Posted 6/28/2008
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...
Filed Under: news, multiplayer
Posted 5/13/2008
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.
Filed Under: news, meta
Posted 5/11/2008
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....
Filed Under: news
Posted 5/10/2008
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.
Filed Under: news, meta
Posted 5/9/2008
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.
Filed Under: news, meta, funny
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 5/8/2008
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...
Filed Under: news, meta, funny
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 5/2/2008
Despite many 'scoops' to the contrary, the PlayStation 3 version of GTA IV does indeed feature special, unique SIXAXIS controls for many, many parts of the game. There is even a special tutorial chapter available to teach you how to play by throwing your controller around in the air.
Filed Under: news, ps3
Posted 5/2/2008
The plastic's been cracked. The pizza has been ordered. The TV is turning on with a satisfying fizz-pop and the sofa is in for a long night. t's time to sit down with Grand Theft Auto IV for the very first time. After all this time, all this waiting, and all these glorious rumors, what's it really like? Two words: freakin' awesome. (More Soon.)
Filed Under: news
Posted 5/1/2008
Rockstar is very good at adding cute touches and ALMOST getting them right. In the same way that the $200 jillion company can't ever seem to find a closed-caption writer who can spell, they come THIS CLOSE to nailing a great touch on GTA IV's motorcycles.
Filed Under: news, secrets, bugs
Posted 4/28/2008
Twenty four hours until the wraps come off on what's certain to be the biggest videogame of the year.
Filed Under: news
Posted 4/21/2008
There is only one week left until GTAIV hits the shelves, and there's nothing but drooling anticipation all over the interweb. Since we've been too busy giving GTA Confidential its GTA IV facelift, we'll leave the heavy lifting to the rest of the internet...
Filed Under: news
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