The entire source code of Grand Theft Auto V has leaked to the internet, and it includes crumbs of canceled games and other secrets.
Remember that big Rockstar hack last year? The stuff that made headlines at the time was predictably the material related to GTA VI. Rockstar’s next entry in its giga-hit franchise hadn’t even been officially confirmed at that time, so the hype was unreal. Well, the hackers got a whole lot more than just GTA VI in that hack, it turns out. Yesterday, on Christmas Day, leakers released a 4GB package that included the entire source code for GTA V among other Rockstar internal materials.
The 4GB package doesn’t include any assets, like models, textures, animations, audio files, or anything like that. It simply includes the game’s source code, but that’s most exciting part because reverse-engineering a compiled executable back into its original source code form is a ludicrously-difficult task, and while heroic efforts have yielded fruit in the case of some older games (notably Super Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Jak & Daxter, and Perfect Dark), doing the same for a modern PC game would be a nightmarish task.
Besides the game source itself, the package also apparently included piles of pieces hinting at canceled plans for both additional games as well as add-on packages for GTA V that never materialized.
