GTA 6 Festival Turns Miami Into Vice City for One Night

318 NW 23rd Street is a convention center and a stretch of open ground in Wynwood, Miami’s mural district, and on Saturday, November 21, it hosts Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival, Rockstar’s one-night launch event for the game. Mana Wynwood’s 100,000-square-foot convention center holds an Event Hall and a Sound Stadium, and Rockstar’s festival page describes the grounds as asphalt and grass, with accessible viewing areas at the stages and an event map that has not been released yet. Ticketholders come in through 5th Avenue, and there is no parking on site. Rideshare is the plan.

Rockstar announced the show on Monday morning, ten days out from the game. “Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival, a special live event on November 21 at Mana Wynwood in Miami to celebrate the launch of GTAVI, featuring a star-studded lineup of artists from the game and the official soundtrack,” Rockstar posted on X. It is presented with PlayStation and produced by the creators of III Points, the Miami festival that takes over the same grounds every year. Two stages, one night, fourteen acts. The game arrives thirteen years after GTA V, after two delays moved it from fall 2025 to May 2026 and then to November 19.

Cactus Jack presents Travis Scott with Don Toliver, Kodak Black and Sofaygo at the top of the bill. Cardi B and Metro Boomin follow, with Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, Rauw & Friends, Suero and Tainy, and three back-to-back DJ sets: Nick León with DJ Python, Prospa with Skream, and The Dare with Fcukers. Justice play a DJ set. The duo composed the game’s original score. The bill lists a DJ set.

The only way into the GTA 6 festival is a lottery run by Laylo, with ticket sales handled by DICE. Entries close at 4pm ET on Tuesday, November 10. Winners are drawn at 7pm that night and get their codes by text. Tickets for the GTA 6 festival go on sale at noon ET on Wednesday, November 11, first come, first served, even for code holders. One entry per person, two tickets per purchaser, tickets non-transferable, codes one-time use, and attendees must be 17 or older. Rockstar also tells entrants to create a DICE account with the exact email and phone number used for the lottery entry, or the entry can be flagged as a bot and pulled from the draw. Entering does not guarantee a code. A code does not guarantee a ticket. No ticket price has been announced, no set times, and no livestream.

Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album carries 34 original tracks and arrives November 19 with the game, a record Rockstar made with Atlantic Records. Eight of its tracks are already streaming, among them Travis Scott’s “RHYNO,” Cardi B’s “Don’t Chart” and Yung Lean’s “That’s It” with Future and Metro Boomin. Justice’s original score is a separate record, 30 tracks out December 11, with “Flower in a Hurricane” and “Pusher” already out. The game’s radio dial runs to six stations, from Flash FM’s pop to The Chamber 106.6’s metal, and Bad Bunny and Lana Del Rey are among the voices behind the microphones.

On November 18, the Miami Heat host Milwaukee on a Vice City court, with Cluckin’ Bell and Burger Shot at the arena concessions. Six cars from the game, built for real by West Coast Customs, have been filmed driving through Miami on Leonida plates: a Pegassi Tempesta in Vice Beach police livery, a Grotti Cheetah fading from blue to pink, a green Albany Buccaneer lowrider, a blue Albany Manana donk on gold wheels, a Progen Emerus and an Invetero Coquette in pink camouflage. Rockstar also premiered an extended gameplay preview on Netflix.

III Points began in 2013, when nightclub veterans David Sinopoli and Erica Freshman built a festival around music, art and technology out of Bardot, a Wynwood nightclub. It drew a few thousand people and a single stage that first year, and about 50,000 people across 11 stages and 150 artists in 2024, on a 30-acre Mana Wynwood campus across six blocks of city streets. Nick León, booked back-to-back with DJ Python on the GTA bill, has played III Points before. The ground itself changed hands in June, when billionaire Ken Griffin closed an all-cash $1.1 billion purchase of Mana Wynwood; Moishe Mana’s team keeps running the convention center for at least the next year.

Preloading opens November 10. PlayStation 5 gets it at midnight local time, Xbox at midnight GMT. Rockstar says to allow up to 212 GB. Physical editions carrying a download code reach retailers November 12, with a double-sided poster photographed at German retailers MediaMarkt and Saturn; the poster is confirmed as a MediaMarkt bonus, not as something every copy carries. New Zealand unlocks the game at local midnight on November 19, eighteen hours before Miami.

“People would be playing the game that day,” Vincent019 wrote on r/GTA6 minutes after the announcement, and the thread agreed with him. Queasy-Party-8763, whose reply drew 114 upvotes, laughed at the name itself: “‘GTA VI, The Festival’ sounds so stupidly funny to me.” SharpShooterVIC, posting from Miami, put it more bluntly: “I live here and wouldn’t go on that date. Brother the game just released and you think i’ll get off the couch for this? I’ll be calling out for gta6 not for some sweat fest in wynwood.” In the comments reviewed, Justice and the DJ sets drew the only praise. Over on r/GTA, DarthSmiff called the whole bill “an affront to music” and “a dog shit line up.” Rockstar’s promise is that fans can experience the music of Vice City and Leonida in person. The replies say the experience they waited thirteen years for is the game, at home, on November 19, and nobody in the comments reviewed talked about the lottery at all.

GTA V has shipped more than 230 million copies. The first GTA VI trailer drew more than 90 million YouTube views in 24 hours, a Guinness record for a video game reveal.