Rockstar and Espresso Stain buttin’ heads

Espresso Stain Video games has been compelled to tug a brand new advert for its upcoming sequel Goat Simulator 3 after Rockstar Video games took umbrage to its use of the leaked Grand Theft Auto (GTA) VI improvement footage.

The business noticed the supposed four-legged hero of the physics-sim sequel, Shaun, discussing the preparation it takes to essentially ship the products because the premier star of the Goat Simulator sequence. As we see Shaun training his very most interesting ragdoll efforts, he tells us that he has been retaining busy between video games — reducing to a montage of Shaun in motion, which features a clip of the controversial GTA VI dev footage, leaked earlier this 12 months.

Whereas this isn’t the primary time the Goat Simulator crew has referenced one other developer for satirical enjoyable, Rockstar Video games — as billion-dollar corporations are wont to do — clearly didn’t see the humorous facet. The advert in query has since been pulled from all official retailers, with even reuploads posted to Twitter and different social media websites by members of the general public being shut down as rapidly as they seem.

Rockstar Video games remains to be shining from the theft and broadcast of the (clearly very, very early) improvement footage. The movies have been allegedly stolen in September immediately from the corporate’s personal Slack channels by a 17-year-old hacker, who, is it additionally claimed, had deliberate to extort the writer, however as an alternative discovered himself within the dangerous books and black vans of the feds. The suspect is predicted to look in a excessive court docket at a later date.

Goat Simulator 3, which does not function any GTA VI supply code , (that we all know of) is accessible now on PS5, PC, and Xbox Collection X.