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Grand Theft Auto: The Lost And Damned Coming To PC?

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Rockstar Games’ downloadable episodes for Grand Theft Auto IV look to be making the platform jump from Xbox 360 to Games For Windows Live, giving PC gamers a chance to experience The Lost And Damned.

Grand Theft Auto fan site GTA4.net spotted the five Games For Windows Live Achievements specific to Rockstars’ first downloadable episode, hinting that the Xbox 360-exclusivity surrounding the episode is due to expire.

Those Achievements made an appearance following the most recent title update to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, issued by Rockstar today.

The short answer to the headline is likely “Yes”, but we’ve reached to the developer seeking an official response.

The Lost and Damned for GTA IV PC [GTA4.net]

I Pity The Childhood With No 8-Bit A-Team

Owen Good — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:30:00 +0000

Hot Blooded Gaming put together the following video, solely as an an excuse to create an 8-Bit A-Team theme (which is itself awesome.) The gameplay’s a little formulaic, but have you tried Next-Gen A-Team, for Grand Theft Auto IV?

Full disclosure, I frequently game with Hot Blooded’s Kreyg Dezgo (also the creator of this vid). You can usually find us in Borderlands. Last week he told me about this delightful “mod” – not literally, as no code is involved – that he plays in Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer called The A-Team. It’s four players vs. 12, and it is total mayhem.

To get the full effect you really need 16 players all briefed and abiding by the rules. But you go into a free mode game, with four players forming “The A-Team” and jumping in a van. They start at the prison on Alderney. Their goal is to outrun the 12 other players, chasing them in cars and choppers, to get to the airport in Dukes and escape via helicopter. Successful extraction = victory. “Death is not an option for the A-Team!” says Kreyg.

That is seriously an awesome use of GTA IV multiplayer. But if you don’t have 16 of your closest friends available to pull it off, then I guess you’re stuck with the following. Unless you have a better set of informal multiplayer rules?

What If The A-Team Had An NES Game? [Hot Blooded Gaming]

Time Flies In Liberty City

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:30:00 +0000

Say what you will about the merits of Grand Theft Auto IV as a game, there’s no disputing how magnificent a technical achievement it is. After all, few games could make a clip like this so interesting.

It’s 15 days in Liberty City, recorded via timelapse. Hypnotising, no? Sadly, it’s not embeddable, so you’ll have to hit the links below to watch.

Vid [Eurogamer]
Vid Mirror [Rockstar]

Have We Seen This Mysterious GTA Ad Before?

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Yes, yes we have. Reader Bo (thanks Bo!) alerted us to this image on page 17 of the Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, wondering if it was a hint for GTA 5’s location.

Another reader Farnic (thanks Farnic!) sends this image, pointing out that the same image that appears in the Episodes from Liberty City also appears in Grand Theft Auto near Star Junction.

Make of it what you will, but do not make apple pie. You cannot make apple pie with this. Sorry, we already tried.

Is Rockstar Teasing Next GTA Location?

Owen Good — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +0000

GTA4.Net noticed this “ad” in the Episodes from Liberty City instruction manual that, reading between the lines (or around the torn out part, anyway) seems to tease where the series is headed next. And maybe when.

The ad, apparently for a fake movie, declares “Liberty City, It’s Over!” implying, naturally, that we’re all done here. “Next stop,” it says, and that portion appears to be torn out, except for the word “Seagull”. I think it looks like the name of a hotel, but who knows.

To the left of that is “Opens March Everywhere”, and your guess is as good as mine as to what that means. But Rockstar knows what it’s doing here, it’s getting people to talk, and we’ve taken the bait.

(A picture of the entire “ad” is at the link below.)

Liberty City, It’s over! Next stop? [GTA4.Net via VG247]

Five New Screens To Get You Ready For Gay Tony

Owen Good — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:40:00 +0000

We’re three days and five new screens closer to the release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City and, more specifically, The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Rockstar put out these five, foreshadowing what you can expect in the expansion. Luis scaling the Rotterdam Tower; flashing the Advanced MG machine gun, the titular Tony Prince and rival boss Yusuf Amir, and some shady deals going down under the overpass.

New Screenshots from The Ballad of Gay Tony [Rockstar]

Man Plays Grand Theft Auto For 40 Hours Straight

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000

What did you do between September 4 and September 6? Twenty-six year-old private equity broker Chirantan Patnaik played Grand Theft Auto IV — for 40 hours and 20 minutes straight.

The Mumbai, India resident started playing at his home on September 4 at 10:00 a.m. and wrapped up on September 6 at 2:00 a.m., taking only four breaks. His marathon play session was observed by observers and has earned its place in the Guinness Book, surpassing the previous record of playing GTAIV for 28 hours and 1 minute.

“There are so many other games which I have played for long hours,” says Patnaik. “But I had never tried playing this particular game seriously. However, I knew that I can do it after I saw my brother playing it … I enjoyed the game very much. It’s fun playing long hours. It wasn’t that exhaustive for me, as one might feel.”

To train for the event, he exercised, ran and did yoga, and while playing, he guzzled coffee and munched on dates. Next up, Patnaik plans to play for 48 hours straight.

Mumbai youth makes world record in video gaming [ZEENEWS via GamePolitics]

Grand Theft Auto IV Is On Demand

Mike Fahey — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:20:00 +0000

Xbox 360 owners no longer need to leave their homes to commit heinous crimes, as Grand Theft Auto IV joins the Games on Demand lineup at a price that’s actually rather reasonable.

Now the mean streets of Liberty City are only a 7GB download and $US29.99 away from the net-connected Xbox 360 owner. The $US30 price tag is consistent with retail prices on the Platinum Hits version of the title and only $US5 more than GameStop charges for it used, so depending on how much you value your time and gas money, it might be a better deal to download the game via the Xbox Live Marketplace. If anything it will save those of you who traded the game back in after finishing the Lost and Damned DLC the embarrassment of having to re-purchase it again in order to experience the upcoming Ballad of Gay Tony expansion.

I know that feeling far too well.

Xbox 360 Games on Demand: GTA IV [Major Nelson]

Here, Have Some Ballad Of Gay Tony Screens

AJ Glasser — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:30:00 +0000

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony hits Xbox Live and store shelves (along with Lost and Damned) October 29, 2009. Let’s look at some screens.

Episodes From Liberty City: There’s Always A Girl

Mike Fahey — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:40:00 +0000

Rockstar wins this year’s Best Use of Roxette’s “The Look” award for the latest Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City trailer, “There’s always a girl”.

The Rockstar team really shows off its cinematic flair in this latest trailer combining both the Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV, much like the retail release of Episodes from Liberty City does. The key here is having the proper pause in the action during the pause before the final na-na-na-na-nas start, and they definitely nailed it. Nice work!