While all leaks remain suspect until official news is dropped by Rockstar Games, you know things are heating up when Kotaku joins the fray. In a new report, it seems that a Grand Theft Auto Remastered Trilogy has leaked, bundling GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas into a remake that's headed to the Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Remake rumors regarding the 3D era classic GTA titles have popped up on occasion for years now, but they began swirling these past few months with greater intensity than ever. This can partially be linked to GTA 6 leaks as well, with some sources claiming that the remasters will arrive before the sequel to GTA 5.
Take-Two Interactive themselves have stoked the fire too, as legal teams have targeted a number of mods recently with takedown notices. All mods that have been targeted have remastering or reusing existing 3D era GTA content in common. Being non-profit projects, on paper they should have been protected under Rockstar's official statement regarding fan made content, but were forced to remove the files from hosting sites regardless.
Additionally, 3 unannounced remasters were recently officially confirmed by Take-Two itself.

This led players to predict that finally, official remasters really are on the way. The mods were taken down to eliminate competition for Rockstar's own remasters — since the first time we reported this happening, Take-Two legal teams have gone on more rounds of mod purging, well and truly clearing the way for the real deal.
While we still have no official news regarding these remasters, Rockstar is well known for keeping things under wraps until the last possible moment, and the sources which have confirmed the existence of the remastered trilogy are the same sources that reliably predicted GTA Online and Red Dead Online content months in advance — if there's ever been such a thing as a credible leak, this is it.
According to the sources, GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas have all been rebuilt in the Unreal Engine (as opposed to RAGE, for some reason) and the visuals look like "a heavily modded" version of the classic titles. Graphical PC mods for these games have been available for a while now, allowing you to use third party upgrades to play the games with modern-ish visuals, so a similar aesthetic can be expected.