The Latest GTA 6 Leak May Be From 2025, Not 2023, and That Raises the Stakes
The reassuring line about the GTA 6 leak was that it was all old 2023 footage. A newer clip just undercut that: a Tate McRae song released in January 2025 is playing on the radio, which would make this build far closer to the finished game. Here is the evidence and why it matters.
The GTA 6 leak just took a more serious turn. When the footage first surfaced, the reassuring takeaway was that it was all old 2023 material, a harmless snapshot that told you little about the game shipping in November. A newer clip has now blown a hole in that. The evidence points to this footage being from 2025 or later, which would make it far closer to the finished game. Here is the clue that changes the timeline, and why it matters.
The new footage
CYBERLEEK's dump has kept growing past the first couple of clips. The latest addition shows Jason driving a beat-up car at night, tasing NPCs, hijacking a truck under fire, and pulling off slow-motion finisher executions, plus a roughly 15-second cutscene of Jason sharing a beer with someone out on a boat. Viewers also spotted vehicle-theft options, a greyed-out "Clone Key" alongside "Smash Window," and a HUD with a health bar, vehicle damage and fuel indicators, and directional targeting cues around the edges of the screen.
As always, treat the specific mechanics as things the footage appears to show, not confirmed final features. But the age of the footage is where this gets interesting.
The clue that changes the timeline: a Tate McRae song
The key detail is the radio. The clip features "Sports Car" by Tate McRae, a single that released on January 24, 2025. The logic is simple and hard to argue with: a song cannot appear in a game build that was created before the song existed. So if "Sports Car" is playing in this footage, the build has to date from after January 2025.
That would make this clip no more than around 20 months old, and potentially much newer than that. It is a very different picture from the earlier basketball clip, whose metadata pointed to a 2023 encode.
Why this undercuts the "it's all old" narrative
Here is the shift. The original reassurance was that the whole leak was ancient, so it did not really spoil anything about the modern game. This new clip suggests the CYBERLEEK dump actually spans multiple build ages, and at least some of it is recent.
That matters a lot. Footage from 2025 is close to the version of GTA 6 launching this November, which means it reveals far more about how the game actually plays now, from the driving feel to the combat and the UI. It also makes the leak a bigger headache for Rockstar than a batch of years-old test clips would be.
The caveat that has to come with it
Keep the framing honest. The "2025 or later" date is fan inference from a song, not a confirmed timestamp. The reasoning is strong, but Rockstar has not authenticated anything, the exact build date is still unknown, and Rockstar has stayed completely silent on the leak. Treat "2025 or later" as the leading theory rather than an established fact, and remember that anything shown in a pre-release build can still change before launch.
The takedowns continue, and so do the scams
Take-Two is still hitting the clips with DMCA strikes, which remains the strongest indirect sign the footage is real. One important warning attached to this drop: the leaker has been promoting cryptocurrency alongside the footage. Do not engage with any crypto or "early access" offers tied to this leak. There is no legitimate early access to GTA 6, and those links exist to take your money or compromise your device.
The bottom line
If the 2025 dating holds up, this stops being a harmless old leak and becomes a genuine look at near-final GTA 6, which raises the stakes for fans and Rockstar alike. But it is still unofficial, still unconfirmed, and still swimming in fakes and scams. For the clean, current, no-guesswork version, the official Extended Look arrives August 27. For the full picture of what is real, old, and fake across this whole wave, see our complete breakdown.
