Take-Two Interactive pulls out a Nintendo. Yesterday, he Grand Theft Auto editor lawsuit filed in the Northern California district against 14 programmers behind project re3, a fan – driven effort that offers reverse engineering source code for Grand Theft Auto III i Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
The re3 project is crucial Grand Theft Auto III i Grand Theft Auto: Vice City it can be played on platforms where games have never been released, including the Nintendo Switch.
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That’s probably what drove Take-Two to activate its army of white-shoe lawyers Mitchell Silberberg and Knupp, a Manhattan-based law firm. The Re3 project has been around for a few years, but it has largely avoided legal scrutiny. But now it could affect the company’s results.
Last month, Kotaku reported that Rockstar was working on a collection that would include remastered versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, i Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas“And he was coming to the Switch.” Although the collection has not been officially revealed, sources say it is slated for a release later this year. It will also come out for PlayStation and Xbox. (PC and mobile versions are slated for release in 2022).
“Perhaps most importantly, the defendants claim that their GTA-derived source code allows players to install and run the Games on various gaming platforms, including those on which the Games have never been released, such as PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Switch, ”MSK attorneys Karin G. Pagnanelli and Marc E. Mayer wrote in the complaint.
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Take-Two is looking for one preliminary injection—Basically legal for a court order that stops behavior before the resolution is resolved — and that a jury trial be sought.
It’s not the only legal move Take-Two has recently taken against the unapproved Grand Theft Auto code. Last month, the company issued a wave of DMCA withdrawals for some of the major modifications related to the series. One might wonder why Take-Two is suddenly with the costumes underway, but the answer seems pretty obvious.
Take-Two Interactive representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.