Grand Theft Auto’s publisher has targeted a project that made older titles playable on new platforms.
Take-Two Interactive has filed a suit against contributors to a project called « re3 » that reverse engineered Grand Theft Auto III and GTA Vice City to make them playable on new platforms. Kotaku reported that Take-Two’s lawsuit was filed against 14 programmers in the Northern District of California by a Manhattan-based law firm called Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. The company is seeking a preliminary injunction and a trial by jury for claims related to the suit. It seems the biggest problem is that re3 made it possible to play GTA III and GTA Vice City on new hardware The project’s contributors say they made the games run on the « Windows, Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD » operating systems and « on x86, amd64, arm and arm64 » processors.
