We’ve seen a teaser of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City imported into Grand Theft Auto IV‘s visual and physics engine, RAGE. Another mod team is hard at work on the same conversion for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. More »
We saw the screenshots, we saw the box art, and now we finally get to see the debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony. More »
It’s Rockstar Games’ first Grand Theft Auto IV Live Weekend on Xbox Live, and everybody’s invited! You know the basics by now…anyone who signs up and participates in an online GTA IV match between now and Sunday evening has a chance to win hourly prizes consisting of GTA IV swag like shirts, hats, hoodies, licence plates, and more, with a grand prize of an Xbox 360 Elite console and even more swag up for grabs. Rockstar is doing their part as well, with anyone checking stats or joining the Rockstar Games Social Club over the weekend will be entered in a sweepstakes to win a home entertainment package valued at more than $6000 or a runner- prize of a custom GTA IV branded 360 and even more swag.
Things are kicking off today from 3:00PM to 9:00PM Eastern with a whole slew of GTA IV devs online to play against fans of the game. Hit the jump for a list of Rockstar gamertags to add to your friends list.
I’m posting this video, from recently formed game comedy group Glitch the System, mostly because it helped me come to the realisation that I can use the word Thompsons to define naught bits, as in: I just kicked some guy in the Thompsons. Make a note, I plan to use that a lot.
The SIXAXIS motion controls in Rockstar Games’ sublime opus Grand Theft Auto IV feels like a last minute appendage, and not a particularly useful one. It’s like the game’s third nipple, you know it’s there, and maybe you can’t resist a fiddle, but no good will come of it.
As Mike McWhertor and I alluded to earlier this week, we both spent five days last week holed up in a room in a swank San Francisco hotel playing through Grand Theft Auto IV. Yes, all of the way through.
The embargo for our official review and other hands-ons, impressions, comparisons, stories and whatnots doesn’t lift until Sunday (10 a.m. Crecentral), but the package of stories I wrote for the Rocky Mountain News ran this morning. The story for the paper is geared for a much more mainstream audience, so I’m not sure how much you all will get out of it, but here’s how it wraps up.
A peek at Gamercard aggregator MyGamerCard.net reveals a long list of Xbox 360 users already racking up achievements on Grand Theft Auto IV since an illegal torrent of the game was leaked yesterday and early copies started showing up in people’s homes.
