Speaking entire hypothetically: It's a dick move to remove primary developers from credits in an update, especially when an update includes hundreds of fixes that were provided by those developers that stayed out of players' hands for years.

Fans quickly noticed how the port team 'Grove Street Games' had been dropped from the trilogy's splash screen and now the developer's CEO Thomas Williamson has responded on social media. It's worth noting Grove Street is still in the game's end credits, but the fact is the screen referencing GSG on launch is now gone.

Rockstar Games has released updates for each of the remastered Grand Theft Auto games included in the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition collection that make these maligned versions play better, as well as making them look more like the original games released on PS2 back in the early 2000s.

GTA fans are speculating that the developer of 2021's Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy might not be too pleased with Rockstar Games after the removal of the studio's name from the game collection's menu screens, as it appears to have unfollowed the original GTA developer on Twitter.

Grove Street Games, the original developer behind Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, unfollows Rockstar on Twitter.

Now, Grove Street Games CEO Thomas Williamson has responded to the move, which seemingly came as a surprise to him. Writing on X, the owner criticized Rockstar for the opening credit removal, and claimed that his team was behind hundreds of fixes added in the recent update.

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