HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - The Untold Story

GTA 4 "should be remastered" says veteran Rockstar dev as modern port rumors surface: "It's a great game"

Obbe Vermeij was a technical director on GTA 4

GamesRadar · May 13, 2025

GTA 6 delay is a "bummer," former Rockstar technical lead says, but the release date announcement shows the devs are "clearly confident" in the new deadline

"A second trailer would be nice now to wash away the disappointment," he adds

GamesRadar · May 2, 2025

Ex-GTA dev says PC makes scads of cash now so hopefully GTA 6's 'PC version will be closer behind' consoles—that is if 'decision-day' at Rockstar doesn't give us a last-minute delay

Rockstar might have shut down his blog, but not even the Housers can stop Obbe Vermeij from posting.

PC Gamer · Apr 30, 2025

GTA 3 originally gave players a wanted level for running a red light, but "This was not popular with the team," so a developer "quickly removed it"

You can never escape city planning

GamesRadar · Feb 17, 2025

Veteran GTA dev says Rockstar should make a GTA 4 remaster, but "it would be better" if it was a "quality remaster" this time

If Rockstar did it we wouldn't need to take matters into our own hands

GamesRadar · Jan 28, 2025

Former GTA dev weighs in on Rockstar's attempt to silence Vice City mod that ports the whole game to GTA 4: "This is what companies are supposed to do"

The modders have retaliated by making the mod standalone, meaning you don't need a legit copy of GTA to play it

GamesRadar · Jan 27, 2025

GTA 3 dev thought riding the train was "boring," which led to the creation of the series' cinematic camera: "The team found it surprisingly entertaining"

Because of "streaming issues," the devs couldn't just let players "jump ahead to the next station"

GamesRadar · Jan 8, 2025

One GTA 3 veteran hid cheats in the code to stop hackers from finding them at launch, but his clever little trick accidentally tripped up speedrunners

A lot can go wrong when you're tapping away at lightspeed

GamesRadar · Nov 28, 2024

The ex-GTA lead whose blog got the kibosh from Rockstar chats San Andreas' worst bug and why 'anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it'

Oh, for a world where Obbe Vermeij could say whatever he wants.

PC Gamer · Nov 6, 2024

Former GTA lead explains "probably the worst bug we missed" in San Andreas and why "anything that isn't visible to players tends to have swearing in it"

GTA may have been out for decades, but you still don't know everything there is to know about it

GamesRadar · Nov 4, 2024