GTA Vice City browser port taken down by Take Two Interactive

The GTA Vice City browser port was recently taken down by Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games. The 2002 title was made available to play through a website named Dos Zone, thanks to the game's source code being reversed by a group of engineers. On the website, the demo was playable for free, while players needed to verify the game's purchase to play the full version.

A few days ago, however, Take Two Interactive took action and shut the game's browser port down. Here are more details about it.

What was the GTA Vice City browser port and how did Take Two Interactive shut it down

Dos Zone is a website that allows players to play old games through any browser. Around early December, they uploaded GTA Vice City as one of the games on their website. The news about Rockstar's popular title being playable on browsers quickly went viral. The game was entirely playable, with accurate settings, smooth FPS, and clear graphics. Players were even allowed to save their games locally or on Dos Zone's cloud.

This browser port was essentially possible because of a reverse-engineered source code of the game that was uploaded to GitHub back in 2020 by a group of coders. Before the code's original page was taken down, it was downloaded and used in various ways, one of which was to create this browser port.

Below the now-removed game screen, the Dos Zone team stated that this project was possible because of the reverse-engineered, open-source game code. They added a disclaimer that this project is an independent and non-commercial technology demonstration and is not connected to the original developers, Rockstar Games, at all.

The GTA Vice City browser port was playable for a few days, but on December 24, 2025, it was confirmed that Take Two Interactive took action and asked the Dos Zone team to shut the port down.

When the game's web page is accessed today, it will show that the game has been taken down and a picture of the email from Ebrand/Enforce, a company that is most likely linked with Take Two Interactive. The email stated that Dos Zone had unauthorized access to copyrighted game content, which clearly goes against the copyright law and can include a DMCA. Hence, Dos Zone finally shut down GTA Vice City's browser port.

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Edited by Akshat Kabra