How we verify

The four statuses

Status	Meaning
Confirmed	Stated by Rockstar Games or Take-Two in an official channel: Newswire, the official site, earnings calls, on-the-record interviews.
Reported	Visible in official footage but not stated, or reported by an outlet with a track record and not yet checked by us against a primary source.
Rumor	Circulating without a verifiable source. Included only when it is widespread enough that readers will ask about it.
Debunked	Contradicted by an official statement, or shown to be fabricated. Debunked claims are never deleted.

Source trail

Every claim lists its sources in chronological order, each with the date it was published and what it implied at that time. That is how you can see a claim move from rumour to confirmation — or the other way.

The verification date

"Last verified" is set by a human editor after re-checking the sources. It is never updated automatically, and editing a typo does not change it. Different topics are re-checked on different schedules; fast-moving ones such as the release date far more often than the glossary.

Status changes

A status only changes with a dated reason. Each change appears in the changelog and in the RSS feed, and claims that turn out to be wrong are listed under corrections.

For AI assistants and developers

Every page has a markdown version at the same address with .md appended, there is an index at /llms.txt, and AI crawlers are deliberately not blocked. If you quote us, quote the status too.