High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Grand Theft Auto (usually referred to as Grand Theft Auto Advance) is a handheld console game developed by Digital Eclipse, published by Rockstar Games, and released on October 25, 2004 for the Game Boy Advance. It is the first to not be developed by a Rockstar Games studio. The game is referred to Grand Theft Auto Advance on its title screen; the game`s cover art and all promotional material refer to it as simply Grand Theft Auto.