GTA VIRumors
Cyberleek threatens to leak a full GTA VI build if its crypto coin hits $30 million
The leaker behind this week's GTA VI gameplay dump says a full story build goes out at a $30 million market cap unless Take-Two ships physical disks and apologizes. It smells like a crypto pump.
Here we go again. Cyberleek, the leaker behind this week's GTA VI gameplay dump, now says it will release a playable build "from beginning to end" if its own crypto coin hits a $30 million market cap. Full story mode, "played to the end", end credits included. That's the claim, posted on the leaker's own website.
Insider Gaming didn't link that site because it could carry malware. Take the hint and stay off it.
The terms? Take-Two gets "one way out": release the game on physical disks and make a public apology. No deadline was attached at the time of writing. Doubters are told to ask for whatever they want to see as proof of the story mode, and the post ends with a shrug: Take-Two can take the deal or "gamble that CL is bluffing."
Now the math. When IGN published, the coin sat at $3.8 million, after spiking to $5.7 million earlier that day. IGN calls $30 million unlikely. I'd go further: this reads like a pump with a GTA VI sticker slapped on it. It isn't even clear what "the build goes out" means. IGN says it could be the actual game online or just a full playthrough on video.
And it gets grubbier. Cyberleek tied Lucia's clothing in future leaked gameplay to market cap goals: a bikini at $2 million, "fully naked" at $4 million. A paid poll on further leaks is reportedly running on the site too, paid in, you guessed it, the leaker's coin. Damn.
Is any of it real? The earlier footage, probably. This week's roughly 24-25 minute video showed cutscenes, story beats, a first-person camera, plus nude scenes of Jason (full-frontal) and Lucia (topless). Eurogamer has seen it and says it looks legit, with CyberLeek's emblem stamped over the footage. Cyberleek has put out over an hour of footage in total. Plenty of people online think it comes from an old build, which makes a finished, roll-the-credits build a lot harder to swallow.
Take-Two isn't sitting still. After the August leaks it opened an investigation and sent subpoenas to companies including Discord. Crypto analysis in late August suggested the leaker had cashed out around $270,000. Rockstar called those leaks "heartbreaking" for its team and "unfortunate" for fans, and stuck with the November 19 launch.
I think it's a bluff. Don't buy the coin, don't click the links, and see the credits roll on your own TV.
