The source code for GTA 5 went public this past Christmas Eve, over a year after it was originally obtained by hackers. Modders have already gotten their own custom GTA 5 builds up and running based on that leaked code, and now the whole community is reckoning with what this means for the future of the open-world game.
Pretty much all the information on this leak comes from community discussion on social media, a lot of which is - no surprise - quite contradictory. The one thing that seems certain is that the GTA 5 source code leaked in September 2022 alongside all that footage of GTA 6. The GTA 5 source code was privately traded among cheat makers and other hackers since then, and only now has been made available through a series of public downloads that began on December 24 - which, of course, publisher Take-Two is issuing takedowns against.
