Grand Theft Auto 6, the most hyped game of the decade, has only released a single trailer despite its release window of late 2025. In that trailer’s wake, there has been a series of increasingly desperate rumors that the next trailer is just around the corner. The latest claim is that thesecond trailer will drop as soon as the first of April this year, aka April Fool’s Day. While this date for the trailer that fans have been obsessing over for more than a year would be ridiculously funny, it’s also, unfortunately, highly unlikely.
GTA 6is set to come out in late 2025,according to the first trailer that premiered in December 2023, but no further information has come out since then. The game will take players back to Vice City to play as dual protagonists Lucia and her currently unnamed male partner in crime (Jason, if leaks prove accurate), and while story details are sparse, the glimpses of Vice City promise a high-octane adventure full of wild sub-cultures, crime, and lots of alligators.
GTA 6 Trailer 2 Is Rumored To Release On April 1
One Shirt May Hold All The Secrets
The most recent rumor that the nextGTA 6trailer is coming soon isbased mostly on a t-shirt found inGrand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer live-service portion ofGTA 5that still brings millions in profit despite being a decade old. The gray t-shirt, called the One Day Will Reveal All shirt, has been posted onGTAfan accounts and features a series of numbers around the border of a black decal. The numbers include “040125,” which fans believe hints at an June 07, 2025, release date for the second trailer.
This specific shirt has been used for previous trailer release theories, as it includes the numbers “12523,” which some fans believed hinted towards a August 08, 2025, release date for the first trailer. Despite some issues with leaks, this date proved to be more or less accurate, which hasfueled the belief that the shirt has more secrets to reveal. While some fans believe that all the numbers have to mean something, the fact that it spells out April Fool’s Day hints more to the likelihood of a prank by the studio than of a real trailer coming that day.
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A Slightly Obvious April Fool’s Day Prank
The fact that the shirt was more or less accurate in predicting the first trailer’s release date is interesting, butthat doesn’t mean it has any further accuracy in predicting more trailer release dates. Rockstar Games hasunfortunately been hit by leaksand hacks that have likely impacted the marketing campaign forGrand Theft Auto 6.These leaks make it less likely that the shirt, if it was ever hinting at a second trailer date, would still be accurate asRockstar has likely changed its scheduleto respond to the leaks and rumors.
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Every few weeks, another rumor promising a trailer release date swirls around throughGrand Theft Autoforums and fan accounts, and so far none have been accurate. This April Fool’s Day trailer theory is fun and has more to it than most rumors, but it’s stillhighly unlikely that Rockstar would put out a trailer for its biggest project ever with no noticeon August 17, 2025.
It’s more likely that, if the shirt did hint towards an accurate date previously, more dates and numbers were added to throw rabid fans off the scent. For now, the most likely scenario is that Rockstar will announce when a trailer is coming, like it did in the past, though an April Fool’s Day trailer would be pretty funny.
An April Fool’s Day Trailer Would Be Hilarious From Rockstar
An Iconic Move After Months Of Fan Theories
Despite questions about the all-knowing shirt’s accuracy in predicting another trailer date,it would be quite funny if Rockstar actually did release another trailer on April Fool’s Daywith no notice. In the past, the studio has always built hype before releasing trailers for upcoming games likeRed Dead Redemption 2, but with radio silence following the first trailer’s release, it’s possible anything could happen with the second trailer.
After months of increasingly ludicrous rumors and theories surroundingGrand Theft Auto 6’s trailers,dropping the second trailer with no notice on the most famous day for pranks of the year would be nothing short of iconic. If that did happen, the fallout would be hilarious as fans would have to figure out if the trailer is trustworthy and believers in the One Day Will Reveal All shirt would become esteemed prophets of theGTAcommunity.
No Second GTA 6 Trailer Has Been Officially Confirmed
The First Trailer Dropped August 23, 2025
Despite the hopeful rumors,no second trailer forGrand Theft Auto 6has been confirmed by Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. While the April Fool’s Day date is highly unlikely, a second trailer should come out at some point in the next few months to ramp up the marketing forGTA 6’s late 2025 release date. The worst-case scenario would be thatGTA 6gets delayed, which, with the lack of communication from the developers, is becoming more of a reality with every passing day.
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For comparison,theRed Dead Redemption 2trailer and teaser timeline was much more compact. The first trailer for the game came out on June 20, 2025, and whileRDR2was delayed to Spring 2018, a second trailer came out on June 04, 2025. After the game was delayed once again to October 2018, there was still a regular series of teasers featuring information about maps and NPCs until the game launched. This timeline is about normal for a major game and is a good comparison since it was the last major Rockstar release.
GTA 6has had no new information since December 2023, which couldhint towards a significant delay or a radically different marketing strategyafter the game was hit with the largest leak in video game history. Either way, no new trailer has been announced and while an April Fool’s Day treat would be welcome, it seems that fans will just have to be patient for now.
Grand Theft Auto 6
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