![[ GTA Image ]](./imgs-posts/gta4-016.jpg "Sodomize, or criticize the government? I can't decide!")
B Button: Penetrate Harder
Eegra is making a run at out-Onioning yesterday's post with a great guide to GTA IV that should help any protest group get upset without needing to do any of that pesky research first.
Update 5/9/2008
![[ GTA Image ]](./imgs-posts/gta4-xboxmenu.jpg "A lot of new XBox Live users this month!")
GTA Driving XBox360 Sales... Hard
The clearly impartial website called XBox360Fanboy relates a Microsoft report on booming 360 sales the week of GTA IV's release. As hoped, the title is encouraging many, many buyers to make the leap to a next-gen platform.
Update 5/8/2008
![[ GTA Image ]](./imgs-posts/gta4-013.jpg "Spiders? My cousin is girly man?")
Fear of Spiders Plays No Role Whatsoever in Plot
It's not a real news item until the Onion reports it. Our choice for the 21st Century's Paper of Record today reveals some of the new features of GTA IV...
Update 5/8/2008
![[ GTA Image ]](./imgs-posts/gta4-003.jpg "Is Liberty City a reflection of NYC, or vice versa?")
Real Journalism Takes on Fake City
GTA has always been more of a New York Post sort of game, but today David Itzkoff, a 'real writer' who works for the New York Times, attempts to take on some of the deeper aspects of immersive gameworld design in his review of GTA IV's Liberty City... without revealing too much of his East Coast Liberal Media XBox Elite bias. Itzkoff, who usually reviews books and movies for the Times, has put together a deep and readable article here, especially for non-gamers. It's much more interesting and refreshing to see a treatment like this than yet another press-release driven 'review'. While his ivory tower does glimmer a bit from time to time (Who else but New Yorkers could possibly understand or appreciate this, he explains matter of factly), it's never blinding, and he does give this shiny blinky 'videogame' a serious treatment, and we always welcome that: too much public discourse about GTA is trapped in a sort of "oh but it will corrupt our children!" loop. In an aside, and perhaps accidentally, he even reveals what might be a hidden GTA IV cheat. More on that later.
Update 5/7/2008