The early reviews are in, and it's looking like Grand Theft Auto IV's "The Lost and Damned" DLC is a sure bet for any who enjoyed the original game. Boasting a Metacritic average of 90, the first DLC episode is recieving near-universal praise; and with an estimated 10-12 hour campaign and a variety of new [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
Rockstar Games has launched another patch for the troubled PC release of "Grand Theft Auto IV". This brings it up to version 1.0.2.0 and mostly allows gamers to further adjust visual options, via the new and handy "water quality", "shadow quality" and "reflection resolution" sliders. Other notable improvements are fixes for Nvidia 7000 series' visual glitches, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
When glancing through NPD data last Thursday, we made what we thought was an interesting, simple observation: "Wii Play" outsold "Grand Theft Auto IV" in 2008. As it turns out, things weren't quite that simple. When you're only looking at the top ten titles of 2008, with the Xbox 360 version of a title appearing in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
Word on the street was that Rockstar, brimming with enthusiasm for their "Grand Theft Auto" franchise, was readying a new installment for holiday 2009. Word was wrong. Today, Rockstar representatives told Kotaku there was "no truth" to the rumors. We're not particularly surprised. In a December conference call, Take-Two CEO Benjamin Feder said it was "too early [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 15, 2009
Yesterday, the NPD told us the video game industry isn't as recession-proof as we'd like to think -- but today, the NPD numbers show that at least one company is still raking in the cash in North America. 2.15 million Wii consoles. 3.04 million DS handhelds. 1.46 million bundled Wiimotes, 999,000 Balance Boards, and 979,000 Wii [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 15, 2009
Slow and steady wins the race, but it also helps if Santa is on your side. Though projections have long placed "Grand Theft Auto IV" as the game to beat -- between PS3 and Xbox 360, it sold approximately 5.18 million copies in the United States this year -- it seems that Nintendo's "Wii Play" [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 18, 2008
You'd think that Take-Two would have learned their lesson after Manhunt 2 and Bully, but no dice. Take-Two is so "highly, highly focused" on Nintendo that they're reconsidering the potential for M-rated games on Wii.
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Take-Two sent out a press release announcing some juicy information about the Houser brothers and other members of wholly-owned label Rockstar Games' creative team. A new contract which ensures their employment by Rockstar until the beginning of 2012 was signed, adding a new and more favorable profit sharing policy. Moreover, these same "key Rockstar members" will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
With all the talk about the GTAIV DLC, people may have forgotten about the upcoming DS entry in the franchise, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. It has been a few months since the game was in the news for featuring a drug dealing minigame -- and more than a month since it was delayed -- [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 21, 2008
When it comes to the PC edition of Grand Theft Auto IV, the big news isn’t that it’s finally coming out on the PC – it’s that it’s coming out on the PC with a video editor. The all-new video editor will allow players to capture in-game footage, make real time edits, splice together clips [...]
Continue reading...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
0 Comments