{"id":317242,"date":"2025-10-17T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2162910"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:22:51","slug":"gta-3-vice-city-and-san-andreas-remasters-reportedly-in-the-works-for-release-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/gta-3-vice-city-and-san-andreas-remasters-reportedly-in-the-works-for-release-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas remasters reportedly in the works for release this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/gta-3-vice-city-and-san-andreas-remasters-reportedly-in-the-works-for-release-this-year.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rockstar is reportedly putting the finishing touches to remasters of its open-world PlayStation 2-era classics Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas for release later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours of possible remasters for the games first bubbled up over the summer as fans began wondering why Take-Two&#8217;s lawyers had suddenly started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-07-18-gta-parent-company-take-two-is-issuing-takedown-notices-to-gta-modders\">issuing a raft of takedown notices for classic GTA mods<\/a>. Speculation grew further following Take-Two&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-08-take-two-has-three-unannounced-remaster-or-remakes-in-development\">recent confirmation<\/a> it had three unannounced &#8220;new iterations of previously released titles&#8221; in the works.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, an <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-gta-remastered-trilogy-appears-to-be-real-and-comi-1847474620\">investigation by Kotaku<\/a> has revealed more tangible details, with its sources &#8211; who, the website says, have a proven track record providing accurate information on GTA Online and Red Dead Online &#8211; claiming Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas are indeed getting the remaster treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-12-gta-3-vice-city-and-san-andreas-remasters-reportedly-in-the-works-for-release-this-year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-12-gta-3-vice-city-and-san-andreas-remasters-reportedly-in-the-works-for-release-this-year\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar is reportedly putting the finishing touches to remasters of its open-world PlayStation 2-era classics Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas for release later this year. Rumours of possible remasters for the games first bubbled up over the summer as fans began wondering why Take-Two&#8217;s lawyers had suddenly started issuing a raft of takedown notices for classic GTA mods. Speculation grew further following Take-Two&#8217;s recent confirmation it had three unannounced &#8220;new iterations of previously released titles&#8221; in the works. Now, however, an investigation by Kotaku has revealed more tangible details, with its sources &#8211; who, the website says, have a proven track record providing accurate information on GTA Online and Red Dead Online &#8211; claiming Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/gta-3-vice-city-and-san-andreas-remasters-reportedly-in-the-works-for-release-this-year\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GTA 3, Vice City, and 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