Posted 5/8/2008
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.
Filed Under: news, sales
Posted 5/7/2008
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.
Filed Under: news, secrets, meta
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
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.
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