This wasn’t how we were supposed to see GTA 6 for the first time. Under normal circumstances, Rockstar’s games are unveiled with a level of finesse and fanfare that only few studios with similar stature and spending power can deliver. There’s a mysticism about the whole ordeal, where hype meets years of unseen hard work behind the scenes, and then the countdown from reveal to that much-anticipated release date begins. Last weekend, this process was turned on its head as a hacker illegally accessed and published over 90 in-development screenshots and videos from Rockstar’s long-awaited open-world crime simulator – which later prompted the developer to officially acknowledge what the internet has since billed as the GTA 6 mega leak. Â
