown, unlock times and launch-week checklist. Release date page →

Read the fine print

Privacy, terms, cookies, advertising disclosure and copyright live in the legal sections on the home page.

Credits

Music credits

Unlock Radio — the player in the header of every page — plays real songs by Kevin MacLeod, published at incompetech.com and licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0. The licence is free for uses like ours as long as every track is credited, so every track is credited — in the player while it plays, and in full below. Some files were re-encoded to 160 kbps MP3 for web delivery; no other changes were made to the recordings.

Synthwave Drive

Neon Laser Horizon / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Laser Groove / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Voxel Revolution / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Voltaic / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Newer Wave / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Lo-Fi Chill

Chillin Hard / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Chill / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Backed Vibes (clean) / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Vadodora Chill Mix / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Deliberate Thought / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Pop Groove

Funkorama / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aces High / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Protofunk / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Werq / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Life of Riley / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Rock Charge

Exhilarate / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Hotrock / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breakdown / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Twisted / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
RetroFuture Clean / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Beat Lab

Lewis and Dekalb / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Griphop / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
MTA / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Too Cool / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Basic Implosion / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Deep Focus

Floating Cities / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Immersed / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Meditation Impromptu 01 / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Ripples / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Silver Blue Light / Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) / Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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