http://www.gtaconfidential.com/ GTA Confidential: Grand Theft Auto IV Maps, Tips and Secrets. Updated daily. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:03:00 PDT Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:03:00 PDT Top/Videogames en-us http://www.gtaconfidential.com/rss/gtac-rss-title.gif http://www.gtaconfidential.com/ 114 54 28 Jun 2008 07:00:01 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta4-first-patch-released http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta4-first-patch-released (LATEST STORY) Rockstar today released the first wide-release patch for GTA 4 (Sony's self-induced system update doesn't count). The update, for both XBox 360 and PS3, claims to correct almost a dozen bugs in online play and improve performance. Some of the highlights of the update follow... [more...] 22 May 2008 06:02:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta4-friendship-dating-benefits http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta4-friendship-dating-benefits NEW: The pointlessness of the dating in GTA (especially the 'man-dating') turns out to be a little less pointless than you might think. Make certain girlfriends (or good buddies) happy enough and they'll start doing favors for you, on demand. Here's a quick list of who's worth befriending in Liberty City. [more...] 20 May 2008 06:01:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta4-cheat-codes-phone-numbers http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta4-cheat-codes-phone-numbers NEW: In lieu of 'up up down down left right left right B A start' (ahem), GTA IV gives us unlisted phone numbers as cheat codes. In this newest chapter of the twisted-up GTA saga, you can enter one of the special phone numbers below into your cell phone to cause an instant 'cheat' to happen. [more...] 13 May 2008 11:02:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta-iv-yahtzee-funny-review-video http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta-iv-yahtzee-funny-review-video NEW: You knew it was coming, and here it is. Ben 'Yahtzee' Crenshaw finally takes on Grand Theft Auto with his usual machine gun sarcasm, in a manner that's as wincefully painful as it is fackeen oresum. It's the first GTA IV review we've seen that ties in GTA's classic hit game Lemmings. While it's a general positive review, Yahtzee does a delightful evisceration of some of the most annoying aspects of the new GTA monster. [more...] 11 May 2008 12:03:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta-guinness-sales-records-2008 http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta-guinness-sales-records-2008 NEW: As reported over at the delightfully-named Geeks of Doom, GTA has now broken three records kept by the Guinness Book (remember them) for fastest-selling and highest-grossing entertainment products. That's not just videogames, notice, but also includes movies, dvds and such. More inside.... [more...] 10 May 2008 19:01:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta-123-russian-song-glukoza http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/gta-123-russian-song-glukoza NEW: The most memorable song of GTA IV might be the one heard over the game's first mission, as Niko drives his cousin home to his 'mansion'. Glukoza's 'Schweine', a hit in Russia but largely unknown in the west, has become one of the most talked about songs in the new GTA game, and if you think it's great, wait until you see the video. [more...] 9 May 2008 11:01:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/alarmist-guide-to-gtaiv http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/alarmist-guide-to-gtaiv NEW: 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. [more...] 8 May 2008 04:01:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/xbox-sales-increasing-on-gta-iv http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/xbox-sales-increasing-on-gta-iv NEW: 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. [more...] 8 May 2008 04:01:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/onion-features-of-gta-iv http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/onion-features-of-gta-iv NEW: 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... [more...] 7 May 2008 05:02:00 PDT http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/new-york-times-vs-gtaiv-itzkoff http://www.gtaconfidential.com/blog/new-york-times-vs-gtaiv-itzkoff NEW: 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. [more...]