{"id":743011,"date":"2026-08-19T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743011\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:06:08","slug":"gta-6-gameplay-footage-and-map-appear-to-leak-online-as-group-seemingly-responsible-makes-demands-of-rockstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743011\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 gameplay footage and map appear to leak online, as group seemingly responsible makes demands of Rockstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What appears to be legitimate gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 has leaked onto the internet, alongside an alleged image of the game&#8217;s entire map.<\/p>\n<p>One of the two videos shows co-protagonist Jason driving around in a truck and getting out to attack a civilian by the side of the road. In the other video, Jason is at a Safe House leaning on a balcony railing, then he plays basketball. Small details such as a six-star Wanted gauge, a stamina gauge, and the general fidelity of the footage seems to have convinced most people it&#8217;s real. But it&#8217;s unclear whether it&#8217;s from a recent build of the game or an old one.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked GTA 6 map, meanwhile, shows the game&#8217;s playable world of Leonida &#8211; real-world equivalent: Florida &#8211; broken into five explorable counties. By far the most dense and detailed of these is Vice Dale County, where Vice City is located (real-world equivalent: Miami).<\/p>\n<p>The second official trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. A big new trailer will air next week.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQEGy86F2gE\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group taking responsibility for the leaks, CyberLeek, claimed it took this action in the name of &#8220;Gamers&#8217; Rights&#8221; &#8211; in relation to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/playstation-sony-discs-experts-cost-digital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the controversial discontinuation of game-discs<\/a> and the digital-future we now face. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/grand-theft-auto-6-preorders-gta6-no-disc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Theft Auto 6&#8217;s physical edition comes with a code in a box<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CyberLeek&#8217;s website no longer appears to be available but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gta-6-gameplay-and-map-appear-to-leak-online-group-reportedly-responsible-threatens-rockstar-over-all-digital-future\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IGN reported<\/a> that it made three demands of Rockstar and other publishers on it, around the digital-future of games. It was also to do with &#8220;fake&#8221; single-player DLC in GTA 6, which I assume relates to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-pre-orders-ultimate-edition-100-dollars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exclusive extras in the Ultimate Edition<\/a>. These include in-game shops, clothes and cars that you otherwise can&#8217;t get.<\/p>\n<p>CyberLeek&#8217;s manifesto reportedly concluded: &#8220;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.&#8221; But there is a whiff of this being a potential scam. A QR code overlaid on the footage points to a cryptocurrency donation destination, which has had onlookers question the leaker&#8217;s real motives.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Rockstar nor owner Take-Two has responded to the leaks &#8211; Eurogamer has asked Rockstar for comment &#8211; but many instances of the video, uploaded or shared, have been removed, suggesting plenty of action on their part.<\/p>\n<p>If real, the leaks come days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-extended-look-trailer-netflix-announcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GTA 6&#8217;s big Netflix reveal<\/a>. The Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look trailer premieres next Thursday, 27th, at 8pm BST. You can catch up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-everything-we-know-so-far-9357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">everything we know about GTA 6<\/a> elsewhere on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What appears to be legitimate gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 has leaked onto the internet, alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}