Overview
- An Edinburgh buyer found an Xbox 360 developer kit for £5 over the weekend and shared a roughly 118–120GB November 2007 Grand Theft Auto IV build online, including on the Internet Archive.
- By Tuesday, fans had the pre-release build running on Xbox 360 hardware and restored a cut Liberty City ferry system using assets from the dump.
- Former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij said ferries were cut late due to collision problems and AI struggles with people and cars standing on a moving vehicle.
- The files show unused weapons, early character models, different radio tracks, and assets hinting at a zombies experiment that a former developer described as an idea that did not get far.
- The owner tried to sell the marked Rockstar North console on eBay with listings removed, and private offers followed as questions over rights and custody hang over the active community analysis.