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In Honor of Grand Theft Auto V, Here’s a Liberty City Walkathon
Grand Theft Auto V is official. And while it’s not set in Liberty City, what better way to honor the game’s announcement than by pounding the iconic digital city’s virtual pavement. YouTube user GermanScientistTV and pal Scotty decided to tour Grand Theft Auto IV‘s Liberty City on foot. The ensuing result (and footage) is hypnotic,…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 31, 2011 -
Don’t Worry, Rockstar’s Already Thinking of Mobile Ports for Vice City and San Andreas
Two weeks ago Rockstar said it was bringing its seminal hit Grand Theft Auto III to state-of-the-art mobile platforms. Yes, they already know what you’re thinking. Bringing over Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas would be a “technical challenge,” the studio told Digital Trends, but they’re already thinking in that…
By Owen Good Published October 28, 2011 -
If a Woman was the Lead Character in Grand Theft Auto…
Women in Grand Theft Auto games have had many roles. Mom. Girlfriend. Nightclub manager. Criminal. Lots of roles. Just never the main one. On the eve of the release of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, and with no inside knowledge about who will be the star of this new game, I find…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2011 -
GTA III‘s Fake News Turns 10, Still Funny and a Bit Demented
A decade ago, Rockstar Games was trying to be funny. Starting in February of 2001, all the way to the 18th of October, just before the most important game release in their company’s history, they were trying to make people laugh about Grand Theft Auto III. They did it with a fake online newspaper chronicling…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 26, 2011 -
Grand Theft Auto V’s Logo Has Some Real History
And I don’t mean the iconic “Price is Right” font. I mean the way the latest game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, has a rather interesting employment of antique US currency. As spotted by a Reddit user, the “FIVE” at the end of the game’s logo is lifted almost directly from an old…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2011 -
Seagulls, Cool Jazz, and Megadeth: 5 Favorite Tunes From Grand Theft Auto
With Rockstar about to announce the release of Grand Theft Auto V, we’re all abuzz theorizing, postulating, and prognosticating about things that the game will or won’t have. Totilo’s looked at what systems the game might be on, Crecente guessed about possible settings. And then, Stephen got a tip that the game will indeed be…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 25, 2011 -
5 Questions the GTA V Trailer Will Hopefully Answer
Above is the first trailer for GTA IV. Remember that? It came out at the end of March 2007 and answered questions about the next GTA, even as it raised a bunch of new ones. It showed graphics that shamed its contemporaries, revealed Liberty City (aka New York City) as the location and introduced us…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011 -
Grand Theft Auto V Will Be Set in Los Angeles, May Star Multiple Characters
Strengthening long-standing rumors for years that the next Grand Theft Auto would be set in Los Angeles or a fictional version thereof, a source familiar with the game told Kotaku today that those rumors are true. GTA V will be set in some version of L.A., bringing the famous franchise to a place that last…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011 -
These Are the Best Cities For the Next Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto is a franchise driven by stories, with a massive cast of characters and nearly endless replayability. But the thing that most distinguishes one Grand Theft Auto from the next is Rockstar’s glorious, subversive take on each of the games’ settings. The cityscape of a Grand Theft Auto is often the game’s most…
By Brian Crecente Published October 25, 2011 -
News of GTA V‘s Trailer Hit On Unhappy Anniversary for GTA Foe
Jack Thompson, active nemesis of any video game that he believes causes real world violence, was disbarred on September 25, 2008. Website GamePolitics notes that his disbarrment kicked in Oct 25, 2008 and that, three years to the day later, we get an announcement of GTA V. Jack hates GTA
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011 -
The Huge Hardware Implications for Grand Theft Auto V and the Future of Video Games
In a year full of headlines about Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, it’s possible to think that the forces that shape the future of what we’ll play and where we’ll play it is now solely in the hands of the people who make plastic and metal boxes. Or maybe it’s in the hands of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 25, 2011 -
Grand Theft Auto V To Be Revealed Next Week
On November 2, Rockstar will release the debut trailer for the fifth main game in the Grand Theft Auto series, according to the developer’s site With the title previously unconfirmed, the above logo is our first official glimpse of anything to do with the game, though there have been strong rumours for a while now…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2011 -
Here’s the First Dumbass Thing the Mainstream Media Said About Grand Theft Auto III
Ten years ago today, Grand Theft Auto III released for the PlayStation 2. It became, in the words of Time “a national obsession.” In the mainstream media, it has since served as the No. 1 scapegoat for the corruption of youth through violent video games. Rightfully considered an epochal entry in video game design, the…
By Owen Good Published October 22, 2011 -
How 9/11 Gave Us Grand Theft Auto‘s Iconic Cover Style
There was Sept. 11. Then there was Oct. 22, when Grand Theft Auto III released, at a time when the United States was extremely high strung about things like the violence and moral relativism for which the series is known. Rockstar Games’ Dan Houser, in a rare interview, said that the game did strip out…
By Owen Good Published October 19, 2011 -
You May Now Watch Grand Theft Auto III‘s 10th Anniversary Trailer
Behold the 10th anniversary for Grand Theft Auto III, a game that came out on October 22, 2001, back before Halo existed (Halo came out a month later, and, man, we’re all so old!). What version of the game is this? A Rockstar rep says it’s not the new mobile version, which is coming soon…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2011 -
GTA III Anniversary Edition Will Come to Non-Bleeding-Edge iOS Devices, Too
Yesterday we reported that the 10th anniversary Grand Theft Auto III will be for iPad 2, iPhone 4S and other cutting-edge devices. What of older iPads/iPhones? Rockstar tells us they’ll bring it to “single core iOS devices in the future.”
By Stephen Totilo Published October 14, 2011 -
Grand Theft Auto III on iOS Looks Better Than You Remember
Hot on the heels of the announcement earlier today, Rockstar Games made the 10th anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto IIIavailable for attendees to play. After about 10 minutes of hands-on time with the game running on an iPad 2, there’s no mistaking that GTA III on iOS is a loving port of the game…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 13, 2011 -
Grand Theft Auto III Getting Android and iPhone 4S Versions, Pricey Action Figure [UPDATE]
Rockstar Games revealed today that it would be honoring Grand Theft Auto III‘s 10th anniversary with a special edition. Later this fall, it’s coming to an array of portable devices for Android, but fewer ones for iOS. “Grand Theft Auto III showed us the potential of open world games,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 13, 2011 -
GTA IV Overtakes San Andreas in Lifetime Sales [Correction]
Grand Theft Auto IV, released in 2008, has just now overtaken its predecessor, 2004’s Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in total sales, says the top boss over the GTA brand. [Corrected at bottom of story.] Grand Theft Auto IV moved more than 2 million copies between March and now, according to figures cited by Strauss…
By Owen Good Published September 15, 2011