Rockstar Games Said to Have Granted a Terminally Ill Fans Wish to Play GTA 6

Several months from its November 19 release date, Grand Theft Auto 6 is one of the few fans who may just be able to play the open world crime game ahead of launch. Take-Two and Rockstar Games are said to have contacted a terminally ill fan who wishes them GTA 6 while they still can play it.

That’s according to Anthony Armtrong, a family member of the terminally sick fan and himself – developer at Ubisoft Toronto. A. GTA fan, who has been fighting cancer, may be getting a chance to playtest Grand Theft Auto 6 as Armstrong’s new LinkedIn post (via Insider Gaming) is now deleted and the former NFL player was playing with an Xbox 360-degree degree of in which she had recently died from cancer. In response to his family member posting that he was ‘the worst news’, Armstrong asked Rockstar whether it could be possible for the terminally ill fan to go through GTA 6 before passing away.

To any of my connections at Rockstar Games and rockstar Toronto, or anyone else who could help me. I have a member of my family who has been fighting cancer for years just recently got the worst news, 6 – 12 months to live.’ Armstrong explained in his now deleted original LinkedIn post weeks ago that it was ‘very much less than possible’ and had no time to be alive.

My biggest fan of GTA is that they are a huge fan base and, with this new update, I’m not too long enough to see the launch of an GTC 6; best case scenario He will be leaving us the same month it does. He lives just a stones throw from the Oakville studio, so I hope one of you can set up an exclusive playtest to ensure that he has time to see the game before dying.

At this stage of development, I know the need for secrecy is absolutely evident and at least an NDA must be required. Paraphrasingr ’It is.

Rockstar, Take-Two Reach Out to Fan

But it seems that what is said to the terminally ill fan may be true. The update came a few weeks after his original post, which said the CEO of Take-Two Interactive was in touch with Armstrong and that “I’m waiting for Rockstar to talk about things further”.

Armstrong told Rockstar Games in a final update that “Rockstar games had reached out to him”. Today we spoke to them and got good news about s. And that’s the only thing I can really say, but thank you from the bottom of my heart. ” , ‘I’m sure it is worth reading.

All posts were deleted later, but from the tone of the final update it appears that terminally ill GTA fan is being given his wish to play GTR 6 fulfilled.

The announcement by Rockstar and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has not been made official, but neither Rock star nor the fan’s boss is allowed to play GTA 6 under special circumstances.

But this isn’t the first time Rockstar would have done something like this for a terminally ill fan. The studio also apparently granted a fan’s request to play Red Dead Reemption 2 ahead of release in 2018, back in 2018.

It is scheduled to launch on November 19, 2026, the release of GTA 6, which has twice been delayed from its original fall 2025 release window.