The main thing for the weekend (September 17-18)

Gameplay videos and part of the GTA VI code surfaced online, the US authorities allocated almost $ 700,000 to research methods of recruiting terrorists and extremists in online games, – we tell you what happened in the gaming industry this weekend.

Rockstar Games may have faced one of the biggest leaks in the history of the gaming industry. GTA Forums published 90 gameplay clips from the early GTA VI build and fragments of the game code. The studio did not comment on what happened, but the authenticity of the leak was confirmed by the sources of journalist Jason Schreier. Later, the hacker said that he would like to “negotiate” with the developers — he also owns the GTA VI test build and GTA V sources.

The US Department of Homeland Security has allocated $699,763 to researchers to study how terrorists and extremists recruit people in online games. Part of the money will go, among other things, to the creation of seminars on the detection and prevention of such situations for developers and other gaming specialists.

The Nikkei publication reported that Japanese residents began to actively sell game consoles abroad, mainly to China. According to eBay estimates, in the second quarter of 2022, the number of PS5S sold from Japan increased 10.7 times compared to last year.

In August, Twitch users watched streams for 1.9 billion hours, according to a recent report by StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg . The most popular game of the month was League of Legends again. Streams on Facebook Gaming* have collected 399 million hours of views, and on YouTube Gaming — 305 million hours of views.

*Belongs to the Meta company banned in the Russian Federation.