It's official: on February 17th, 2009, the first episode of the $50 million Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content will be available on Xbox 360. Titled "The Lost and Damned," the episode will reportedly feature Johnny Klebitz, a member of the titular Lost biker gang from the original game, as protagonist; Niko Bellic will play a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Last Tuesday, Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser wasn't sure. But today, it seems pretty likely that November will mark the latest in the long series of delays that have plagued the $50 million Grand Theft Auto IV DLC. At the BMO Capital Markets conference today in New York City, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick told attendees not [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Ever since the release of "Grand Theft Auto III," nearly every game publisher has tried to produce a clone of the gameplay format to cash in on its success. Most of them sucked, pretty much (See, for example, the "True Crime" games), mostly because they captured the spirit of the game through duplication of gameplay [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 25, 2008
Well, that didn't take long. UK tabloid The Sun has just become the first mainstream media outlet to condemn Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the basis of its drug-dealing minigame. First inevitably equating the DS with children, they then cite the words of a London-based charity, Drugsline.
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Last week, Nintendo Power (via NeoGAF) revealed that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars would feature "tasteful" minigames. Today, Edge Magazine (via CVG) has revealed exactly which tastes Rockstar was referring to. According to Rockstar's Dan Houser, the first GTA for the Nintendo DS will include a minigame, tangentially related to the plot, where players can [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 11, 2008
I've long maintained that it's vital to protect our children from today's digital devilry, and today I have the indisputable scientific proof of internet polls on my side. Following up on a poll from earlier in the year, What They Play has surveyed some 1,600 concerned citizens, and discovered that unsupervised minors playing Grand Theft [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 13, 2008
New York Magazine has a delightful interview with a most delightful creature: Uwe Boll. Doesn't his name just sound like some insect you might find in the Underdark? The dungeon master leans close to you, and with his rancid cheeto breath clogging your olfactory organs, he intones, "You have encountered a vile Uwe Boll, its [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 2, 2008
In the aftermath of one of the largest video game launches of the year, if not of history, Microsoft and Sony are trying to use the retail numbers to jockey for position in their hardware war. Currently, Microsoft is bragging that the 360 edition of Grand Theft Auto IV is outselling to the PS3 version [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Best Buy has just released the list of store locations where they will be having midnight launches for Grand Theft Auto IV. Although there is no explanation of the exact nature of these midnight experiences (will they be parties, will there be prizes, will anyone be shot?), Best Buy seems appropriately enthusiastic about the whole [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 23, 2008
According to Kotaku, a pirated copy of GTA IV is now live and available for download on various torrent servers. This particular copy is the PAL copy, and it is being provided by a group called iCON.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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