GTA 6 has, and continues to be, affected by leaked footage from the game finding its way out into the world without Rockstar’s say-so. It’s been happening since 2022, when leaked footage from the game damn near broke the internet on an otherwise quiet Sunday morning. For the first time, Rockstar developers working on GTA 6 have gone into detail about how that affected them and the game’s progress.
Aaron Garbut, one of three heads of development at Rockstar working on GTA 6, opened up about the 2022 leak during an interview with Bloomberg. “It feels like somebody’s wading through your dirty washing,” Garbut said. “It’s like they’re inside your head.”
“You see your early work out there. Nobody’s ever supposed to see that. It’s really weirdly invasive. And so it’s quite hard to deal with on an emotional level,” he continued. Rockstar did eventually officially address the leak, just to confirm it was real, but this is the first time anyone from the studio has gone into detail about the effect it had on those working on the game.
The videos that leaked that day confirmed all sorts of early details about GTA 6. It showed a male...
