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What is the craziest video game leak of all time?
- Thread starter jukeboxhero2396
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The Mario X Rabbids leak.
Everyone (including me) thought it was fake, then when it got announced everyone thought it would be bad.
Needless to say it was a pleasant surprise when the game came out.
Everyone (including me) thought it was fake, then when it got announced everyone thought it would be bad.
Needless to say it was a pleasant surprise when the game came out.
I think the Half Life 2 source code leak prior to release is -THE- answer to this thread, it's staggering to imagine something on that scale happening today.
My personal choice is the Project Beast (Bloodborne) leak because of both the Lovecraftian visuals and also how good it looked overall.
My personal choice is the Project Beast (Bloodborne) leak because of both the Lovecraftian visuals and also how good it looked overall.
The halo barn one is the most absolutely absurd, by far. The esrb leak was the most fun drawn out one though with so much depth.
Don't see how it can be anything but this. The game was STOLEN prior to release and leaked online.
Half-Life 2 leak - Combine OverWiki, the original Half-Life wiki and Portal wiki
He never actually went to the US. The FBI told their plans to the German police, and they acted on their own, so they arrested him before he could get on the plane.
Half Life 2 Source Code leak by a country mile
Also, God of War 2018 Concept Art leak showcasing bearded ax-wielding Kratos was pretty big for me well.
Also, God of War 2018 Concept Art leak showcasing bearded ax-wielding Kratos was pretty big for me well.
That reminds me of the Shadow of the Tomb Raider train leak
Name Of Next Tomb Raider Leaks Because Guy Had It Open On Subway
Some advice for professional game developers and marketers: Don’t open up confidential information in public. Especially don’t do it a on a crowded subway.
kotaku.com
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Project Beast gets my vote. From the initial images to getting actual footage later on. The threads on gaf were insane.
FWIW, CBOAT wasn't a single person. It was a shared account the moderators would post under to relay information given to them anonymously by multiple sources.
I didn't know about that one, but just found this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw...upposedly_leaked_image_of_pokémon_for_switch/
Pretty funny in hindsight.
And for people who have never seen it? What is it?The most important was the HL2 code leak, but the funniest was this one:
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I remember, shit was unbelievable, and the fallout when it was announced a PS4 exclusive was legendary.
Sonic adventure (Saturn) was leaked in a french video game paper (Joypad) because Sega made a mistake on a CD with screenshots for other games that they used to send them as a press/preview kit..
Totally out of nowhere and waaaaay ahead of schedule, sega was mad and never ever send them anything after that, while the whole world (and us sites) scanned those screenshots and published them on the internet.
Totally out of nowhere and waaaaay ahead of schedule, sega was mad and never ever send them anything after that, while the whole world (and us sites) scanned those screenshots and published them on the internet.
God of War concept art leaked too, I remember people making fun of Kratos and his tiny axe and everybody was trying to say that it was probably a place holder to use on those enviroments but it turned out to be all true lol.
CBOAT was the name of an account on NeoGAF that would post all sorts of insider info, using obfuscated spelling and language to hide the sources (i.e. purposefully misspelling things and using weird grammar). It was played off like it was a single individual, but it was actually a dummy account the mods at NeoGAF used to relay information that would be passed to them in private through PMs, emails, etc.
They leaked a LOT of stuff about Microsoft in years past, to the point where Microsoft began purposefully seeding misinformation to certain employees to see what would "leak" out to try and figure out CBOAT's identity. but, since it wasn't an actual, single individual, the leaks never stopped, even when they figured out who one of the leakers was by giving him incorrect info.
Eventually they retired the account because people thought CBOAT was a magnet for drama.
It was uploaded online too. You could play bits and pieces of it.
Yup, I remember it being attainable on IRC and being very curious how it'd run on my 9700 Pro.
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leaked a lot of Xbox One Info (esp always online DRM stuff) before launch. Was a crazy time and the posts were written all weird to obfuscate source.
Dreamcast, not saturn. I remember when those screenshots first leaked online, it was the speed highway screenshots. People thought they were fake at the time.
That said, a few Sega Saturn Sonic Adventure screenshots DID leak out in 2016. True leak, too, since it was at Summer of Sonic and cameras were not supposed to be permitted. The person who got those screenshots out is a hero. Those are the ONLY screenshots we have of the saturn version of Sonic Adventure. They all appear to be CGI, though, although they prominently feature the Sonic model from Sky Chase Zone (which is known to be the original Saturn model).
Yeah, Project Beast was crazy.
The doubt. The salt. People were like "if this is fake it's probably the greatest fake ever". Then people on GAF digging up old posts from DemonNite hinting at the game way in advance of that leak. What a time.
Might not be technically a leak in the sense we know it today, but I remember being on an internet message bulletin board on Sierra Online's The ImagiNation Network around Jan 1996 when someone claiming to have sources close to Squaresoft in Japan posted about "Final Fantasy VII going exclusively to the Sony PlayStation. There are three main characters: one with spiky blonde hair and a sword almost as big as his body named Claude, a black guy with a mini-gun for an arm named Bullet, and a girl in pink and red with a staff named Eraith. The characters are polygonal like Tekken characters."
So many people (myself included at the wonderful age of 16) laughed the guy off the boards and screamed BULLSHIT from the mountain tops. He'd later return with a website address where he put a couple location screenshots (one, I'd be able to identify much later, specifically being a bar in Junon, another being the streets of Midgar during the bombing mission; neither screen had any characters/NPCs, just the pre-rendered assets). Still didn't convince any of us. There was no way Squaresoft would do that/Nintendo is home to the previous 6 FFs/yadda~yadda~yadda.
I think about two months later I got the newest issue of GameFan that 'revealed' FFVII for the Sony PlayStation. I ate crow... and committed myself to buying a Sony PlayStation. :D
The doubt. The salt. People were like "if this is fake it's probably the greatest fake ever". Then people on GAF digging up old posts from DemonNite hinting at the game way in advance of that leak. What a time.
Might not be technically a leak in the sense we know it today, but I remember being on an internet message bulletin board on Sierra Online's The ImagiNation Network around Jan 1996 when someone claiming to have sources close to Squaresoft in Japan posted about "Final Fantasy VII going exclusively to the Sony PlayStation. There are three main characters: one with spiky blonde hair and a sword almost as big as his body named Claude, a black guy with a mini-gun for an arm named Bullet, and a girl in pink and red with a staff named Eraith. The characters are polygonal like Tekken characters."
So many people (myself included at the wonderful age of 16) laughed the guy off the boards and screamed BULLSHIT from the mountain tops. He'd later return with a website address where he put a couple location screenshots (one, I'd be able to identify much later, specifically being a bar in Junon, another being the streets of Midgar during the bombing mission; neither screen had any characters/NPCs, just the pre-rendered assets). Still didn't convince any of us. There was no way Squaresoft would do that/Nintendo is home to the previous 6 FFs/yadda~yadda~yadda.
I think about two months later I got the newest issue of GameFan that 'revealed' FFVII for the Sony PlayStation. I ate crow... and committed myself to buying a Sony PlayStation. :D
I thought the actual thread title was "First Half Life, 3 screenshots". I remember being incredibly impressed that it while it was a funny gag, it technically was true.
Yeah, Except the language was different. It sounded believeable compared to other annual VIIR "leaks"
"Siliconera has learned that FFVIIRemake will be revealed Tonight"
I remember in 2014 though a chinese website listed the words Kings Glaive and CGI movie and I remember making a few threads about it and no one believed it. And then in 2016 in March before uncovered the words appeared again but this time were believed :D
Maybe not the craziest chain of events itself, but I'll say the George R.R. Martin actually working with From Software turning out to be true was pretty intense. It's so far out there that when the rumours first popped up on my radar my first thought was "lol fake".
This.
Here's a good article about the whole saga for anyone interested:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article