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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

How To Get To Work, With the Laws of Video Games Dangerously in Full Effect

Readers, please don’t try this at home. Let seasoned professionals like YouTube superstar Freddie Wong and crew illustrate the proper way to commute to ones workplace in a bizarre, video game-inspired reality. Using life lessons learned from Frogger, Grand Theft Auto and countless video games in which normal traffic laws simply do not apply, Mr.…

By Michael McWhertor Published September 12, 2011

Vice City Meets 2011 In Vice City Rage

The last we saw of Grand Theft Auto IV mod Vice City Rage, it was looking a little…empty. A few months on and the team behind the overhaul of the 1986 2002 classic have made some good progress. Star Tommy Vercetti is now in the game engine and sticking to the ground, meaning the building…

By Luke Plunkett Published September 6, 2011

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What do Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings Have In Common?

Rockstar North is a video game developer known and respected the world over as the creators and continued custodians of the core Grand Theft Auto series. That’s earned it a reputation as a specialist in the field of mature, cinematic video games. Games where drugs are dealt, prostitutes killed and people say fuck with a…

By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2011

London Riots Inspire Fresh Grand Theft Auto Finger Pointing

What has spurned hundreds to take to the streets of London to riot, burn and loot? According to the London Evening Standard newspaper, the city’s continuing—and spreading—riots have their roots in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto That tenuous connection between a violent sandbox crime spree of a video game and the very real violence happening…

By Michael McWhertor Published August 8, 2011

You’ve Been Playing GTA IV Wrong

When Grand Theft Auto IV came out, I was swept away. The scope, depth, and scale of the game were almost too much to take in. It seemed like a game in which anything was possible, like a parallel reality, re-created. Three years, two expansions, and countless hours of vehicular manslaughter have provided some much-needed…

By Kirk Hamilton Published August 8, 2011

Report: The Next Xbox Can Render Avatar Graphics

No, it won’t be wall-to-wall digital blue people. Well, I hope it won’t, because, man, I did not like Avatar However, AMD, the tech company responsible for Xbox 360 graphics tech, said the next Xbox will be able to render graphical detail on par with James Cameron’s sci-fi opus. AMD won’t confirm it’s working on…

By Brian Ashcraft Published July 18, 2011

The Past is Present in this San Andreas/GTA IV Mod

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 At work since December, the team hopes to release a public beta this fall. Above is about…

By Owen Good Published July 10, 2011

If Grand Theft Auto were a Pornographic…Oh, It Is Now

There’s absolutely no way that the link that’s at the end of this post is safe for work unless you work at a pornography factory (or Gawker) but if you’d like to see what a XXX parody of Grand Theft Auto looks like, you’ll find it at our sister site [Fleshbot]

By Joel Johnson Published June 7, 2011

“This is essentially Night Trap, this game.”

Is L.A. Noire—despite its running, gunning and vehicular cruising—essentially an elaboration on the point-and-click adventure game? Some critics and commenators have suggested that the title has more in common with Monkey Island than Grand Theft Auto IV, with the crucial difference being that L.A. Noire (unlike the adventure games of yesteryear) allows you to advance…

By Drew Cohen Published June 3, 2011

Take-Two Game To Be Totally New MMORPG

Today, Take-Two inked a deal with South Korea’s XLGames to make one of the U.S. game company’s titles into an MMORPG. Take-Two owns Rockstar Games (Grand Theft Auto) and 2K (BioShock). [via 4Gamer]

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 23, 2011

The Great Grand Theft Auto Megamix

Originally pieced together in 2008 but only released now, this “GTA Mix” by Neal Santos is over 70 minutes of music both from and inspired by the Grand Theft Auto series. It’s a franchise renowned for its excellent use of licensed and home-grown tracks, so yeah, if you’re in the mood to party this is…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 25, 2011

How I Scored An Interview with the J.D. Salinger of Games, Sam “Grand Theft Auto” Houser

Those damn cable networks that cover games only in terms of violence. Those big ‘consumer’ magazines that never review games. They think we don’t think. They think we don’t read. They think we need to get a life. Well, we have one, and, yeah, it’s rich beyond videogames. But it’s also made richer because of…

Harold Goldberg Published April 7, 2011

Why Hasn’t Rockstar Made A Grand Theft Auto Movie Yet?

The makers of Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and the upcoming L.A. Noire haven’t hopped on the “transmedia” bandwagon yet, meaning they haven’t tapped their best known franchises for movies, television shows or comic books. Why not? Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser tells the Hollywood Reporter, bluntly, that “Virtually all movies made from games are…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 5, 2011

Grand Theft Auto‘s Latest Gift To Hollywood Looks Painful

There are many wonderful things that a Hollywood filmmaker could borrow from Grand Theft Auto, including better police chases and user-controlled soundtracks, but the director of this weekend’s Jake Gyllenhaal movie Source Code is snatching something else. Here’s filmmaker Duncan Jones talking to the Columbus Dispatch: There’s this infamous video game, Grand Theft Auto, where,…

By Stephen Totilo Published April 1, 2011