Take-Two Interactive is reportedly removing online videos and posts featuring alleged Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto VI development material. The reported takedowns cover cut GTA V dialogue, an alleged abandoned Liberty City expansion and an extremely early GTA VI map linked by reports to the 2022 Rockstar hack.

The development emerged in reports published on September 21 and 22, 2026, after the material began surfacing publicly around a week earlier. Take-Two Interactive is the parent company of Rockstar Games.

What material is being removed?

The reported GTA V material includes cut dialogue and possible alternate story outcomes, including a darker ending involving Franklin. It also includes information about an alleged abandoned Liberty City expansion that was never released as part of the game.

The GTA VI material centers on an extremely early map. Other alleged gameplay clips and development files have circulated separately, but the material identified in the takedown reports is the early map and related leaked visuals or audio.

What Take-Two’s takedowns cover

The reported action targets online videos and posts that contain visuals or audio from the alleged material. YouTube videos are among the affected posts, and creators who repost the files may face copyright strikes.

That makes the campaign a copyright-enforcement effort aimed at public uploads and posts. The reports describe the removal of online content, not the deletion of every underlying copy from personal devices, servers or other locations.

The reported link to Rockstar’s 2022 hack

Reports link the newly surfaced files to the 2022 hack of Rockstar Games, the incident previously associated with the exposure of early Grand Theft Auto VI footage. The alleged GTA V material and the early GTA VI map are being discussed as part of that broader connection.

The timing is notable: the files began appearing publicly around a week before the September 21–22 takedown reports, bringing older development material back into circulation alongside new GTA VI leak claims.

What this says about GTA VI

The GTA VI asset at the center of the reported removals is described as an extremely early development map. It is therefore a snapshot of an earlier stage of production, while the reported copyright action concerns the circulation of posts and videos containing the alleged material.

The reported removals do not amount to a complete inventory of the files involved. Creators who repost the material may face copyright strikes.