GTA Untold #3: Rockstar Cut a Fifth of Every Classic GTA Before It Ever Shipped
Rockstar North cut roughly 20% of missions from classic Grand Theft Auto titles, confirmed by former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij...
Grand Theft Auto Classics
News, retrospectives, and historical coverage of classic GTA entries, including GTA III, GTA IV, Liberty City Stories, Chinatown Wars, and legacy-era deep dives. We also have GTA: San Andreas and GTA: Vice City specific coverage.
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GTA Untold #2: GTA III Started as an Unauthorized Rockstar North Project
Grand Theft Auto III was quietly started by Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut at Rockstar North before New York had approved it. Apparently, the fran...
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Take-Two Might Have Potentially Confirmed a GTA 4 Remake
Take Two Interactive confirmed six remakes, remasters, or platform extensions for FY2028 and 2029, with Rockstar Australia's "classic game technolo...
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Rockstar Is Hiring for "Classic Games" and the Timing Is Suspect
Rockstar Australia, one of Rockstar Games' newest studios, recently posted a job listing for a Senior Gameplay Programmer. The listing describes a ...
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A Developer Is Porting Grand Theft Auto III to Old Nokia Phones
Fans of Grand Theft Auto are no strangers to doing the heavy lifting for Rockstar Games. While it has its hands full with Grand Theft Auto 6, they ...
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GTA IV Prototype Hype Gets Reality Check from Ex Rockstar Dev
The Grand Theft Auto IV development build that surfaced from a £5 car boot sale and was subsequently DMCA'd from the Internet Archive caused quite ...
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The £5 GTA IV Dev Build Has Vanished From the Internet Archive
The GTA IV development build that we covered earlier, the November 2007 Xbox 360 prototype discovered on a Rockstar North\-labeled dev kit bought f...
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The Legendary Voice Behind Grand Theft Auto 3's Greatest Radio Station Has Passed Away
Steve Watson, who was better known as Lord Sear, passed away on March 11, 2026, aged 53. SiriusXM's Shade 45 confirmed the news, though no cause of...
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"Everybody’s Slice of the Pie Became Smaller" - Why GTA Veteran Obbe Vermeij Left Rockstar
. Obbe Vermeij explains why he walked away from billion-dollar productions to create a small, personal nature sandbox where he could actually feel ...
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Grand Theft Auto Relied on "Illusions" Over Simulation, According to Obbe Vermeij
Exclusive: The studio legend argues that "illusion is preferable" to complex systems, revealing how simple visual tricks created the franchise's si...
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The "Compressed" 684MB Version of Grand Theft Auto 4 Isn't a Miracle, It's a Massacre
A modder managed to shrink the 20GB classic down to the size of a smartphone photo, but the cost was deleting 90% of Liberty City, every mission, a...
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Exclusive: GTA III Started Before It Was Approved - Inside the “20% Rule” and the Bigfoot Myth
Former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij reveals how Rockstar North really operated and debunks one of GTA’s biggest myths.
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GTA 4 Has a Hidden Website That Instantly Gives You 5 Stars For a Genuinely Disturbing Reason
GTA IV has a secret website that triggers a maximum wanted level the moment you visit it. The reason is one of Rockstar's darkest Easter eggs.
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The Original Grand Theft Auto That Rockstar Abandoned Is Now Perfectly Playable
A group of reluctant modders has just fixed the original Grand Theft Auto for modern PCs because Rockstar Games is too busy to do it themselves.
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You Can Now Give GTA 4 Next-Gen Graphics with One Free Download
A new mod adds modern physics-based rendering to 18,000 textures, proving that Liberty City doesn't need an official remaster to look like it was r...
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You Can No Longer Play Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in Your Browser
Take-Two's "brand protection" team issued a DMCA takedown to kill the project instantly.
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How Rockstar's $5M Gamble on GTA 3 Saved Take-Two Interactive
Dan Houser just revealed GTA III was nearly derailed by the 9/11 attacks, all while being a desperate, last-ditch effort to save a company drowning...
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Dan Houser: The Government Treated Grand Theft Auto Like "Internet Pornography"
For Rockstar Games and the team behind Grand Theft Auto, the franchise's massive commercial success brought the full weight of the United States go...
