Forza Horizon 6 and Lego Batman game files leak ahead of launch

This year, a bizarre number of AAA games have been uploaded to Steam for pre-loading without any encryption in place. This has already led to Death Stranding 2 being playable and piratable before its official release date. Now, the same thing has happened with Forza Horizon 6 and the new Lego Batman game. 

Forza Horizon 6 isn't due to launch until May 19th for standard edition buyers, or May 15th for those buying the Premium Edition. However, as spotted by early pre-loaders on Steam, the game files were made available to download unencrypted, creating a similar situation to Death Stranding 2, where pirates were able to play the game early while legitimate customers still had to wait.

While pirates were able to access Forza Horizon 6, Playground Games has quickly begun banning unauthorised accounts playing early due to this leak.

In the case of Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, the Xbox version of the game was made available to pre-download ahead of its release date, but someone messed up and made the unencrypted version of the game available, allowing Xbox owners to launch the title early, despite it not being released. However, due to consoles being more locked down compared to PC, the developers are going to have a much easier time containing this leak.

KitGuru Says: Pre-loading has been a thing for both PCs and consoles for over a decade now but leaks have been largely kept to a minimum. I don't know what changed in the last couple of months, but suddenly, these kinds of leaks seem to be popping up regularly. 

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