Jason strolls past the queue outside Nine1Nine Nightclub, ducks in, weaves past the bar and makes for the dance floor. The room is jammed. Most of the crowd has barely any clothing on.
That’s about 20 seconds of Grand Theft Auto 6 that was never meant for public eyes, and it surfaced this morning.
Two new clips, two new corners of Vice City
Early today, the leaker group CyberLeek dropped two fresh files onto its Telegram page, labelled “GTA 6: NINE1NINE” and “GTA 6: BEACH.” Each one holds brand-new gameplay footage. Each has been reposted on X more times than anybody is bothering to tally.
Everyone is quoting the nightclub clip. It’s the beach clip that actually matters.
There, Jason cycles along a Vice City beach and does nothing much at all. He simply observes. Tourists and day-trippers go about their business in dynamic groups. Beach chairs, umbrellas, cabanas and lounge chairs run out in row after row until they stop registering as separate objects.
What the water and the sand are pulling off isn’t the sort of thing games at this scale normally bother attempting. Jason eventually dismounts, sets off on foot, runs into a handful of random NPCs with unique dialogue, and then the clip more or less just stops.
Somebody has more where that came from
The pace at which CyberLeek has been releasing never-before-seen in-game footage lately suggests one of two scenarios. Either the group can get into a playable build, or it’s holding a stockpile of clips and releasing them at will.
Nobody could call the timing subtle. Rockstar’s Netflix gameplay event lands Thursday, August 27.
The part where the motives get complicated
Accountability for Rockstar is how CyberLeek presents the whole exercise. Critics aren’t convinced.
The case against the group holds that the leaks are the engine of a pump-and-dump scheme, engineered to drive eyeballs and value toward an associated memecoin before those responsible cash out. “We’re moving a token” reads far worse in a press release than altruism does.
Both ideas can sit in your head together. The footage is genuine, and the motive behind its existence probably isn’t a noble one.
What the dump actually tells you
Line these two clips up alongside everything else CyberLeek has put out and the scale of this open world starts to come into focus. Not big the way marketing means it. Big in the sense that one beach can swallow a full minute of footage without repeating itself.
November is when players finally get hold of it. Until then, count on more of these appearing, since whoever is sitting on the clips has every financial incentive to leave the tap running.
None of this will hurt the launch. Too many people seeing Vice City isn’t Rockstar’s problem. The problem is the people who have already made up their minds that they want to live there.