Hacker Leaks GTA VI Footage Before Netflix Reveal

Cyberleek cast the breach as retaliation for the industry's move to all-digital releases. "Publishers sell licenses and call them purchases. They ship unfinished games and call them living services. They lock content on discs and call it DLC," the hacker wrote in a public post. "They kill games and keep the money. Every year anti-consumerism tightens its grip, and every year gamers get less for what they pay."

One leaked clip carried the message "NO PHYSICAL DISCS? THEN MORE LEEKS!" — a reference to Rockstar's decision to launch "GTA VI" without a disc.

Critics note the operation has a business model attached. Cyberleek's website polls visitors on which leak they want next and asks them to vote by sending crypto "donations," and one video urged viewers to "Show support, buy $Cyberleek." The hacker says the money funds a "secret project" whose details "cannot be revealed yet," adding: "Let it be absolutely clear: this is not a cash grab."

Stop Killing Games, a coalition pushing for legal protections to preserve video games, told the community not to pay. "Using illegal means to make a point is unacceptable to us and does nothing to protect our right to keep using what we paid for," the group said on X. "No matter how strongly you disagree with the decisions of upper management at these companies, there are still thousands of developers who worked hard on this project — and they're the ones being hit the hardest."

Gamers split. Some told developers they "deserve to have their work revealed the way Rockstar intended"; others argued the company "deserved" the leaks. Fox News reported the footage, which showed Miami landmarks, set off a heated debate over the game's graphics.