Rockstar Games has banned the term ‘Charlie Kirk’ from GTA Online after an abhorrent creator mission was found in a feature that’s expected to carry over to GTA 6.
The studio recently delayed Grand Theft Auto 6 to 19 November 2026 “to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve”, Rockstar said in a statement.
Despite the delay, GTA 6 remains the most anticipated video game of all time and gamers continue to track rumours, leaks, trailers, gameplay details and map updates.
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Rockstar Games bans ‘Charlie Kirk’ term following abhorrent creator mission
Rockstar Games has banned a new term using GTA Online‘s profanity filter following an abhorrent creator mission.
It’s been spotted online the term ‘charliekirk’ has been added as a profanity in the game’s code.
This comes after a mission was created with Charlie Kirk in its name where the objective was to assassinate someone while standing with a sniper rifle on a rooftop.
The mission creator was added into GTA Online in Rockstar’s last big update for it at the start of December and is likely to be a feature that carries over to the expected online mode in GTA 6.
GTA 7 or RDR3 already ‘most likely’ in development claims former Rockstar animator
Rockstar is already working on its next game after GTA 6 according to a former developer
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Former Rockstar Games animator Mike York has claimed GTA 7 or RDR3 are already “most likely” in development at the studio.
We’re still all waiting for the release of GTA 6, which if all goes to plan will finally be available on 19 November 2026, but that doesn’t mean Rockstar may not be working on multiple projects at the same time even if GTA 6 is the priority.
Former Rockstar director Obbe Vermeij, who spent 14 years at Rockstar as a technical director, working on Grand Theft Autoprojects such as Vice City, San Andreas and IV before leaving in 2009, recently ‘revealed’ the likely setting for GTA 7, saying he expects the trend of real-life US locations being parodied to continue.
Now former Rockstar developer in Mike York, an animator who worked on GTA 5, told Esports Bets he thinks either Grand Theft Auto 7 or Red Dead Redemption 3 is “most likely” being worked on at the studio.
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Insider addresses release date delay reports
Jason Schreier has addressed reports that misinterpreted his comments about the release date of GTA 6.
Speaking on the Button Mash podcast, Schreier said “the last [he] heard, it was still not content complete” and while “it’s really hard to say right now” if it will release this year, he “thinks this feels a little bit more real”. Schreier did not confirm the game would be delayed again at this stage.
However the internet went into a frenzy following this with many misinterpreting his comments that a third GTA 6 delay was confirmed – but this was simply not the case.
In a newsletter he penned for Bloomberg, Schreier addressed this.
“The lengthy development cycle and multiple delays have led to paranoia among nervous fans and analysts that the game is troubled or that it might slip again, which would have big ramifications for Take-Two, its GTA-making studio Rockstar Games and the rest of the industry,” he said.
Reaction to Tom Henderson’s comments
Redditors in the GTA 6 Subreddit have been reacting to Tom Henderson’s latest comments on the Insider Gaming Weekly podcast.
TheHudIsUp said: “Until I see a download starting on my console I won’t believe anything.”
mgshowtime22 said: “‘Confident’ does not mean ‘definitely’ and I would hope we learned this by now.”
Absolute-KINO said: “Does no-one remember Cyberpunk? They were delaying that game until the last second. It happens.”
Release date delay reports addressed by insider
Insider Gaming‘s Tom Henderson has clarified previous comments he made about hearing that GTA 6 is “content ready” after renowned Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier said the “last he heard”, the game was not “content complete”.
“I think there’s been some misinterpretation from different sources of exactly what that means,” Henderson said on the latest episode of Insider Gaming Weekly.
“Does content ready means the pipeline of what they want to do is ready but they’ve not captured it and it’s not content complete yet, or has something more sinister happened with the game’s development?
“Game development is tremendously all over the place, it isn’t a linear process and it really isn’t point A to point B, there are so many different things in between there.”
Henderson also said Red Dead Redemption 2 wasn’t content complete “four months before it released”. He’s also predicted GTA 6 will release this year.
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