GTA 6 pre-orders open on May 12, 2026: killed

The 2026-05-12T23:59:59Z kill condition fired: no Rockstar Newswire pre-order announcement on GTA 6 was published on or before May 12. Operator review on 2026-05-18 confirms no pre-orders opened during the May-12 window. The May 18 to 21 Best Buy email window is tracked as a separate related claim (gta6-best-buy-preorder-may-18-21-claim); a later cohort signal predicting a different window is not evidence the May-12 prediction was correct, so May 18 does not retroactively rescue May 12. Confidence band held at tier_3_unverified because the register's band vocabulary has no killed-specific value; the band reflects the claim's source tier (a tier_3 community cohort prediction), not its verification status, which is killed/verified-false. Band-vocabulary gap registered as a known semantic imprecision. Verdict killed.