Keith StuartSo before the Netflix extended preview starts, a quick re-cap. GTA 6 is set in the state of Leonida which is Rockstar’s version of Florida. The two playable lead characters are Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos, low ranking operatives for the local smuggler, Brian Heder, but now they’re looking for a way out. Can they escape Vice City or will they be dragged down into the murk by the alligator of petty crime?All of that pales in comparison to the last week’s set of leaks, though, which have shown an awful lot of the finished game. Rockstar called the leak “devastating” in a statement, and has been aggressively pursuing the perpetrators.Earlier this year, another hacker group named ShinyHunters also threatened to release stolen data:Keith StuartGood evening everyone. Welcome to Vice City! As you may have seen, this month has seen a series of GTA 6 leaks distributed across the internet by a hacker (or hacker group) named Cyberleek. Did they spell ‘leek’ like the vegetable on purpose? We may never know.Anyway, the leaks have taken the form of short video clips from the game showing different aspects, and hinting at some of the major new features. We’ll try and avoid spoilers on here, but Polygon has a story on the latest batch.Keza MacDonaldThe first major Grand Theft Auto 6 leak happened back in 2022, when a teenager breached Rockstar’s internal Slack channel and posted around 90 minutes of in-development video footage. The British teenager behind that hack was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in 2023. Here’s a quick primer on what happened then:Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s GTA 6 liveblog! I’m Keza MacDonald, video games editor, and along with our games correspondent Keith Stuart I’ll be taking you through all the context around the upcoming reveal of the biggest game of the decade.In about 15 minutes, Rockstar Games will broadcast the first gameplay footage of Grand Theft Auto 6 via Netflix. This game – more than a decade in the making – is sure to be one of the most successful (and most expensive) games ever made, quite probably the most successful, when it releases on November 18. But there have been some strange circumstances surrounding its slow reveal over the past year or so, not least a number of leaks that mean many gamers will have seen a lot of what’s about to be shown already.