Game Informer put Grand Theft Auto VI on its cover with a 14-page story that opens up Leonida, Vice City, and the game’s advanced weather systems. The digital issue goes live on September 29, while the print version reaches readers in the coming weeks.
The package also includes 12 new screenshots and original cover art from Rockstar Games, with Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos on the cover. For readers trying to get a first look before the broader rollout, the issue is built around details that go beyond the usual reveal cycle and into how the world is being assembled.
Leonida and Vice City details
The cover story says Rockstar Games researched Miami and Florida to build a world that feels culturally and visually grounded, and it uses Leonida and Vice City as the center of that effort. That is the useful part for readers: this is not just a geography label, but the framework for how the game’s world is being presented, from urban density to regional identity.
The story also says Leonida has a staggering amount of wildlife on land, air, and sea. That broad scope signals a world designed around movement and ecosystem variety rather than a single urban map, which is the kind of detail that usually shows up only after a cover reveal opens the door.
Weather systems and wildlife
The advanced weather systems are described as simulating Florida’s less sunny weather phenomena, which points to dynamic conditions rather than static skybox changes. For players, that means the environment is part of the design language, not just backdrop — a useful clue about how Rockstar Games is shaping moment-to-moment play in Grand Theft Auto VI.
Wesley LeBlanc, a senior associate editor at Game Informer, also traveled to China to play Tides of Annihilation, and that kind of hands-on reporting is the same reason this issue matters: it gives subscribers material they cannot get from a trailer alone. The magazine’s approach here is unusually front-loaded, pairing a dense feature with a limited release window so the most interested readers have to move fast.
September 29 for subscribers
The digital version arrives on September 29, but the print version reaches subscribers’ mailboxes and bookstore shelves in the coming weeks. That split matters because the issue is available only for a limited time, and Game Informer’s print subscription still promises 10 issues a year in the U.S. and now internationally across over 50 countries.
For readers who care about Grand Theft Auto VI, the practical move is simple: the digital issue is the earliest route to the new Leonida and Vice City details, and the print edition will follow later. The one unanswered point inside the story itself is the exact shape of the gameplay and narrative systems tied to those weather and wildlife systems, which makes the cover story a preview, not a full handoff.
