Grand Theft Auto

Perhaps We’re Sending The Wrong Message

An ad for Auto Show 2010 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. “Drive it like you stole it” is the slogan of the show, as well as the show’s marketing department. Thanks Kyle!

Is Grand Theft Auto A Bad Influence On Our Kittens?

Grand Theft Auto kitties with vices, part of Tim Barber’s “Kitty City” series, as seen on Cute Overload.

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City Announced for PS3 and PC

Released on the Xbox 360 in October 2009, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City is coming to the PlayStation 3 and Games for Windows – LIVE. Episodes from Liberty City is a compilation of the episodic downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV and includes expansion packs The Lost and Damned (originally released on…

+ Muscle, + Stamina, – Fat

Poster seen by reader Reagan M. in a gym – not in Ganton, but New Zealand.

I Guess He’d Already Completed “Violation of Probation”

Guess what game Michael Ray Ekes was playing when the fuzz came to arrest him for stealing a car. Hint: It wasn’t “Possession of Burglary Tools with Intent to Use,” although he was also wanted for that. The Tampa Tribune had a big ol’ time informing us Ekes, 30, was playing hisself some Grand Theft…

Chinatown Wars Spread To The iPhone

As is the way with most iPhone releases, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has been set loose upon the App Store with absolutely zero warning or pre-emptive fanfare. One moment, we’re busy getting on with our weekends, the next, we simply receive word that it’s out. Early reports say that the game is as…

Family Guy Teaches Us How to Drive — Using Grand Theft Auto

Last night on a very special Family Guy: When Peter loses his memory, he needs to re-learn everything. That includes driving. Trouble follows when Lois hooks him up to the murder simulator. By the way, can you tell that’s a hooker? It’s a hooker. Look how she’s dressed. Peter Uses Grand Theft Auto as a…

The Straight Story of ‘Gay Tony’

Calling it “the straightest Grand Theft Auto ever,” largely for effect, PopMatters’ G. Christopher Williams says The Ballad of Gay Tony hews to some hetero-driven crime-novel representations of both sexualities, but in the end is about much deeper themes. Warning, this discussion will contain spoilers of “The Ballad of Gay Tony,” released Oct. 29. “Club…

Grand Theft Auto Doesn’t Need Annual Sequels, Says Take-Two

Annual iterations to reliable blockbuster games—like Call of Duty—would likely go a long way to improving Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive‘s bottom line. But execs for the publisher don’t believe GTA is in need of annual sequels. “In any non-GTA year, should we just assume you’re not going to make money?” an investment analyst…

Houser Interview Teases Grand Theft Auto V

Strauss Zelnick may be adamant about not announcing the next Grand Theft Auto, but Dan Houser, in a lengthy interview with The Times of London, so casually mentions work on the next GTA that it sounds rather inevitable. Writes The Times: There’s a Western game in the works for next spring, and the next GTA…

Is Rockstar Teasing Next GTA Location?

GTA4.Net noticed this “ad” in the Episodes from Liberty City instruction manual that, reading between the lines (or around the torn out part, anyway) seems to tease where the series is headed next. And maybe when. The ad, apparently for a fake movie, declares “Liberty City, It’s Over!” implying, naturally, that we’re all done here.…

Schizo Teen Goes on Drunken Ax Rampage After FIFA Losing Streak

> A schizophrenic teenager who killed a grandmother with an axe during a drunken rampage after a FIFA losing streak went on trial this week. After losing three games of FIFA 2008 against his younger brother and a friend, James Callaghan, 17, polished off a bottle of vodka, armed himself with an ax and a…

Five New Screens to Get You Ready for Gay Tony

We’re three days and and five new screens closer to the release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City and, more specifically, The Ballad of Gay Tony. Rockstar put out these five, foreshadowing what you can expect in the expansion. Luis scaling the Rotterdam Tower; flashing the Advanced MG machine gun, the titular Tony…

Get Sprunked With The Ballad Of Gay Tony’s Xtreme(!) Base Jumping Mode

I’m not normally one for the more xtreme pursuits, like base jumping from skyscrapers or drinking lemon-lime flavored soda, but there’s something about the prospect of parachuting into a convertible while avoiding bazooka fire that appeals to me. And while I haven’t played Grand Theft Auto IV’s multiplayer mode for months—not since The Lost and…

The Ballad Of Gay Tony To Have “Strong” Sex, Ample Thrusting

How does Rockstar Games plan to one-up the shock factor of full frontal male nudity from Grand Theft Auto: The Lost & Damned? Perhaps with some “strong” sex scenes and thrusts aplenty in The Ballad of Gay Tony. That’s how the British Board of Film Classification describes the potentially objectionable content in next week’s downloadable…

Yakuza Creator On Grand Theft Auto

SEGA’s PlayStation franchise Yakuza (Ryu Ga Gotoku) has often been called “The Grand Theft Auto of Japan”. Like GTA, players are in large urban environments in an underworld setting. That doesn’t mean designer Toshihiro Nagoshi is a fan, though. In a recent forum, the game designer referred to GTA as a game in which you…

Oh, GTA: Episodes From Liberty City Is Coming Alright

The obligatory Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City billboard, as seen on Canal St. in New York City. Thanks, y2julio!

You Led Me On! — Dating In Video Games

I peruse columns on Sundays and today found myself cracking up over Emily Short’s GameSetWatch column, ‘Homer In Silicon’: Communicating Character. In it, Short recounts her first brush with Fable II‘s romantic interaction system. She was told non-playable characters would have gifts for her, so she mistook the ring icon above a villager’s head as…

i’ve been shot!

My drummer has this story he tells sometimes, about this one time when he was drumming in some other band, and some dude who came backstage, having witnessed the entirety of the band’s performance, asked him, personally, off-handed: “Have you ever had a hot one in you?” My drummer was understandably confused. He was not…

Give Up Your Weapons … and Your Body Armor …

He is one of the LCPD’s best. A cop torn between duty and instinct, justice and the law. In Liberty City, the law is supreme. No matter how many grenades you push across that table, you’re still free to go. Click to view Grand Theft Auto Precinct [Atom.com via Destructoid]