The idiosyncratic who claims to beryllium down Sunday’s GTA 6 leak has claimed they’re looking to “negotiate a deal,” with Rockstar, pursuing the incident.

In an update to their archetypal station connected the GTA Forums, idiosyncratic Teapotuberhacker wrote the pursuing connection arsenic an edit to their archetypal post.

“Ok, truthful this has gone unexpectedly viral, woke up to 3000 Telegram DM’s. If you are an worker of Rockstar oregon Take 2 and you’re trying to interaction me, nonstop maine a connection containing 22559219889638875756 connected Telegram oregon you tin email maine astatine teapotuberhacker@protonmail.com ** from your firm email code ** I volition effort to work each these replies soon – I americium looking to negociate a deal.”

It’s unclear what precisely the leaker successful question would want, oregon what they judge they person successful presumption of immoderate leverage implicit Rockstar’s genitor institution Take-Two, which has spent astir of the time battling the leak by issuing takedown notices to YouTube. 

It’s imaginable that the idiosyncratic has much confidential accusation connected GTA 6 beyond what was posted contiguous arsenic snippets from what is claimed to beryllium the game’s root codification person besides made their mode online, albeit successful an incomplete form.

This could suggest that the idiosyncratic intends to clasp Rockstar to ransom implicit the remaining material.

First posted to the GTA Forums, the leaked footage includes open-world gameplay which is alleged to beryllium from GTA 6, and they look to beryllium legitimate. It’s claimed by the leaker that the videos were downloaded from a Slack channel.

If legitimate, the leaked physique confirms the erstwhile reporting that the crippled would instrumentality spot successful Vice City.  Bloomberg reported earlier this twelvemonth that the game, which it claims began improvement sometime successful 2014, is “at slightest 2 years away”.