What a shock: A Goat Simulator 3 advert with leaked GTA 6 footage has been taken down

A Goat Simulator 3 advert has been issued with a takedown discover by Rockstar Video games’ father or mother firm Take Two Interactive, after it was revealed that the advert featured footage from the large GTA 6 leak that occurred earlier this 12 months.

Which, y’know, was at all times going to occur.

The trailer, framed as an interview with an NPC referred to as Shaun discussing his work on Goat Simulator 3, featured a phase by which Shaun referenced different video games he’d been in, at which level the trailer reduce to a shot of Shaun in an edited clip from the leak.

It is a very Goat Simulator 3 factor to do, which is to say, attention-seeking and never as humorous as developer Espresso Stain North seems to suppose it’s. In any case, it inevitably caught the ire of Take Two’s authorized division, which has been laying the smackdown on just about anybody who shares footage of the leak.

Arguably the largest leak of its type, the GTA 6 leak occurred again in September, and was allegedly performed by a 17-year-old from Oxfordshire, believed to be related to the hacking group Lapsus$. Stated 17-year-old appeared in courtroom later that month, charged with two counts of laptop fraud and two counts of breaching bail circumstances.

PC Gamer had an in-depth dialogue concerning the GTA 6 leak shortly after it occurred, and in addition picked over what the leaked footage advised us about GTA 6 (and in addition what it did not). Rockstar issued an announcement expressing the studio’s disappointment concerning the leak, however said that it would not have a “long-term impact” on the game’s progress.