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Australian GTA IV Rating, Take2 Close to Bankruptcy
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.
Buy GTA
OH NO! - you cry out as you start reading the Sunday news. The news is about GTA again, but unfortunately this time it's not about the release of GTA IV. In an interview with Shacknews, video game market analyst *Michael Pachter* points out that the agreement between Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games expires in February 2009, and in theory Rockstar becomes independent.
Iggy Pop's Voice in GTA IV
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.
13 HD Pictures
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?
New info and pictures on the GTA IV cover
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...
GTA IV Odds and Ends
Whoa, there's news around GTA IV. First of all: the cover has been unveiled. The latest box shot follows the style started with the third game (although back then it was only the NTSC version), meaning the cover is made up of small pieces of artwork. Nice.
Hey, Mr. Thompson music video
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.
GTA IV: More Delays
If everything had gone to plan, we'd have been playing GTA IV for three weeks by now. Sadly, development time has stretched out a lot, mainly because the game has to be developed for two completely different platforms (PS3 and Xbox 360) at once.
GTA IV test covers
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.
Vice City Stories: The Best Handheld Game
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.
Happy Birthday Vice City!!!
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.
Happy Birthday San Andreas!!!
It's almost unbelievable that it's been 3 years today since Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was released. How time flies! Happy Birthday!