Posted 5/5/2008
Ed Levine, the food critic who writes for Serious Eats, has some tasty first impressions of the real NYC foody locations that inspired some of Liberty's restaurant architecture.
Filed Under: news, architecture, side-by-sides
Posted 5/5/2008
Over at the glorious Kotaku, Michael McWhertor takes on a question that hasn't been addressed much yet: specifically, which next generation platform got the better version of the year's biggest game? The answers are mixed.
Filed Under: news, ps3, xbox
Posted 5/4/2008
The GTA series of games has always been blessed with rock solid driving controls. They've become such a standard, in fact, that most players assume they'll have the same push-button accelerator and shoulder-button handbrake, even in non-Rockstar games. SO for GTA IV, Rockstar, in their infinite wisdom, decided to CHANGE THESE PERFECT CONTROLS.
Filed Under: tips
Posted 5/4/2008
One of the biggest areas in which GTA IV expands on what came before is the Internet. No, not the online multiplayer games, but the in-game Internet that your character uses. It's a story element in various missions, as well as a resource and a source of deep background info, tips and secrets.
Filed Under: secrets
GTA Confidential is a community site started by a couple of ex-industry gearheads in which we study, admire, play and dissect Grand Theft Auto.
We've canned the old site for this fresh start: we'll be collecting maps, tips, walkthroughs and other interesting GTA IV related stuff here, with something new every day or so. If you're looking for our older writings on San Andreas or older games, you're out of luck, sorry.
We're trying to get tags to work. Here's a start.
Tips
Secrets
Walkthroughs
Multiplayer
Maps
Other sites with sexy GTA info for you.
More coming soon as we move to this new blogging engine!