Grand Theft Auto 6 leak reveals over 90 gameplay videos

polygon.com:

In an unprecedented leak, more than 90 videos of the in-development Grand Theft Auto 6 have surfaced online. The leaker posted the videos on GTAForums under the username teapotuberhacker. They claimed to have accessed them directly from Rockstar Games’ internal Slack.

The videos show robberies, gunplay, open-world driving, and conversations with full voice acting. The footage appears to confirm a recent report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier that the game would be set in a fictionalized Miami — possibly the Vice City of GTA lore — and feature a playable female character. The game is clearly in development, with debug programming elements visible on-screen, but has many working features.

Right from the start there was little doubt over the authenticity of the videos — they were of a scale and detail that would be next to impossible to fake. Schreier subsequently wrote on Twitter that Rockstar sources had confirmed to him that the leak of “early and unfinished” footage was real, and said the scenario was a “nightmare” for Rockstar.

At time of writing, the videos are still available to download from links in the original post on GTA Forums, although Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two Interactive has started to issue copyright claims against videos on YouTube and social media networks in order to remove them from view. The videos have been so widely distributed already that Take-Two’s lawyers may be fighting a losing battle in trying to scrub them from the internet.

In total, there are about 50 minutes of footage. Many of the clips are very brief. One of the longer videos, about three minutes long, shows the female player character robbing a diner, threatening staff and customers, who react in fear to having a gun pulled on