Ignore the GTA 6 leak, the full Rockstar reveal will be worth the wait

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This wasn't how we were supposed to see GTA 6 for the first time. Under normal circumstances, Rockstar's games are unveiled with a level of finesse and fanfare that only few studios with similar stature and spending power can deliver. There's a mysticism about the whole ordeal, where hype meets years of unseen hard work behind the scenes, and then the countdown from reveal to that much-anticipated release date begins. Last weekend, this process was turned on its head as a hacker illegally accessed and published over 90 in-development screenshots and videos from Rockstar's long-awaited open-world crime simulator – which later prompted the developer to officially acknowledge what the internet has since billed as the GTA 6 mega leak.  

The GTA 6 leak is perhaps the biggest in the history of video games, and, for me, the whole thing is disappointing for a number of reasons. But if you think this will negatively impact the prestige of the eventual GTA 6 reveal, I reckon you should think again. If anything, there's now even more pressure on Rockstar to go bigger than ever – and if history has taught us anything, it's that this studio has a talent for delivering above and beyond our expectations.

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Rockstar may have nonchalantly confirmed that GTA 6 was in active development back in February, but, despite this being the first official communication regarding the next Grand Theft Auto series entry, the admission was hardly breaking news. GTA 5 and its multiplayer component GTA Online are now over nine years old, making this the longest we've had to wait between GTA games. First-party resources would have been redistributed to create 2018's Red