User blog comment:Tony 1998/Will GTA V Be Released in 2014? Microsoft Explains This.../@comment-3254365-20130413162258/@comment-8153192-20130413184713

It is. I just went on the Microsoft store and GTA is listed as September 17, 2013 with pre-orders ending the day before. I guess Microsoft was still using Decemeber 31 as a placeholder and a bunch of crappy newsblogs and websites decided to make a story out of nothing for page hits.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msus/en_US/pd/productID.260620700