Old GTA 6 Leaks From 2025 Are Being Confirmed Accurate After Extended Look Trailer

In the past week, multiple gaming outlets have revisited a batch of GTA 6 leaks that circulated back in January 2026 on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit, and found that a surprising number of them lined up with what Rockstar has since shown officially. The roundup pulled together claims from several different leakers, some dating back to 2023, but the standout source was a Twitter/X user going by GameRoll, who in June 2025 posted details supposedly relayed by “a friend of a Rockstar developer.”

Kotaku noted that GameRoll had shared the last names of protagonists Jason and Lucia before Rockstar made them public, which in hindsight looks like real evidence of an inside source. After the recent Extended Look trailer and a wave of hands-on previews from creators and journalists, outlets including Kotaku and the Russian site ixbt.games say several specific GameRoll claims now check out: the return of a six-star wanted level, story content split into chapters, the ability for players to greet or provoke pedestrians similar to Red Dead Redemption 2, a rectangular GPS map with pink waypoints, Jason having a slow-motion ability, NPCs reacting to visibly armed players, more elaborate gore and dismemberment systems, and a mechanic letting the protagonists gain or lose weight.

Not everything from that January leak roundup held up. Reporting on the story is explicit that other claims from the same batch of rumors, including talk of three large islands or more than a thousand enterable interiors, have not been borne out by what Rockstar has actually revealed. That mixed track record is the real story here: it is less about any single new reveal and more about outlets using Rockstar’s own recent marketing to retroactively sort a year of speculation into what was legitimate insider knowledge versus wishful fan invention.

Coverage of this reassessment has also connected it to earlier reporting that Rockstar fired multiple employees over GTA 6-related leaks, which is part of why sites are now treating the GameRoll material as having come from someone genuinely close to development rather than a lucky guesser. With GTA 6 still tracking toward its November 19, 2026 release, this kind of after-the-fact leak verification is likely to keep surfacing as more of the game’s marketing rolls out.