Cyberleek, the anonymous someone who's been sharing clips apparently taken from a Grand Theft Auto 6 development build, has returned after a hiatus with a new, 25-minute-long video that's circulating in places like the r/GamingLeaksAndRumours subreddit and social media.
The most notable thing about the clip—or most noticeable, at least—is that protagonist Jason spends much of it naked. His genitals are fully modelled, physics and all, which isn't too surprising given we previously saw fully nude NPCs in another of Cyberleek's GTA 6 clips.
It remains unknown whether players will be able to walk around in the buff in the retail game, as Cyberleek presumably has access to developer tools. A floating tank seen partway through the clip makes it apparent that at least some console command shenanigans are at play. It's also notable that NPCs do not react to Jason's nakedness, and that the video shows first-person driving, a feature GTA 6 was previously reported not to include.
IGN did see a naked Jason during a cutscene in an official preview of GTA 6, but "thanks to some carefully positioned camera angles, his modesty remained entirely intact." So we just don't know, although it wouldn't be the first time a GTA game included full frontal male nudity of a prominent character, which occurred in GTA 4's The Lost and Damned DLC.
GTA 6 co-protagonist Lucia also appears topless in the Cyberleek clip, facing away from the camera and wearing a thong. Whether the underwear was the leaker's choice, or if GTA 6 unevenly enforces modesty, is also unknown.
A new era of videogame dong?
Whatever level of nudity GTA 6 ultimately does or doesn't allow—and once it's on PC, you can be sure that modders will make sure nothing is disallowed—it's a bit surreal to see how not-a-big-deal it all is after once experiencing Fox News hosts being scandalized by alien boobies in Mass Effect.
I want to say that things sure have changed since GTA's infamous Hot Coffee 'sex minigame' incident, but have they? We're certainly far from a golden age of people being chill about things; you can't throw a stone on the internet without hitting some new sect shouting about its brand of traditional values (and the dietary supplements that complement it).
And yet it didn't seem like an especially big deal to conservative critics when Baldur's Gate 3 casually gave its characters detailed nude bodies and underwear lore. If it was, I didn't see it—perhaps it's just harder to stand out in today's noise bath of discourse.
Probably more relevant is that games just got more mainstream and have an older audience on average, and so they now have an easier time getting away with all the things Hollywood does.
As Andy observed recently after reaching out to infamous GTA critic Jack Thompson: "...Grand Theft Auto won. Netflix airs its special, the NBA wears its uniform, Walmart sells it, middle-aged cops and politicos buy it, and the state of Florida wraps itself in it."
Oh, and about Cyberleek: They're back to claiming they've got a "project" underway that you should help fund. I don't recommend that. Take-Two and Rockstar continue to look for the culprit, but we haven't heard any new developments on that recently.
