
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...
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.

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 III was quietly started by Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut at Rockstar North before New York had approved it. Apparently, the fran...

Take Two Interactive confirmed six remakes, remasters, or platform extensions for FY2028 and 2029, with Rockstar Australia's "classic game technolo...

Rockstar Australia, one of Rockstar Games' newest studios, recently posted a job listing for a Senior Gameplay Programmer. The listing describes a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

. Obbe Vermeij explains why he walked away from billion-dollar productions to create a small, personal nature sandbox where he could actually feel ...

Exclusive: The studio legend argues that "illusion is preferable" to complex systems, revealing how simple visual tricks created the franchise's si...

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...

Former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij reveals how Rockstar North really operated and debunks one of GTA’s biggest myths.

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.

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.

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...

Take-Two's "brand protection" team issued a DMCA takedown to kill the project instantly.

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...

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...