They filed a lawsuit against the engineers behind the reverse engineering of GTA III/VC who published their work on GitHub. To strengthen their own legal position and to combat the obvious argument that "You abandoned this and had no intention to profit further from it", Rockstar/Take-Two paid for the quickest, dirtiest, shoddiest port that was put out within a month of their lawsuit being filed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_The_Trilogy_...

> from the POV of management, a leak of the source might prevent a future re-release, which cuts into future potential profits!

In the aftermath of the backlash from their shoddy legal engineering project, they decided to not remaster other games: https://kotaku.com/gta-iv-remastered-red-dead-redemption-can...

It's rather the other way around, they'd been working on the remasters for a while and were completely blindsided by the publishing of the re3 / reVC source code, which promised to be a better option than their own remasters could be. This scared them shitless and led to the lawsuit.

Emulators have given that forever. It does not seem to have stopped re-releases.

Leaked doesn’t equal open. It’s likely a crime to own a copy, and it’s definitely a crime to distribute it.

No way!