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Full disclosure, I frequently game with Hot Blooded's Kreyg Dezgo (also the creator of this vid). You can usually find us in Borderlands. Last week he told me about this delightful "mod" - not literally, as no code is involved - that he plays in Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer called The A-Tea...
Thursday, Nov 5
Other games that cost more? Games like Shenmue or Grand Theft Auto IV?
Say what you will about the merits of Grand Theft Auto IV as a game, there's no disputing how magnificent a technical achievement it is. After all, few games could make a clip like this so interesting. Vid [Eurogamer] Vid Mirror [Rockstar]
Sunday, Nov 1
•10 Sequels That are Better Than the Original [Den of Geek] People complain about sequels as the day is long, but lets remember some unoriginal IP that was, in fact, pretty damn good. Street Fighter II, Grand Theft Auto III, God of War II. Hitman: Silent Assassin is not on this list but should b...
Saturday, Oct 31
That would be Terrorism and Alexis. Modern Warfare 2 stirred up plenty of controversy, and then came Crecente's interview of gamer pornstar Alexis Raven. Afterwards, we still found room for more than 60 original headlines over the past week.
Friday, Oct 30
Other notable awards include Fallout 3's PC Game of the Year award, Left 4 Dead's Online Game of the Year, and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars' Handheld Game of the Year win. Bliss Handheld Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars PlayStation Game of the Year: Killzone 2
The actor who voiced Steve Scott in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and played King Koopa in that ill-conceived Super Mario Bros. movie has prostate cancer, the Associated Press reports. Dennis Hopper has prostate cancer [The Hollywood Reporter] Image Cred
Yes, yes we have. Reader Bo (thanks Bo!) alerted us to this image on page 17 of the Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, wondering if it was a hint for GTA 5's location. Another reader Farnic (thanks Farnic!) sends this image, pointing out that the same image that appears in the Episod...
Wednesday, Oct 28
To the left of that is "Opens March Everywhere," and your guess is as good as mine as to what that means. But Rockstar knows what it's doing here, it's getting people to talk, and we've taken the bait. Liberty City, It's over! Next stop? [GTA4.Net via VG247]
Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony was developed by Rockstar Games and published by Take Two Interactive for the Xbox 360 on October 29. Retails for 1600 Microsoft Points over Xbox Live ($20, a copy of GTA IV required) or for $40 as one half of the Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty C...
Tuesday, Oct 27
Princess Robot Bubblegum is part of the new television lineup coming in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, the standalone compilation of The Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost and Damned downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV. Princess Robot Bubblegum is my new hero. She fires ro...
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The court heard that Callaghan had a history of undiagnosed schizophrenia and that he was known by his friends to be violent after drinking alcohol. The Daily Mail article also points out that FIFA losing-streak and that Callaghan "also played the computer game Grand Theft Auto, which se...
Monday, Oct 26
Rockstar put out these five, foreshadowing what you can expect in the expansion. Luis scaling the Rotterdam Tower; flashing the Advanced MG machine gun, the titular Tony Prince and rival boss Yusuf Amir, and some shady deals going down under the overpass.
Sunday, Oct 25
The fall gaming season is beginning to pick up this week, with those three titles releasing alongside Ratchet & Clan Future: A Crack in Time and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City this week. Borderlands finally makes its PC debut, while Ubisoft brings not one but four Petz ti...
Friday, Oct 23
PlayStation 3 owners visiting ToysRUs.com may have had a brief thrill today when they saw PlayStation 3 box art for Rockstar's supposedly Xbox-only Grand Theft Auto IV expansion disc on the company's site. Just an error, according to Rockstar.
Thursday, Oct 22
Hey, Trine finally made it to the PlayStation Store! That accomplishment may be exciting, but perhaps not as exciting as some of the other addition's to the North American PlayStation Store this week. Check out the full list of new non-microwaveable treats in the PlayStation Store, righ...
The timing looks a hell of a lot better for the cash-strapped holiday gamer, considering that Forza Motorsport 3, Tekken 6, Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City will all hit North America next week.
Wednesday, Oct 21
I've gotten one bounty, for The Lost and the Damned," Robert Allen Rusk says, almost with pride. He's talking about the gift cards that GameFAQs offers for being the first to produce a complete guide to a new game. Rusk picked up a $60 gift card for his work on Lost & Damned, which weighed in...
Tuesday, Oct 20
What did you do between September 4 and September 6? Twenty-six year-old private equity broker Chirantan Patnaik played Grand Theft Auto IV — for 40 hours and 20 minutes straight.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is now out for the PSP, and Rockstar has added new features to the Rockstar Social Club to celebrate the eagerly anticipated release. Rockstar has also added new papercraft models from the game, including Ling and Uncle Kenny, an assortment of weapons, an...
Monday, Oct 19
Riding high on tonight's news that the Playstation 3 was the top selling home console in September according to NPD, the head of Sony Computer Entertainment of America says they've only just begun. Tretton said that Sony is "continuing to stack the chips this holiday with great game conte...
In part three of our appearance on GameTrailers' Bonus Round, the panel of video game industry know-it-alls talks more about this season's biggest games, including Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay...
Obviously, this episode was filmed before I marathon played Borderlands for today's review of the Gearbox Software developed game, and well before Mr. Totilo will weigh in on Grand Theft Auto IV's second downloadable episode. See how young and naive we all were—me, Geoff Keighly, Michae...
SEGA's PlayStation franchise Yakuza (Ryu Ga Gotoku) has often been called "The Grand Theft Auto of Japan". Like GTA, players are in large urban environments in an underworld setting. That doesn't mean designer Toshihiro Nagoshi is a fan, though.
Sunday, Oct 18
Astro-Boy: The Video Game is another six-way release, as most movie tie-ins are wont to do. PC players get Star Wars: STFU Ultimate Sith and Wii sports fiends can play NBA 2K10 beginning this week, too. This week's count: 21 for DS; 19 for Wii; 10 for Xbox 360; eight for PS2 and PS3; seven for PSP...
Thursday, Oct 15
While I was playing an early PlayStation 3 version of EA's December World War II game, The Saboteur, yesterday, I was told not to worry about running over certain characters. The game's developers, see, had to decide whose death matters.
Wednesday, Oct 14
Rockstar Games goes far enough to call the additions a "complete overhaul" to GTA IV's multiplayer modes. With new "tighter" deathmatch maps, kill streaks and kill assists on top of choppers and 'chutes, it may be justified in making those claims. We'll know for sure if Grand Theft Auto IV'...
Tuesday, Oct 13
The obligatory Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City billboard, as seen on Canal St. in New York City. Thanks, y2julio!
Xbox 360 owners no longer need to leave their homes to commit heinous crimes, as Grand Theft Auto IV joins the Games on Demand lineup at a price that's actually rather reasonable. Now the mean...
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony hits Xbox Live and store shelves (along with Lost and Damned) October 29, 2009. Let's look at some screens.
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Monday, Oct 12
But it got me thinking about dating in video games and how the courtship ritual is either over-simplified or confusingly elaborate. Take the entire Sims series, for example — in the early days, you couldn't even Ask Out On Date, just Flirt. Now, in the Sims 3, you can sleep with somebody you'r...
Saturday, Oct 10
Next month, don't try leaving your home. Lock the doors and barricade the windows. This is not a drill, this is the real f—-ing thing. As soon as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City hits the streets, eleven-year-olds around the country will morph into rabid pit bulls out for blood. This game is evil prop...
Wednesday, Oct 7
But for those of you who consider 400 "a nice start," developer Turn 10 Studios has revealed the official list of each and every car that will appear in Forza 3. It's a list so long that it spans two DVDs. Hell, it goes beyond that with five limited to the collector's edition of the game, five for t...
Does the game go too far? Is it offensive? Many on game forums are quick to point out that this is not the first time the US capital has been destroyed on-screen (remember 1997's "Independence Day?" Little green men made kindling of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue). And with what's coming out of th...
What you missed last night Details About Project Natal Pricing Emerge Tretton: What's Good for Sony is What's Good for Gaming Meet Your GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Achievements Name That Game! And Porn Star! Activision Originally Didn't Want Modern Warfare
Tuesday, Oct 6
A total of 250 new Gamerscore points can be yours upon the release of Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City or the downloadable episode, which follows the adventures of Luis Lopez, the man employed by the eponymous Gay Tony. If that's all you care to know about the expansion, tread...
Monday, Oct 5
The new Xbox 360 Platinum Hits inductees are Grand Theft Auto IV, Street Fighter IV, Left 4 Dead, Saints Row 2 and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Two of those titles have sequels due out rather soon, so best to get them before they become antiquated by Left 4 Dead 2 and Super Street Fighter IV.
Microsoft has decided that a fresh batch of Xbox 360 titles have earned the necessary amount of greatness to become "Platinum Hits," garnering them a cheaper asking price and not so horrible,...
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Sunday, Oct 4
Sports Ads: Everything You Want in a Video Game - and LessMadden Launch Returns to Its Roots - for One Weekend Only?In a League of Your Own, Where Your Word is LawThe Art of Calling an Unseen Game/a>In the Preseason, 2K Sports Reports FirstSo I Went to a Fight, and a Video Game Broke Out ...Whe...
Saturday, Oct 3
He is one of the LCPD's best. A cop torn between duty and instinct, justice and the law. In Liberty City, the law is supreme. No matter how many grenades you push across that table, you're still free to go. Grand Theft Auto Precinct [Atom.com via Destructoid]
• GoGamer's 48-Hour Madness Sale includes GTA:San Andreas on the PC for $3.90, a wireless black 360 controller for $21.90. The other discounts it's offering, especially on the current titles, might be MSRP drops but whatever, Joe Bob says check it out. [GoGamer]
Friday, Oct 2
Rockstar's latest clip for GTA: Episodes from Liberty City acquaints us with The Ballad of Gay Tony's dynamic duo, Armando and Henrique, with a shot of The Lost and Damned's Brian on the side.
Wednesday, Sep 30
Not like Mario Kart and F-Zero did with Parallax scrolling. Or Mario 64 with its use of 3D. Or Grand Theft Auto III with its living, breathing city. Those games re-wrote the book. You just couldn't do GTAIII on the PlayStation. Or Mario 64 on the SNES. They were true "next gen" games.
While the show succeeding in touching on mainstream paranoia about games, in a refreshing, non-self pitying way, it seemed to spend a bit too much time of overly violent fare. The amount of airtime given to games like Manhunt 2, Grand Theft Auto, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand and, curiously, th...
Thursday, Sep 24
Meet Yusuf Amir, who's a successful businessman gangster and rival of Gay Tony. Yusuf enjoys dancing in his tightie-whities, but that's not why this is NSFW. Huge F-bomb about 10 seconds in; it might...
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Rockstar's news release accompanying this video describes Amir as "The affable, cutthroat real estate and construction kingpin of Liberty City. Yusuf's vast wealth fuels his over-the-top lifestyle and desire for women and expensive toys, two of the Arab-born's unquenchable vices."
Tuesday, Sep 22
We've attempted to verify the validity of the document and are seeking comment with Sega of America and Sony Computer Entertainment, but did not hear back before publishing. And, for the record, the above image is merely a Kotaku-created mock up.
Saturday, Sep 19
Europe Getting Four More Bundles For The 250GB PS3 Microsoft Releasing 250GB Xbox 360 For Modern Warfare 2 [Update] Toys R Us Ad Points To $199 Wii Price Drop This Month Halo 3: ODST Gets A 360 Bundle Columns Stick Jockey: So I Went to a Fight, and a Video Game Broke Out ...
Friday, Sep 18
rant Racial Term in DS' Scribblenauts? Unintentional, Developer Explains [Update] Comment by: RyanXP Nominated by: doubtful Wii Price Drop Looks To Hit First Week Of October Comment by: Bialia Nominated by: captain zach america
McWhertor mentioned the similarities between the two titles in his impressions of APB from Gamescom in Germany last month, and this gameplay clip completely backs him up. Of course this isn't a bad thing. I've had countless hours of fun just tooling around in Free Ride mode in Grand Theft Au...
Thursday, Sep 17
Popping into the comments section of a post on the PlayStation Blog, Sega of America assistant community manager Aaron Webber has said "Yakuza 3 is not cancelled – and the possibility for localizing it does, in fact, still exist." Valkyria Chronicles II – Coming to PSP Next Summer [PlaySt...
Wednesday, Sep 16
GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Preview: Crimes For The Crazy Rich What Games Are Sega Bringing To Tokyo Game Show? Podcast Complete - Stream Or Download The Lastest Kotaku Talk Radio Show Here The Dancing, Bodyguarding and Blowing Up Of GTA IV: The Ballad Of Gay Tony
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony will be available on October 29 both as a $20 download through Xbox Live or on an $40 Xbox 360 standalone disc called Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City that also included The Lost and Damned and does not require ownership of GTA IV. As with t...
Friday, Sep 4
Chinatown Wars is the new version of Rockstar's 2009 return to top-down Grand Theft Auto gaming, rebuilt for Sony's handheld. The DS version was the best-reviewed game on Nintendo's portable (Read our GTA: Chinatown Wars DS review to see why).
Tuesday, Sep 1
In Grand Theft Auto IV, Liberty City stands unaffected by your mayhem, your impact noted only by new hysteria chattered on its radio stations. Like a good New Yorker, Rockstar's fake New York barely bats an eye at what you're doing in it.
Monday, May 11
It's not easy to get to the very final mission of Rockstar's DS Grand Theft Auto. But the number of people who have done so has doubled in the past month. I'm #34 on that list. But I had an edge. Rockstar had hooked me up with a copy of the game for review a little early.)
Saturday, Apr 25
That's been fixed in lightning-fast time, according to Microsoft. "Thanks for your patience, a new update is avaible that addresses the stuttering issue with GTA IV. Just log in and apply the new update." Grand Theft Auto PC Fix [Blue's News]
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Tuesday, Mar 17
IGN The story's over in 15 hours depending on how little or how much you're distracted by the little things in Liberty City (gambling with the scratch tickets were our bane), but even when the tale's over there's still plenty to do in town. You've got races, you've got drug trading, you've go...
Rockstar Games brings murder, mayhem, and a miniature Liberty City to the Nintendo DS with Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the developer's first outing on the mega-hit dual-screen portable platform. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was developed by Rockstar Leeds, published by Roc...
Wednesday, Feb 18
Although Rockstar may not be adding much to the footprint of Liberty City with The Lost and Damned - conjuring a fresh island out of the muddy rivers, or laying down a fine spray of new skyscrapers, flyovers, and dockyards - the company has been hard at work building stories; sculpting new c...
Monday, Feb 16
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost And Damned was developed by Rockstar North, published by Rockstar Games for the Xbox 360, released on Xbox Live on February 17th. Retails for 1600 Microsoft Points ($20 USD). Played single-player game to completion, tested multiplayer modes.
Sunday, Feb 15
The ESRB rating for the game—which is "M" for Mature—does make mention of the gratuitous digital dick on display, noting that the game has "Nudity" in its content. The original Grand Theft Auto IV is listed as having only "Partial nudity."
Friday, Jan 16
So, don't be surprised if the first two downloadable episodes already confirmed for Grand Theft Auto IV are just two of many. Rockstar vice president Dan Houser recently said to USA Today "We feel like we've only scratched the surface in terms of the depth and detail" of Liberty City.
Friday, Jan 2
PC 1. Fallout 3 2. Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor 3. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 4. Grand Theft Auto IV 5. World of Goo PS3 1. Grand Theft Auto IV 2. LittleBigPlanet 3. Bioshock 4. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 5. Rock Band 2
Thursday, Nov 13
The third, at the bottom, is perhaps the most interesting. It shows the attach rate for the entire modern GTA series. For GTAIII to San Andreas, the figures are just for the PS2 version, while for GTA IV it's for both 360 and PS3. It's not often we see stats like this, but surely 32% of PS3 owners ha...
Thursday, May 15
Microsoft sales data shows Xbox 360 consoles saw a 54% lift week-over-week as a result of “Grand Theft Auto IV,” and retailers are reporting that roughly four out of every 10 Xbox 360 consoles sold included the sale of a copy of “Grand Theft Auto IV.” (Microsoft internal data)
Tuesday, May 13
GTA IV has some problems. Some are pretty great, but most have resulted in freezes and lock-ups, which aren't great. And while a recent patch has fixed some of those problems, it hasn't fixed all of them, leaving a lot of GTA IV players still in the lurch. If that's you and you own a 60GB PS3, help m...
Wednesday, May 7
Rockstar Games has released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3 today that prevents Gamespy’s servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up. We continue to monitor the performance of the game both on and offli...
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Sunday, May 4
A TV station in Savannah, Ga. is out doing what Crecente and I commonly referred to as the "gratuitous local." In other words, it's a national story that doesn't have any impact specific to your locality, but you sure can dream up some because it's the kind of story that's real easy to assign. Th...
Tuesday, Apr 29
Impressions: If you just want to mess around, make your own rules—Make a six-star wanted level a group effort! Group stunt jumps!—this is the mode for you. If you're really in the mood for some GTA improv, Free Mode (and maxed out private slots) can keep you busy for hours. Makes you pray for a s...
Monday, Apr 28
Moment of Climax: "Grand Theft Auto IV doesn't just raise the bar for the storied franchise; it completely changes the landscape of gaming. Once you play it, you won't look at video games the same way again." My Score: 5/5. No, 6/5. It opens with "I now know how film critics felt after screening T...
Sunday, Apr 27
Solid. We played for a pretty long, 16-player session before release via Xbox Live and were impressed. Microsoft says it's ramping up in anticipation of the release, adding hardware and hoping for smooth sailing. We have yet to go online with the PlayStation 3 version. Sony and Gamespy decli...
Grand Theft Auto IV Review: Life, Liberty City And The Pursuit Of Happiness Mario Kart Wii Friend Code Dump One Kotaku Editor's Introduction to Gaming Ken Levine on "Narrative Drive" The Inaugural All-Time Video Game Character Draft GTA IV: Best Game Since ... Well, When?
Grand Theft Auto IV was developed by Rockstar North, published by Rockstar Games and is due to be released on April 29. Retails for $59.99 to $89.99 USD. Available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Played single player campaign to completion on PlayStation 3, played additional single player camp...
Saturday, Apr 26
Our coverage is live: Grand Theft Auto IV Review: Life, Liberty City And The Pursuit Of Happiness Which Version Of GTA IV Should You Buy? We Compare The PS3 and 360 Versions SIXAXIS Brings Nothing to GTA IV (But Frustration And Burning Helicopter Chassis)
If you hate 10-point rating systems, then pay no mind to the Nadia Comaneci 10 that IGN has handed Grand Theft Auto IV. The last game to get a perfect score from IGN was Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast, in 1999. Sounds like a winner — by any score — to me. Grand Theft Auto Review [IGN]
Sunday, Apr 20
To Microsoft, GTA IV's As Big As Halo 3 Grand Theft Auto IV Has So Gone Gold Rockstar Games Social Club Open For Business Grand Theft Auto IV DLC To Bring Whole Cities? GTA IV Box O' Swag The GTA IV Compendium & FAQ Yes, Yes, The *First* Grand Theft Auto IV Print Review
Tuesday, Apr 8
If you are up for long reads check out all of our impressions of GTA IV so far: Hands on With GTA Multiplayer: City of Chaos GTA4 Hands-On: The World is Yours Rockstar Experimenting with Episodic Content GTA IV: Reinventing a World Grand Theft Auto IV
Wednesday, Feb 21
We've all heard about Realtime Worlds' latest Halo 3 demo GTA-clone (can we all stop using this phrase already) Crackdown for Xbox 360. You play a supercop who can use "any means necessary" to take back a city dominated by a geopolitically diverse selection of gangs.
Sunday, Nov 26
Following in the footsteps of Boston, Portland's Transit Authority, TriMet, has removed ads for Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto: Vice City citing multiple rider complaints. While Boston's Transit has taken a stance that it will not remove the ads due to contractual issues and First Am...
Friday, Oct 28
Who really plays through a Grand Theft Auto game? I just cheat my way through, unlock the weapons and run amok. Want to cheat your way through Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for PSP? Try these out during game play (no pause required):
Monday, Jan 17
Some guy wired a PS2 controller to his computer s parallel port. Then he had it run through all of the button combinations at high speed to find all of the cheats for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. See what a little Mountain Dew and Espresso can do for you? San Andreas Cheats [GTASanAn.com]
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