Put Down Your Pitchforks, GTA VI Was Always Eligible For The Game Awards This Year

GTA VI is eligible for this year's Game Awards because the ceremony's official cutoff is November 20, 2026 at 9 PM PT, and the game is scheduled to launch one day earlier on November 19. That date was not set specifically for GTA, as the Friday before Thanksgiving has routinely been the TGA nominations cutoff, with last year's cutoff on November 21 and 2024's on November 22. The last Rockstar project eligible for The Game Awards was Red Dead Redemption II in 2018, which earned 10 nominations and four wins but not Game of the Year.