Grand Theft Auto 5 is continuing to sell copies years after first being launched by Rockstar.
But inevitably, rumours are starting to crop up about the next installment in the gaming blockbuster series.
After all, GTA 5 was first released in 2013 and fans are desperate for another dose of car-stealing open world madness.
However, Rockstar is busy ramping up expectation for the next Red Dead Redemption while also keeping online players happy in Grand Theft Auto Online.
It doesn't look like we'll see a new GTA game until next year at the earliest.
Here's everything we've managed to gleam so far about what Rockstar Games has planned for GTA 6.
Latest news
The most recent rumour seems to add weight to the idea that Rockstar will revisit Vice City from the PS2 days for the next outing of its crime saga.
According to YouTube channel The Know, it will allegedly be set in Vice City with a new female protagonist.
They say it is "codenamed Project Americas and will be based in Miami or, possibly, a facsimile of Miami.
Sadly, it also appears that the game won't be here until the early 2020s.
Obviously, these are rumours at this point. Rockstar is good at keeping its secrets so we may have to take this with a pinch of salt.
Release date
Back in the day, Grand Theft Auto games would appear pretty regularly every couple of years. But, as the games grew and became the global event they are now, the time between entries got longer and longer.
There was half-a-decade between 2008's GTA 4 and 2013's GTA 5. If the company stuck to that timeline, we'd be seeing GTA 6 this year - which seems highly unliklely.
A recent report in Forbes suggested that the success of GTA Online mean that GTA 6 could be delayed indefinitely, as micro-transactions in the online game are earning the company more money than purchases of the offline version.
But still, if we're going to see any peek of GTA 6 this year, it could happen at the E3 games conference taking place in Los Angeles from June 12-14. Fingers crossed.
And of course we'll updated this article when we catch even the tiniest whiff of new GTA 6 news. As the above video suggests, we might not even see the game until the 2020s.
Gameplay
“We’ve got about 45 years worth of ideas we want to do,” said Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, back in 2013.
“We don’t know what GTA 6 will be, but we’ve got some ideas," he told Develop Magazine.
"GTA Online is the focus right now. There ain’t no rest between finishing 5 and then Online.
What is likely is that GTA will stick to the open-world gameplay it pioneered. The question is just how big that world could be.
"Of course at some point we would like to have one big world containing all our cities and let the player fly between them and revisit their favourite areas," said Benzies.
"In that context, re-imaging Vice City would be very interesting."
GTA 5 also introduced three main characters all with interlocking storylines. It was an ambitious decision for a game and something that Rockstar may well bring back for the next title.
Location
Despite being developed in Scotland, Grand Theft Auto is as American as apple pie. Only one entry in the series has not been set in the USA - that was a mission pack for the first game and was set in London in 1969.
According to an inside source speaking to Tech Radar - there were some plans to set GTA 6 in Tokyo, although it appears these have since been scrapped.
"Our source said that Rockstar was "serious" about the idea of making a Tokyo version around the time of GTA 3 and Vice City, however the road system was seen to be problematic and became one reason the idea was canned," reported the site.
Until further notice, we'd expect the next Grand Theft Auto to be US-based. Possibly a return to the series' Miami-inspired Vice City? That's what the latest rumours suggest.
