GTA IV news
Sony: Famous Games Matter More
An interesting piece of news surfaced the other day: *Sony* is putting the better-known games ahead of their rivals that don't have a reputation yet. Jack Tretton of *Sony Computer Entertainment America* said that whether the new GTA comes out on a given console has no effect on the battle between the consoles.
Fake GTA IV Pictures
My buddy Roland tipped me off to some special news: fake pictures of the fourth GTA game have surfaced again. Yesterday afternoon I got a mass e-mail from a "disgruntled former Rockstar employee", with a picture attached that was shot off a TV screen with a digital camera.
RAGE Engine in the Next GTA?
Grand Theft Auto IV will use the Table Tennis engine, says MTV. Based on what was said on the music channel (and an [article](https://web.archive.org/web/20060617230352/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1530131/20060503/index.jhtml?headlines=) from early last month), the next-generation GTA will use *Rockstar Games*' in-house RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine) engine, which recently debuted in Table Tennis on the Xbox 360.
Is Lazlow coming back in GTA4?
A few members of the Internet Movie Database recently added the famous and hilarious DJ Lazlow to the cast list. The list is still quite early and not 100% accurate, but sources from *IMDB* are usually right.
E3 2006: GTA
Tomorrow the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) opens its doors in Los Angeles, and the day before, the three big console makers, *Sony*, *Nintendo* and *Microsoft*, held their usual conferences.
Take-Two Reports
Today *Take-Two* released its report for the first fiscal quarter of 2006. We already wrote about Liberty City Stories earlier, so let's look at the rest: