April 29...
Carve this date into your calendars, because Rockstar Games has officially announced that this is the day the long-awaited fourth installment of the Grand Theft Auto series will hit the shelves.
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Carve this date into your calendars, because Rockstar Games has officially announced that this is the day the long-awaited fourth installment of the Grand Theft Auto series will hit the shelves.
Quite a lot of new news has come to light over the past few days. Let me start with the English site MCV, which reported on its virtual pages that, according to "a source close to Take Two Interactive" (as is usually the case), the long-awaited creation will officially hit store shelves in the United Kingdom on April 25.
Two days ago the fourth installment of Grand Theft Auto received its official rating. The game got the usual "MA15+" label we know from the earlier GTAs, topped off with the "Strong violence", "Strong coarse language" and "Drug and sexual reference" descriptors.
Iggy Pop, the famous frontman of the American rock band The Stooges, revealed in an interview this summer that he is lending his voice to one of the GTA IV characters. Unfortunately, we don't yet know which character that will be.
Rockstar's GTA marketing campaign has almost officially kicked off. What better proof could there be than 13 high-resolution images being made available on the eve of the third trailer's release?
Yes! You read that right! Less than two days have passed since the last news post, and here comes the next one! A miracle has happened! Still, let's not get too excited about it, because the content of this news looks more like a bit of eyewash than a world-shaking flood of info...
Out of sheer boredom I stumbled on an interesting little video. sarcasticgamer.com teamed up with MFreakinJ, and with Doc Adams' help they parodied Plain White T's' Hey There Delilah, taking a huge jab at our (anti-)celebrity lawyer in the process.
The other day Rockstar sent out a few cover designs to its retailers. The news editors at XboxFamily got their hands on the package, which contained 3 Xbox 360 and 3 PlayStation 3 test covers.
GTA has defended the "Handheld Game of the Year" award it won last year: after Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories, released on PSP last October, has taken the title at the 25th Golden Joystick Awards.
After San Andreas' birthday we get another reason to celebrate, because following San Andreas, Vice City has now reached its anniversary too. It was exactly half a decade ago yesterday that the parody/adaptation of the film Scarface was released.
It's almost unbelievable that it's been 3 years today since Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was released. How time flies! Happy Birthday!
As you may know, Rockstar's painting, the Lola artwork painted on the building at the corner of Canal and Grand Street, was finished a few days ago. We've already shown you a night shot on our pages, but thanks to nicknormal we can now present a much better picture of the piece.
