High-profile Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City reverse-engineering fan projects were pulled offline for a second time after yet another Take-Two takedown.
The GTA 3 and Vice City reverse-engineering fan projects known as re3 and reVC were first hit by a DMCA takedown in February, with Rockstar parent company Take-Two claiming copyright infringement.
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The fan-created source code for both games was made available on GitHub, offering a raft of eye-catching improvements over the original games officially available to play today on PC. (For more, check out our feature on how re3 came to be.)
At the time, project lead “aap” told Eurogamer he was worried filing a counterclaim might spark a lawsuit. However, the team behind the projects ended up disputing Take-Two’s takedown and, without any sort of legal response from the publisher, GitHub restored the reverse-engineered code.