Editorial Policy

Most of what is written about Grand Theft Auto VI online is invented. Vehicle top speeds for cars nobody has driven, PC system requirements for a PC version that has not been announced, map dimensions measured off a trailer frame and quoted to two decimal places. It performs well in search and it is worthless.

Leonida Files publishes the opposite: a smaller set of claims, each one traceable, each one labelled with how much weight it can hold. When the honest answer is that nobody knows, the page says nobody knows.

Sources are ranked, and we say which rank a claim came from:

Every article carries its sources at the foot of the page, with links that go to the original rather than to somebody quoting the original. If we cannot find a source we are willing to put our name next to, the claim does not appear.

These four labels appear throughout the site. They are the reason it exists, so they are used strictly.

A label can move. When Rockstar confirms something we had as Likely, the label changes and the page is dated. Labels only ever move on evidence.

In September 2022 a large volume of in-development Grand Theft Auto VI material was stolen and published. Much of the "information" circulating today still derives from it.

We do not use it. Not the video, not the source code, not the feature lists reconstructed from either. Two reasons: it is stolen property, and it depicts a build from years before release that tells you almost nothing accurate about the finished game. Where a widely repeated "fact" traces back to that leak, we say so and mark it as unreliable rather than pretending it does not exist.

• Invented statistics - performance figures, map areas, file sizes or system requirements that nobody has measured.
• Release dates or platform announcements attributed to unnamed "insiders" with nothing behind them.
• Content from the 2022 leak, or from any future breach, as described above.
• Links to pirated copies, cracks, key generators, cheat software, or anything sold on the back of them.
• Personal information about Rockstar employees, or about anyone involved in the leak.
• Pages written purely to rank, with no claim in them that a reader could not get from the official site in less time.

Articles run under the Leonida Files byline rather than individual names. That byline means the publication as a whole takes responsibility for every claim on the page, and it is the address corrections go to. Every article shows the date it was first published and, when it has been revised, the date of the latest revision and what changed.

Nobody working on this site has access to Rockstar Games, and nobody claims to: no inside sources, no review copies, no embargoed briefings. Where we are reporting somebody else's scoop, we say whose it is and link to it.

Nobody on this site has a financial interest in Take-Two Interactive or in any company covered here. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on the affected pages.

Before a page goes up:

1. Every factual claim is traced back to a source in tier 1, 2 or 3 above, and that source is linked in the article.
2. Every number is checked against the original rather than against another article repeating it.
3. Every claim gets a confidence label, and anything that cannot be labelled is cut.
4. Quotations are checked word for word against the original publication.

We will get things wrong. The policy is about what happens next.

Corrections

A factual error is fixed as soon as it is confirmed, and a note is added to the page saying what was wrong and when it was changed. We do not silently edit a claim out of existence and pretend it was never published.

Updates

When new official information changes the state of a topic - a label moving from Likely to Confirmed, a date shifting - the page is updated and its date changes. Substantial rewrites are noted at the top of the article.

Removals

Pages are removed only when they are wrong beyond repair or when a rights holder asks, as set out on the Copyright page. A removed page returns a 404 rather than being quietly redirected somewhere convenient.

AI tools are part of how this site is produced. They help with research, first drafts, summaries, copy-editing and checking that links still resolve. They are never treated as a source: a fact that only an AI tool asserted does not appear here.

No page is published or updated without a human editor checking every factual claim in it against the source cited at the foot of the page. That editor is accountable for what goes live. We do not use AI to invent details about a game nobody has played - which is, more or less, the entire problem this site was built to answer.

This site is being prepared to run advertising through Google AdSense. That funding buys hosting and research time. It does not buy coverage.

• Advertisers have no advance sight of articles and no influence over what is written, when it is published, or what label a claim gets.
• Ads are clearly distinguishable from editorial content. Nothing paid for is ever styled to look like reporting.
• Sponsored or affiliate content, if it ever appears, is labelled at the top of the page and excluded from any comparison or recommendation.
• We do not accept payment to remove or soften a correction, or to take a page down.
• Nobody writing here accepts gifts, hardware, paid travel or early access in exchange for coverage.

Questions about this go to support@regulad.com.

If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing a source, write to support@regulad.com with the page URL and, if you have it, the source that shows the correct position. We reply within 5 days and we do not need you to be polite about it.

Corrections raised by readers are treated exactly like ones we find ourselves. See the contact page for the other ways to reach us.