Rockstar's throwing a GTA 6 festival in Miami, and the ticket lottery shuts at 4pm ET on 10 November

Rockstar's putting on a one-night music festival in Miami to celebrate GTA 6, and if you want a ticket you've got until 4pm Eastern on Tuesday 10 November to enter the lottery. Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival is on Saturday 21 November at Mana Wynwood, two days after the game comes out.

Rockstar announced it on the Newswire yesterday. It's "presented in partnership with PlayStation" and produced by the people behind III Points, Miami's big music and art festival, with "two stages of nonstop music".

How to enter the lottery

Tickets aren't on open sale. You need an active DICE account, and you sign up for the pre-sale lottery at gtavi-thefestival.miami. Entries close at 4pm ET on the 10th, which is 9pm in the UK and 10pm in most of Europe. Tickets then go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday 11 November, to people who got a code, and each pre-sale code is "limited to two" tickets.

Rockstar's info page is at rsg.ms/gtavi-thefestival. It hasn't put out set times or a stage split yet, and the Newswire post doesn't give prices. So entering costs you nothing but a DICE login, and you won't know what you're paying until a code lands.

The lineup

Here's the bill as Rockstar listed it. Up top you've got Cactus Jack presents Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Kodak Black and Sofaygo, plus Cardi B, Metro Boomin, Tainy and Rauw & Friends.

Then there's a run of live acts and back-to-back DJ sets: Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, Suero, Justice (a DJ set), Nick León B2B DJ Python, Prospa B2B Skream, and The Dare B2B Fcukers (also a DJ set). That's a lot of Latin pop and club music next to the rap headliners, which fits a game set in a fictional Miami.

Plenty of these names are actually in the game's music. Justice wrote the whole adaptive score, the one that's out on vinyl on 11 December, and we covered that and the Gesaffelstein single in our Justice score piece. Seeing them on a DJ set two days after you've heard their music under your first police chase is a nice bit of booking.

Then there's The Album, the 34 original songs out on launch day. Travis Scott, Cardi B and Rauw Alejandro all have singles listed on it, and Metro Boomin's on the Yung Lean track with Future, as we noted when Rockstar revealed the first radio stations. VGC's write-up of the festival makes the same link to The Album. Rockstar hasn't said whether any of the others have songs in the game, so we're not going to guess.

Why Wynwood

Mana Wynwood is a big events space in Wynwood, the Miami neighbourhood famous for its murals. That's the same district Wynwood Walls says the game's Stockyard is based on: the mural streets under the elevated line you can see in the screenshot up top. It's also III Points' home turf, since the festival runs there every year, so the producers know the site.

If you're anywhere near Miami that weekend, the only thing that matters right now is the clock. Sign up before 4pm ET, then watch your DICE app tomorrow.