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Barely a week after Sony's Insomniac Games was hacked and Ubisoft almost got breached, new reports are coming in saying GTA 5's source code is now widely available. It also seems that other game infrastructure codes have also been leaked from Grand Theft Auto VI. That's not all, though. Files from the canceled Bully 2 game are out in the wild as well, reportedly.
Last week, just a few days before Christmas, Sony's Insomniac Games got hacked, and all sorts of leaks were posted on the Internet. The hacker asked for a $2 million equivalent amount in Bitcoin, but supposedly, the terms of the ransomware were not accepted by Sony, so the people behind the attack posted very sensitive information from various types of file formats.
Employee data was stolen, along with other types of information regarding direct or indirect collaborators of Insomniac Games. The leaks didn't stop there, because the hackers also released data about future games, together with working builds of their upcoming Wolverine game. You might have already seen footage on various media platforms.
Some people have already figured out how to play parts of the game on Xbox consoles, which is shocking, given that Wolverine will be a PlayStation exclusive. Well, at least for a couple of years until it eventually comes to PC, like other major Sony 1st party titles.
A few days after that attack, it was reported that Ubisoft was also the subject of a hack, but thankfully, the whole thing was avoided in time. Now, more than a year after the Rockstar Games hack of September 2022, things are getting worse for the famous video game publishing company.
The reports say the GTA 5 code was being passed around between "aficionados," and now it seems to have been plastered all over the Internet. Not only that, but something called GTA 6 "Python code" (I'm not in the least that technical) has made the rounds.
The buck doesn't stop there, unfortunately. It was revealed that Grand Theft Auto V had some DLC planned that never managed to escape development purgatory and were canceled or put on ice: "SP Assassination Pack," "SP Manhunt Pack," "SP Norman Pack," "Agent Trevor," "Relationship Pack," "Enterprise Pack," "Prologue DLC," and "LibertyV DLC."
As to why they were never released in this shape, it's not that complicated. Given the meteoric and constant success of GTA Online, it makes more business sense to shift the studio's attention to where the money comes from. Set phasers to cash!
Bully 2 leaks are next on the list. Bully was, and still is another Rockstar darling, and it looks like it was in development for a while until it got scrapped. Odds are we're never getting a Bully sequel, given GTA Online's success, but maybe things at the heart of Rockstar aren't just money-grubbing related.
It could be that the developers yearn to make something single-player that's not GTA for the sake of creating something truly unique. And in today's social media landscape, a game like Bully would undoubtedly attract a lot of heat, for better or worse.
Now, given that these attacks and leaks seem to just keep coming, it raises the question, who's next? Hopefully, the gaming industry will learn from this series of unfortunate events and will start seriously upgrading their cybersecurity to prevent future digital breaches from happening.
Employee data was stolen, along with other types of information regarding direct or indirect collaborators of Insomniac Games. The leaks didn't stop there, because the hackers also released data about future games, together with working builds of their upcoming Wolverine game. You might have already seen footage on various media platforms.
Some people have already figured out how to play parts of the game on Xbox consoles, which is shocking, given that Wolverine will be a PlayStation exclusive. Well, at least for a couple of years until it eventually comes to PC, like other major Sony 1st party titles.
A few days after that attack, it was reported that Ubisoft was also the subject of a hack, but thankfully, the whole thing was avoided in time. Now, more than a year after the Rockstar Games hack of September 2022, things are getting worse for the famous video game publishing company.
The reports say the GTA 5 code was being passed around between "aficionados," and now it seems to have been plastered all over the Internet. Not only that, but something called GTA 6 "Python code" (I'm not in the least that technical) has made the rounds.
The buck doesn't stop there, unfortunately. It was revealed that Grand Theft Auto V had some DLC planned that never managed to escape development purgatory and were canceled or put on ice: "SP Assassination Pack," "SP Manhunt Pack," "SP Norman Pack," "Agent Trevor," "Relationship Pack," "Enterprise Pack," "Prologue DLC," and "LibertyV DLC."
As to why they were never released in this shape, it's not that complicated. Given the meteoric and constant success of GTA Online, it makes more business sense to shift the studio's attention to where the money comes from. Set phasers to cash!
Bully 2 leaks are next on the list. Bully was, and still is another Rockstar darling, and it looks like it was in development for a while until it got scrapped. Odds are we're never getting a Bully sequel, given GTA Online's success, but maybe things at the heart of Rockstar aren't just money-grubbing related.
It could be that the developers yearn to make something single-player that's not GTA for the sake of creating something truly unique. And in today's social media landscape, a game like Bully would undoubtedly attract a lot of heat, for better or worse.
Now, given that these attacks and leaks seem to just keep coming, it raises the question, who's next? Hopefully, the gaming industry will learn from this series of unfortunate events and will start seriously upgrading their cybersecurity to prevent future digital breaches from happening.
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