GTA 6: Game Informer Cover Story and LOVE Magazine Interview Add Screenshots and Story Details

Game Informer has confirmed that its issue 382 is built entirely around GTA 6, marking the first time since GTA V in December 2012 that the magazine has put a mainline entry on its cover. The artwork is original Rockstar illustration of protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos riding in a car loaded with guns, and the issue unlocked digitally for subscribers on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, with a print run following in the coming weeks across more than 50 countries. The centerpiece is a 14-page feature written by senior associate editor Marcus Stewart, built on interviews with several of Rockstar’s lead designers including Rockstar North co-studio head Aaron Garbut, and the issue shipped with a dozen new screenshots including Vice City nightlife, a seaplane flying through a tropical storm, crop dusters working rural farmland, and hikers crossing a bridge near a waterfall in one of Leonida’s mountain state parks.

The headline reveal is scale: Leonida is roughly twice the size of GTA 5’s map, split into six distinct regions, with Garbut stressing the increase is about density and detail rather than raw landmass. The feature lays out an advanced, localized weather system built to simulate Florida’s less sunny side, including hurricanes and tropical storms described as bringing heavy clouds, strong winds, dense atmospherics and heavy rain, plus persistent puddles, offshore breezes and wind that physically interacts with hair and debris, and the designer interviews go further into how Rockstar North built out the state’s varied biomes beyond the city itself. On wildlife, Rockstar says Leonida holds more than 170 animal species across land, air and sea, including manatees, flamingos, pelicans and alligators, broken down roughly into 60-plus bird species and 30-plus land mammals.

The story also confirmed gameplay mechanics that had previously only circulated as rumor: certain missions are gated behind a money threshold players must earn before unlocking, cooperative robberies let Jason go in solo or bring Lucia along with a choice between loud and stealthy approaches, and working jobs together can strengthen the two protagonists’ relationship, which Rockstar says is shaped by player choices rather than locked to a scripted outcome. The package also included a redesigned satellite-style pause menu map and mention of a rideshare-based fast travel system.

Separately, fashion and culture title LOVE Magazine put Jason and Lucia on its Issue 27 cover, released October 5, with an exclusive interview and new images showing the pair in different outfits and hairstyles in settings like a diner and a bar pool table. The preview excerpts frame GTA 6’s story as a Bonnie and Clyde style tale set against a backdrop of extreme wealth, aiming to amplify the excesses of modern life rather than simply mirror it. Neither feature comes with a new trailer or a release date shift; Rockstar is still working toward its November 19 launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and continues to describe its last big reveal as an Extended Look rather than a third trailer, leaving fans hoping for “Trailer 3” still waiting.

Rockstar has historically used outlets like Game Informer sparingly and only to control a drip of substantive information rather than pure marketing, and this run of cover stories fits that pattern following a genuinely turbulent stretch for the game, including an internal Rockstar breach tied to a leaker known as CyberLeek, with Take-Two now pursuing legal action to unmask their identity, plus ongoing fan backlash over pre-orders for the pricier Ultimate Edition. Fans have also latched onto the Game Informer cover art itself, pegging the gun-equipped car Jason and Lucia are riding in as a 1967 Vapid Dominator, though that remains speculation based on the image alone.