After the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition update dropped some mentions of the studio, the head of Grove Street Games said it was a “shitty move” to distract the developers from the credits with an update.

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The CEO of Grove Street Games, the studio that created GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition – yes, the version that was released in quite a shocking state – took to Twitter to post a thinly veiled response to Rockstar’s latest trilogy update, removing some mentions of the studio from the three remastered games.

Following the release of the update – which brings a slew of fixes, including lighting tweaks that at least one of our wonderful regular contributors is a gigantic fan of – players have noticed that some mentions of Grove Street Games are no longer there. Main references removed are found on the starting boards of the GTA 3, San Andreas and Vice City remaster collections, as well as in the copyright notices.

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Seemingly responding to the Internet chatter that inevitably ensued, GSG CEO Thomas Williamson wrote: “To put it all hypothetically: removing lead developers from the credits in an update is a move, especially when the update contains hundreds of fixes provided by developers who remained outside reach of players for years.”

While the Trilogy update did not remove Grove Street Games from the games’ credits, as GTANet As he points out, it’s understandable why the developer might be unhappy about some of the mentions of his studio being pulled from a game he helped create, and he’s faced a lot of criticism for the state of the launch after receiving the project from Rockstar.

The second half of Williamson’s tweet is also intriguing, considering it may suggest that fixes to the game weren’t made right away and were instead allegedly held up in some way. While this would seem odd for any game, depending on the factors, the developer didn’t elaborate on it further.

We’ll have to see if anything else comes from this, but for now it’s an odd end to a rather odd release of remasters of three universally beloved games that won’t take much to convince most GTA fans to play again.

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