Several days ago, a woman named Lucia e-mailed me to tell me the positive impact Grand Theft Auto IV had on her life. The game helped make her “a strong, independent black woman,” she told me. Hers was not the kind of e-mail you get every day, certainly not about a game like Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto.

Rockstar North's decade-old Manhunt game—the game that made their Grand Theft Auto series seem tame—will be downloadable on the PS3's PlayStation Network for $10, according to the Rockstar Newswire.

I snapped this from the new Trevor trailer for Grand Theft Auto. I spy a Rockstar Games version of a Juggalo. You know Juggalos? The devotees of the Insane Clown Posse?

There's a new Scientology-ish bit of hype for Grand Theft Auto V, and there's a contest attached. What can you win? The fine print indicates you could appear in Rockstar's big fall game:

Sol Yurick, the writer whose 1965 novel "The Warriors" was adapted into a film 14 years later—which then became one of the best adapted works ever in video gaming—died this weekend. He was 88.

Rockstar Games' next giant crime caper is going to be massively huge, big enough to warrant lots of air travel. This we know. But it looks like players will be getting up to no good in the oceans, too.

Eight years and one month ago, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas released on the PlayStation 2. It begins rather abruptly—C.J. in an airport, saying that after five years on the east coast, it was time to return to San Andreas.