GTA Vice City Stories Is Finally Coming to PC After 20 Years

Of course, the question hanging over the project, as it does over every ambitious Grand Theft Auto mod, is whether Take-Two Interactive will shut it down. The company has a long and well-documented history of issuing DMCA takedown notices against projects that infringe on its intellectual property. In 2025 alone, Take-Two struck down a GTA 6 map recreation mod built in Grand Theft Auto V, killed the alt:V multiplayer mod for Grand Theft Auto Online, and copyright-struck the Grand Heist City trailer for a Fortnite Creative game that merely looked like GTA. The company has also pursued legal action against reverse-engineered ports of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City in the past.

TLDR; Grand Theft Auto Vice City: Stories 20th Anniversary Edition is on thin ice. Or at least it should be, but it isn't, according to the developers.

Because of their location (Russia), Take-Two can issue a DMCA claim to remove the trailer and potentially the YouTube channel, but actually preventing the mod from being distributed is another matter entirely. A similar situation played out last year with a separate Russian-based team that released a Vice City remaster built on the Grand Theft Auto IV engine. Take-Two issued takedowns, and the developers responded by publishing the mod anyway and encouraging reuploads.

White Trash Games is also using Telegram as its primary communication channel, which puts its news distribution and community interaction outside the reach of platform-level copyright enforcement on YouTube or social media.

If Take-Two follows its usual pattern, the trailer will likely no longer become available soon enough, followed by the YouTube channel, but the mod itself could follow the same path as the Vice City NextGen Edition, surviving through decentralized distribution and rehosting that Take-Two cannot practically contain from outside Russia's legal jurisdiction, which is a shame.

Grand Theft Auto VI is set in Vice City, Leonida, and it launches on November 19, 2026. A 20th anniversary PC port of the Vice City Stories prequel arriving in the same year as Rockstar Games' return to Vice City creates an obvious thematic bridge and a missed opportunity. Alas, Vice City Stories remains the only GTA game from the PS2-era that has received no modern re-release of any kind, a gap that modders are now filling because Rockstar chose not to.