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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 -
CultureTotal RecallWhat 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 -
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 -
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 -
Read The Humble Beginnings of Grand Theft Auto From 16 Years Ago
Grand Theft Auto, the controversial and violent video game series that has sold in excess of 100 million units, began its life as a simple design document in 1995, back when the game was still known as Race’n’Chase. Reading that design doc isn’t nearly as much fun as playing a Grand Theft Auto game, but…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 21, 2011 -
Melbourne Gunman Felt Like A Computer Game Hero During Two-Day Crime Spree
Last June 19-year-old David Rowntree grabbed a sawed-off shotgun and went on a two-day criminal rampage, stealing two cars and committing multiple burglaries. Now Rowntree tells a Melbourne, Australia, court that he felt like a computer game hero. Rowntree’s 2010 rampage was impressive, to say the least. The young man forced a lockdown around the…
By Mike Fahey Published March 18, 2011 -
Is Grand Theft Auto V Codenamed Rush? And Are These Its Major Players?
The next Grand Theft Auto game may be heading back to Los Angeles—or its GTA equivalent Los Santos—if rumored casting details dug up by Google search crackerjack “superannuation” for a project codenamed “Rush” are Rockstar-related. Casting calls for a project by the name of Rush tied to Take-Two Interactive, which owns Rockstar Games, point to…
By Michael McWhertor Published March 7, 2011 -
Suspect Compares British Shooting Spree To Grand Theft Auto
Qhuram Awan was either an unwilling hostage or a willing accomplice during Raoul Moat’s 2010 crime spree that left one dead and two seriously wounded. Speaking to Newcastle Crown Court, Awan recalls the event was “like a video game.” “It’s all getting too much now. It’s like a cross between GTA and Jason Bourne.” Those…
By Mike Fahey Published February 28, 2011 -
Imagine A World Without Grand Theft Auto
Seems ridiculous, what with Rockstar’s epic crime series still a benchmark for open-world gameplay, but did you know that the very first GTA came close to never being released? It had nothing to do with politics, or censorship, either. Instead, it was regular old-fashioned development troubles that nearly robbed the world of one of its…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2011 -
Video Games Teach Us How To Be Better Bad Drivers
A new study conducted by Continental Tyres has found that players of driving video games are better at passing their drivers test than non-gaming drivers. Unfortunately they suck at everything else. You know that feeling you get while you’re playing a racing game like Burnout Paradise or Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit when you blaze…
By Mike Fahey Published January 31, 2011