GTA IV Claims Top Spot On Xbox Live [Grand Theft Auto IV] From the Obvious Files comes news that Grand Theft Auto IV has unseated Xbox Live chart topper Call of Duty 4 as the title with the most unique users on the service. That's a lot of dead pedestrians! L [..]
Analyst: Rockstar's Rock Stars May Spark Bidding War [Grand Theft Auto] Take-Two's plummeting stock price may not be the only swift kick in the wallet for the publisher. After EA walked away from a planned purchase of the Grand Theft Auto publisher, Take-Two took a beating on Wall Street. The possible departures of Rockstar Gam [..]
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Four More Multiplayer GTA IV Modes Revealed [Grand Theft Auto IV] The official Grand Theft Auto IV site just updated with another wealth of information including details on four new multiplayer modes.
The new modes, all described in detail on the jump, include Team Mafiay [..]
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Statue Of Happiness Sits On My Desk (Not To Scale) [Grand Theft Auto IV] I received my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV today from Rockstar and tucked inside the box along with the game was this pretty damn cool replica of Liberty City's Statue of Happiness. Note how well it blends in with m [..]
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Breaking: First GTA IV Episodic DLC To Come To Xbox 360 In Q1 09 [Grand Theft Auto IV DLC]
The first installment of downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox 360 will be a full extra "episode," and is set to hit in the first fiscal quarter of 2009, Take-Two CEO Ben Feder revealed on the company's call to investors today. Take-Two's fiscal Q1 starts in November, whi [..]
Kotaku
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GTA IV Box O' Swag [Grand Theft Auto IV] I received a big, flat square box in the mail today packed with Grand Theft Auto IV swag. It included some pretty funny stuff:
A Swingers baseball cap
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Two GTA IV stickers
A foam [..]
Kotaku
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GTA's Lazlow discusses IV on Radio [Grand Theft Auto IV] Lazlow Jones, the principal DJ for Grand Theft Auto since it introduced a radio GTA III, went into the studio with Opie & Anthony on Friday and Holy Toledo, the first segment of his talk is shot through with spoilers.
Not the kind of spoilers tha [..]
Kotaku
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GTA IV Is "A Threat To American Values" [Grand Theft Auto IV] Syndicated columnist Michael Medved writes on the consistently awful Townhall.com that Grand Theft Auto IV "highlights the real threat to the American Way of Life", what he calls "the war on middle class values." We're having a hard [..]
Kotaku
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Sociologist Finds GTA IV is "Less Sensational" Than Real Crime [Grand Theft Auto IV] Slate contributor Sudhir Venkatesh is a Columbia sociology professor who has written a book about street gangs, even going so far as to run with one in Chicago for a book. So, naturally, Grand Theft Auto IV would intrigue him. His verdict on the game's realism? It "actually offered a less sensational po [..]
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Someone Dumb Thinks GTA IV Violence Inspired By "Al-Qaeda" [Grand Theft Auto IV] A report from Spiegel online points to someone who isn't that bright theorizing that Grand Theft Auto IV's designers were inspired by attacks from the Osama bin Laden lead terrorist group. Spiegel cites a member of a message board populated by "cyber- [..]
Arise, Sirs Dan And Sam Houser? [Grand Theft Auto] As savvy a piss-take on modern America as the Grand Theft Auto series has become, it's always worth remembering that it's not an American series. It's a British one. Rockstar are a British company (as were DMA), their founders, British. And with the GTA series nestled securely atop the gaming world in [..]