{"id":87461,"date":"2026-08-12T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87461"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:36:34","slug":"take-two-ceo-wont-be-in-gta-6-after-his-surprise-appearance-in-wwe-2k26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87461","title":{"rendered":"Take-Two CEO Won\u2019t Be In GTA 6 After His Surprise Appearance In WWE 2K26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick unexpectedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/now-you-can-beat-gta-6-answers-out-of-the-take-two-boss-in-wwe-2k26\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/now-you-can-beat-gta-6-answers-out-of-the-take-two-boss-in-wwe-2k26\/\">appeared in WWE 2K26 as a playable character<\/a>, and now the executive has explained how that came to be while also confirming that you won&#8217;t see him in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/grand-theft-auto-6-everything-we-know\/1100-6503729\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/grand-theft-auto-6-everything-we-know\/1100-6503729\/\">GTA 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelnick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/take-two-boss-strauss-zelnick-says-he-asked-to-be-a-playable-character-in-wwe-2k26-because-i-thought-it-would-be-funny-for-insiders-but-dont-expect-him-to-pop-up-in-gta-6\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/take-two-boss-strauss-zelnick-says-he-asked-to-be-a-playable-character-in-wwe-2k26-because-i-thought-it-would-be-funny-for-insiders-but-dont-expect-him-to-pop-up-in-gta-6\">told IGN<\/a> that his appearance in WWE 2K26 came about simply by asking the team to do it for him, and not because there was a big internal or external demand for him to be added to the game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I asked, and then I went on the soundstage, and I did motion capture and we all had fun with it. But no, this was a rare moment where I said, \u2018I think this would be fun. Let&#8217;s do this.\u2019 And everyone&#8217;s like, \u2018Okay,'&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1847447\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"578\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-12-at-9.44.42-AM.png?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1847447\" \/>GTA 6 releases in November, and Zelnick won&#8217;t be in it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelnick said he loves WWE and &#8220;thought it would be funny for insiders and maybe fun for some consumers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;By the way, a lot of people played it, as it turns out, it did very well. But the online response was sort of like, \u2018Huh?\u2019 Which I think I deserved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick unexpectedly appeared in WWE 2K26 as a playable character, and now the executive has explained how that came to be while also confirming that you won&#8217;t see him in GTA 6. Zelnick told IGN that his appearance in WWE 2K26 came about simply by asking the team to do it for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87464,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87461\/revisions\/87464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}