Editorial policy
How we verify GTA 6 leaks and rumours
This is the rulebook. It applies to every article, hub and update published on GTA 6 Daily, including the ones that turn out to be wrong.
The three badges
- Confirmed
Sourced directly from Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive.
- Leak
There is a verifiable artefact behind this, but no official confirmation.
- Speculation
Our reasoning on top of known facts. Not reporting.
Every article carries exactly one badge. The badge describes the strongest evidence behind the central claim, not the tone of the writing. A confident article about a thin rumour still gets a Speculation badge.
What counts as a source
- Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive posts, press releases and earnings documents.
- Official platform store pages, with a timestamp of when we saw them.
- Trailers and screenshots, referenced frame by frame where it matters.
- Court filings and regulatory documents.
- Named reporters with a public track record on this game.
What does not count: anonymous "my uncle works at Rockstar" posts, AI-generated screenshots, recycled images with the watermark cropped out, or a summary of a summary.
How a leak becomes a story
- We capture the artefact: screenshot, archive link, file hash, timestamp.
- We check whether the artefact is consistent with known official material.
- We ask what else would have to be true for the claim to hold.
- We publish with a Leak badge, showing the artefact and stating what it does not prove.
- When Rockstar confirms or contradicts it, the article is updated and the badge changes.
If a claim cannot survive being clicked through to its source, it does not go on the front page.
Speculation is labelled as speculation
Analysis and reasoning are welcome, but they never borrow the language of reporting. If we are connecting dots, the article says so in the standfirst, not in a footnote.
Dates
The publish date never changes. The updated date moves every time we change a fact, add a source or correct an error. Both dates appear on the page and in the page's structured data.
Corrections
Mistakes are corrected in public. See the corrections policy for the exact process.
Questions
+How does GTA 6 Daily verify a GTA 6 leak?
We require a verifiable artefact: a file, a build, a court filing, a retailer listing with a timestamp, or a named reporter with a track record on this game. If we cannot point at the artefact, the claim does not get a Leak badge.
+What does Confirmed by Rockstar mean?
The claim comes from Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive directly: an official post, press release, trailer, store listing or earnings document, and we link that primary source in the article.
+Do you publish rumours you cannot verify?
Yes, but only with a Leak or Speculation badge, with the evidence shown and the gaps stated plainly. We never present an unverified claim in the same voice as confirmed information.