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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…
By Owen Good Published January 4, 2010 -
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…
By Owen Good Published December 5, 2009 -
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…
By Michael McWhertor Published December 3, 2009 -
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…
By Owen Good Published November 15, 2009 -
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.…
By Owen Good Published October 28, 2009 -
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…
By Brian Crecente Published October 27, 2009 -
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…
By Owen Good Published October 26, 2009 -
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…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 22, 2009 -
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…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009 -
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 19, 2009 -
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…
By AJ Glasser Published October 12, 2009 -
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]
By Owen Good Published October 3, 2009 -
Introducing Mr. Yusuf Amir of Liberty City
Meet Yusuf Amir, who’s a successful businessman gangster and rival of Gay Tony. Yusuf enjoys dancing in his tightie-whities, but that’s not why this is NSFW. Huge F-bomb about 10 seconds in; it might rupture your chaste workplace speakers. Rockstar’s news release accompanying this video describes Amir as “The affable, cutthroat real estate and construction…
By Owen Good Published September 24, 2009 -
The Many Lawsuits of Take-Two
While Take-Two recently settled a lawsuit brought against them over the now infamous Hot Coffee of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas this week, that doesn’t mean they’re in the clear. The publisher has faced nearly a half-dozen other lawsuits dating back to 2005 over everything from alleged fiduciary mishandling to refusing to sell the company…
By Brian Crecente Published September 3, 2009 -
Rockstar Dates Next PSP Grand Theft Auto
Rockstar Games just dropped an October 20 date for Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars PSP. The official release date for the new GTA was announced on Rockstar’s official Twitter feed. Rockstar has been quiet about how they are transforming the game that launched this past March on DS into a PSP game, maintaining for months…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 25, 2009 -
Dr. Stephen T. Colbert Prescribes New ‘Tan Theft Auto’ To Kids
Doctor of the fine arts and television personality Stephen T. Colbert, DFA has the cure for what ails our vitamin D deficient youth—video games!! During last night’s “Cheating Death” segment, Colbert busted out a new piece of tech, Prescott Pharmaceuticals’ Vaxbox, a revolutionary console that not only plays games, it gives kids a healthy orange…
By Michael McWhertor Published August 14, 2009 -
Here We Go Again: 7-Year-Old Drives Car; GTA Blamed
In Utah last Sunday, young Preston Scarborough took the family sedan for a spin. Instant media sensation, of course. A Fox News anchor was bold enough to ask did teh Grand Theft Auto do it? In the video, which you may see here, Klint Anderson, a spokesman for the Weber County Sheriff’s Office, mentioned that…
By Owen Good Published August 1, 2009
