Paradox Interactive's Victoria 3 Has Been Leaked
Paradox Interactive, the game development and publishing house behind modern classics such as Crusader Kings 3 and Cities: Skylines among myriad others, was likely getting ready to launch its next major grand strategy title, Victoria 3, sometime this year. These plans have now, however, been foiled in a truly spectacular fashion.
Sources now claim that Paradox Interactive has suffered a massive leak that has resulted in Victoria 3 getting fully leaked online. Effectively, the entirety of the game's current beta build is now available for download via shady channels, and it would seem that it all started in a familiar place: 4chan.
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Victoria 3 was announced in May 2021, and though the game didn't yet have a full official release date, the expectation was that it would come out sometime during 2023 at the latest. Now, however, it would seem that the beta build of the game has been leaked by a 4chan user, with it quickly getting circulated through the community via torrenting and general piracy domains. It is unknown how old the leaked build of the game is at this time, as there wasn't any real information shared alongside the actual copy of the game.
Billed as Paradox Interactive's most detailed historical title yet, Victoria 3 takes players back to the 19th century and the beginning of the Industrial Age, tasking them with the management and proliferation of one of the 100 different countries. In broad terms, Victoria games have been less about warfighting than the acclaimed Crusader Kings 3, for example, and more about careful socioeconomic planning, thus helping the franchise stand out on the market.
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