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Rockstar Pretty Much Kiboshes the Idea of GTA Film
Speaking of movies, forget about seeing one based on Grand Theft Auto. The Los Angeles Times, examining Ubisoft’s and Microsoft’s entries into filmmaking, went asking why Rockstar hasn’t thought of the same thing. Turns out they have, and they didn’t like the mental image. Says Dan Houser, the Rockstar vice president: We don’t believe that…
By Owen Good Published July 25, 2009 -
Criminal Lies About GTA; D.C. Radio Station Spreads It
You know how in Grand Theft Auto you can drive around swatting pedestrians with an open car door? Yes? No? Doesn’t matter, a teen headed to jail for doing that blamed it on the game. The prosecutor in the case of Nathan Hartley, convicted of “door-checking” two Maryland kids and sent to jail for 7…
By Owen Good Published July 24, 2009 -
Rare Sighting: Pro-Marijuana Reference In A Video Game
As I played the upcoming Grand Theft Auto-like iPhone game Gangstar: West Coast Hustle earlier this week, I tuned the radio to 42.0 and got a surprise. The 42.0 station, the frequency itself a reference to marijuana, is called “Legalize It. “It’s one of four radio stations of original music in the game, which models…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 23, 2009 -
Neurosurgeons Blame Increase in Car Surfing On Grand Theft Auto
The increased popularity of car surfing corresponds to the release of the Grand Theft Auto games and YouTube videos showing the activity, according to a study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery. The authors of the study found that there were 74 cases of car-surfing between 1999 and 20008 in Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Texas.…
By Brian Crecente Published July 22, 2009 -
ESA Sues For Rights To Advertise Games On Chicago Buses
The Entertainment Software Association today filed suit against the Chicago Transit Authority over the right to advertise certain video games on Chicago’s buses and subways. The suit challenges the transit authority’s prohibition against advertising computer and video games rated Mature or Adults Only. There is no such prohibition against advertising R-rated movies, mature TV shows…
By Brian Crecente Published July 22, 2009 -
Grand Theft Auto And Pac-Man? “The Same”
Stay with us, here! Don’t stop reading. At the Develop conference, Lemmings and original GTA designer David Jones recounts how the game is just like Pac-Man: People said to me that GTA was just like Pac-Man — he eats the dots, while you drive over the dots in GTA. The police chase you like the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2009 -
GTA: Chinatown Wars Will Be Adults Only In Japan
Rockstar Games‘ littlest entry in the Grand Theft Auto series is heading to Japan this Fall, making the Nintendo DS title the first to be slapped with the adults only Z-rating on the platform. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars‘ 18-and-up rating isn’t anything new for the series. The Japanese software ratings board CERO shows all…
By Michael McWhertor Published July 6, 2009 -
Rockstar’s Agent “Very, Very Different” From GTA
What do we know about Rockstar North’s PlayStation 3 exclusive title Agent? Not much, other than that Rockstar founder Sam Houser believes that Agent, set in the 1970s and full of delicious espionage, will be “the ultimate action game.” Take-Two CEO Ben Feder sheds a little more light on the mysterious PS3 game to Eurogamer,…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2009 -
Kotaku Bureau of Weights & Measures Studies Fallout, Physics, Also Beer
About a year ago, you may recall, my brother and I attempted to derive the product of Pac-Man’s metabolic functions. In that spirit, Kotaku has now created its own Bureau of Weights & Measures. The Bureau’s mission: To needlessly expose the wide gulf between video game physics and the laws of the real world; to…
By Owen Good Published June 24, 2009 -
Obama Maybe Not So Gamer Friendly After All
In a speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama listed video games as health concern — a challenge to Entertainment Software Administration president Mike Gallagher’s statement that the Obama administration was game-friendly. The Wall Street Journal has the full text of the speech, but there’s really only one part that even mentions video games:…
By AJ Glasser Published June 16, 2009 -
APB Does All Of The Following, In Theory
No game at E3 may have had a longer list of unexpected features than APB, Real Time Worlds’ so-called crossing of Grand Theft Auto and an MMO. APB, which comes from the creators of Crackdown, has been in development for a few years and has bounced publishers to land at EA for its expected early…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 12, 2009 -
‘Nine Games That Went Too Far’ Doesn’t Go Very Far Itself
Surprise, surprise. Of nine “games that went too far” named on a network news website, which is the only one gamers have actually, you know, played? Hint: It rhymes with “Schmand Schmeft Schmauto IV.” Here’s the list, truly representative of the worst of the worst that everyone is playing, compiled by ABC News in a…
By Owen Good Published June 6, 2009 -
Rockstar, Obama Put Latinos Front And Center
While it’s unlikely that the White House coordinated with the makers of Grand Theft Auto, the two parties managed to make May 26, 2009 a significant date for Latinos. Today saw the announcement not just of the first Latino protagonist of a Grand Theft Auto adventure but the nomination by President Barack Obama of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 26, 2009 -
Rockstar Co-Founders Form New Studio
Jamie King and Gary Formeman, who founded Rockstar Games with three others, are teaming up with former Image Metrics and NBC execs to create a new video game studio. 4mm Games is developing “online worlds that will define social gaming”, according to the company’s website. The studio is teaming with CEA Autumn Games in a…
By Brian Crecente Published May 21, 2009 -
E3 Twitter Rumors ‘Uninformed,’ Says Microsoft
A mystery Twitter feed is spooning out rich details about Microsoft’s Xbox 360 E3 press conference, from GTA info to Forza 3. Leaks? Educated guesses? Kotaku asked around. Is that next GTA episode really called Blood And a Four-Leaf Clover? Is Metal Gear Solid + Oxide about the be unveiled at the Microsoft E3 press…
By Stephen Totilo Published May 15, 2009 -
When Game Pirates Should Become Game Designers
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By Luke Plunkett Published April 29, 2009 -
Mafia II Delivers Room Service
Mafia II is a “buddy story,” in the words of Producer Denby Grace – a tale of a mid-50s era mobster protecting his family and The Family in the face of organized crime. For the world’s first look at the game, 2K Games demoed a single mission about halfway through the game’s branching storyline. Vito…
By AJ Glasser Published April 27, 2009 -
Judge Mathis Game to Use Prison Rape to Reinforce Making Positive Choices
News of a game based on TV’s “Judge Mathis” is jawdropping for two reasons: First, I mean, we’re talking about a goddamn Judge Mathis video game. A third-person shooter, even. Second, his honor makes perhaps the most flip comment about prison rape in the history of American jurisprudence. For those who don’t know The Honorable…
By Owen Good Published April 11, 2009 -
GTA Police Car Mods Have American Cops Feeling Blue
NBC are reporting that a series of Grand Theft auto modifications – aimed at replacing the fictional in-game police cars with replicas of real ones – have some American cops a little concerned. While the mods are nothing new (they’re for the ageing San Andreas, first released on PC in 2005), the Police in question…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 8, 2009 -
Man Finds Ecstasy In Used Copy Of Grand Theft Auto
A man purchasing two used Grand Theft Auto titles from a store in Gloucestershire, England, over the weekend got more than he bargained for, to the tune of four tablets worth of the drug ecstasy. Richard Thornhill purchased two used Grand Theft Auto titles from a Gamestation store in Cheltenham on Sunday. Upon opening one…
By Mike Fahey Published April 8, 2009