Take-Two Shuts Down The GTA 6 Leak But It’s Too Late

Games journalist Tom Henderson has been keeping a tab on the content takedown situation in Twitter thread. Henderson also shared purported logs of YouTube content takedown requests issued in the name of Take 2 Interactive. The content removal strategy is a natural course of action to mitigate further damage, but it would be impossible to curtail the leaked videos in its entirety as much of it has also been locally downloaded to an unknown extent by users across the globe. Moreover, the media erasure requests only confirm that the leaked material was indeed legitimate.

Apparently, the leaskter openly shared a communication request, asking a Take-Two employee to get in touch and negotiate financial terms. To recall, the bad actor originally posted on the GTA Forums that they have access to the source code of both “GTA 5” and “GTA 6.” Moreover, the malicious party was unwilling to settle for a ransom of less than “five figures” in remuneration. 

At this point in time, it is hard to predict how much of an impact the leak will have on “GTA 6’s” development and whether the highly-anticipated title is now at the risk of being delayed. But going by the leaked clips, the game appears to be almost ready. Experts also note that the leak might change the work-from-home culture dynamics of the video games industry to avoid any such high-profile leaks in the future.