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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 »
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and the Damned expansion takes the all new Liberty City that Rockstar Games introduced last year and gives it a biker gang makeover. More »
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Back in February we spotted a rumor that a GTA movie starring Eminem almost happened. It was knocked down the same day by Rockstar's Dan Houser, who said "we never entertained proceeding with the project." Maybe the story pitch was crap, but even if it wasn't, now we know at least one reason why. More »
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There was a time in the development cycle of Grand Theft Auto IV that Niko Bellic had a cell phone that could play music, MTV Multiplayer reports, but the option was cut. More »
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UK newspaper The Sun is trying their best to drum up some British outrage over Grand Theft Auto IV's inclusion of a child pageant site on the game's faux internet. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5016733&view=rss&microfeed=true I'm posting this video, from recently formed game comedy group Glitch the System, mostly because it helped me come to the realization 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. More »
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Soon after Grand Theft Auto's launch, when I went to start playing online matches, I noticed that the instruction manual was almost totally devoid of multiplayer details. In fact, the Brady Guide for the game, a virtual encyclopedia of GTA facts, was also missing any real information about multiplayer. More »
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Rockstar Games just confirmed that they have released a patch for the Playstation 3 version of GTA IV which was causing issues with online play. More »
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My Dad has been visiting since late last month and his arrival happened to have coincided with the arrival of another important thing in my life (these days): Grand Theft Auto IV. More »
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Last night the New York Times let slip that Grand Theft Auto IV pulled in more than $500 million in its first week, selling an astounding 6 million copies globally, 3.6 million of them on the first day alone. This morning Take-Two confirmed the report, adding some well-deserved back-patting to the numbers. More »
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This is the first (and I hope the last) senseless advertisement to try and ride the coattails of Grand Theft Auto IV's tremendous success to get people to buy things totally unrelated. More »
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It's only been a day since Grand Theft Auto IV hit stores worldwide, but boy has there been a lot of things to report, from the reviews, to impressions of multiplayer and comparisons of the systems, to reports of console freezing, and online killing problems, to how some New Yorkers are using the game as a form of catharsis. If you've been skimming our coverage, here is a break down of the stuff you probably don't want to miss. More »
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After waiting two days for a word, any word from Rockstar about the problems plaguing some Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 owners trying to play Grand Theft Auto IV, I returned to the phone this morning to give tech support another call and see how things are on their end. More »
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Mothers Against Drunk Drivers released a statement today saying that they demand the Entertainment Software Ratings Board reclassify Grand Theft Auto IV as an Adults Only game because it includes a mission in which "players have to drive drunk." More »
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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 my other bobbles? More »
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The Rocky Mountain News is hosting a chat session on the newspaper's website later today about Grand Theft Auto IV. They've asked me to drop by at noon (Mountain Time) to take questions and send out answers about my story for the paper, the game's release and other things game related. Of course I said yes, if for no other reason than to have a chance to talk with folks who don't usually play games. More »
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Earlier today we broke the news that some Grand Theft Auto IV gamers were having problems with the game on both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=385183&view=rss&microfeed=true Click to view During my marathon session with Grand Theft Auto IV earlier this month I played through the game on an Xbox 360, then switched over to the PS3. I couldn't notice much of a difference visually. The 360 seemed to have a bit more pop-in, but also seemed a tad cleaner looking, but I only noticed the latter by going back and forth between the TVs, which were set up side-by-side. Really, I didn't see anything of huge note. Now you can see for yourself how they compare. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=385085&view=rss&microfeed=true I went up to Denver today to tape some segments for X-Play about GTA 4. One or two, like the one above, will be popping up online tonight but the bulk of it will be showing up on their one hour special about the game tonight. If you want to turn it into a drinking game, take a drink every time I say GTA and TEN drinks when I accidentally refer to Rockstar's game as Gran Turismo. Smoooooooth move Brian. In my defense, or maybe theirs, neither N'Gai Croal nor Adam Sessler seemed to notice the mistake. More »
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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. More »
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Rockstar Games and the UPS corporation—sorry for calling you Fed Ex yesterday!—came through in a major way this morning, dropping off a hot (but legit) copy of Grand Theft Auto IV at Kotaku Towers West. Naturally, I took an appropriate amount of time playing the game before posting that it had arrived. But this isn't one of those disgusting bragging posts, where some schmuck editor taunts you with an early release; it's a reminder. More »
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Man, I am on a mission to get Jack Thompson to spam my inbox. I figured anything pairing "Grand Theft Auto" and "hookers" might trigger his impotent, wasted bot-army of letter writers which is, of course, himself alone. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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Any mouth breathing simpleton with the power to procreate must know that Grand Theft Auto IV isn't for kids. Right? Right! Therefore, Rockstar has (read: hasn't) cooked up an alternative to the violent, raunchy open world crime fest that's for mature audiences only in the Grand Theft Auto IV Activity Book For Kids. Find the hot coffee, son! Good job! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=383340&view=rss&microfeed=true Click to viewDo not, I repeat, do not click play if you don't want your introduction to Grand Theft Auto IV ruined. Just move along. I've warned you. No bitching about it in comments. More »
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Look, we knew it was coming. Retailers, especially big retailers like Harvey Norman, don't muck around with these kind of things. But it's nice to know that we've now got new pictures of the GTA IV/PlayStation 3 bundle, as well as an officially-endorsed recommended retail price. It'll go for AUD$749.95 (USD$715), but while the game's due on April 29, this bundle won't be ready until May 1. Can you stand the wait, Australia? More »
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No surprises here. Today, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe confirmed the long rumored (with pictures!) Grand Theft Auto IV bundle. Going on sale April 29th, it's packed with a 40GB PS3, a SIXAXIS and copy of Grand Theft Auto IV. Says David Reeves, SCEE president: More »
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Grand Theft Auto IV has gone gold. Ben Feder, CEO of the game's publisher Take Two, confirmed that GTA IV was "in production and in trucks en route to retailers." The M-rated game is out on the Xbox 360 and the PS3 April 29th. There will be pandemonium. You can bet on it. More »
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I received a big, flat square box in the mail today packed with Grand Theft Auto IV swag. It included some pretty funny stuff: More »
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As we approach the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV, we've learned more and more about the game, but the incremental updates have made it tougher and tougher to piece the whole thing together. So we've created a GTA IV compendium to get you up to speed on the game before its release. Because the last thing you want to be caught saying to the cashier is, "Wait, so this game has multiplayer??" More »
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We'll be two weeks from the release date as of Tuesday, so we're starting a regular feature here, wrapping up what's been going on in Grand Theft Auto IV in the previous week. It's a warehouse for things you might have missed or, in case you see something rad and wonder if you discovered it first, checking in to see what is known, what is unknown, what's rumored and what is b.s. More »
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Alright, well, this had me last night, but now I am not so sure. And while I was dithering over whether the video here is in fact real, or a fake, I missed out on an actual leak of an actual trailer for the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars. And it was taken down from YouTube before I could save the video. More »
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Grand Theft Auto IV has been on pre-order in my Amazon account ever since I got laid off last May and bought a lot of crap with my severance. The original release date was, what, October? At that time I thought I'd still be looking for work, and GTA is one of the great unemployed game franchises of all time. But fortunately (or not, if you have really distorted priorities) I have a job now. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=379067&view=rss&microfeed=true As we head inevitably toward the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV, Rockstar's information tap seems to have been opened wide. Today, along with the new multiplayer modes, the developers have dropped these two, short, but still funny videos. They seem to be showing off a bit of Playboy X's character and, on the jump, the gunplay and weapons of GTA IV. More »
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The official Grand Theft Auto IV site just updated with another wealth of information including details on four new multiplayer modes. More »
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Why is Australia getting a very special edition of Grand Theft Auto IV, one slightly less offensive to the sensibilities due to edited content? It's not just luck! Rockstar Games chalks it up to the lack of an R18+ rating available from the nation's Office of Film and Literature Classification. In a statement, Rockstar says that "there are some minor differences between the Australian and US/EU versions" but calms the fears of fans of mature content, adding that the changes "are not significant and we do not believe they take away from the level of scope and detail that make GTA IV such an incredible experience." More »
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If you live in the United Kingdom, getting your hands on a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV at the end of this month may be a bit of a challenge, if retailers are to be believed. UK shops GAME, GameStation and Play.com have told trade pub MCV that they're already at or are nearing pre-order capacity. It's the kind of good sell-out news that's either drafted by the marketing department at Rockstar Games or designed by some clever ad men to ramp up pre-orders. Or it's true and you're screwed, UK! More »
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I posted a rather lengthy (too lengthy) write-up of my impressions of Grand Theft Auto IV's multiplayer gaming earlier today. If you're not up for reading through the whole thing, and getting some samples of what the play was like and whether I liked it, you can just hit the jump and read the fact sheet for the modes I played through. Think of it as a GTA multiplayer crib sheet. More »
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A couple of months ago, before I had a chance to play GTA IV, I got into a discussion with an industry insider about Rockstar, and in particular, the Grand Theft Auto franchise. We were talking about whether the polarizing series, much beloved by gamers and reviled by non-gamers, had jumped the shark. More »
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