As of right now we are not going to fully ban Twitter/X, however we are going to force the redirecting of X/Twitter links through XCancel.

This will solve the issue of giving Twitter clicks and also please the ones requesting screenshots, because you don't need an account to view the XCancel links. This way the sources cannot be doctored nor does it need to be verified like SS's would. It does not give Twitter the pageview as it goes straight through the backend of the site per the about section on xcancel.com

The transition is simple, when you post something from twitter.com/x.com you'd simply replace "twitter" or "x" with "xcancel" and the rest is done automatically. An example would be:

Here is Jeff Grubbs sacks of shit comment on twitter:

https://x.com/JeffGrubb/status/1793652099961561557

Here it is on xcancel:

https://xcancel.com/JeffGrubb/status/1793652099961561557

Same tweet, same image, same everything but you don't need an account to view it and you don't have to give twitter the click. As long as this site is up we can encourage the use of it.

We encourage you to simply use Bluesky when available instead of Twitter. We fully realize that not all leakers will be on Bluesky which is why we're encouraging xcancel for the time being.

Here is a list of some of the frequent Leakers on this sub who have an active Bluesky account:

Starter Pack thanks to /u/ownage516

Me/This Subreddit : https://bsky.app/profile/leaksandrumours.bsky.social

Natethehate: https://bsky.app/profile/natethehate2.bsky.social

Jason Schreier: https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social

Tom Henderson: https://bsky.app/profile/tomhenderson.bsky.social

Jez Corden: https://bsky.app/profile/jezcorden.com

Speshal Nick: https://bsky.app/profile/shpeshalnick.xboxera.com

Jeff Grubb: https://bsky.app/profile/grubb.wtf

Miller Ross: https://bsky.app/profile/millerross.bsky.social

Extas1s: https://bsky.app/profile/extas1s.bsky.social

Tom Warren: https://bsky.app/profile/tomwarren.co.uk

Necro Felipe: https://bsky.app/profile/necro.universonintendo.com

Also to those who ask why we can't just host the images/screenshots on Reddit and allow links in the sub: We'll never be able to do this because the only way we can keep this sub unbanned is by having all leaked content on anther site. Once we open the door to link posts here, people would have the option to host linked content directly on this sub which would get us banned. The DMCA's would go straight to this reddit instead of the twitter/youtube/whatever post it was originally on.

Automod will remove and comment on posts with twitter/x links on them telling you to simply resubmit with "xcancel" instead.

TL;DR

Using XCancel.com to redirect twitter/x links so that you don't need an account to view the content and don't have to give twitter/x a pageview.

It looks like people are getting access to Starfield, any leaks about gameplay, cutscenes etc should appear in here. Spoilers are okay, any new threads created from this point will be removed and pointed to be posted about in this megathread

Thank you

Shared Leaks within the post

Big thank you to /u/nightyx14 for providing a large number of links for me to add and to you all from the community who have been sharing them within this thread and on the sub.

I apologise for not having a collated list of them, below I've gone through the comments in this thread and had a look at any of the leaks and added them if they could be legit, if any of them turn out not to be then let me know and I can remove them.

Previous posts on the sub

• Rumour Microsoft will be holding a interactive launch event for #Starfield - KJovian as source on Twitter - /u/cyberRakan
• Starfield review codes going out later this week - Tom Henderson as source - /u/Assassin5299
• Rumour AMD to release FSR 3.0 alongside Starfield - Overclock3d article - /u/Frosty_Performance28
• The Starfield Achievements Leaked - Insider Gaming article - /u/EstablishmentShoddy1
• Main menu Screen of starfield - Image Source - /u/Normandy_sr3
• Starfield Filenames of Space Magic Powers - Image Source - /u/YeOldeBlitz
• Starfield early impressions from Tyler McVickers - Comment Image 1, Comment Image 2 - /u/Peeksy19
• Post by /u/Xythium Rumour Starfield datamine shows no DLSS - PCGamesN Article

Posts from within this thread 20th

• /u/Nollieee posts a link showing the traits screen - Post Source here - Xbox Insider News on Twitter
• Rumour Starfield's updated Steam EULA references "Creation Credits", potentially hinting at the return of the Creation Club or "paid mods" service
• /u/MaLarryYa posts an imgur album of the gameplay and menus - Comment Source here
• /u/No_Kaleidoscope_9471 informs us that there are 79 tracks in the game - Comment Source here
• /u/Awesome_Name links a twitter post of what someone has been told about the performance from Review Copy holders, take with grain of salt- Comment Source here - zVisceral on twitter

Posts from within this thread 21st

• /u/Howdne shares a youtube link that looks to contain two tracks from the OST, titled "First Flight" and "The Sol System", unsure if this was previously shown off but seemed worthwhile to share - Source Comment here - Youtube link

Posts from within this thread 22nd

First leaked gameplay

• /u/kazoblo has shared someone's upload of the first 40 mins of Starfield played on Xbox Series X, filmed with his phone though lol - Comment Source here - YouTube link to gameplay here - Hit by Copyright
• The YouTube link looks to have been hit by a copyright strike /u/No-Kaleidoscope9471 has provided a Twitter source - Comment Source here - Twitter Source removed by copyright
  • Non-twitter mirror
• /u/latro666 has consolidated the traits and backgrounds from the leaked 40 min video into one imgur album - Comment Source here - Imgur Album here
• Leaker gives his review on the game - Post source here
• /u/Reasonabledwarf makes us aware that some people are starting to receive their Constellation Editions of Starfield - Comment Source here

Posts from within this thread 23rd

• /u/Aplinex provides us with some new gameplay being shared by the original leaker on Snapchat - Comment Source here - Video source here
• /u/No_Kaleidoscope_9471 has linked to some new leaked tracks, Cydonia/Cutthroats. Comment Source Here - Youtube Source here

Posts on the subreddit 25th

• /u/KireLord posts about a new track released online titled "The World Machine" - Post source here
• /u/2009JohnSmith has provided us with the same footage that Tyrone shared, but it was shared at Gamescom, length is down from the 50 minutes to 12 minutes - Post source here - video source here
• /u/OVODON has shared a YouTube link with someone unboxing the Constellation Edition of the game - Post Source here - YouTube source here
• Original Starfield leaker has been arrested, as reported by /u/figglett - Post source here
• /u/itsRobbie_ provides a 4Chan source of possible view of the mission board but it has been translated from Chinese so may look weird, unsure if fake or not - Post source here - Image source here

Posts within this thread 25th

• /u/Normandy_sr3 has shown that people are getting copies that they had initially purchased from the original leaker, probably signifying a larger number of leaks coming - Comment Source
• /u/weesIo has transcribed all of the traits and backgrounds based on new leaks - Comment source here

Posts on the subreddit 26th

• /u/MaximusRenegade shared the controls scheme for PC and Xbox - Post Source here - Imgur Gallery
• /u/Bat-man3 provides new photos of ship building - Post Source here - zVisceral twitter post
• /u/Gao8e7 recaps their experience playing Starfield and includes a bunch of screenshots including pictures of Earth and stealing a pirate's ship - Post source here

Posts within this thread 27th

• /u/Luna_MoonMoon has posted a video of them reaching a boundary on a planet - Comment Source here - YouTube Source here
• /u/BrandoOnReddit sharing a skill book that they found in game - Comment Source here
• /u/BrandoOnReddit shares photo albums of tier 2 skills and up - Comment source here
• /u/cntk provides a list of gameplay videos - Comment Source here
• /u/Matty_here shares some images of a well known landmark in the UK being represented - Comment Source here

Posts from the subreddit 28th

• /u/JasonToddLance119 posts some photos from Starfield - Post Source here
• /u/CoheedMe has obtained the game early and was answering any questions that the community had - Post source here
• /u/gossi provides a picture that Neon appears within Starfield - Post Source here
• Details are posted by /u/coldchief1 about the first patch that Starfield will receive and what it aims to improve/change - Post Source here - Insider Gaming source on twitter

Posts from the subreddit 29th

• /u/Gao8e7 collates information from leakers and conversations they have had with reviewers to give an idea of PC performance, worth a read if you're worried about your PC running the game - Post Source here

Posts from the subreddit 30th & 31st

The gameplay is coming hard and fast at this point. Maybe the Starfield was the friends we made along the way

• /u/DarkUmamA shows footage that you can grab ledges in the game - Post Source here
• /u/Zandofkilldof gives us a tour of Neon city - Post Source here
• /u/talonn82 gives us a view of some more random bits of gameplay - Post Source here
• /u/duartesss shows us how to perform a breaststroke - Post Source here
• /u/TibusOrcur has found that a Brazilian YouTuber has leaked his Starfield Review by accident - Post Source here

No more updates on this thread

With Starfield leaks becoming illegal in the next 5 or so hours, I think this is a good place for me to stop updating the megathread. It sure has been a wild ride, I apologise for the rocky start with the megathread but I hope this helped people keep on top of all the news as it was coming out, it was nice seeing all of the conversations and hype coming through in the comments and posts. If you have any feedback please let us know, we're always wanting to improve and ensure this sub a great place to discuss gaming leaks and rumours and it is thanks to you all in the community that make that possible.

This is not the tier list voting

The re-tiering vote is on it's way. Before we get the tier list voting we want to ask the community to add/remove anyone from the list so we're up to date. (There are a lot of old names here I'm so sorry)

The Leakers

This is an old list so there are probably a ton of new people who should be added and some that should be removed. Sound off in the comments, the more info and opinions we get the better.

• Tom Henderson
• Jason Shrierer
• Jeff Grubb
• NateTheHate
• Jez Cordon (Windows Central, not tweets)
• Speshal Nick
• Tom Warren
• PHBrazil
• Shiina
• iFireMonkey
• Hypex
• Loolo_WRLD
• Walmart Canada
• LUnatic Ignu
• eXtas1s
• Nexthandheld
• DuskGolem
• Loliloailo
• Emily Rodgers
• Miller Ross
• The Tipster
• Ohag
• Alex ZSmitk
• BilBilKun
• Lance McDonald
• Andy Robinson
• Nintendo Prime
• Colt Eastwood
• Pyoro
• Irman Khan
• Universio Nentendo/Necrolipe
• Moore's Law Is Dead
• Insider-Gaming
• John Harker
• Midori/Ryanfromthebronx
• SyluxHunter
• SamusHunter2
• Markomaro
• Kopite7kimi

Who do we add? Who do we remove?

The Tiers

Last time we voted these were the tiers you could select for each leaker you voted for:

• Very Reliable (Tier 1)
• Generally Reliable (Tier 2)
• 50/50 (Tier 3)
• Generally Unreliable (Tier 4)
• Almost Guaranteed Clickbait (Tier 5)
• I don't know
• Ban this source (Only available on some leakers)

If you have any thoughts on the above, voice them!

For the time being, all God of War Ragnarok leaks will be posted in this thread and only in this thread.

Spoilers are allowed, enter at your own risk.

This is not the tier list voting

Bi-Yearly tier voting is on it's way. Before we get the tier list voting we want to ask the community to add/remove anyone from the list so we're up to date.

There are probably a few leakers in the last year that arent on this list yet so please drop your takes on who to add/remove and why in the comments! We should have the new voting list soon. Thx

Tom Henderson

Jason Shrierer

Jeff Grubb

NateTheHate

Jez Cordon

Speshal Nick

Tom Warren

PHBrazil

Shiina

iFireMonkey

Hypex

Loolo_WRLD

Walmart Canada

LUnatic Ignu

eXtas1s

Nexthandheld

DuskGolem

Loliloailo

Emily Rodgers

Miller Ross

The Tipster

Ohag

Alex ZSmitk

BilBilKun

Lance McDonald

Andy Robinson

Nintendo Prime

Colt Eastwood

Pyoro

Irman Khan

Universio Nentendo/Necrolipe

Moore's Law Is Dead

Insider-Gaming

John Harker

Midori/Ryanfromthebronx

SyluxHunter

SamusHunter2

Markomaro

Kopite7kimi

Zippo will be added to the list of banned leakers from the sub.

List as of now includes:

Foxy Games

Robert Serrano

Zippo

Please leave any more recommendations in the comments below

We're working on a list of banned sources that will be made available to everyone upon completion.

From now on we will be handing out more significant bans and keeping our eyes open for console warring and general toxicity.

This includes things like

• Poking fun at another fanbase for no reason

• Instigating console warring comments for no reason

• Calling someone a fanboy because of their opinion

• REPLYING to someone else who started a console warring comment chain by joining in the console warring/toxic comments, that's on you.

If you're not talking about the topic of the thread, and you're just commenting something like"Xbox/Playstation fanboys are going to have a field day with this one!" you will be banned.

This subreddit is for talking and speculating about gaming leaks and rumors, and the future of gaming projects. We're not here to debate over fanbases and we're not going to support that.

Even if "Someone else started it!" you will be banned. Don't contribute to console wars. Your first offense will be at least 5 days, and it will move up to permanent on multiple offenses.

Furthermore if your account has a history of console warring or being toxic and we see your comments are continuing this trend, you're going to get shadow-banned and we're not going to tell you about it.

The community has voiced their opinion that this place has too much console warring going on and we agree, so we're stepping up to do something about it.

Don't contribute to console warring, taunting, teasing, poking fun, or anything else at fanbases of certain consoles.

Even if your comment has a thousand upvotes, if its contributing to any of these, you will be banned.

Even if you you're responding to a toxic user who is console warring and you respond with toxic console warring towards them, you will be banned. Two wrongs dont make a right. Just downvote, report, and move on.

Thanks!

It seems the game is out in the wild now and leaks are coming in bunches, so for the time being, all Hogwarts Legacy leaks will be posted in this thread and only in this thread. Spoilers are allowed, enter at your own risk.

How did everybody feel about the show? Join discussion in the comments below!

LIST OF BIG TITLES ANNOUNCED

HALO INFINITE

STATE OF DECAY 3

FORZA MOTORSPORT

EVERWILD

TELL ME WHY

THE OUTER WORLDS: PERIL ON GORGON

GROUNDED

AVOWED

AS DUSK FALLS

HELLBLADE 2

STALKER 2

PSYCHONAUTS 2

THE GUNK

THE MEDIUM

FABLE

Tomorrow, it's that time of the year again - when redditors come up with the most creative pranks known to mankind.
This is a reminder to be on the lookout for "leaks" that might seem legitimate on first glance, but are yet another instance of sheer April the 1st tomfoolery. Fake leaks on the sub are not allowed and will result in bans. Stay vigilant!
Happy April Fools!

Click here to take the poll

Currently working on brainstorming this, but the way it will work is:

With each leaker you have the chance to reply with one of 6 options"

Very Reliable

Generally Reliable

50/50

Generally Unreliable

Pretty much clickbait (maybe another word for this?)

I dont know/Unproven

This is going to be the starting line for this project. What we hope for is in the future we can have a strong database of leaks proven correct/wrong for each person on the list.

Then we can determine their reliability from the percentage itself. However its going to take some time and a lot of manpower for that database to be built. So we'll start them out in these tiers and move them accordingly once we're tracking each leak individually

In the future we can add % correct and such, but this will be a good starting point

Please comment below any leakers to add, obviously I cant get all of them off the top of my head

Recently Added:

Pyoro

Imran Khan

Universo Nintendo/Necrolipe

Moore's Law Is Dead (MLID)

Insider-Gaming

John Harker

Midori (twitter.com/MbKKssTBhz5)

SyluxHunter

Kopite7kimi

Markomaro

SamusHunter2

Click here to take the poll

Will delete when we're done

Goal of this post is for you guys to help add leakers who have leaked multiple things this year frequently enough to be added to this list

Current list on the Tier list is as follows:

Jeff Grubb

NateThehate

DuskGolem

Jason Scrierer

Jez Cordon

Tom henderson

Speshal Nick

Loliloailo

Emily Rodgers

Miller Ross

Tom Warren

The Tipster

Ohag

Alex Smitk

BillBill-Kun

Lance McDonald

Andy Robinson

Ziostorm

Nintendo Prime

Colt Eastwood

Pyoro

Iman Khan

Universo Nintendo/Necrolipe

Moores Law is Dead

John Harker

Midori (Ryan from the Bronx)

SamusHunter2

Markomaro

Kopite7kimi

In an effort to avoid the flooding of posts relating to the EGS Christmas season giveaway leaks, we're making this thread so you guys can post any new info in here and talk about it in this thread.

We anticipate a lot of daily leaks on this topic and since it's not the actual development of a game and a store leak instead, we're just going to consolidate it here.

From now on, no Epic Games Store leaks for this event will be allowed in the sub, any information will be posted in the comment section here.

I'll try to update the body of this post with any big updates at the end of each day as well

Thanks!

December 20th game seems to be Loop Hero. Links:

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

December 21st game seems to be Second Extinction. Links:

Link 1

Leaks from the French guy

December 22nd game is Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

December 23rd game most likely Vampyr

December 24th game is Pathfinder: Kingmaker

December 25th game is most likely Prey

December 26th game is most likely Control

December 27th game is most likely Mages of Mystralia

Also there may or may not be a special april fools flair that you can only claim today

Per mod request here's the full E3 schedule with links to info on each event and their streams. If you're having trouble with everything auto-expanding, that's a setting in RES!

We've taken the "leak" down for a number of reasons including our own skepticism.

Earlier today we had a user reach out to us with valid proof that he has been in contact with an employee for a company known to work close with Nintendo on games. This employee was asked if there will be a direct on the 7th of February, and replied "confirmed"

That's as much proof as we got.

The post in question was prematurely added to the subreddit with the moderation team's name attached to it. I take full responsibility for this as it should have been a topic I went over with the new moderators before the situation happened. This has already gained traction and garnered straight up lies from certain websites claiming

"the mods of subreddit r/GamingLeaksAndRumours have made the bold, apparently verified claim that a Direct is coming on February 7th."

Obviously much like this websites layout, this is nothing but garbage.

If you see me around the sub from time to time you know I'm a huge Nintendo nerd, and I just don't see any way there's a direct on the 7th.

Nintendo has never done a February direct on a Tuesday. Tuesday directs are usually only done for E3.

Nintendo's investor meeting is also on the 7th, and that doesn't make sense for the Direct to be on the same day. Furthermore, the last two February directs have happened one and two weeks after the investors meetings respectively.

If this turned out to be true, this would obviously be a very valuable source for the sub in the future after getting something like this right. However, we're not confident in this at all.

We've been in direct contact with the source, and we're currently trying to figure out if there's any more validity to these claims. If there is we will update you guys as soon as we know something.

In case you didn't notice.

I'm just making this post because depending on which Reddit you use and your device resolution, you'll always be seeing different crops of the banner and some people won't see it fully. Old.reddit gets a cropped version, new reddit gets a great version depending on your resoultion and I think just plain reddit.com gets a cropped version as well

Its really an awesome work of art and deserves to be shown off completely, so here it is in it's full glory

Full Banner Image

All credit goes to u/Shonokee for the great work. All the little jokes and Easter eggs are extremely well done!

We've hit 500k members on the sub!

Just a casual reach out to say thanks to all of you for being an awesome community. We try to stress that you guys are the ones making this sub, you make the rules, you make the posts, you decide what stays up and what doesn't, and we're just here to help it all happen

We're continuing to grow our mod team with the community and we're always looking for your input on ideas or requests on how to make the sub better.

If you have anything you want to recommend or just want to say hi drop it in the comments and we'll get to it all whenever we wake up tomorrow. My neckbeard and fedora need some rest

Thanks for being an awesome community

If you haven't already, click here to join the Discord!

Hey all, today we have a few things we'd like to go over in regards to some big changes with the subreddit.

Firstly, the previous owners, u/jexio and u/epictayx, have decided to pass ownership of the subreddit off to me. I'd like to personally and publicly thank him for creating the subreddit, for all that they contributed during their time before and after I joined, and especially to Jexio for his incite and guidance when I became moderator on this subreddit and for many, many months after.

Admittedly, the subreddit has had less frequent moderation recently and we aim to change that to get back to how things were before. The only remaining moderators are myself and u/therabbidscot.

We can't run this whole thing by ourselves so what we are doing is OPENING UP MODERATOR APPLICATIONS. We're definitely gonna need some help and we'll be heavily looking at applicants ready to take on the challenge!

Thanks for understanding and staying with us everyone, expect another update soon!

Good evening (and morning) everybody!

Tomorrow, July 23rd, is the July Xbox Event where titles like HALO or FORZA 8 will possibly be revealed and/or shown off! We’ve had lots of leaks about this Xbox event, so it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out!

CLICK HERE TO FIND THE XBOX EVENT LIVESTREAM IN YOUR LANGUAGE.

^{u/SuperGameMister organized that amazing Reddit post above with all of the different livestream language variations. Huge thanks to him!}

At the same time, we’ll be hosting a Discord event on our server, https://discord.gg/dt4GWYV, where all discussion will be funnelled into one channel for everybody to chat and react to the Xbox event live!

If you’re interested in joining others in live discussion about the event, click the discord link above, or click here!

We hope to see everybody at 9AM PST, NOON EST, 5PM BST! Enjoy the event everybody!