Goat Simulator 3 developer Coffee Stain North has ended up nether the thumb of Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two aft posting an advertisement for its open-world havoc simulator that utilized footage from this year’s Grand Theft Auto VI leak.

The video has since been removed from video platforms aft a copyright claim, but those who managed to spot the video earlier it was taken down (thanks, Eurogamer) accidental the advertisement featured a quality named Shaun, who was being interviewed astir moving connected Goat Simulator 3 and bragging astir his skills successful animating ragdoll physics.

However, the video took a crook erstwhile Shaun spoke of enactment he’d done extracurricular Goat Simulator 3, to which helium said, “I’ve different worldly successful the pipeline, other, large crippled worlds. You tin really spot maine successful immoderate footage that was leaked a mates months ago.” This was followed by an edited clip of the Grand Theft Auto VI leak. Take-Two intelligibly did not similar this, and has since purged the offending video from the internet.

This was ever the earthy decision of things, and present the advertisement isn’t adjacent viewable anyplace Coffee Stain North posted. That being said, it wouldn’t beryllium astonishing if the workplace already foresaw this happening and was looking for a mode to get Goat Simulator 3 a small spot of vacation buzz. I mean, we’re penning astir it present due to the fact that it’s abruptly go newsworthy, right? The crippled is conscionable implicit a period aged now, having launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S successful November, but extracurricular of the sickest of goat sickos, it hasn’t had a ton of sound astir it. In the past, the bid has referenced different games successful its ads, specified arsenic Goat Simulator 3’s archetypal announcement trailer that parodied the Dead Island 2 announcement trailer backmost successful June.

We’ve reached retired to some Coffee Stain North and Take-Two for remark connected the situation.

The Grand Theft Auto VI leak happened backmost successful September, and was an unprecedented aboriginal look astatine 1 of the medium’s astir anticipated games. Take-Two wasn’t thrilled, however, and was adamant astir pulling arsenic overmuch of it from the net arsenic possible, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic to lock societal media responses truthful radical couldn’t stock oregon sermon the leak connected its societal channels. We combed done each the leaked footage and compiled immoderate of the juicy bits, which you tin work right here.