Summary
Yeah, it’s happened again: some GTA 6 bits appear to have leaked. I’m not going to link to any of them for I hope obvious reasons, as well as the fact I don’t want John Rockstar to send me an email wagging their virtual finger at me. But, having seen them, they do seem to be legit, consisting of a couple of clips and a handful of screenshots showing the in-game map. Don’t worry too much about spoilers when it comes to the footage. One shows one of the game’s protagonists, Jason Duval, playing some basketball at his home. Nothing particularly complicated or revealing can be seen in this one outside of the fact there’s two money counters, whatever that may mean, and that playing basketball builds up your focus stat. The other clip just shows essentially what every single person who has ever played a GTA game has done: driving a slightly destroyed car, crashing it, and getting into a fight. The aforementioned images show what looks to be the full Leonida map, so I suppose that’s slightly more spoilery. These leaks seemingly come from a group called Cyberleek, who shared a trio of commandments that they want the games industry to follow, in part because of Take-Two only releasing the game digitally. They also namecheck The Crew, a Ubisoft game notable for being the driving force (pun intended) Stop Killing Games, the pro consumer movement that seeks to ensure all online games have an offline mode in case servers are ever shut down. I’m not going to directly link to anything Cyberleek have posted, but to summarise their three commandments, it’s that they want the end of digital preorders, the end of single-player DLC that’s “already present in the base game files the consumer purchased,” and that single-player games shall be preserved by the release of a patch to ensure they’re always playable offline. “These three commandments are the floor - not the ceiling - of what is acceptable,” Cyberleek write at the end of their statement. “If publishers violate them, they will be targeted. Cyberleek will continue to disrupt their operations until they issue a public statement and apology with a concrete commitment to fix the harm they caused… Publishers should beware. If Cyberleek can reach Rockstar, no one is safe. This is a message to all big corpo: behave, or be the next target.” It is worth noting that there isn’t anything substantial to these GTA 6 leaks, nothing that could necessarily hurt the game that most people are pre-ordering the more expensive edition of. Still, I’d also like it if discs didn’t die out! But more importantly right now, make sure you take note of what fired Rockstar workers are asking us to do right now: support their legal battle against the studio by buying union merch. Seems like a much better use of your time than hunting for clips of a game you’ll see thousands of clips of in a few months time. Read this next
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