Leak: GTA 6 Footage Appears Online A Week Before Netflix Extended Look

What The Footage Reportedly Shows

Nine days before Rockstar’s official “Extended Look” premieres on Netflix, a leaker calling itself Cyberleek began circulating two short GTA 6 gameplay clips and an image claiming to show the game’s entire, allegedly full map. The first clip shows Jason at a waterfront safehouse, walking over to a hoop and shooting baskets, with landing shots apparently building up a “focus” meter.

The second shows Jason driving on a highway before colliding with a delivery van; the driver gets out to confront him, and the two end up in a melee fight that Jason wins by beating the man with a wrench he grabs mid-fight.

Assuming the footage is genuine, several details from the clips and accompanying commentary point to a deeper systems overhaul than GTA 5 had: a six-star wanted level, a police identification system that separately tracks your clothing, appearance, and vehicle, with changing any of them reportedly making it easier to shake a wanted level, plus stamina-based melee combat, vehicle fuel and maintenance mechanics, and two separate currencies tied to the player and their safehouse.

Neither Rockstar nor Take-Two has commented on the leak publicly. But both companies have reportedly been issuing DMCA takedown notices against accounts sharing the footage on X, Streamable, and Reddit within hours of it appearing. Publishers don’t typically spend legal resources taking down footage they believe is fake.

How Old Is This Build?

Not everything about the leak is settled, though. Industry insider NateTheHate has said the footage is likely more than a year old, meaning it probably doesn’t reflect what Rockstar will show in its Netflix presentation on August 27.

According to Insider Gaming, file metadata suggests a specific 2023 encoding tool was used, though that detail describes the software used to process the clip rather than necessarily the date it was recorded, so the exact age remains unconfirmed.

Some info on the basketball video: It was encoded with FFmpeg 6.1 (Lavc60.31.102/Lavf60.16.100), which was released in November 2023. That means the file was created in this format at the earliest starting November 2023. The underlying footage itself could be older, though the encoding only tells us when it was compressed/converted, and that process also stripped out any original metadata that might have shown the actual recording date.”

Either way, the rougher-looking animations and interface elements visible in the footage are easier to explain if this is an older internal build rather than a near-final version.

Who’s Behind Cyberleek, And What Do They Want?

Cyberleek has published a manifesto framing the leak as protest rather than profit-driven hacking, laying out three demands it calls “commandments”: ending digital pre-orders before independent review, ending paid content baked into games that’s billed as separate DLC, and guaranteeing offline access to single-player content if a game’s servers ever shut down, citing Ubisoft’s The Crew as the cautionary example.

Some of that framing lines up with real, documented friction points like GTA 6’s physical edition ships as a download code in a box rather than a disc and Sony’s decision to end physical discs for an all-digital future.

That said, the manifesto also promotes a Solana-based cryptocurrency token tied to Cyberleek’s name, asking supporters to fund an unspecified “secret project” through the coin. Multiple outlets and independent researchers have flagged that detail as a strong sign this is, at least in part, a pump-and-dump scheme using genuinely leaked footage as bait, rather than a purely ideological protest. Anyone coming across Cyberleek’s site or related crypto links should treat that part with real skepticism.

Rockstar’s own Extended Look premieres on Netflix August 27 at 3 PM ET, hitting Rockstar’s YouTube channel six hours later. That remains the only footage Rockstar has actually confirmed, whatever this week’s leak turns out to be.