Yesterday’s leak (opens in new tab) of GTA 6 footage was one of many largest within the historical past of the video games business, and it was inevitable that the official response to it will be swift and far-reaching. Now, it seems stated response has begun. In a press release, Rockstar Video games has confirmed the corporate “suffered a community intrusion” the place an “unauthorized third occasion illegally accessed and downloaded confidential info from our methods, together with early growth footage for the subsequent Grand Theft Auto.”
The assertion additional expresses how Rockstar is “extraordinarily disenchanted” that particulars of the subsequent GTA had been “shared on this means” and says that the studio will “correctly introduce you to this subsequent sport when it’s prepared.” It provides that work on the sport will proceed “as deliberate,” suggesting that the leak will not have an effect on the projected growth of the sport, as was the case with Half-Life 2. You possibly can learn the total assertion under:
In the meantime, Take Two Interactive has begun issuing takedown notices on footage (and hyperlinks to footage) to a number of web sites. Take Two’s response began late yesterday night, with a number of movies on YouTube exhibiting the leaked footage being eliminated on the request of the corporate. Take Two has additionally issued takedown notices to 2 main GTA communities, specifically the Grand Theft Auto 6 subreddit web page, and GTAForums, the preliminary supply for the leak.
As reported by VGC, the GTA6 subreddit was quickly taken down as moderators cleared it of any imagery of the leaked materials. It has since been reopened with a warning stating “nobody can publish hyperlinks, photographs and movies of the current leaks” with the intention to defend the subreddit from being “obliterated by Rockstar Video games.”
Furthermore, the GTAForums thread that kicked off this entire affair was additionally taken down whereas hyperlinks to the leaked materials had been both eliminated or in any other case hid. The thread is now again on-line, however is locked with a message that states, “All delicate media on this thread has been hidden and the thread has been made public once more for archival causes.”
The leak initially appeared on GTAForums early on Sunday morning, and seems to be the results of a social engineering hack. The leaker, who variously goes by the moniker ‘Tea Pot,’ additionally claimed accountability for a current hack on Uber. Following deliberations relating to the validity of the footage, the leak was confirmed as legitimate by Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier. After the leak went viral, Tea Pot up to date their authentic publish with a message to Rockstar and Take Two, claiming they had been “trying to negotiate a deal” though they did not specify the character of the deal they had been proposing.
