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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Hot, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 13 Comments »
According to this NewsWeek article, GameStop is seeing the 360 version of GTA IV outselling the PS3 SKU by 2:1. The figures from the US retailer are taken from the game's ... Read more..Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar | 7 Comments »
According to this post on the boardsus.playstation forum, 2K's tech support has said that Sony is looking into making a new firmware for the 60GB PS3 in order to fix ... Read more..Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Action, Australia, PS3, Rockstar, Sony | 8 Comments »
This is going to get worse before it gets better, right? According to this IGN report, Sony Australia's claiming the PS3 version of GTA IV's outsold the 360 SKU so ... Read more..Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Action, Microsoft, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Speaking in the latest edition of the Major Nelson podcast, perennial guest "e" has claimed that nearly half of all new Xbox 360's sold since GTA IV launched have also ... Read more..Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Kotaku's posted a shot of an advert in GTA IV offering flights to Los Santos for $299. Earlier this week, an image of an air ticket from Liberty City to ... Read more..Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Posted in Action, Charts, Germany, India, PS3, Spain, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
As surprising as the moon coming up at night, but there we are. According to this MCV piece, GTA IV is top of the charts in Germany, Spain and Sweden ... Read more..Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Rumour, Xbox 360 | 24 Comments »
Someone over at the GTA Forums has noticed that on the Rockstar Social club site there's an image of a plane ticket for a Mr Niko Bellic - with the ... Read more..Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in Action, Journalism, PS3, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | 8 Comments »
British "newspaper" the Daily Mail - famed for the now-removed Anne Diamond anti-games review piece - has awarded GTA IV a five-out-of-five score. "Whether you believe that this represents a new ... Read more..Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Gamedaily is running a ten-step guide on how to look like GTA IV's Niko Bellic. We're saying nothing. Nothing at all. By Mike Bowden Read more..Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Rockstar's published a massive guide to online play on GTA IV, as you can see on Kotaku. It's massive, so read it over there. There's detail there on everything from ... Read more..Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 36 Comments »
This has been in the works for a while now, and for good reason. Rich Leadbetter's GTA IV PS3-360 comparison feature's gone live on Eurogamer, featuring pixel-to-pixel video comparisons of ... Read more..Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Action, India, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »
GameGuru, font of all games knowledge Indian, is reporting that GTA IV didn't release in India on April 29 as previously hoped. Local distributor E-express has put the delay down ... Read more..Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Action, Microsoft, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
According to a set of stats published on GamerScoreBlog, more than 2.3 million people played GTA IV on Xbox Live in the game's first week on sale. From the site: In ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar | 1 Comment »
According to PS3F, the GTA IV patch we reported on earlier's been released. The update's designed to ease server load during multiplay, and will hopefully fix the freeze issue everyone's been ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Sony, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Speaking to Videogamer.com at the SCEE PlayStation Day in London yesterday, SCEE president David Reeves said that there's a good chance of the PS3 version of GTA IV getting downloadable ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, Microsoft, PS3, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | 16 Comments »
Microsoft's issued a press release today - following news that GTA IV's sold 926,000 copies in the UK in the game's first week on sale, 514,000 on 360 and 413,000 ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 6 Comments »
GTA IV has acheived sales of $500 million in its first week, Take-Two has announced. The game has shipped in the region of 6 million units, 3.6 million of them on ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar | 3 Comments »
Eurogamer, citing a Sony source, is reporting that a patch for the PS3 version of GTA IV is likely to be released today. Apparently the fix is aimed at "reducing the ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, Charts, PS3, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | 8 Comments »
Last week's charts are here. These figures are for the week ending May 3. Grand Theft Auto IV Wii Fit Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Wii Play Mario Kart Wii Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Pro ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Take-Two, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Speaking in this CNBC interview, Take-Tweo chairman Strauss Zelnick has claimed that there are no technical problems with GTA IV at all. When asked about any issues with the game, Zelnick ... Read more..Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, Trade, UK, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »
According to this GI report, Chart-Track figures show that GTA IV has sold more than 926,000 copies sold in its first five days on sale in the UK. The British organisation ... Read more..Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Sony, Xbox 360 | 13 Comments »
Speaking to videogaming247 at the SCEE PlayStation Day in London this afternoon, SCE president Kaz Hirai has said no uncertain terms that he believes Grand Theft Auto is primarily a ... Read more..Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Action, Rockstar, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | No Comments »
Another giant shock. Don't expect this to change any time soon. Figures are based on unique users and are from the week starting April 28. GTA IV Call of Duty 4 Halo 3 Guitar ... Read more..Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Legalities, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
According to this Reuters report, Take-Two has sued the Chicago Transit Authority over its decision to pull $300,000 worth of Grand Theft Auto ads from public transport in the city ... Read more..Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Action, Australia, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »
According to this Gamespot report, the only differences anyone's found between the Australian and European version's of GTA IV so far is in the way certain aspects of prostitution are ... Read more..Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Action, New Zealand, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
According to this New Zealand Herald report, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has been warning retailers this week to stay off supplying GTA IV to parents "demanding" ... Read more..Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Action, Music, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
According to this Reuters piece, 40 percent of the GTA IV soundtrack had to be stocked by Rockstar itself on Amazon before GTA IV launched. The game's track listing - which ... Read more..Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Speaking in the latest Major Nelson podcast, guest "e", who's most recently been working on getting Xbox Live ready for GTA IV's launch, has revealed a fairly startling stat regarding ... Read more..Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment »
Lord. We're lucky we're not having any of these problems with GTA IV. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still getting lock-ups with the game, and some have created a YouTube ... Read more..Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
GamesRadar's posted a four-minute movie of Ricky Gervais's stand-up routine from GTA IV. You could, obviously, find it in the game and watch it there, but where would be the ... Read more..Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Stuff, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Writing in the Sun, Brit car show presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said that playing Grand Theft Auto didn't make him feel violent. "This week the latest version of videogame Grand Theft ... Read more..Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Action, Microsoft, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Speaking to Next-Gen, Xbox's Aaron Greenberg has claimed that the GTA IV Xbox Live offering has proved insanely popular this week. "We had roughly 1 million users in the first 24 ... Read more..Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
According to this SarcasticGamer piece 733t haxxors VladsBoys have uncovered a dumped mission in the leaked GTA IV code called "Hot Coughing". Apparently the mission didn't make it into the retail ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, America, Journalism, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 6 Comments »
Speaking to GameDaily, IGN Xbox 360 editor Hilary Goldstein has given a frank interview about how he secured the exclusive on GTA IV and his reaction to a Variety article ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Dan Houser's hardcore. He swears in interviews. And he ain't playin' no Peggle, foo'. "Fuck all this stuff about casual gaming," he told the New York Metro. He actually said, "F***," apparently, ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
Speaking in the comments of this story on N4G, ninjaraiden2003 - the guy that apparently finished GTA IV in 17 minutes and 15 seconds - has explained how he did ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 6 Comments »
According to the Rockstar Social Club's '100% Club' - which lists everyone who's completed the game, obviously - a certain ninjaraiden2003 has completed GTA IV on the Xbox 360 in ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, America, PS3, Rockstar, Violence in games, Xbox 360 | 8 Comments »
This is actually brilliant. After the link there's a movie from CNN of a guy claiming that GTA is training people to kill, using analogies such as WWI soldiers refusing ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, Trade, UK, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
Speaking to videogaming247 this morning, HMV and Toys R Us have both confirmed that more GTA IV stock is expected at retailers throughout the UK today. From what we can gather, ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, America, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, Trade, Xbox 360 | 7 Comments »
Sony and Microsoft are already involved in a tussle over "who's best" when it comes to GTA IV sales as related to their hardware, with Sony issuing a press release ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 4 Comments »
A vocal minority have been complaining of GTA IV freezes on both PS3 and Xbox 360 since the game launched on Tuesday, and Take-Two's finally offered some assistance, according to ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 11 Comments »
The resolution of the PS3 version of GTA IV's been something of a hot banana this week (there was more to it in the end: apparently it runs at ... Read more..Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Action, Journalism, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
This is the last "something gives GTA IV 10" story we're posting. We get it. The British mag has given the game a top score and apparently has the new ... Read more..Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in 2K, Action, EA, PS3, Rockstar, Take-Two, Trade, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
Bit late on this, but Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick's told the New York Times that he feels "vindicated" in fighting off EA's advances by the initial success of GTA IV. "The ... Read more..Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Action, Microsoft, Rockstar, Xbox 360, Xbox Live | 11 Comments »
Microsoft's quite confident you'll want to play GTA IV on Xbox Live. Assuming you didn't buy it on PS3, obviously. "The multiplayer in this game is so well implemented that I ... Read more..Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | 13 Comments »
Seriously. We just went to GAME, GameStation, WHSmiths, Currys and three indies and none of them had any copies. GameStation had a few left on PS3, and that was it: ... Read more..Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | No Comments »
IGN's put up a Google Maps version of Liberty City, just in case you get lost. This does kind of ruin the game if you look hard enough, so you ... Read more..Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox 360 | 7 Comments »
According to this Times interview with Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, GTA IV may be the most expensive game production of all time. “It's like making a theatre production, a few ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Retail, Rockstar, UK, Xbox 360 | 16 Comments »
According to ChartTrack data, the 360 version of GTA IV was more popular than the PS3 game on the first day of sales. Approximately 335,000 Xbox 360 games sold yesterday: 274,000 ... Read more..Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Action, PS3, Rockstar, Trade, UK, Xbox 360 | 2 Comments »
According to this GI story, GTA IV has had the biggest UK launch day on record, as if that's any surprise. From the site: GTA IV first day sales were 609,000 ... Read more..
