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Rockstar admits GTA remasters “did not… meet our own standards of quality”

Comparison images provided by Rockstar Games. Rockstar has issued an apology for the “unexpected technical issues” that marred the release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition last week and led to the quick removal of the PC version from Rockstar’s online store. Last week, Rockstar said that the PC version of […]

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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy on Nov. 11: Cartoonier, flashier, and Game Pass-ier

Enlarge / Aw, blank, here we go again. (credit: Rockstar Games) Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy: The Definitive Experience may go down as 2021’s worst-kept secret, but how it would actually look remained surprisingly well-protected until the game’s Friday reveal went live. The new look is visible in a one-minute trailer , which comes with a […]

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Github reverses takedown of reverse-engineered GTA source code

Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. [credit: RockStar Games ] The reverse-engineered source code for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City is back online today, months after it was originally posted and then quickly taken down via […]

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Developers to update GTA Online to address poor load times after community fix

Enlarge / Now you can do all of these things but faster. (credit: Rockstar Games) A couple of weeks ago, we reported that a Grand Theft Auto Online player sick of the game’s notoriously long load times took matters into his own hands, broke out the disassembler, and crafted his own fix. The long load […]

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Hacker reduces GTA Online load times by roughly 70 percent

Enlarge / You could spend less time looking at loading screens like this with a new DLL fix. A hacker going by the handle T0st says he has figured out a core issue that caused longer-than-necessary load times in Grand Theft Auto Online for years. The hacker has released a proof of concept DLL fix […]

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Coders reverse-engineer Grand Theft Auto’s raw PC source code

Shots from the reverse-engineered version of Grand Theft Auto III showing off the graphical improvements over the 2002 original. A group of dedicated coders has generated complete reverse-engineered raw source code for the PC versions of Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City in a years-long process that comprises hundreds of thousands of lines of C++ […]