The Biggest Video Game Leaks Ever (Deep Dive)
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Today on Game History Secrets, Liam gives us a deep dive into the biggest video game leaks ever, such as the infamous Nintendo gigaleak. From professional hacking to absolute neglegence, this video covers some of the industry's biggest franchises and how their content leaked, including Super Smash Bros., Mario + Rabbids, Half-Life 2, The Last of Us Part II, Sonic The Hedgehog 4, Halo 4, and more!
Liam Robertson is a video game researcher and archiver. In his spare time, Liam creates videos and articles for various outlets, and will also be contributing to the Did You Know Gaming channel.
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Thank you for checking out my documentary video on video game leaks! This took months to put together so please consider spreading the word if you liked it. Maybe one day I will do a volume 2 if people like this one enough. For now though, enjoy!
It's not often I find motivation to watch a 2 hour video. Well done.
Bro keeps bringing the bangers 💯
@@SullySadface Thank you for making an exception for this!
A volume 2 would certainly be exciting to see, given how many games from later generations got leaked online as well. There are so many cases of Switch games getting leaked for instance you could easily fill out a few hours on that alone.
Great job with the documentary!
Excellent work, Liam.
Breaking in to Microsoft, stealing 3 dev units and then accepting a job application is pretty damn brazen.
I need those balls.
The kid had guts but man I was bashing my head in at the mere stupidity of him accepting the job at MS. Obviously hindsight is 20/20 but he opened himself up to getting caught exponentially because of that employment. The first thing the company would investigate in a robbery would be the employees but even then they would first focus on recent hires.
Maybe Microsoft could have identified him off the security footage even had he not taken the job since he lived so close and his mom's boyfriend's cloned credentials could've been linked back to him since it was used in the break in.
I will say one thing. An 18 year old breaking into one of the most valuable companies in the world and stealing not one, not two but three dev kits of their biggest product launch at the time is legendary.
Maybe that alone was worth the 1 year suspended sentence.
21:40 Hold up, so you're saying that the ESRB leak was the real life version of "my friend's dad works at Nintendo"? That is actually insane lmao
Now it’s “my dad used to work at Nintendo til I carelessly got him fired”! (Not really funny though)
So the ESRB leak should more accurately be called the "My Dad/Mom works at Nintendo" leak.
Aaaaaand then the Insomniac leak happened a few days later. It's arguably the biggest leak of all time. 10 year plan, playable build, sale figures, budgets, and hell, even employee infos.
Very good video, didnt even realize it was a 2 hour video until half way through lol
Man, it really sucks that a kid got their parent fired. Feel bad for the kid for how that conversation at home would've gone, but also pretty bad for the parent, given how shit job searching is.
I understand the severity of the leak but firing the parent for their kid’s action is too harsh
@@gleam6370I think unfortunately with how extremely secretive the ESRB must be, the Nintendo side of that exchange is also expected to be extremely secretive, so he wasn’t proper fulfilling his job
It's pretty fucked to fire the guy cause of their shit for brains kid.
I feel even worse for the mom who went to prison helping her hacker child flee the country, while they did no time at all.
That’s the type of thing that could theoretically get you blacklisted (untrustworthy), and job loss is often a trigger for divorce. So doing something “goofy” (to the kid) like posting some unreleased content could cause a major shift in the family. I hope it was nothing that serious.
oh my god, that xbox underground story was wild from start to finish. so many twists and turns it might as well be an amusement park ride. well done, brilliant work getting the full story on all this
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it.
Vince Vintage had a great video on the topic I recommend too!
The discovery of developer forums, developer admin accounts at major companies, unfinished games, source codes, hardware builds, military training simulations, a break in at Microsoft headquarters, and the arrest of several people all stemmed from one guy learning the login information of some users on the official Epic Games website. That is one hell of an escalation.
Yup, that's why cybersecurity is so damn important. Multi factor authentication is irritating as a user, but invaluable from a security standpoint, unfortunately. Same principle as airport security, it sucks balls but every incident that that security prevents makes the inconvenience worth it.
Don't reuse passwords, kids
That whole thing about Halo 4 is very funny to me.
I was in high school and working at GameStop around the time Halo 2 was going to release. We had received in some of the steel book cases for the game to show them off to push preorders.
One of my classmates was a) very into Halo and b) extremely annoying about it. He would inject himself into people's conversations bragging about how good he was at Halo etc. No one cared but he would persist.
So I decided I was going to prank him. I borrowed one of those Halo 2 steel book cases and told a few friends about my plan. I was "secretively" showing off the case for the "GameStop employee preview of Halo 2" to my friends at the lunch table where this guy frequently interrupted conversations.
He heard, saw the case, and started losing his mind. Everyone knew I worked at GameStop so this was just as plausible as anything else.
My manager and coworkers were kinda in on the joke too cause they knew "Halo kid" as well.
This guy begged for months every day to see the game, come to my house and play it, etc. I told him I was under a confidentiality agreement and asked him not to out me to Microsoft about telling people about it 🤣.
The fact we now have the story behind the ESRB leak is crazy
Having the story behind every single of these leaks is crazy 🤯. For me the ESRB leak was a mindblowing thing to happen. My 13 year old mind could not handle the excitement.
Sad to hear about the person whose kid leaked the Smash footage; that was some super hype info at the time, but it sucks knowing that they were so swiftly punished for it.
Kind of makes all those "My Dad/Uncle Works at Nintendo Jokes" a bit sad
As someone who doesn't really pay attention to video game leaks, it's insane to me just how deep some of these rabbit holes go. You could make a whole freaking film out of some of these stories.
This video is wild to me, specifically because I knew Gabe in highschool (we weren't really friends. But was one of my friends friends at the time) and I specifically remember being shown the leak video before it was posted. And then what felt like awhile later our mutual friend running over to me while in school and just screaming "THEY GOT HIM, THEY GOT HIM!" all because Gabe's xbox accounts were all banned and they had found out where he was living. My friend and I at the time thought we all were going to get canned for even knowing about it in the first place.
Luckily it turned out quite well for Gabe. I haven't seen him in quite some time but this video gave me a trip to memory lane of the events surrounding that leak.
The half life 2 leak is insane. I can’t believe I never heard of this story before
I used to be big into Xbox 360 soft modding and hacking and literally EVERY GAME would always leak in full like a month minimum before launch. I never knew why, but now I do haha. I also invited all of my friends to play halo reach at my house before launch. I actuality still have halo reach campaign achievements on my profile that are dated before the launch of the game haha
I didn't know that "winning the internet, good sir" and updoots were that powerful a motivator.
this video was actually super enjoyable, it's rare when 2+ hour long vids keep my attention for the entire thing, really good vid, well done!
The craziest leak I can think of that wasn’t covered in this video was one for Smash Ultimate. Something like a month before the final character reveals, someone on 4chan posted (apparently disappointedly) that Ken and Incineroar would be the last characters and Piranha Plant would be the first DLC. Not even one person replied.
Add to that the Craziest Fake leak of all Time the "Grinch leak". Somehow convincing faked marketing material coincidentally aligned with other legit marketing materials to convince 90% of the players that the leak was real.
The shock we felt when Incineroar was announced (deconfirming the leak) shock my brain.
Honestly it's probably a good thing that post didn't get traction, the Piranha Plant reveal wouldn't have been nearly as funny if people saw it coming.
Insomniac would like to have a word.
Another 4chan leak is that a Disney employee who worked in the licensing office mentioned that Nintendo requested kingdom hearts music for a trailer months before sora was revealed
@@Mirage475 True! But I'm pretty sure it wasn't months, more like a few days before the reveal.
this was a hell of a documentary man. wow.
I think we'll need a second part. With all that happened with the Insomniac Games leak
this was an amazing piece of investigative journalism. very dense with information and absolutely captivating from start to finish
Brilliant video Liam. When I can’t sleep at night, I love to come and watch these long-form videos from DYKG. This is one of my favorites
Man seeing Smash 4 leak doubters be wrong was so nice.
While Smash character discussion/speculation can get pretty annoying, due to the amount of character requests from fans, I find kind of amusing when an unexpected character gets leaked, because then many fans begin making theories against their supposed inclusion. I remember when the SNK copyright was added to Smash Ultimate description before Terry's reveal, I remember how many fans, mostly from the U.S., started complaining about the possibility of a SNK character being added to the game, as opposed to a more well known, at least for them, character.
As someone who grew up playing SNK games like The King of Fighters and Metal Slug, I was kind of sad that so many people in the English-speaking fandom weren't very familiar with SNK's games and didn't want any of their characters to take the spot of a "more deserving" choice. But in the end Terry was added to the game and Sakurai's team added a ton of music and referenced to SNK games, and that made me forgot all of the negativity
It's always very cathartic seeing people who are so smug and arrogant get a nice big healthy serving of egg on their face.
How grounded do you think that kid who leaked Smash for the 3DS and got their parent fired was?
he's probably six feet under
The Valve HL2 hacking story never sat right with me. Obviously Gembe was in the wrong, but he's not the one who leaked or stole anything. Newell and Valve's plan to lure him to the US under the false pretense of a job interview, preying on his fear of being conscripted into the army, seems MUCH more wrong to me. I understand Valve's employees were angry, shamed, distracted, and insulted, but that seems like so much of an overreaction, a course driven entirely by emotion and a want for vengeance or justice, the need to punish someone, ANYONE, even if that person wasn't the one entirely responsible. The German judge's belief that Gembe would have received far harsher sentencing if he HAD gone to the US, is somewhat disturbing, especially as a lifelong US citizen myself.
Hacking Valve and then trying to get a job is insane
crazy for this video to drop then two big leaks happen immediately afterwards
As I say in the video, more are inevitable. Which two are you referring to? I know there's the Insomniac one.
@@LiamRproductions the Insomniac and the rocksteady leaks
@@Sondi Oh right of course. I haven't looked into the Rocksteady leaks too much. Thanks for the clarification.
There needs to be a movie of the Epic Games/Durango stuff, cuz that’s just some crazy hacker business right there 😂
27:41 At the time of the AC Odyssey leak, I worked at a gaming merch company and we were all shitting ourselves that our product leaked the game. It was a very unnerving time but thankfully it wasn't our studio.
I think Odyssey was after a few years break, but the idea that a leak for a yearly entry could “ruin” anything is funny to me. Yearly releases mean you (the developer) already treat them as disposable because you expect customers to buy them so frequently and move on quickly for the new game. Like “oh no they spoiled our game”, well who cares? You got another one right around the corner you expect people to get excited about, lol.
Absolutely incredible documentary! I recall some of these events over the years, but never really followed them in real-time to know exactly at what extent they got to. Being able to interview some of those involved and hear from them directly was great. The Xbox Underground series of events was particularly fascinating and made my jaw drop at the audacity of it all.
Thanks so much for the kind feedback. Much appreciated.
All of these leaks were insane but none as insane as the Xbox Underground story…holy cow that was bonkers!
Holy cow, you weren't kidding!
Not only did they sniff out Microsoft's compromised network but also have the cajones to break in to a building and steal a prototype Xbox! 😂😂😂 I can't even ...
This would make one helluva bad ass true crime documentary!
Looks like David Pokora got a job as a security engineer ... after serving some time in prison. Good for him. ❤❤
I still remember the Smash 3DS leaked gameplay footage, I couldn't believe there were so many people saying it was fake despite ACTUAL gameplay footage that looked very legit.
Wow what an epic DYKG video! This was awesome to watch ESPECIALLY the last segment. I hope this video gets shared widely
Very quickly and easily my favorite Game History video. Concise yet descriptive on an otherwise muddy and easily misunderstood subject matter. Thanks for the hard work!
The ending and the video as a whole was absolutely wilddddd. It was super informative and I loved every second of it.
this was one of the coolest video game videos i've ever seen. would love to get a part 2
Definitely my favorite video of yours. It was a real treat to watch while working on my own 2-hour video. Thank you for the great work!
Ironically, during the making of this film Rockstar suffered a major hack and reached it's ending when the hacker was arrested recently. At the same time, Insomniac Games was hacked shortly after this video was uploaded. Would like to see coverage on that and the infamous 2011 PS3 hack. Surprised that wasn't mentioned, but that's been highly documented for years on several channels outside this one.
I can't believe they considered the horrible name New Nintendo GameCube, and then actually used it for the 3DS.
The Digital Extremes story is pretty creepy.
Mfer playing Among Us IRL years before it released
I had a good laugh with the name "osama bin leaker".😂😂
Through out this whole video, I'll be going "I remember that leak."
This was a blast. Took me a couple days and a restart to get thru the full 2 hours but such an enjoyable ride
It’s pretty funny that a guy just waltzed into the Warframe office, and got an unofficial tour, lol.
interesting to hear that the origin of the Nintendo gigaleak. the most i had heard was somebody hacked in to a distribution branch of the iQue stuff and there was just a trail that led to the particular data we ended up seeing.
but knowing the real deal now, im REALLY surprised what they did manage to get and leak was almost nothing about the N64
stuff other than the iQue console itself and then a bunch of data from the consoles before and after the N64.
i recall being hyped for leaked OoT stuff and all we really got of major substance of previously unseen content was an unfinished version of the early Hyrule Castle Town from the outside, which DID give us some perspective of some old images.
but then that half rom dump happened and that felt like it was destined to happen after the severe lack of anything
from the gigaleak.
You did a phenomenal job at putting together this huge documentary and deep dive at the most wildest leaks I have ever heard. It blows my mind there are people out there doing this sort of thing. And like you said, it is for the thrill but it is baffling to me that it went for so long without consequences until they got arrested. I am legitimately shocked at how deep the rabbit hole was. It almost feels like an iceberg LOL.
Anyway, keep up the good work Liam! you did THAT. I'll wait patiently for the next one!
Thank you!
Wild that it's been two days since this was uploaded and then arguably the biggest gaming leak of all time happens (Insomniac).
Insomniac was huge, but of all time?
The gigaleak might be bigger, i feel.
First half: Here's some historic leaks that occurred in the past 20 years.
Second half: Full documentary on the xbox underground.
Excellent, fascinating video! Thank you for putting it together. It's really interesting getting some insight into how these sorts of things happen, and it is also super chilling to see the extent to which companies will lie to try and ruin the lives of people who they perceive as having wronged them. The story of Valve's leak and the hacker trying to make things right is chilling.
Every bit of information in this video was interesting and things I had no idea about, made it all feel like 6 hours instead of 2
Hopefully that's a good thing!
There needs to be a movie or something about Xbox underground. That had so many twists and turns I couldn't expect.
This is by far my favorite video y'all have done yet, such a wild ride.
Thank you.
@@LiamRproductionsyou did not make this video
@@yucelonmaz2 How so?
@@yucelonmaz2I did, actually. My name is literally in the video.
@@luischavesdevHe’s talking nonsense. I did make it.
this coming out the same time of the insomniac leak is sus
Amazing doccumentary!!! It has been so interesting knwing how all those historical leaks had came from. As a person who has also felt that rush from knowing or owning something the world has no knowledge from ( as a journalist and preservationist myself) I can very much identify myself with the Xbox leaker gang. The story on how that guy entered microsoft and stole several durango units... that should be made into a movie. Loved the video, great job Liam.
This is so cool to hear about. Thank you for making this!
great documentary! and surprisingly easy watch considering the length haha, great work
Insomniac joins the battle!
the halo 4 barn leak was legendary lmao
Great video. I loved it turning into the giant exposé at the end.
This is my favorite thing you guys have ever done
I’m glad you liked it.
Imagine getting fired from your job because your kid leaks some images and a video online.
I'd just disown the kid at that point, lmao.
Here for this
Same honestly
If I had done that to my own parents I'd have gotten the belt beating of my life.
It blows my mind how clever these people are that managed to pull some of this stuff off, when listening to how they did it, it sounds like straight out of a movie.
This is genuinely one of the better videos on this entire platform, a really fantastic journalistic style, great work
Thanks so much.
Probably my favorite video on this channel so far. Also I really enjoyed the narrator in this video
Thank you so much! Check out Game History Secrets for more of my videos.
I remember going to a local Melee tournament a week or so before Ultimate came out, and there was an Ultimate setup in the corner of the room. As in, someone had Ultimate on their switch with a completed save file (all characters unlocked) and people were playing friendlies on it.
I was so confused. Like bro, the game's not even out yet. How tf do you already have it on your Switch?
There is a simple explanation for that. The full game was uploaded to the internet a short while before launch by someone who got their hands on a copy early. Quite a lot of people pirated it and played it on modded Switches before it came out.
Amazing work, as usual! DYKG = the best gaming channel!
Bravo, amazing video!! That last section was insane, and all of it having an FBI informant?!
Thank you for the kind feedback.
This is so fascinating. Very well done.
The virgin Nintendo Wii vs the chad *Nintendo Lethal Weapon*
MTW: "Honestly, 343 isn't that clever."
343 Studios: 1:37:15
Haha! Good point.
Really enjoyed this one especially the Xbox Underground part. Arman seems like an interesting guy.
that was amazing! great work, I wonder how it would have turned out if the guy that stole the dev kits never accepted the job offer.
Why is the timestamps comment gone?
What a fantastic documentary! I remember most of these as they happened, and it's very interesting to see how this kind of stuff is pulled off. This is why I follow this channel, because I absolutely love the history and behind the scenes of games (especially Namco's history). I can understand why these folk did what they did. If I had the ability to see unused/scrapped content, I'd probably go nuts, too. Obviously, I wouldn't go the lengths these folks did (mostly because I can't code for squat), but there seems to be the passion and fondness for being able to see and interact with the unavailable that I understand.
Solid video. Loved every bit of it.
What a sad story, that Axel Gembe, Half Life 2 one. He really thought he was offered a job at a place he'd be amazed to work at, potentially on a series he loved too.. only to be tricked with a fake interview.. Hope he's doing better now!
Great video! You can tell the time and care that went into this vid. Not just the same stories you see recycled again and again on TH-cam. You should be very proud of this one.
This was some fascinating stuff, thank you
That was such an awesome dive through this world I didn’t knew. So many interesting and unexpectedly dark stories, thank you so much for the documentary, this was a great watch !
What a fantastic video, sheesh! Thank you for taking the time to make it!
Thank you for watching it.
Can you timestamp the different topics?
Respectfully, the documentary is designed to be watched in a linear order. The topics and information are intertwined. Characters, subjects, topics are introduced in one section that recur in others.
@@zigguratjones6458So he can’t make a suggestion? He didn’t complain or insult anyone at any point. Grow up.
@@LiamRproductions David Lynch moment
@@LiamRproductionsi understand but some games i just can't care about and I feel asleep
@@Jigsaw765 If you skip through it, you will never in a trillion years experience the documentary. You'll think you have experienced it, but you'll be cheated. It's such a sadness, that you think you've seen the documentary using fucking timestamps.
dude, this was genuinely entertaining i hope there’s more to come because now im on board
the craziest thing about the mario and rabbids leaks is that nintendo was still willing to work with ubisoft in full confidence after all of that. i mean i guess for that game alone there'd already been so much work poured into it, so scrapping it would've been more work than it was worth, but then they went back for a sequel too? and then star fox in starlink, that was ubisoft too. nintendo is probably the single most secretive company in this industry, and it kind of seems like they didn't bat an eye in this case? it just doesn't make sense, how did they let ubisoft get off scot free??
I guess since it's still profitable so they work it out by agreeing on better security measures, etc. Like, imagine Nintendo blacklisting every partner that has suffered a security breach, it's just impossible, not even themselves can claim to be clean.
Very well made video. Fun and informative
Wish I'd held on to a product survey Electronic Arts had me do once. It wasn't through any typical gaming service, it was through a paid survey program I did that usually sent me surveys about, like, grocery buying habits. But this one involved Electronic Arts, and it revealed a dozen or so screenshots of Dead Space over a year before the game was announced. Early necromorphs looked a lot less human and a lot more goopy. Since it was a paid program, I wanted to keep getting paid, so I saved nothing and told nobody like a good little boy. I think part of the problem was at the time neither "EA" or the name "Dead Space" were referenced in the survey, it was just for "a horror game." It wasn't until I saw Isaac in the Dead Space reveal trailer a year later that I put two and two together. To date, what I saw has never been shown publicly, I think.
I've been nibbling on this video a little bit at a time over the last couple days and having just finished it, wow. The back half of this is so wild. Great, great job.
@@BlazeHedgehog Thank you! Glad that you liked it.
Correct me if this has already been implemented, but the graphical transition to the title seq has been improved!
Wow! You are the first person to point this out. Good attention to detail.
The tomb rider and the DE story are crazy that later dude is a complete sam fisher
alternative title: Don't Trust Justin May
Great dive
This seems like a perfect video to show in an IT Security class
Great documentary. As for the closing note, I have heard the term "Social Engineering" used for that aspect. Which makes sense when you realize everything we do for and or to be part of a group, as shown by their interactions.
1:09:48 As someone with Asperger Syndrome, knowing that someone with autism orchestrated the gigaleak makes me proud.
Someone with autism orchestrated this video! (me)
Imagine getting your parent fired for leaking video game footage
Long video I didn’t expect this
Watching this after what seems like what could be the biggest leak of this nature possibly ever, the Insomniac leak. Over 1tb of data including a playable build of wolverine! Unfortunately they also released employee personal information so that sucks
I would say it's a big leak but it's not as big as the Xbox Underground leaks or the Nintendo Gigaleak which both involved extracting massive amounts of actual source code and stealing unreleased game consoles.
And okay
Single best youtube documentary ive ever seen.
Wow really? Thank you so much!
And at the end the lesson is crime doesn't pay, but if you do it well enough it can land you a paying job
It's like they say: keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.
Here after the Insomniac leak just happened
honestly they shouldve focused the video on JUST the justin may stuff and up the editing. that story is insane.
Whew, after the Insomniac leak that just came out I think this video might already be out-dated.
This video is a self-contained story. This isn’t a run down of every leak. Part of the thesis of the documentary is that more leaks will inevitably happen so in fact it has only been proven correct.
@@LiamRproductions Nah I wasn't critiquing the video in any way, mate. More just making a comment on how crazy things get. I apologize for my comment reading that way.
@@Capnbritish No problem at all. I am just clarifying that I wanted this to be its own story. I'm sure more leaks will continue to happen and then maybe one day we will cover them in the far off future.
Wow, amazing stuff!