GTA 6 Might Be On The Horizon, But Rockstar Games Says More GTA Online Updates Are In The Works

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Rockstar Games confirms GTA Online to receive new updates “throughout the summer and beyond.”
Grand Theft Auto fans continue to speculate on the future of GTA Online as GTA 6’s launch inches closer and closer.
Next GTA Online update, Bottom Dollar Bounties, set to launch next week for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is set for a Fall 2025 launch, which means we’re a little over one year away from the highly anticipated release. And with a new GTA Online update on the horizon, fans had been speculating that this summer’s update would be the game’s last. But thanks to a new blog post from Rockstar, we now know that that’s not the case.

Toward the end of Rockstar Games’ Newswire post on the Bottom Dollar Bounties update, the studio urged fans to “look out for new Drift and Drag Races in the Rockstar Creator” as well as a “host of new vehicles, experiences updates, and tons more.” Rockstar then confirmed that all of this would be arriving in GTA Online “throughout summer and beyond,” all but confirming that new content updates are still in development.

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Despite being a powerhouse in the live-service genre, nobody really knows what’s going to happen with GTA Online when Grand Theft Auto 6 is released next year. The most common theory is that Rockstar Games will sunset GTA Online and release a sequel that is tied directly to Grand Theft Auto 6.

Another possibility is that GTA Online continues to evolve and, through the power of new content updates, ties into the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 next year. While neither possibility has been acknowledged by Rockstar, the former of the two options is the more expected outcome.

When Rockstar Games first referenced Grand Theft Auto 6, it came in the form of a blog post discussing the future of Red Dead Online. While it never became quite the phenomenon that Grand Theft Auto Online did, fans were disappointed to see development on the live service title wind down as Rockstar opted to move the development team over to Grand Theft Auto 6.

Despite GTA Online being five years older than Red Dead Online, it remains one of the most popular live service titles around and, if Rockstar’s latest blog post is anything to go by, will continue to be supported for much longer.

The next update that fans can look forward to is titled Bottom Dollar Bounties and will not only see the return of another Grand Theft Auto 5 character but also allow players to start up their very own bounty-hunting business. The update will be released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on June 25th.