An NFT-based car in Grand Theft Auto V server built by MyMetaverse.
An NFT-based car in Grand Theft Auto V server built by MyMetaverse.
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Take-Two asks MyMetaverse to take down its NFTs in GTA servers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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MyMetaverse CEO Simon Kertonegoro thought he had a great use case for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by enabling players to use them and associated art such as cars in Grand Theft Auto servers. But Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of GTA maker Rockstar Games, is putting an end to that.

On Friday, Rockstar posted a notice saying what players can or can’t do in their own servers. It said it encouraged “reasonable fan creativity” and third-party roleplay servers as a rich extension of community-created experiences within Grand Theft Auto. So it allows PC single-player mods.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.