Last summer, Rockstar Games announced it was shuttering GTA Online on PS3 and Xbox 360. The decision made sense: GTA 5 launched on the same hardware way back in 2013, and with the then-incoming PS5 and Xbox Series X iterations of the sprawling crime simulator on the cusp of release, closing the game’s oldest version down in order to pool resources felt like a sensible move. <\/p>\n
And so, on December 16, 2021, Rockstar permanently closed online servers for GTA 5 on PS3 and Xbox 360. Yet, you should fancy booting up GTA 4 and playing its online multiplayer component on PS3 or Xbox 360, you still can. The latter, in fact, still has a thriving scene. Who needs an official GTA 4 remaster<\/u> anyway, right? “I run a community on Telegram, and we’re still very active on the multiplayer scene,” says long-time GTA 4 player and community leader EL Fuga. “Some of us have been around since it came out, which means we know the game pretty well because it’s been well over a decade.” El Fuga’s community is so popular today, in fact, that lapsed and new players are actively buying PS3s to join in the fun.<\/p>\nLC state of mind<\/h2>\n