No Court Copy From the Rockstar Tribunal on Days Four and Five

Day four of the Rockstar Games employment tribunal in Glasgow sat on Tuesday 15 September. Day five sat on Wednesday 16 September. No court copy from either day has appeared anywhere this desk can reach. That is a negative, and negatives are only worth printing when they have been properly tested. This one was tested across nine feeds, five of them Scottish or national, and three of those reach back far enough that they would have carried a day-four story had one run. The nine feeds, with their coverage windows CONFIRMED as a negative. Every feed below was fetched between 2026-09-17T03:01:57Z and 03:05:37Z, all HTTP 200, and every item title was scanned for rockstar, gta, grand theft, tribunal and iwgb. FeedBytesItemsNewest itemOldest itemTribunal items Glasgow Times news56,23950Wed 16 Sep 20:00:23 +0100Tue 15 Sep 18:26:33 +0100none Herald Scotland news56,12550Wed 16 Sep 20:55:00 +0100Wed 16 Sep 10:18:12 +0100none The National news56,75150Wed 16 Sep 19:01:59 +0100Tue 15 Sep 14:13:54 +0100none STV News39,03050Wed 16 Sep 19:34:02 +0000Tue 15 Sep 17:35:41 +0000none BBC News Scotland25,40233Wed 16 Sep 22:01:27 GMTWed 16 Sep 10:15:50 GMTnone Read the oldest-item column. The Glasgow Times, The National and STV feeds all reach back into 15 September. A day-four report filed by any of the three would still be in the window. There is none. The specialist press is the same story, with dates attached: Eurogamer, 172,672 bytes, 100 items: last tribunal story Friday 11 September at 14:16:10 +0000. Nothing since. Rock Paper Shotgun, 226,653 bytes, 100 items reaching back to 3 September: last tribunal story Friday 11 September at 15:31:24 +0000. Nothing since. GamesIndustry.biz, 126,881 bytes, 100 items: last tribunal story Monday 14 September at 16:22:08 +0000, headlined as the start of the tribunal, four days after it actually started. Nothing since. Game Developer, 74,741 bytes, 50 items: no tribunal item in the feed at all. Aftermath, 218,681 bytes, 15 items, newest Thursday 17 September at 00:14:06 GMT: none. The hearing is listed to run to 16 October. Two full sitting days have now passed without a line of copy from the room. The wrong date is still live, and the timestamp proves nobody has touched it DEBUNKED, and still uncorrected at the time of writing. The Glasgow Times staff copy by Amy Myles, syndicated onward, carries a JSON-LD datePublished of 2026-09-14T14:11:01Z and a dateModified of 2026-09-14T14:11:01Z. Read at 2026-09-17T03:04:57Z, HTTP 200, 393,591 bytes. Verbatim, still on the page: The employee is one of 23 former staff members taking action against the gaming giant after they were sacked in October 2023 for what Rockstar described as 'the sharing of confidential company information.' The two timestamps are identical to the second. That is not merely an uncorrected error. It is proof that in three days nobody has opened the file to make any edit at all. The refinement this desk did not have before: the error is in the local staff copy, not in the wire. The Press Association version of the same hearing, by Nick Forbes of PA Scotland, carried by the Irish News at 145,798 bytes with a datePublished of 2026-09-14T17:09:32Z, and by the Enfield Independent at 287,939 bytes with a datePublished of 2026-09-14T18:12:12Z, says instead, verbatim: Some 34 people are believed to have been dismissed from Rockstar in October last year across the UK and Canada "October last year", from a September 2026 dateline, is October 2025. So one Newsquest output says October 2023 and another says October 2025, on the same day, about the same hearing. This desk covered the error itself at the Newsquest date piece. What is new is where it sits and the proof it has not been touched. How many Rockstar workers were dismissed? Five numbers, none reconciled REPORTED throughout, and this desk is deliberately not resolving it. FigureWho said itWhat it is said to count 34PA News Agency, 14 SeptemberDismissed in October last year across the UK and Canada 23PA News Agency, same articleThose currently taking part in the tribunal, a subset of PA's own 34 23Glasgow Times, 14 SeptemberThe same claimant count, paired with the wrong dismissal year 31The IWGB, via secondary reportingWorkers the union says were dismissed in Britain 29Attribution not establishedUNVERIFIED. Not used, and named here only so nobody else uses it either. The union's own figure is attributed to the union through reporting, and not presented as read from the union, for a specific reason. Researcher C tried twice to open the IWGB's own page on this hearing. curl returned HTTP 000 at 0 bytes at 2026-09-17T03:00:51Z, and a second tool returned getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND iwgb.org.uk. That is a DNS failure, not a block, and it means the union's primary statement of its own headcount was not verified by anyone here in this window. Two explanations of 34 are in circulation and they cannot both be right. PA says 34 is the United Kingdom plus Canada. Game Developer, as this desk recorded earlier, says 34 is 31 union members plus three construction workers. Those are different theories of the same total. The gap is itself reportable and it is not this desk's job to close it. The line that belongs on the business desk REPORTED, from PA wire copy, and framed precisely. Rockstar's counsel Thomas Cordrey told the tribunal that leaked information about unannounced Grand Theft Auto VI features would be, in PA's rendering, "huge news" for investors and fans, and that it could, verbatim, "directly affect" the share price of Rockstar's parent company Take-Two Interactive. That is counsel's submission in cross-examination. It is not a finding by the tribunal, it is not a Take-Two statement about its own share price, and it must never be written up as one. What it does show is that the commercial stakes were put in front of the tribunal explicitly. One PA figure to handle at arm's length. The same copy carries the line that pre-orders of the game are "already thought to be worth hundreds of millions". No source is given for that anywhere in the piece. It is the wire's own unattributed estimate and it should not be repeated as a Rockstar or Take-Two figure. Two traps for anyone checking this story themselves DEBUNKED, first trap. The gov.uk employment tribunal decisions database returns "3 decisions" for the keyword Rockstar, on a 103,704 byte page read at 2026-09-17T03:00:51Z, and none of the three is the games studio. One is Mr R Espina v Rockstar Leisure Ltd trading as Sakana Pan Asian Restaurant, case 2402832/2017, which is a Manchester restaurant company. The other two involve a public house company and an unrelated employer. Anyone running a database sweep will hit that restaurant case and it is a false positive. The absence is expected in any event, because gov.uk publishes judgments and this hearing is listed to run to 16 October, so there is nothing to publish yet. DEBUNKED, second trap, and it is a strange one. The Enfield Independent's rendering of the PA Scotland court report carries this boilerplate on the page, verbatim: This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A Press Association report from a Glasgow tribunal, on a north London title, labelled as USA Today copy written by American colleagues, with a disclaimer naming a Scottish newspaper. That is a content management template leaking into the page. It is not an attribution and nobody should quote it as sourcing. What is and is not established CONFIRMED as a negative: no tribunal report from 15 or 16 September appears in any of five Scottish and national feeds or five specialist outlets, with byte counts, item counts and coverage windows recorded for each. CONFIRMED: Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun last carried the tribunal on 11 September, GamesIndustry.biz on 14 September, and Game Developer and Aftermath carried nothing at all in their feeds. DEBUNKED, and still live: the October 2023 dismissal date in Glasgow Times copy, with a dateModified identical to its datePublished proving no edit in three days. REPORTED, and not reconciled: five headcounts, 34, 23, 23, 31 and 29, each attributed to whoever said it and to what it is said to count. The 29 is unverified and unattributed and is not used. REPORTED: Cordrey's submission that a leak could directly affect Take-Two's share price, written as counsel's submission and nothing more. Explicitly not claimed: that the hearing did not sit, that nothing happened in the room, or anything about the merits. An absence of reporting is an absence of reporting. It is not an absence of proceedings, and the judge has not ruled on anything. Method limits: iwgb.org.uk failed DNS resolution twice, at HTTP 000 and 0 bytes, so the union's own page was not read; the CourtListener API returned HTTP 429 at 101 bytes on four attempts against a shared 125-a-day allowance, so dockets were read as HTML pages instead; newgamenetwork.com returned HTTP 403 at 5,661 bytes; judiciary.scot's sitting dates page returned HTTP 404 at 1,245 bytes; and nobody here has seen a transcript, a judgment or a court list. This desk's coverage of the hearing so far is at the opening piece, the headcount piece and the day three report. The rest of today's reporting is on the news desk, the standing record is on the GTA 6 wiki, and the servers list and leaderboards are open for the 63 days to release, a count that is this desk's own arithmetic.