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GTA 6 leak appears on TikTok just before the trailer could drop

A fitting finale for the waiting period

Marco Wutz

GTA 6 leak appears on TikTok just before the trailer could drop
GTA 6 leak appears on TikTok just before the trailer could drop /

Update: The trailer has been released early. Watch the GTA 6 trailer here.

It looks like a final GTA 6 leak appeared on TikTok shortly before Rockstar could drop the first official trailer for the game – check here for the GTA 6 trailer release time in your region – and in quite the on-brand fashion, the whole affair might have been caused by the worst sort of betrayal.

The GTA 6 TikTok leak supposedly gave us our first look at the GTA 6 map, which – to be frank – didn’t look all that exciting or insightful. It’s your stereotypical American metropolis, at least to this European’s eyes. It looked like warm weather there, so those old Vice City rumors we’ve been hearing for ages may well pan out to be true, should that leak be real. It looks plausible enough to be, at least.

Rockstar logo on a sky background.
Rockstar recently announced the GTA 6 trailer release date / Rockstar

Unconfirmed rumors immediately circulated that the son of a senior developer at Rockstar North was behind the leak, but it now seems like one of said son’s friends may be the culprit – at least supposed evidence of that seems to be available on social media.

We can neither corroborate the identity of the leaker, nor the validity of what the leaked footage showed at this point. The same goes for chat logs from the alleged leaker circulating on social media, which claim to reveal new details on GTA 6, like a Fall 2024 release window and the fact that GTA 6’s map will supposedly be twice the size of Los Santos from GTA 5. According to those logs, the map will sprawl out over several cities and suburbs.

As mentioned above, the leaker’s account as well as the original footage have been deleted, though fragments of the leak have survived in many repost videos on TikTok.

Whether it’s an actual leak or not, it shows that people are more than hungry for GTA 6 at this point and it’s a fitting finale for the excruciatingly long waiting period for real footage, which will definitely end on December 5, 2023, with the release of that official trailer.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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