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Watch This Guy Make the Cleanest Getaway Ever in Grand Theft Auto
This is like some kind of stunt porn from The Fast and the Furious, but it’s still impressive to watch a guy get past a cop car and a SWAT roadblock, on a bridge entrance, without a scratch. I might get the alignment checked after a drive like this, but damn. Fine work. Somewhere an…
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Grand Theft Auto‘s Writer Talks Women, Writing—and Creative Larceny
Dan Houser, the 39-year-old chief writer of Rockstar Games and a co-founder of the studio that’s delivered the Grand Theft Auto series, admitted to some screen-looking in an interview this weekend with The New York Times: “Anyone who makes 3D games who says they’ve not borrowed something from Mario or Zelda is lying,” he said.…
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Virtual Tourism Has Never Felt More Real
There’s this small problem I’m having with Assassin’s Creed III. It’s nothing to do with the game itself, actually, and everything to do with me. The problem is this: Assassin’s Creed III is turning me into a kind of obnoxious person. I’ve developed this running commentary while the game goes on. It has nothing to…
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Court Rejects Claim that ‘San Andreas’ Hero was Based on Cypress Hill Backup Dancer
Unless he wants to try his luck before the U.S. Supreme Court, a backup dancer for Cypress Hill [not pictured, above] won’t be getting $250 million-or any money-from the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. A California appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling against the dancer’s claim that the character of Carl “C.J.”…
By Owen Good
