Summary
Grove Street Games, the original development studio behindGrand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, has allegedly unfollowed Rockstar Games, the series' creator and publisher, on Twitter. This comes just days afterGrand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Editionreceived a massive new update that completely removed Grove Street Games' official logo from the trilogy’s splash screen.
Back in 2021, Rockstar Games confirmed it would be releasingremastered versions of theGrand Theft Autotrilogy, which consists ofGrand Theft Auto 3,Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, andGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas. While Rockstar was the original developer and publisher behind the the trilogy,The Definitive Editionwas handled by Grove Street Games, best known for assisting on titles likeArk: Survival Evolvedand the recently releasedArk: Survival Ascended. Rockstar would still oversee the project and publish the remastered bundle, but the majority of its development was completed by Grove Street Games.
GTA Trilogy Developer Unfollows Rockstar Games
Grove Street Games' attempt at remastering the famous trilogy were, ultimately, in vain.Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Editionreceived mainly negative reviewsfrom critics and fans due to its massive number of bugs, glitches, and poor visual upgrades, resulting in an apology from Rockstar Games. While numerous updates have been released over the last three years, its most recent one seems to have resulted in Grove Street Games unfollowing Rockstar Games on Twitter, according to eagle-eyed users on the platform. Although the studio remains in the credits for theGTA Trilogyremasters, the most recent update has removed Grove Street Games' logo from the game’s splash screen, which fans believe to be the reason for the sudden unfollowing of Rockstar Games.
In response to the studio’s removal from the trilogy’s splash screen, Grove Street Games boss Thomas Williamson expressed his frustration’son Twitter, claiming that hundreds of fixes in the game’s latest update were actually developed by the studio but “stayed out of players' hands for years.” Although Williamson states that many of the fixes included in thelatest update forGrand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Editionwere done by Grove Street Games, Rockstar appears to have brought on board Video Games Deluxe to improve the trilogy, as the studio is now credited in-game.
While it seems to be up in the air but which studio developed which fixes, the latest patchis it undoubtedly its biggest to date. The surprise update not only includes a classic lighting mode, but makes a plethora of fixes and improvements to allow for a much smoother gameplay experience. In fact, the update appears to be so big that there are evenchanges not mentioned in the latestGTA Trilogypatch notes.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition
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Three iconic cities, three epic stories. Play the genre-defining classics of the original Grand Theft Auto Trilogy: Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas updated for a new generation, now with across-the-board enhancements including brilliant new lighting and environmental upgrades, high-resolution textures, increased draw distances, Grand Theft Auto V-style controls and targeting, and much more, bringing these beloved worlds to life with all new levels of detail.Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition includes:Grand Theft Auto III: It all starts in Liberty City. With the revolutionary freedom to go anywhere and jack anyone, Grand Theft Auto III puts the center of the criminal underworld at your fingertips, if you have enough guts to take it.Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Welcome to the 1980s. From the decade of big hair and pastel suits comes the story of one man’s rise to the top of the criminal pile. Grand Theft Auto returns with Tommy Vercetti’s tale of betrayal and revenge in a neon-soaked tropical town full of excess and brimming with possibilities.Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Five years ago, Carl ‘CJ’ Johnson escaped the haze of Los Santos, San Andreas…a city tearing itself apart with gang trouble, drugs, and corruption. Now, it’s the early 90s. CJ’s got to go home - his mother has been murdered, his family has fallen apart, and his childhood friends are all heading towards disaster. On his return to the neighborhood, a couple of cops frame him for homicide, forcing CJ on a journey that takes him across the entire state of San Andreas, to save his family and to take control of the streets in the next iteration of the series that changed everything.
