Writes The Times:

There’s a Western game in the works for next spring, and the next GTA to think of. “We’ll think of a city first, then the characters,” says Houser. The script he will end up co-writing will run to around 1,000 pages, nearly ten times as much as a feature film.

There’s plenty of other interesting quotes inside the interview, including Houser’s reaction to being the punching bag/pariah every time a violent video game is brought up in popular culture. Also, and I didn’t know this, but in The Ballad of Gay Tony, he and Sam put a saxophonist in the park in Liberty City as a tribute to their father, a jazz artist who plays the instrument.

The Driving Force Behind Grand Theft Auto [Times of London via GameDaily]

But is it working on another Bully?

Game site TGL is running an excerpt from an interview it conducted with musician Shawn Lee, who scored Bully. When asked if he would be scoring any other games in the future, Lee told the site, “Yes. It looks like I will be doing the soundtrack for Bully 2 in the not so distant future…”

Bully 2? When was this announced by Rockstar? Oh right, it hasn’t been.

Update: A spokesperson from Rockstar Games declined to address the issue, telling Kotaku that “We do not comment on rumour and speculation.”

TGL exclusive interview reveals possible Bully sequel? [The Gaming Liberty]

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]

Manhunt 2, as an M-rated game on the PSP, PS2 and Wii, was very poorly received when it went out in 2007. While Rockstar hasn’t specified what’s going out in the super-duper adult version, it’s my hunch that “adult” here doesn’t mean what it means on pay-per-view. But there will be plenty of bodies.

AO-Rated Version of Manhunt 2 PC Coming Next Week via Download [Big Download via Joystiq]

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.

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]

Princess Robot Bubblegum is part of the new television lineup coming in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, the standalone compilation of The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost and Damned downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV. Princess Robot Bubblegum is my new hero. She fires rockets out of her chest, mutters mistranslated nonsense and…sleeps with plants?

Why do I get the odd feeling that I am writing one of Ashcraft’s posts?

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]

Taking place the entire month of November, Movember uses the moustache as a symbol to highlight important health issues affecting men, specifically prostate cancer. Think of it as our pink ribbon. Rockstar is a proud sponsor of Movember, and wants to give one lucky moustache growing man a chance to score an appearance in its Red Dead Revolver follow-up, Red Dead Redemption. All you have to do is grow a moustache during the month of Movember, starting from a clean shave, and submit your results to Rockstar in picture form. They’ll choose the most impressive of the lot and render him as a character in Red Dead Redemption.

I suppose women probably shouldn’t apply. I mean, some women certainly could, but I very much doubt they’d want to.

Visit the official Movember website for more information on how you can participate in helping raise awareness of men’s health issues with your face, and head over to Rockstar’s official contest page for official rules.

Just remember — your moustache will never be this epic, but it’s the thought that counts.