Official Screenshots & Media

Rockstar's official media arrived at a handful of dated moments, not in a steady stream. Sorting by date is the clearest way to understand the collection - and to see where the "November 2025 mega-drop" myth comes from.

Debunking the "November 2025 screenshot drop." A common claim is that Rockstar released around 70 to 100 screenshots in November 2025. That did not happen. The November 6, 2025 Newswire was purely a delay notice moving launch to November 19, 2026, with no images attached - and, unusually, no new trailer to soften it. The "nearly 100" figure that press outlets cite is a cumulative total of the entire standing media kit, counted long after Trailer 2, not the product of any single November event.

Only two moments actually added meaningful volumes of stills.

Trailer 2 batch - 63 screenshots (May 6, 2025) - confirmed. These dropped without warning alongside Trailer 2. The count of 63 is consistent across press coverage and is the canonical number. All were captured in-game on PlayStation 5, matching the trailer's own "captured entirely in-game" attribution. Content spans both protagonists, a spread of supporting characters, and the state of Leonida - beaches, nightlife, wetlands and highways, plus vehicles and weapons. They arrived through a refreshed rockstargames.com/VI where every profiled character and region received its own gallery, which is why the set feels sorted by subject rather than dumped as one reel.

Media-kit expansion (June 24, 2026) - confirmed. Tied to the June 18 cover-art reveal and the June 24 site update announcing pre-orders and editions, this added editions-focused promotional imagery: Ultimate Edition premium vehicles, weapons and apparel, and the Vintage Vice City Pack's 1980s-styled content. Rockstar also added a new background video of Vice City at night to the promo site - a nighttime skyline over the water, roads and courts - that press frequently screencapped and mistook for "new screenshots." Cumulatively, this is what pushed press counts toward "nearly 100" official images.

Some aggregators list figures like "40+ Ultimate Edition" and "12+ Vintage Vice City Pack" screenshots. Those are reported press and community counts of promotional stills, not a Rockstar-stated number. *(This paragraph's specific counts: reported.)*

Rockstar's site organizes the official screenshots by character and by region. The images themselves are official and confirmed, but Rockstar publishes no per-subject tally - the counts below are press bookkeeping aggregated from the media kit, so treat the numbers (not the images) as reported.

Character galleries (8 subjects):

Region galleries (6 profiled areas):

The two protagonists carry the highest counts at six each, and Vice City is the most-photographed region with nine - a useful signal of where Rockstar itself is placing emphasis.

Cover art (June 18, 2026) - confirmed. Revealed to frame the June 25 pre-order open, the box art returns the franchise's collage / panel style, this time as nine panels. The center panel is the definitive two-protagonist statement: Jason and Lucia against a sunset Vice City beach - Lucia in a dark tank top and ponytail holding a semi-automatic handgun near Jason's chest, Jason in a white tank top, a pink-and-orange sky, palm silhouettes and a skyline across the water. The surrounding panels sketch world and story beats: new cars and motorcycles, a speedboat, a heavily armed helicopter, an alligator, nightlife, and several supporting figures of the Leonida underworld. *(Panel-by-panel identifications beyond the two leads are reported press readings, not Rockstar captions.)*

Wallpaper & artwork library - confirmed assets, reported counts. Named pieces in the official Artwork & Wallpapers set include a Jason & Lucia dual-character composition (with logo and clean no-logo variants), a Vice City postcard, a Jason & Lucia motel scene, Leonida Keys and Port Gellhorn postcards, a Cal Hampton character wallpaper, and the GTA VI logo marks. The standing library is reported at around 17 artwork and wallpaper pieces.

Beach key art (December 2023) - confirmed. The Trailer-1-era key art (Jason and Lucia on the beach, "Coming 2025") is the franchise's first official GTA VI image and remains a canonical asset - though the "2025" window is now historical, since the game slipped to November 19, 2026.

The canonical, copyright-clean source is rockstargames.com/VI/downloads. Rather than mirror it, this wiki links out to it - the assets are Rockstar-owned and are best pulled from the original in uncompressed quality. Its structure, as of mid-2026:

• Three sections - Videos, Screenshots, and Artwork & Wallpapers - each with its own "Download All" (.zip) button. *(Structure: confirmed on-site.)*
• Videos: around 10 downloads - trailers and character clips as clean MP4, with no YouTube branding, watermark or recompression. *(Count: reported.)*
• Screenshots: roughly 70 high-resolution stills, mixing environment shots and character portraits. This matches the *standing library*, not any single drop. *(Count: reported.)*
• Artwork & Wallpapers: about 17 pieces, offered in device-specific formats - phone (portrait and square), tablet, desktop (landscape) and ultrawide - each in with-logo and no-logo variants. *(Formats: confirmed; count: reported.)*

Sourcing note. Because these are Rockstar-owned assets, anything shown on this wiki is used in fair-use editorial context and attributed "Official screenshot, Rockstar Games," with the downloads page linked as the source. Reuploads and fan mirrors are deliberately avoided - the official set is generous enough that none are needed.

The scale of attention explains why every official drop becomes a cultural moment and why fan re-hosting proliferates around it - which in turn is why the official downloads hub matters as the disambiguation anchor.

• [Trailer 1](/trailers/trailer-1) (December 2023): more than 90 million views in 24 hours, and roughly 200 million within six months.
• [Trailer 2](/trailers/trailer-2) (May 2025): more than 475 million views in 24 hours across platforms, with 84 million on the YouTube upload alone in the first day - a record-class debut.

Those figures are why the 63-screenshot batch spread so far so fast, and why so many low-quality reuploads circulate as "screenshots" - the original stills at full resolution only exist on Rockstar's own hub.

The gaps in the official record are as informative as the images, and they are worth stating plainly as of July 2026:

• No HUD or gameplay-UI screenshots. Every official still is "clean" - no minimap, weapon wheel or mission text. The game's interface has never been officially shown.
• No official map. The imagery implies geography, but Rockstar has published no map; district boundaries remain inference rather than fact.
• No Trailer 3. The November 2025 delay came *without* a new trailer, breaking the usual "soften the blow" pattern.
• No dedicated gallery for several named characters. Some cast members appear in trailers or on the cover art but lack an official screenshot set of their own.

A note on the 2022 leak. The September 2022 development leak circulated large volumes of pre-alpha footage and stills. That material is not official media. It is never reproduced or linked here as "screenshots," and is referenced only as a historical event. The confusion between leaked and official imagery is itself a documentable topic - and the reason this page insists on the dated, Rockstar-sourced record above.