GTA 6 Gameplay Leaked Before Netflix ‘Extended Look’ Release: What The Hackers Have Said
The Grand Theft Auto 6 launch date is getting closer and we are about get an extended look on Netfix for the popular game. However, someone has leaked the GTA 6 gameplay visuals this week, and they are clearly not happy with the developers of the game who have decided against bringing a disc version of GTA 6 at launch and how the whole industry is going digital-first in the next few years.
GTA 6 Leak Spreads Like Wildfire
The group has posted the GTA 6 gameplay leak on X, and shared further warnings about more leaks of the game are coming in the next few days or weeks. The original post from Cyberleek is no longer available but many users have shared the visuals in screengrabs to avoid further copyright infringement notices from the platform.
Hackers Give GTA 6 Gameplay Leak Reasons
GTA 6 launch has already created a lot of interest for the wrong reasons and these hackers are amplifying that further with the leak. GTA 6 pre-orders come with a single-play lock code which means you can’t even let anyone else play the game.
And not having a physical disc version of GTA 6 makes the whole strategy worse. Cyberlook is warning all the game publishers about following the basic rules of launching games and making them available without any riders.
And if more companies violate those rules, they will face the same action. ““If CYBERLEEK can reach Rockstar, no one is safe. This is a message to all big corpo: behave, or be the next target,” the group had a message on its website.
A major GTA 6 leak surfaced today, with several pieces of in-game footage and map images spreading across social media. The clips quickly sparked debate among fans, with some questioning whether they were genuine or AI-generated. However, new information suggests that the footage could be legitimate, although it may be much older than some fans expected.
According to well-known insider NateTheHate, the newly leaked GTA 6 footage is more than a year old. He also claims that the clips are not part of the rumored GTA 6 previews that are reportedly underway.
An additional source shared similar information with Insider Gaming while analyzing one of the leaked basketball videos. The file was reportedly encoded using FFmpeg 6.1, a version released in November 2023. This suggests the video file could have been created in that format from November 2023 onward. However, the encoding date doesn’t necessarily reveal when the original footage was recorded, as the video could have been captured earlier and converted later.
Based on this information, the leaked clips appear to come from an older build of GTA 6 rather than the current version of the game. That means the footage may not accurately represent how the game looks or plays today.
Meanwhile, Rockstar Games has already started taking action against the leaked content. The studio has reportedly been sending DMCA takedown notices to users sharing the in-game footage and map online, causing several posts and clips to disappear from social media.
GTA 6 Gameplay and Map Appear to Leak Online, Group Reportedly Responsible Threatens Rockstar Over All-Digital Future
Two videos showing GTA 6 gameplay have emerged: one featuring protagonist Jason playing basketball outside his home, the other showing Jason driving a car and attacking an NPC. An image reportedly of the complete map has also hit the internet.
Assuming the leak is legitimate, it comes just days before the release of Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look, which is a timed Netflix exclusive. That’s due Thursday, August 27, and will remain exclusive on Netflix for six hours before it makes its way to other platforms such as YouTube.
While it is currently unclear how these assets emerged or how old they are, they all point to a cryptocurrency and a website that reportedly belong to a group called ‘CyberLeek.’ The website contains three demands of Rockstar Games and other video game publishers, seemingly in response to the all-digital future suggested by digital preorders, “fake” single-player DLC, and the removal of single-player content consumers have paid for.
GTA 6 has suffered a number of leaks over the years. In 2022, more than 90 videos and images from an early version of GTA 6 were leaked online by hackers in what was one of gaming’s biggest security breaches. “We take leaks very seriously indeed and they disappoint all of us, it’s really frustrating and upsetting to the team,” Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said in response. The British teenager responsible was recently released from indefinite imprisonment at a secure hospital and is now awaiting a retrial.
In December 2023, the first GTA 6 trailer leaked on X/Twitter less than 24 hours before its scheduled premiere, leading to Rockstar officially posting the trailer on YouTube early. Rockstar developers took to social media to express their f rustration at the leak, which Zelnick later called “disappointing.” “In terms of the leak, that’s always disappointing for the team, but ultimately, I don’t think it hurt us,” he said.
In April this year, Rockstar confirmed company information was accessed as part of a third-party data breach, but it insisted the incident had “no impact on our organization or our players.”
GTA 6 release date holds at November 19, Netflix Extended Look lands August 27
Two clips that appear to show Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay leaked online on August 18, along with an image of the game’s full map. Rockstar Games has spent the hours since trying to scrub them off social media. Neither the publisher nor parent company Take-Two has confirmed the footage is real, but the DMCA takedown notices going out to everyone reposting it have answered that question fairly well on their own.
The material is watermarked with links to a group calling itself CyberLeek, which says it leaked the game to protest the industry’s slide towards digital-only ownership. Its complaints cover digital pre-orders, single-player DLC it calls fake, and publishers switching off games people already paid for. GTA 6 shipping its physical edition as a code in a box rather than a disc looks like the trigger. The group ended its manifesto by telling publishers to “behave, or be the next target.
But apart from the gameplay itself, what’s interesting about this is the hacker group itself, and what it claims to represent. The Cyberleek website contains a lengthy manifesto railing against the rise of “monetization schemes” in video games, such as live-service titles, the selling of digital licenses to games instead of actual ownership, locked content on discs under the guise of DLC, and games being shut down entirely. “Every year anti-consumerism tightens its grip, and every year gamers get less for what they pay,” it reads.Cyberleek claims it’s raising funds for a “secret project” that it won’t disclose, and then lists three “commandments” it expects video game publishers to adhere to. It claims that if a publisher breaks one,
it will “target” them, and “will not stop until they issue a public statement and apology with a concrete commitment to be better. Words are not enough; restitution is mandatory.”It’s from those commandments that we can maybe piece together why Cyberleek appears to have targeted GTA 6 specifically.
One of the commandments does not appear to apply to the game, at least not yet or not publicly. That’s number three, which calls out a need for “offline fallback state[s]” for single-player content in games so that single-player games cannot become unplayable when servers are shut off. We don’t know one way or the other how this impacts GTA 6, but suffice to say it doesn’t appear to be in any danger of having its single-player campaign shut down anytime soon.
The leaker responsible for sharing these videos has promised to continue posting clips, so we may well be back with more new details tomorrow. Stay vigilant, though: Alongside these legit-looking (but unconfirmed) leaks, there are also what appear to be AI-generated fakes out there, a problem which will probably only worsen until Rockstar finally hits us with the official reveal, which is scheduled for next Thursday, August 27. The studio has not commented on the source or legitimacy of the leaked videos.
GTA 5 let you tap a button to make a comment to strangers, but you never really knew what sort of greeting it would be. Something pleasant? Something rude? Probably something rude. The leaked video shows Jason approaching some NPCs under a bridge, and the player can choose to “greet” them or “taunt” them, more in line with the system from RDR2 or Bully. (In the leaked video, the player chooses to stab them to death.)
GTA 6 Leaks News Looting
Jason loots some bodies during his senseless rampage. You do have to take a moment to reach down toward the body, but it’s a much faster animation than in RDR2, where Arthur Morgan would take his sweet time lifting the body and rummaging through pockets. There also appears to be a dedicated item wheel separate from the weapon selection wheel, which would be another RDR2 carryover.
Sometimes people wonder, “If cities are full of pigeons, how come we don’t see more dead pigeons lying around?” One answer, I’ve been told, is that the bodies just decompose quite quickly. The other answer is that if you live in an urban area, you do see dead pigeons lying around. I do, at least.
What I have yet to see, however, is a bird drop out of the sky and plop onto the ground in front of me, and then a second bird do the same thing moments later, which happens to Jason as he walks under a freeway in one of the clips. What is going on with the birds?In today’s Daily Fix:Grand Theft Auto 6 has suffered a string of devastating leaks recently, with reportedly the full map and more gameplay being shown. The group behind the leaks, CyberLeek, has also published a manifesto railing against excessive monetization in games, and the death of physical media.
The group has promised more leaks until their grievances are addressed. The leaks come a little over a week until the official in-depth reveal from Rockstar and Netflix, who will carry the livestream exclusively for six hours. In other news, Horizon Hunters Gathers, the multiplayer-centric spinoff of the Horizon games from Sony, is reportedly being completely retooled following negative player feedback. The game is not officially released and is undergoing public testing. And in related news, Horizon 3 is in development but is years away and only has a small team assigned to it.
Rockstar is certainly absolutely infuriated. Its PR campaign for GTA 6 has been extremely measured, not to say withholding; we still haven’t seen official gameplay yet. That reveal is finally planned for next week, on Aug. 27, where it will debut on Netflix. For rough, unedited gameplay footage to leak at the eleventh hour will be excruciating for a control-freak studio which has always been meticulous in the extreme about how its games are presented — and paranoid or vengeful about any deviations from the script.
This gives the leak a certain symbolic power. Rockstar embodies control, and Cyberleek’s complaints center on perceived abuses of the mesmeric hold GTA has over a massive gaming audience. The hack has, temporarily at least, taken control out of Rockstar’s hands. It’s hit the studio exactly where it hurts. And it adds insult to the injury of the 2022 leak, which revealed substantial portions of development builds of the game years before its reveal, never mind release.
But this latest leak is definitely more insult than injury (as evidenced by the slogans Cyberleek has slapped on the video clips). The build shown may not reflect the current state of GTA 6 or even show it at its best. But the game, at least based on this footage, looks solid, vivid, and full of life. It looks like you would expect a new GTA game to look — that is to say, like a technological high water mark.
Rockstar Games appears to have suffered another massive security breach just days before its official Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) extended footage premiere on Netflix. Alleged gameplay videos and images of the full map are being widely circulated on social media platforms, revealing driving and combat mechanics. While the origin and date of the leaked assets remain unverified, they heavily reference a website belonging to a group calling itself ‘CyberLeek’.
One of the videos shows protagonist Jason Duval playing basketball outside his home. In the other video, Duval can be seen driving a car before attacking an NPC with a wrench.
Though the authenticity of the gameplay and map remains unconfirmed, it appears that Rockstar is working to remove the video uploads from across social media.
The group has also provided a press release with their leak that outlines three guiding “commandments”. Described at length on Cyberllek’s website, these commandments primarily concern recent business decisions taken by GTA 6 publisher Take-Two Interactive.
GTA 6 Release
Set to release on November 19, 2026, GTA 6 arrives more than 13 years after GTA V, the second-best-selling video game of all time. According to the two trailers released so far, Lucia Caminos and Jason Duval will be the primary characters of GTA VI, inspired by notorious American criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
“Vice City, USA. Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them. But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida, forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive,” reads the game’s synopsis.
In the first clip, Jason is seen leaning over the balcony attached to his house. The player has a quick look around and then jumps down to the ground below — he has a jet ski and a car parked up. Jason then grabs a basketball and a quick tutorial detailing how to throw the ball appears. You have to aim until the rings overlap and then shoot your shot. For a successful dunk, Jason gets a 2% increase to his Focus. The rest of the clip sees Jason continue playing basketball until the ball lands in the water.
In a second clip, Jason is driving on the highway and causing chaos. He crashes into a mail van, and the driver retaliates by crashing into him. Jason gets into a fight with the driver and kills him with the wrench he was holding, which alerts the cops nearby and triggers a two-star pursuit.
On the right side of the screen, a minus symbol and a purple devil (like the emoji) appear, which to me would suggest you’ve lost karma. When Jason is around the back of his car, button prompts for your loadout and storage appear, suggesting you’ll be able to customise multiple loadouts and store things in your car and take them with you. The clip ends with Jason driving away.
Original Story: Multiple videos of what appear to be legitimate GTA 6 gameplay are currently being posted to the Internet by a leaker.
I’ve seen two clips so far: the first depicts Jason at his house from the trailer playing some basketball, and the second features some driving and crimes that attract the attention of the cops. I will not be linking to either video, but they are easily found through social media searches at the time of writing.
Fans are reporting receiving DMCA takedowns from publisher Rockstar, which suggests the videos are real. There’s also an image of what’s claimed to be GTA 6’s full map circulating online. Reportedly, the footage isn’t from a recent build, as it’s suggested it could be taken from as far back as 2023.
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