Alleged GTA 6 Gameplay Leak Shows Plane Footage, Radio Menu and Signs of Build Access

The GTA 6 leaks still aren’t stopping. A fifth GTA 6 gameplay leak landed overnight into August 20, again from CyberLeek, and it’s a very different clip from the previous ones — Jason spends most of it flying a plane over Vice City, then caps it with a message that appears to show the leaker playing the game in real time.

Update, November 5, 2026: Rockstar acknowledged in a statement on X on August 26 that GTA VI gameplay videos had leaked, but it has not commented on this clip. On October 8, Rockstar named six of the game’s radio stations and confirmed on-demand podcasts. V-Rock and eMotion 98.3 were not among the six, so the leaked station list, the “On Demand” option and the plane flight remain unconfirmed.

The two-and-a-half-minute video gives the best aerial look yet at what appears to be the map, shows what looks like a new radio menu, and ends with Jason shooting the word “LEEK” into a wall. Rockstar still hasn’t said a thing, and Take-Two keeps pulling the footage down almost as fast as it spreads.

Vice City skyline at sunset with a helicopter in Grand Theft Auto VI
An official Grand Theft Auto VI screenshot, not taken from the leaked footage. Image: Rockstar Games

A biplane flight over Vice City

Most of the clip is Jason flying a blue-and-yellow biplane — some are calling it a Crop Duster — over Vice City in broad daylight. It appears to be the clearest, widest look at the world yet, with dense skyscrapers, highways, bridges, waterways and marinas all laid out below, and a cinematic camera pulling back for some genuinely nice shots of Leonida.

RockstarIntel reckoned the draw distance and lighting look closer to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 than GTA 5, though there’s still some vehicle pop-in on the roads. Worth keeping in mind the footage is reportedly about a year old, so the finished game could look different again. All of our GTA 6 coverage is collected in one place.

A proper look at GTA 6’s radio menu

While flying, the player scrolls through the game’s radio menu, and that’s where the other big detail sits. It appears to be a redesigned station list, and The Game Post noted it confirms a couple of returns fans wanted — V-Rock and eMotion 98.3, both tied to the old Vice City — alongside several new stations.

The menu also appears to include an “On Demand” option. Nobody’s sure exactly what it does, but it hints you might be able to pull up specific tracks outside the usual radio rotation, which would be a real shift from how GTA radio has always worked. Rockstar hasn’t announced the lineup, so treat the full list as unconfirmed.

The “LEEK” message, and what it actually means

The ending is the real story. Jason lands, pulls out a rifle and fires into a wall until the bullet holes spell “LEEK” — and the gunfire even pings the police. It’s a deliberate signature, and Insider Gaming framed it as strong evidence CyberLeek isn’t just sitting on a folder of pre-recorded clips. Whoever captured this appears to have direct, real-time control of a playable GTA 6 build.

That’s the part Rockstar won’t like. It doesn’t prove the leaker has the full game or the current launch build — the footage still looks around a year old — but lining up a custom shot like that points to real hands-on access, not a one-off video dump. It also explains why this GTA 6 gameplay leak probably won’t be the last.

Rockstar still hasn’t confirmed the GTA 6 gameplay leak

Like everything in this run, none of it is official, and it appears to come from an older development build, so anything here could change before release. The only public response so far is the same as always — Take-Two keeps filing copyright claims to scrub it off the web while Rockstar stays silent. Plenty of people are also side-eyeing CyberLeek’s motives, since the group has tied the leaks to an anti-digital-release protest while pushing its own crypto coin.

Either way, the official version is nearly here. We have since reported that GTA 6 will let Jason and Lucia listen to radio and podcasts on foot. GTA 6: An Extended Look airs August 27 on Netflix, ahead of the November 19 launch on PS5, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.

Featured image: Official Grand Theft Auto VI artwork. Image: Rockstar Games

Advertisement

Written by

Editor-in-Chief226 articles

Rahis Saifi is the Editor-in-Chief of Game Empress, where he has edited coverage since 2021. He oversees gaming news and the U.S. desk, which reports on gambling-related crime, court cases and regulation from court records, police releases and state filings. He has worked in digital news for a decade and has been a contributing author at The Huffington Post, Tech.Co, Business Zone and Social Nomics since 2016. He also runs Grand Theft Gamer on YouTube, playing games such as GTA Online, Resident Evil, WWE 2026 and Hogwarts Legacy.

Share this story