OpenIV for GTA 5 is a necessary PC modding tool without which you can't really install a number of mods. It was originally designed for Grand Theft Auto IV, which explains the name, but it also works ...

Just a few weeks back in June, Take-Two Interactive forced the popular Grand Theft Auto V modding tool, OpenIV, to shut down. Fans were pretty unhappy about that, because of course they were, but it ...

Grand Theft Auto 5 has remained a best-seller for years on PC, largely thanks to mods made with the OpenIV toolkit. We previously reported on a takedown claim Rockstar parent company Take-Two ...

OpenIV, a multi-purpose editor and archive manager for PC versions of Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA 4 will no longer be distributed by the developers after an official Cease-and-Desist letter was handed ...

UPDATE 15/06/2017 1.22am: Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games has responded to OpenIV's removal, claiming that the software could interfere with the game's online modes and that it's working on ...

Update June 24, 2017: It looks like a win for OpenIV, as the mod has just received an update following Take-Two and Rockstar's change of heart on single-player mods. After Take-Two released its ...

Recently, Grand Theft Auto V publisher Take-Two Interactive saw fit to reach out to the lead developer of modding tool OpenIV with a cease and desist notice. The tool, which has allowed the GTA ...

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