Pocketpair Employees Who Plan to Play GTA 6 Will Get 5 Days Off
The leave runs from Nov. 19 through Nov. 23, while Pocketpair says work on Palworld and Craftopia is expected to stay on schedule.
Pocketpair will excuse employees who intend to play Grand Theft Auto VI from regular duties for five days, from Thursday, Nov. 19, through Monday, Nov. 23. The leave begins on the game’s scheduled launch day. The company’s notice frames the break as a business trip to Vice City and calls the launch a historic occasion deserving the team’s full attention.
All Pocketpair employees have been granted special leave to attend to an urgent five-day business trip in Vice City when GTA6 launches.
Please see the attached notice for details. pic.twitter.com/qJjJ7IvhhY
— Palworld (@Palworld_EN) November 12, 2026
CEO Takuro Mizobe also said he planned to take time off to play GTA 6 in a Japanese-language X post, translated by machine translation. Publishing head John “Bucky” Buckley said things might be “a bit quiet” while staff are away.
Pocketpair says update work for Palworld and Craftopia is proceeding smoothly and is expected to continue as scheduled.
Would you take the full five days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI? Follow the launch-week stories and Pocketpair’s update plans on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.
Grand Theft Auto VI
Developed by Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto VI heads to the state of Leonida, home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond in the biggest, most immersive evolution of the Grand Theft Auto series yet.
- Genre Shooter, Racing, Adventure
- Platforms Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5
- Perspective First person, Third person
- Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Release November 19, 2026
- Publisher Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive
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