GTA 5 PC Release Date News: Available October 10? Rockstar To Publish Game Later This Fall

Grand Theft Auto 5 will be releasing in Japan on October 10, showing Rockstar's commitment to giving the game an international push, Sohh.com reports.

But Rockstar Games might announce the release date of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 5 around January 17 and will launch the game on April 17, PCGamer speculates.

"If we take the average time between console and PC announcement and add it to GTA 5′s original announcement date of October 13, 2011, that should have put the PC release date announcement around January 17, 2013. No such luck. Assuming they're going to make us wait just as stupidly long as they did for GTA 4 (821 days from the first E3 tease, for the record), we'll be hearing about a PC release date around January 11, 2014. Every main series entry since Vice City has failed to announce a PC ship date until after the first console version shipped," the website writes.

"In terms of when we might actually be able to play it, the gap between console and PC release has been consistent(ly frustrating) at around 212 days, without the kind of crazy deviation we see in the release date announcement window. 212 days after the currently listed ship date for GTA 5 on the consoles would be April 17, 2014. If the gap is as long as it was for San Andreas, we would have it by April 30 instead."

Rockstar has released a new trailer online, showing off an incredible range of activities, from team skydiving to old-fashioned supercar-vs-motorbike shootouts, but Grand Theft Auto 5 will also allow users to build Minecraft-like racetracks around the city.

The game's racetrack-building feature is rumored to draw in millions of fans of the block placing game.

While Grand Theft Auto 5 is expected to launch September 17 for the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360, a release date for the game's online version has not been announced but might be revealed after its gameplay is shown.