Update: A new set of GTA 6 clips have surfaced.
A New Clip Shows a Pool Party in "Nudist Town"
The leak wave has kept going with another clip, this time set in a location described as "Nudist Town."
The footage reportedly centers on a large poolside gathering with a lot of NPCs scattered around a pool-side. The location also includes explicit nudity, so we're not going to describe that part any further.
In the clip, the player reportedly tries to photograph some of the NPCs, and while a lot of them notice and question, one of the NPCs confront the player, and a brief scuffle breaks out before the footage cuts off.
We're not linking to or reproducing this footage. What actually matters here for GTA VI is the scale of the crowd and how directly the NPCs seem to react when the player messes with them. Like the rest of what's circulating, this is reportedly pulled from a playable dev build rather than anything Rockstar picked out to show off, and there's no telling yet which parts of it make it to launch.
Take-Two Expands Its Search to X
Take-Two isn't stopping at Microsoft and Discord. The company has now filed a DMCA subpoena request targeting X Corp. in the same U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, naming the account @cyberleek_ar_io directly and asking the platform to hand over information that could identify whoever runs it.
The filing ties the account to GTA VI material allegedly posted on X, and it shows Take-Two's investigation following the leak trail well beyond the platforms it first appeared on. Microsoft and Discord still have until September 4 to respond to their own subpoenas.
Worth noting: using a CyberLeek-adjacent name doesn't automatically mean an account belongs to whoever actually captured the footage. The X subpoena is about identifying who's behind that specific account, not confirmation that Take-Two has found the original source.
The investigation is still ongoing, and new clips keep showing up in the run-up to Rockstar's official GTA VI presentation on August 27.
Another Leak Shows Gas Station Robberies and Crash Physics
Previously, a separate clip surfaced on 22nd Aug, about two minutes long, giving another look at how Rockstar might be building out interactions across Leonida.
The clip reportedly opens with the player pulling into a gas station and parking next to a pump. The car can apparently be refueled and repaired right there, another sign that vehicle upkeep could be a bigger part of GTA VI than it was in past entries.
From there, the player walks into the store, attacks the cashier and empties the register. The same thing reportedly plays out again at a second gas station later in the clip.
None of that is complicated on its own, but what stands out is how many systems are stacked into one stop. A gas station isn't just scenery to drive past anymore. It's apparently a place to fix up a car and, if a player wants to go that route, rob for cash too.
GTA 6's Crash Physics Get Another Look
The clip reportedly closes with a high-speed crash. The player slams into another car, and the game reportedly drops into a slow-motion shot of the impact before snapping back to normal gameplay.
Rockstar has used dramatic crash cameras before, but this suggests GTA VI could be pushing that presentation even further, pairing detailed vehicle damage and physics with the kind of camera work that makes a crash actually feel like one. As with any leaked dev build, there's no way to know yet if it plays out the same way in the final release.
The Clip Ends With Another Tease
The last few seconds reportedly show a quick look inside a strip club. Whoever is behind the leak has apparently claimed more footage from that location will surface if a cryptocurrency tied to the leak hits a $3 million market cap.
Respawnerz is not linking to, embedding or reposting any of the leaked footage. This article covers what's been reported about the leak itself and will be kept updated as there's more development, and what Take-Two's legal move actually means going forward.
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A new batch of alleged Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay surfaced online this week, and it gave players an unofficial look at systems Rockstar Games has not shown off in any trailer. The clips reportedly cover nighttime gameplay with Jason Duval, a few different ways to steal a car, taser combat, security guards who know when to retreat, fuel and condition tracking on vehicles, and a cutscene between Jason and Cal Hampton that nobody had seen before.
The footage got pulled down from Reddit and X almost as fast as it went up, but plenty of text breakdowns and screenshots are still floating around describing what people saw before the takedowns hit.
What makes this round different is what happened after the videos disappeared. Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar's parent company, didn't stop at copyright strikes. The publisher went to federal court and got approval to subpoena both Microsoft and Discord for records tied to the leaker, who goes by the name CyberLeek.
What Happened With the Latest GTA 6 Leak
The clips started circulating on August 18, attributed to a person or group using the handle CyberLeek. They spread quickly before copies began vanishing under copyright enforcement from Take-Two and Rockstar.
It didn't stop at a couple of short snippets either. Reports describe extended sequences of Jason driving around Leonida, talking to NPCs, fighting security personnel and cycling through different systems, not just isolated moments.
The clip that got the most attention landed on August 19. It's roughly two minutes long, set at night, and shows Jason driving before running into an area guarded by security. That one encounter alone touches on several systems that could make GTA VI's world feel a lot more reactive than anything in the last few Rockstar games.
Everything below comes from what's been reported about that leaked footage, not from anything Rockstar has confirmed.
New Ways to Steal Cars
One of the more interesting details from the nighttime clip is a new vehicle interaction menu. Walking up to a car reportedly brings up options including "Clone Key" and "Smash Window."
Smash Window doesn't need much explanation. Clone Key is murkier. It could point to a quieter theft method that needs specific equipment or an item picked up earlier, though the footage doesn't spell out exactly how it works.
Either way, it looks like Rockstar is moving away from the old one-size-fits-all car theft animation and toward something more contextual, where the vehicle and the situation both affect how you go about taking it. Whether that survives all the way to release is still an open question.
Jason Uses a Taser and Picks Up a Hat
During the same encounter, Jason reportedly gets his hands on a taser and turns it on the security guards himself. It's a small addition, but it fits a pattern Rockstar has leaned on before: letting players pick up and use whatever's lying around instead of relying purely on a fixed loadout.
There's a smaller detail that says just as much about how the world is built. At one point Jason picks a hat up off the ground and puts it on backwards. Instead of an item just disappearing once an NPC goes down, it stays in the world and Jason can actually interact with it.
Other options that reportedly showed up during the encounter include a "Tag" prompt when looking at a cop and a "Surrender" option, both suggesting Rockstar wants players to have more than one way to handle a confrontation instead of defaulting straight to a shootout.
A Taser Hit Drains Jason's Stamina
The footage also gives another look at whatever stamina or adrenaline system GTA VI is running. Jason takes a taser hit and stays on his feet, but it reportedly wipes out his stamina meter completely.
If that stays in the final build, it turns stamina management into something players actually have to think about mid-fight, and it lines up with other leaked references to a Focus mechanic and similar character-state systems from earlier leaks this year. Worth remembering, though, that development footage often shows systems that are still being tuned or might get cut entirely before launch.
Security NPCs Fall Back When Outnumbered
Guard behavior is another detail people have zeroed in on. According to the reports, the security NPCs pull back once they're outnumbered instead of just charging Jason regardless of the odds.
Rockstar has done this kind of thing before. Red Dead Redemption 2 set a pretty high bar for NPCs reacting believably to what's happening around them, and a few comparisons to that game have already come up around this footage. It's not clear yet if this is a full AI behavior system or just how this one encounter happened to play out.
Vehicles May Track Fuel and Condition
The clip reportedly shows a fuel gauge and vehicle condition indicators on screen, which lines up with fuel tracking that's shown up in earlier GTA VI leaks too. That repetition makes it feel like less of a one-off internal test feature.
If it makes it into the shipped game, players would have to actually think about their vehicle choice, refueling and how far they can push a car before it becomes a liability, which could change how people approach everything from long drives to outrunning the cops. Rockstar hasn't confirmed anything here, so it's still very much a reported feature rather than a locked-in system.
The Nighttime Lighting Looks Genuinely Next-Gen
The lighting in the nighttime portion has drawn just as much attention as the mechanics. People describing the footage point to detailed street lights, reflections in car windows, and Jason's shirt reportedly picking up a pink hue reflected off a nearby surface.
That's led to a lot of talk about ray tracing and real-time global illumination, though any technical read on compressed leaked footage should be taken with a grain of salt. Compression and re-encoding can distort a lot before a clip ever gets uploaded and reposted a few dozen times. Even so, it's another unofficial peek at how Rockstar is lighting Leonida after dark.
An Unseen Jason and Cal Scene
The sequence reportedly ends with a short, more relaxed cutscene of Jason and Cal Hampton on a boat, drinking and talking. One line has gotten extra attention because it references using a VPN to avoid getting caught.
Given that the leak is being spread by an anonymous account while Rockstar and Take-Two try to scrub it from the internet, some people have read that as a wink at the whole situation. There's no actual evidence CyberLeek picked that scene on purpose because of the line. It could just be ordinary dialogue that happens to land oddly given the circumstances. Respawnerz isn't reproducing the dialogue or getting into further story details from the scene.
How Old Is This Footage, Really?
Nobody's pinned down an exact date for when this was recorded. The best clue is the radio. Tate McRae's "Sports Car," which came out in January 2025, reportedly plays during the nighttime clip. That means the build is from 2025 or later, assuming the song was already in the game at the time of recording, though it doesn't confirm a specific date beyond that.
That matters because GTA VI is still in active development. Rockstar can and does change mechanics, animations, menus and visual effects right up until release, so nothing in this footage should be treated as a preview of the finished game.
The Leak Wave Didn't Stop There
The August 19 clip wasn't the last of it. More footage kept surfacing afterward, including a biplane flying over Vice City and other parts of Leonida. One later clip reportedly ended with the player using bullet impacts to spell out "LEEK" on a wall, which points to the leaker having access to a playable build rather than just a handful of pre-recorded clips.
That's a meaningful shift. The more material that gets out, the bigger the risk of unreleased systems, locations and story content getting spoiled before Rockstar is ready to reveal them, and it explains why Take-Two's response has gone well past simple takedown requests.
Take-Two Escalates With Court-Approved Subpoenas
Take-Two has now moved to actually identify who's behind the leaks, as reported by Kotaku. The publisher filed applications in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking subpoenas against Microsoft and Discord, and the court approved them.
The goal is to get information that could help Take-Two connect the CyberLeek persona to a real person. According to the filings, Take-Two is pursuing this under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to identify whoever is behind the alleged infringement.
This is a real step up from where things stood earlier in the week. Instead of just asking platforms to pull down unauthorized footage, Take-Two is now working through the federal court system to go after the people it believes are responsible for spreading it.
What Take-Two Wants From Microsoft
The Microsoft subpoena asks for records tied to the CyberLeek account and to Microsoft's own investigation into the leak. Take-Two is seeking business and investigative records that could help identify whoever is behind the persona.
Part of the request is also connected to GTA VI material that reportedly showed up on GitHub, which Microsoft owns. Whatever Microsoft ends up handing over could be a big piece of the puzzle when it comes to tying online accounts back to a real individual or group. Microsoft has until September 4, 2026, to respond.
What Take-Two Wants From Discord
Take-Two also secured a subpoena aimed at Discord, seeking identifying details for accounts connected to servers linked to the leak operation. The filing reportedly asks for records that could identify people who were members of, or communicating through, servers tied to the leaked GTA VI material.
Discord has said it regularly receives DMCA-related subpoenas and reviews and complies with valid ones as a matter of course. Like Microsoft, Discord has until September 4 to hand over what it has, and what happens next depends entirely on whether either company's records are actually enough to connect the dots.
Microsoft Confirms It's Cooperating
Microsoft has spoken publicly about its role here too. Scott Van Vliet, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft's Xbox division, said the company is working closely with Take-Two and Rockstar to help protect their creative work and intellectual property.
That statement doesn't say whether Microsoft has already traced anyone connected to CyberLeek. It does confirm the company is actively cooperating as Take-Two tries to track down the source of the leak.
Rockstar Still Hasn't Confirmed Any of the Footage
Despite everything happening on the legal side, Rockstar itself hasn't publicly authenticated any of the leaked clips. Its response so far has mostly played out through copyright takedowns rather than any kind of statement.
Take-Two's court filings give a clear picture of how seriously the company is treating this, but that's still not the same as Rockstar confirming every clip going around is real. The footage looks genuine and gaming outlets have picked it apart extensively, but until Rockstar says otherwise, it stays in reported-leak territory rather than confirmed fact.
Why This Legal Escalation Actually Matters
Earlier in the week, this was mostly a game of whack-a-mole, trying to keep footage that can be reposted in seconds off the internet. That fight never really ends on its own.
Now Take-Two is aiming at something different: figuring out who's behind it. The court-approved subpoenas give the company a legal path to potentially tie usernames and platform accounts to actual people, though that's far from guaranteed. Microsoft and Discord might not even have records detailed enough to make that connection.
Still, it's a clear jump from just filing takedown requests. For Take-Two and Rockstar, the goal now looks less about stopping the spread of one leak and more about making an example out of whoever caused it.
Rockstar's Official Reveal Is Just Days Away
All of this is unfolding right before Rockstar's next big GTA VI showcase. The studio has already announced Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look for August 27, which should give players a far clearer picture of where the game actually stands than any leaked clip can.
That timing matters, since the leaked footage could be from an older build and plenty of what's shown in it may not survive to launch. Grand Theft Auto VI is currently set to release on November 19, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the August 27 presentation will be the first real chance to see what Rockstar is actually ready to show off, rather than piecing things together from footage that was never meant to leave a dev build.
What This Leak Wave Actually Tells Us
On their own, most of these details are small. A different way to jack a car. A stamina bar that drains after a taser hit. A guard falling back instead of pushing forward. A hat picked up off the pavement. A fuel gauge. Slow-motion takedowns. Reflections bouncing off a car window at night.
Put together, though, they point toward Rockstar continuing to build GTA VI as a more reactive, simulation-driven world, one where the player, the NPCs, the vehicles and the environment all respond to each other in more ways than previous games attempted. None of it is locked in, and Rockstar can and will change things before release.
What's changed is the scale of the response. Take-Two isn't just trying to make the videos vanish anymore. It's using the courts to go after the people it believes are responsible, and the answer to whether that works starts landing on September 4.
Grand Theft Auto VI launches November 19, 2026, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
