As well as confirming that it's in development, they say that its codename is Project Americas as the game will take place over multiple countries: namely, Brazil in a fictional city based on Rio de Janeiro and Vice City in the US. User JackOLantern1982 relayed a grand total of 23 details about Rockstar's upcoming game. When asked by someone on Twitter, Henderson retweeted their question and simply said “It’s not set in the 1980s and is modern”.īack in 2020 though, a huge GTA 6 leak emerged via Reddit. In March 2021, Tom Henderson, a tipster with a great track record, stated that GTA 6 will be set in the modern day. The latest rumors that arrived in June 2021 suggest that the GTA 6 setting will be a modern-day recreation of Vice City - a rumor that has been later corroborated by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier.