Upcoming Video Game Events and Releases: Part One It’s October already, time flies, doesn’t it? It’s already six month’s since Grand Theft Auto IV’s release, and a little over a year since Halo 3’s release. So, what’s there to look forward to in this month (and beyond)? Let’s take a look, we will start with Rockstar Games events and releases first. 21st November 2008: Grand Theft Auto IV, Games for Windows (PC) Grand Theft Auto IV, yes, my favourite video game this year. It’s great seeing it coming to the PC, with several additions that were not seen in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, such as being able to make notes and use the mouse to point-and-click in the mini-map. The most interesting feature to date will be the replay editor, where you can save 30-second replays and edit them in-game and post it online. Also, Graphical improvements and new Multiplayer mode add-ons will make this trip to Liberty City once again worthwhile. Winter 2008: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Nintendo DS) Well, I couldn’t help it. Here’s another game from my favourite Grand Theft Auto video games series. It’s going to be released on the Nintendo DS this Winter. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will blow your mind away with drug dealing mini-games, isometric camera angles and being a true Grand Theft Auto game! Watch out for it! You can check out the coverage we have right here, just click on the Grand Theft Auto category. Winter 2008: Grand Theft Auto IV: Episode One (Xbox LIVE Marketplace) We have not recieved any news about Grand Theft Auto IV’s downloadable episodic content for the Xbox 360 version of the game, but it’s still something to look forward to. Grand Theft Auto IV: Episode One will be released by the end of 2008. Remember to check back to our site for more news and details on this! October 21st 2008: Midnight Club: Los Angeles (Xbox 360, PS3, PSP) Midnight Club: Los Angeles is a stunning video game. Continuing the trend of the previous Midnight Club titles, it will use the concept of an open-world, sandbox-style gameplay. Think Grand Theft Auto IV, only with a real-world city, less emphasis on criminal activities, no shooting and less violence. And of course, more emphasis on cars and racing. Mindight Club: Los Angeles launches on October 21st 2008! Watch out for it! October 21st 2008: Bully: Scholarship Edition (PC) Bully was a hit when it was first released on the PlayStation 2 last year, if any of you remembered. Fast forward to a year later, and it’s already released for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii wth bonus missions and updated controls and graphics. The same enhanced version which was released for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii will now be released on Windows PCs, which is great news for some of you like myself who have missed this great video game title. What beats being able to modify Bully: Scholarship Edition with your favourite hated teachers and school campus? 17th October 2008: Max Payne, the movie Yes, here it is. The Max Payne movie. I hope it doesn’t turn out as bad as the Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Doom and Hitman movies did. So far, it looks great. But, looks are deceiving, aren’t they? This movie will be released on October 17th 2008, so watch out for it, Max Payne fans! Oh, and before you go, please remember to check out some Grand Theft Auto or Video Game news around here. Feel free to browse around. Don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS feed, and be stay tuned to us for more Grand Theft Auto and video game news! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV - Games for Windows: Update 4 - New Exclusive PC Trailer from GameTrailers Addicted to Liberty Rock Radio? Me too, but we cannot get enough of good old rock music, can we? Rockstar Games have just released a new trailer for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV via GameTrailers, set to the tunes of “Cry” by Godley & Creme. How can that get any better? Grand Theft Auto IV, for the folks who haven’t been reading news, will be released on November 18th, 2008 in North America, and November 21st, 2008 in Europe on the Games for Windows platform. It will utilize the Games for Windows - LIVE online multiplayer service from Microsoft for multiplayer, and it will have updated and improved graphics, performance and multiplayer from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions. It will also feature a couple of new features. Anyway, you can watch it using the embedded video player right at the top of this post, or download it in High Definition. We shall wait for a non-watermarked version of the video, but for now, it’s exclusive to GameTrailers. Also, it seems that fingerless gloves haven’t made an appearance. Alright, here’s all the news we have for you right now. In fact, it’s the biggest news we had delivered on Grand Theft Auto IV since the Xbox LIVE weekend past us a couple of days ago. But, don’t worry, we will get you your latest Grand Theft Auto news here, so don’t forget to be stay tuned! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto News: What We’ve Missed… Here’s what we have missed in the past two weeks. First up, a list of PlayStation 3 trophies have emerged on PS3Trophies.co.uk. Well, it’s finally time for that already isn’t it? It’s still classified as a rumor now, as it’s not confirmed by Rockstar Games. It is, however, almost identical to the Xbox 360 Achievements list, save for a few tweaks here and there to fit the PlayStation crowd. Platinum Taking A Liberty Sorry for taking liberties with your time! Bronze Off The Boat You have completed the first mission. Bronze One Hundred And Eighty You scored 180 with 3 darts. Bronze Pool Shark You beat a friend at pool. Bronze King of QUB3D You beat the high score in QUB3D. Bronze Finish Him You completed 10 melee counters in 4 minutes. Bronze Genetically Superior You came first in 20 singleplayer street races. Bronze Wheelie Rider You completed a 500 foot wheelie on a motorbike. Bronze Gobble Gobble You got a turkey in 10-pin bowling. Bronze Driving Mr. Bellic You unlocked the special ability of Roman’s taxi. Bronze Rolled Over You managed 5 car rolls in a row from one crash. Bronze Walk Free You successfully lost a 4 star wanted rating. Bronze Courier Service You completed all 10 package delivery jobs. Bronze Retail Therapy You unlocked the special ability of buying guns from Little Jacob. Bronze Chain Reaction You exploded 10 vehicles in 10 seconds. Silver One Man Army You survived a 6 star wanted level for a full 5 minutes. Bronze Lowest Point You completed the mission “Roman’s Sorrow”. Bronze Order Fulfilled You completed all 10 Exotic Export orders. Bronze Manhunt You completed the most wanted side mission. Bronze Cleaned The Mean Streets You caught 20 criminals through the police computer. Bronze Fed The Fish You completed the mission “Uncle Vlad”. Bronze It’ll Cost Ya You made a taxi trip from one island to another without skipping. Bronze Sightseer You have taken all variations of the helicopter tours of Liberty City. Bronze Warm Coffee You were invited into your girlfriend’s house. Bronze That’s How We Roll! You unlocked the special ability of Brucie’s helicopter ride. Bronze Half Million You have amassed a fortune of $500,000. Bronze Impossible Trinity You completed the mission “Museum Piece”. Bronze Full Exploration You unlocked all the islands. Bronze You Got The Message You delivered all 30 cars ordered through text message. Silver Dare Devil You completed all the unique stunt jumps. Bronze Assassin’s Greed You completed all 9 assassin missions. Silver Endangered Species You collected every hidden package in the game. Bronze Under The Radar You flew under all the main bridges in the game. Bronze Dial B For Bomb You unlocked the special ability of Packie’s car bomb placement. Bronze Gracefully Taken You completed the mission “I’ll Take Her”. Silver Liberty City (5) Your friends all like you above 90%. Bronze No More Strangers You’ve met all the random characters. Bronze That Special Someone You completed the mission “That Special Someone”. Silver You Won! You have completed the story. Gold Liberty City Minute You finished the story in less than 30 hours. Gold Key To The City You completed GTA IV to 100%. Bronze Teamplayer You killed 5 opposing team members. Bronze Cut Your Teeth You were successfully promoted up a rank in multiplayer. Bronze Join The Midnight Club You won a multiplayer race without damaging your vehicle too much. Bronze Fly The Co-op You completed “Deal Breaker”, “Hangman’s NOOSE” and “Bomb da Base II” in time. Bronze Taking It For The Team You were on the winning team in all multiplayer team games. Bronze Top Of The Food Chain You successfully killed 20 players with a pistol in a deathmatch. Bronze Top The Midnight Club You won 20 different multiplayer standard races. Gold Wanted You achieved the highest personal rank possible in multiplayer. Bronze Auf Wiedersehen Petrovic You won in all variations of multiplayer games. Bronze Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie You killed a Rockstar in multiplayer. Next, we might have forgotten to tell you that Jack Thompson is now officially permanently disbarred. Yes, you saw that, permanently disbarred (read: permanently). That’s for sending pornography to Judges, Mr. Jackass Thompson! According to a court order, Jack Thompson made false statements and accusations, repeatedly harassed those he considered opponents, and, while falsely accusing others of “the criminal distribution of sexual materials to minors,” himself attached pornography to court filings. [Thompson] made false statements of material fact to courts and repeatedly violated a court order [Thompson] communicated the subject of representation directly with clients of opposing counsel [Thompson] engaged in prohibited ex parte communications [Thompson] publicized and sent hundreds of pages of vitriolic and disparaging missives, letters, faxes, and press releases, to the affected individuals [Thompson] targeted an individual who was not involved with respondent in any way, merely due to “the position [the individual] holds in state and national politics” [Thompson]falsely, recklessly, and publicly accused a judge as being amenable to the “fixing” of cases [Thompson] sent courts inappropriate and offensive sexual materials [Thompson] falsely and publicly accused various attorneys and their clients of engaging in a conspiracy/enterprise involving “the criminal distribution of sexual materials to minors” and attempted to get prosecuting authorities to charge these attorneys and their clients for racketeering and extortion [Thompson] harassed the former client of an attorney in an effort to get the client to use its influence to persuade the attorney to withdraw a defamation suit filed by the attorney against respondent [Thompson] retaliated against attorneys who filed Bar complaints against him for his unethical conduct by asserting to their clients, government officials, politicians, the media, female lawyers in their law firm, employees, personal friends, acquaintances, and their wives, that the attorneys were criminal pornographers who objectify women. The Court also upheld a fine of $43,675 against Thompson. Yes, guys, it’s finally game over for Jack Thompson. Now that Electronic Arts and Jack Tompson are no longer a threat to Take-Two Interactive (and Rockstar Games), I presume we will be able to see a much better Grand Theft Auto release this winter, hopefully. Now, that’s all, guys! Sometimes, I hope that we have got more news to share with you guys. But, really, that’s all we have got. So, we’ll see you the next time, right here! Don’t forget to be stay tuned for more Grand Theft Auto news! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Update 7 New Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Artwork surfaces! Remember the EDGE magazine article on Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars? There weren’t many new details inside that issue, but there were four pieces of never-seen-before artwork for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars in that article, thanks to Liberty City Survivor. In related news, Nintendo has also announced the Nintendo DSi, with a bigger screen, among other hardware updates. That means, if you intend to grab this new Nintendo DS in Spring next year, you can possibly play Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on a bigger screen! Anyway, back on topic. These pieces of artwork, from what we already know, are based on the protagonist Huang Lee, Liberty City Police Department officer Wade Heston and two other artworks of the Chinese triads and a Chinese girl in traditional dress, all done in a style similar to that of previous Grand Theft Auto game artworks. Unfortunately, these images are only magazine scans, with a low quality version and the irritating watermarks on the corner of the image. Don’t worry, we will give you guys and update the minute new images or details gets released for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, so stay tuned! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV - Games for Windows: Update 3 New Grand Theft Auto IV PC details surfaced This piece of news comes much as a surprise, but anyway, here it is. New details about Grand Theft Auto IV for the Games for Windows platform has surfaced in an Italian video games magazine, which is called The Game Machine. Scroll down to read a summary of the points. The replay editor can record, save and edit the last 30 seconds of the game. Once you have saved your video, you can open another piece of internal software in order to change the point of view and add special effects. The montage editor allows you to edit various replays into a single sequence, add audio tracks from the official soundtrack of the game and add effects like transition from a sequence to another. You can then upload and publish your videos to the Rockstar Social Club to share them with the world. The GPS map has been improved. You can now point and click with the mouse on a specific location and make notes or add images to personalize it. Improved streaming will be possible with the power of todays processors. If you have seen cars on the road that matched the car you are driving, this has been somewhat fixed. More pedestrians and vehicles will be visible. This is all we have for now, don’t forget to be stay tuned to us for more updates! For those who have missed my announcement earlier today, I announced that I have launched a new website, and that I will be going on a semi-hiatus for a week. Anyway, here’s all. Stay tuned! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. “Regarding Liberty City” website launched! Regarding Liberty City, my new website, which will be under the same network, has been launched. It will specialize in Grand Theft Auto news, particularly those titles that are set in Liberty City (hence the title), such as Grand Theft Auto IV and Chinatown Wars. Click here to visit my new website now! Also, I would like to announce that I will be going on a short semi-hiatus for the next one week, and I will resume normal posting (at least one post every three days) after the 7th of October, 2008. However, I will still continue post Grand Theft Auto news, if there are any. Once again, click here to visit my new website, Regarding Liberty City, right now! Cheers, and be stay tuned for more Grand Theft Auto news! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto: What’s Happening this Weekend? For Grand Theft Auto fanatics… what’s happening this weekend? While many people are busy with examinations and end-of-year deadlines, it’s not a deathly sin to cut yourself some slack and get ahead with some weekend gaming. So, what’s happening this weekend? Check it out below. Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox LIVE Weekend This weekend on Xbox LIVE, from September 26th to September 28th, you can cuase chaos on Grand Theft Auto IV! Two giveaway contests will also be held. Unfortunately, or fortunately, this contests will be available only to residents of the United States of America and Canada whom are above 18 years of age with an Xbox LIVE account. For the Rockstar Games Social Club giveaway contest, you will also need a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV and a Rockstar Games Social Club account. If you have met all the requirements, the rest is really simple - all you have to do is log on into the Rockstar Games Social Club website between September 19, 2008 and September 28, 2008 to be automatically entered into the draw. One grand prize winner will receive home entertainment system worth US$6,000 and one runner-up will receive a Grand Theft Auto IV-branded Xbox 360 Elite and other Grand Theft Auto IV merchandise. Personally, I think that those merchandise would be more appealing than the top prize. Another seperate giveaway contest is the Play and Win sweepskates, where you must register by downloading a set of exclusive gamer pictures on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, which will be available exclusively to Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers for download during the event. Click here for the details and here for the terms and conditions of this giveaway contest. 50% Price-Cut for Rockstar Games titles on Steam Valve’s Online Digital Distribution system for Video Games, Steam, will be offering a 50% Price-Cut for selected Rockstar Games titles on the PC, which include Max Payne, Max Payne 2, Midnight Club 2 and Manhunt, as well as Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas. All of these titles are available for only USD$4.99. Five dollars for a classic Grand Theft Auto or Rockstar Games titles, who would coplain about such a bargain? Unfortunately, this offer is only available this weekend on Steam, so if you haven’t played this games, hurry, grab them! Click here for the full catalogue on the Steam website. If you haven’t already joined in the fun, start now! Put away everything you’re working on now, and jump into the action! Have fun playing video games, but don’t forget to be stay tuned for more Grand Theft Auto news, right here! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV: Multiplayer ID Badge Widget Rockstar Games have just released the Grand Theft Auto IV Multiplayer ID Badge widget today. You can check out the widget below, where you can create your own Multiplayer ID Badge by clicking on “Grab This”, where you can then embed the widget in your website or blog. Have fun with the widget! Don’t forget, this weekend is the Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox LIVE weekend, where many prizes can be won in sweepskates that are held concurrently! Have fun causing chaos all weekend long in Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer matches! Stay tuned! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Update 6 Chinatown Wars will feature a full drug-dealing mini-game As introduced in Nintendo Power’s November 2008 issue, Grand Theft Auto IV will feature a drug-dealing mini-game. The latest issue of the EDGE magazine has now elaborated on this feature, stating that this mini-game will i fact be a full-scale drug-dealing mini-game. “Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will have a complete drug dealing minigame, which will allow players to peddle six types of drugs around the city. Players will make a profit by recognizing market conditions and demands based on geography and plying their wares accordingly.” In this same issue of the EDGE magazine, they also interviewed Dan Houser, the vice president of creative of Rockstar Games. In the interview, he mentioned that “Nintendo wanted us to make GTA, and we wanted to make a game on their platform. They didn’t want us to make a GTA for kids, and we weren’t interested in making a game we wouldn’t normally make.” So, there we go. A little screenshot at the top of this page (a part of it was shown in the November 2008 issue of Nintendo Power), and a few nice details. I really hope this drug-dealing mini-game will turn out well as a fun mini-game and a good way to past your time on the train. Once again, this is the end of another great news post on Grand Theft Auto. I hope you have enjoyed reading (or maybe not). Whichever is the case, I hope you will have a great time ahead, and be sure to be stay tuned for more Grand Theft Auto news, right here! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Update 5 Many high-quality scans and detailed information from Nintendo Power November issue now available! Thanks to the guys over at GTAGaming, we now have a bunch of high-quality scans of all the Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars screenshots and cutscenes/artwork that were featured in the latest (November 2008) issue of Nintendo Power. Click on the thumbails below to enlarge! They have also kindly posted a detailed and concise summary of the text in the Nintendo Power article, which revealed many important gameplay details and also a description of some of the missions that are going to be in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. We have taken some of this information and posted them here for your convenience, however, the credits should go to them! We have also started our own pages with the launch of our new Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars section, which you can now see on the sidebar. It is updated with all the information that has currently been released to the public, including the recently released information, plus images. Anyway, here’s all we have for today’s update. Don’t forget to be stay tuned to us for more Grand Theft Auto news and updates! Also, do check out the new Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars section, which can be easily accessed over at the sidebar on your right! Cheers! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Update 4 First Images of GTA: Chinatown Wars hit the Internet! Finally! After weeks of waiting, here are some screenshots and artwork of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Although they are magazine scans, these images can give us an idea of how the final product will turn out. It’s got an isometric view, and an arcade feel to it. Also, Nintendo Everything has just posted today whole new scans from the same Nintendo Power November magazine issue. The new images now show screenshots from both screens, a sample of the cutscenes, how the Heads Up Display will appear and also a minigame which show the hotwiring of a vehicle when you hijack it, which is really similar to the minigames in another video game developed by Rockstar Games - which features the unscrewing of car radios to steal them. UPDATE (September 22nd 2008): Click Here for High-Quality Scans. All images were taken from Gamekyo and Nintendo Everything, so all credits go to them! Anyway, here’s all we have for now, but we’re sure more details and images will be released pretty soon! So, don’t forget to be stay tuned to us for more updates and news on the Grand Theft Auto series! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Update 4 First Images of GTA: Chinatown Wars hit the Internet! Finally! After weeks of waiting, here are some screenshots and artwork of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Although they are magazine scans, these images can give us an idea of how the final product will turn out. It’s got an isometric view, and an arcade feel to it. Click the thumbnails for the full size, all images are taken from Gamekyo, so thank them! Anyway, here’s all we have for now, but we’re sure more details and images will be released pretty soon! So, don’t forget to be stay tuned to us for more updates and news on the Grand Theft Auto series! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV: Xbox LIVE Weekend Contest! Rockstar Games has just recently announced a brand new giveaway contest being held this weekend on Xbox LIVE. Unfortunately, or fortunately, this contest will be available only to residents of the United States of America and Canada whom are above 18 years of age with an Xbox LIVE account. In addition, you will also need a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV and a Rockstar Games Social Club account. If you have met all the requirements, the rest is really simple - all you have to do is log on into the Rockstar Games Social Club website between September 19, 2008 and September 28, 2008 to be automatically entered into the draw. This contest is seperate from the Play and Win sweepskates, which you register by downloading a set of gamer pictures, which will be available exclusively on Xbox LIVE Marketplace in that time period for download. After which, one grand prize winner will receive home entertainment system worth US$6,000 and one runner-up will receive a Grand Theft Auto IV-branded Xbox 360 Elite and other Grand Theft Auto IV merchandise. Personally, I think that those merchandise would be more appealing than the top prize. The exact prizes are: an entertainment center prize package consisting of a Sharp AQUOS 52” Flat Panel LCD HDTV, a Marantz SR7002 home theatre receiver, and a KEF KHT-3005 Speaker package. For the runner-up winners: Xbox 360 Elite console and assorted Grand Theft Auto merchandise, including GTA IV Dart Board Set, GTA IV Pool Cue & Chalk Set, Baseball Bat, “IV” Hooded Sweatshirt, LCPD T-Shirt, Liberty City Swingers Baseball Shirt, and GTA IV Pin and Sticker Packs. You can win more prizes by entering the Play and Win sweepskates, which is also held concurrently. Read more on the Play and Win sweepskates below. New York, NY – September 19, 2008 – Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and Microsoft proudly present the Grand Theft Auto IV LIVE Weekend exclusively on Xbox LIVE® online entertainment network beginning Friday, September 26 through Sunday, September 28 in the United States and Canada. This special weekend will be open to Xbox LIVE Gold members of the Xbox LIVE community. Gamers who register for Play & Win will automatically be entered into a drawing to win exclusive prize packages just for playing with friends on Xbox LIVE. Prize packages for Play & Win include select Rockstar gear and an entry into the Grand Prize Package drawing. The Grand Prize Package includes, but is not limited to, an Xbox 360® Elite console, a 12-month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription card, as well as 4,000 Microsoft Points! Register for the sweepstakes online at www.xbox.com/CauseChaos before the close of the entry period on September 28, 2008, at 11:59:59 p.m. EDT or register via Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360 by downloading the free Grand Theft Auto IV LIVE Weekend Gamer Picture before the close of the entry period. Players can test their skills by jumping into multiplayer matchmaking to go toe-to-toe with the actual Grand Theft Auto IV development team. Members of the team will be online between 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 26 to play with fans. Click here for the full page of details and the terms and conditions of this giveaway contest. If not, that’s all we have for now, please check back often for more news ad updates on Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars! See you! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV: Xbox LIVE Weekend! Rockstar Games has just recently announced a brand new event being held next weekend on Xbox LIVE. During this period from September 19th 2008 to September 28th, two giveaway contests will also be held. Unfortunately, or fortunately, this contests will be available only to residents of the United States of America and Canada whom are above 18 years of age with an Xbox LIVE account. For the Rockstar Games Social Club giveaway contest, you will also need a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV and a Rockstar Games Social Club account. If you have met all the requirements, the rest is really simple - all you have to do is log on into the Rockstar Games Social Club website between September 19, 2008 and September 28, 2008 to be automatically entered into the draw. One grand prize winner will receive home entertainment system worth US$6,000 and one runner-up will receive a Grand Theft Auto IV-branded Xbox 360 Elite and other Grand Theft Auto IV merchandise. Personally, I think that those merchandise would be more appealing than the top prize. Another seperate giveaway contest is the Play and Win sweepskates, where you must register by downloading a set of exclusive gamer pictures on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, which will be available exclusively to Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers for download during the event. The exact prizes are: an entertainment center prize package consisting of a Sharp AQUOS 52” Flat Panel LCD HDTV, a Marantz SR7002 home theatre receiver, and a KEF KHT-3005 Speaker package. For the runner-up winners: Xbox 360 Elite console and assorted Grand Theft Auto merchandise, including GTA IV Dart Board Set, GTA IV Pool Cue & Chalk Set, Baseball Bat, “IV” Hooded Sweatshirt, LCPD T-Shirt, Liberty City Swingers Baseball Shirt, and GTA IV Pin and Sticker Packs. You can win more prizes by entering the Play and Win sweepskates, which is also held concurrently. Read more on the prizes of the Play and Win sweepskates below. New York, NY – September 19, 2008 – Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), and Microsoft proudly present the Grand Theft Auto IV LIVE Weekend exclusively on Xbox LIVE® online entertainment network beginning Friday, September 26 through Sunday, September 28 in the United States and Canada. This special weekend will be open to Xbox LIVE Gold members of the Xbox LIVE community. Gamers who register for Play & Win will automatically be entered into a drawing to win exclusive prize packages just for playing with friends on Xbox LIVE. Prize packages for Play & Win include select Rockstar gear and an entry into the Grand Prize Package drawing. The Grand Prize Package includes, but is not limited to, an Xbox 360® Elite console, a 12-month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription card, as well as 4,000 Microsoft Points! Register for the sweepstakes online at www.xbox.com/CauseChaos before the close of the entry period on September 28, 2008, at 11:59:59 p.m. EDT or register via Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360 by downloading the free Grand Theft Auto IV LIVE Weekend Gamer Picture before the close of the entry period. Players can test their skills by jumping into multiplayer matchmaking to go toe-to-toe with the actual Grand Theft Auto IV development team. Members of the team will be online between 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 26 to play with fans. Click here for the full page of details and the terms and conditions of this giveaway contest. If not, that’s all we have for now, please check back often for more news ad updates on Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars! See you! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Update 3 First details revealed in Nintendo Power The November issue of Nintendo Power has just been released, with major details on Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Below, you can read through a list of features that has been alleged to be in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (taken from Kotaku). Also, the story line of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be a little different from the previous Grand Theft Auto installments. Chinatown Wars talks about a tale of revenge and retrieval, where a triad boss becomes the victim of a brutal murder and a precious family heirloom - a sword named the Yu Jian (Jade Sword in Mandarin) - is stolen. You play as his son, Huang Lee (pineapple in Mandarin), who must discover who did these terrible things to his father. Throughout the story, he’ll also be working alongside Wade Heston, a Liberty City police officer. True Grand Theft Auto game - sandbox gameplay, open-world environment, gritty crime narrative. Mature, “M” rating Isometric camera angle Cel-shaded polygons with black borders Good touch-screen implementation - “tasteful” minigames, streamlining interface UI based on a PDA - hub for email, contacts, map, music player, GPS, stat-tracking Stats uploaded to Rockstar Social Club website via Wi-Fi Finger-sized icons Missions designed for shorter periods of play, arcade quality Aiming with control pad, Auto-Targeting with R button Subtle Autosteer If you fail a mission, you can jump back to the action sequence Chain Gun, Flamethrower implementation Good portion of Liberty City is modeled in the game (different routes than console games) No probems with load times, draw-in or frame rate Lots of pedestrians, cars, and items on-screen simultaneously Wanted system - your wanted level will be lowered by destroying Police vehicles Real-time weather effects, 24-hour day/night cycle Lots of radio stations to listen to (more instrumentals than vocals) 800,000 lines of hand-optimized source code No details yet on multiplayer/Wi-Fi features As we don’t have the magazine scans yet, we must wait for screenshots (if they are any). Regardless, please be stay tuned to us for more Grand Theft Auto news and updates, right here! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 2 in-game re-creation Brotha has just re-created the 2nd Trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV - “Looking For That Special Someone” - in Grand Theft Auto IV. He has replaced some parts, and left some parts of the trailer where it was before, but I still feel it was a job well done. Give it a look below. We hope you have enjoyed the video. Stay tuned for more of Brotha’s videos and Grand Theft Auto news and updates! Cheers! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. EA and Take-Two Interactive: Takeover bid ends Good news for all Grand Theft Auto and Rockstar Games fans alike. Electronic Arts has just ended its bid to take over Take-Two Interactive, According to a press release issued by Electronic Arts, they have (finally) decided not to make renew its proposal to acquire Take-Two Interactive and has ended talks about the possible acquisition of Take-Two Interactive., Take-Two Interactive responded to Electronic Arts’ statement, with the following statement made, “We remain focused on creating value for our stockholders and our consumers. This has been our goal since EA launched its conditional and unsolicited bid six months ago, a bid which was repeatedly rejected by our stockholders.” Hurray for Grand Theft Auto and Rockstar Games! However, here comes the bad news, guys. After the statements issued by both Take-Two Interactive and Electronic Arts, the stock prices of Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive had both recieved a sgnificant hit, and both fell significantly. Painful for some here, ain’t it? Electronic Arts had taken a hit with a decrease of as much as 2.7%, but prices have risen back up in the morning following the fall, probably because it’s just Electronic Arts. On the other hand, Take-Two Interactive’s stock prices have fallen much lower as compared to Electronic Arts. It had become nearly 25% lower than they were before talks had officially halted. Anyway, here’s all the news for today. Good news for all video gamers! We don’t need Electronic Arts runing Grand Theft Auto, Midnight Club and Bioshock. I guess you can stick with The Sims, huh, EA? Anyway, stay tuned to us for more news and updates on Grand Theft Auto, right here! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV - Games for Windows: Update 2 - Recommended System Requirements Revealed -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Let’s Rock: Apple releases new iPods and iTunes 8 With video games news and updates going pretty slow in wake of three video game conventions (E3 2008, Penny Arcade Expo, Leipzig Games Convention), here’s one good news for Apple fans, iPod users, Macintosh power users and music fans alike. Scroll down to read more about it. The good news: Apple has just announced (and released) new versions of the iPod Classic, Shuffle, Nano, Touch. The iPod Classic and Shuffle has both recieved only minor updates. The iPod Classic now comes in 120 GB models, with the 80 GB and 160 GB models dropped in favour of the decision. As for the iPod Shuffle and and iPod Nano, many new colour choices are now made available. In addition, the iPod Nano also has a major update. The latest generation of the iPod Nanos now come in “skinny” form factors, as opposed to the “fat” form factors in the last generation iPod Nanos. The iPod Nano now also comes with a built-in accelerometer, just like in the iPod Touch and the iPhone. As for the iPod Touch, it was updated with a new system software version, along with the introduction of a second generation iPhone which boasts features like “Nike +” integration, external loudspeakers and physical volume keys on the side of the music player. Now, for the biggest and most anticipated update — iTunes 8.0. While the Genuis feature is pretty underwhelming, iTunes now includes an updated and more streamlined user interface, with the introduction of the new “Album Artwork Grid” view. And, of course, Genius playlists. You can pretty much look around about anywhere for descriptions, reviews and hands-ons of the new Genius playlist feature in iTunes 8 around the internet, so I won’t bother to go into the details. Of course, you’ll need a iTunes store account for it to work. Basically, what it does is it puts all the recommended songs into the playlist that iTunes thinks it’s related to the songs that you’ve already put into the playlist. In essence, it is adding related songs to your current playlist. Anyway, this is all the news we have here… for now. We hope you do pay us a visit again, for the usual news on all things related to IT and Video Games, especially Grand Theft Auto news! Cheers! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Midnight Club: Los Angeles - Update 5 I’m rather tired and beat-out today to be writing this post, honestly. It might have come little late, but nevertheless, here is our latest update post on Midnight Club: Los Angeles! Today’s update is a pretty unique mix of both the bad and the good news. Scroll down to read! Midnight Club: Los Angeles Website Updated The official wbsite for Midnight Club: Los Angeles has been updated, with the opening of the Santa Monica section. Many screenshots and videos can be found in the now newly-opened section. Check out the official website for Midnight Club Los Angeles here! Midnight Club: Los Angeles now delayed Argh, you’ve been waiting for the bad news, well here it is. It is painful, ain’t it? Take Two Interactive has just released its Fiscal 2008 Third Quarter Results. While it is all good news for our beloved Grand Theft Auto series, things are not as bright for Midnight Club, it seems. Rockstar Games says, Midnight Club: Los Angeles’ release date will be pushed back all the way to the end of the month of October, and the new release dates are October 21st and October 24th in North America and Europe, respectively. You can now go ahead and smash your heads now. Although this news update for Midnight Club: Los Angeles is short and bears unfortunate news, we still hope you guys will have a smashing time ahead! Please be remember to be stay tuned to us for more Grand Theft Auto and Midnight Club updates! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Update 2 Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars due before February        It was just announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released as early as November 2008 and at the latest, January of 2009. This announcement was made to today at Take-Two Interactive investor call, announced by CEO Ben Feder. This means that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released for the Nintendo DS at around the same period of time as the first Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable Xbox 360 episodic content would, which would mean before or after the year-end holiday period of 2008. We hope that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released before the holiday season at the end of the year, though. What about you? Give us your comments! Anyway, here’s all the news for now, but be sure to be stay tuned for more Grand Theft Auto and video games news and updates! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Liberty ‘08: “A Day in Liberty” Teaser Ok, guys, this is an update of the my upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV Machinima series, Liberty ‘08. For more information, click here. Basically, the machinima project will have an estimated release date of somehwere between December 2008 - January 2009, as that’s when Grand Theft Auto IV would already have been released for the PC. The new Machinima will be filmed using the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, which will be released on November 28th 2008 in North America, as I believe it would be of a more professional quality if I used the PC version, as it would be of higher quality with the upgraded graphics, I believe. Anyway, this teaser video for Liberty ‘08 was filmed with a JVC camcorder and HDTV, so the quality’s not that fine, but I hope you guys will appreciate the effort put in to make this video. So, watch the video using the YouTube video at the top of this post, and comment! You guys might also have realized a new “Projects” page that has been added within the past few days. The “Projects” page now includes and tracks all “Liberty ‘08 - A Grand Theft Auto IV Machinima” series videos, as well as the rest of my projects. Lastly, I am currently looking for voice actors for this upcoming Machinima project. If you’re ever interested in a role for the “Liberty ‘08? Machinima series, you can drop me a line over at the contact page, or just post a comment here expressing your interest. Just remember to leave your E-Mail address so that I can get back to you! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Midnight Club: Los Angeles - Update 4 Midnight Club: Los Angeles Trailer 3 released! We might have missed this piece of news over the past week, but the third trailer of Midnight Club: Los Angeles have just been released. It looks pretty impressive, showing several aspects of an action-packed race going on over at Midnight Club’s Los Angeles. As always, you can watch the trailer using the embedded YouTube video player, just right above. New Gameplay Video reveals details Gamekyo, a video games website, has just posted a new article along the first gameplay video for Midnight Club: Los Angeles. They have recorded the video at Rockstar Games’ booth at the Leipzig Games Convention held in the two weeks ago. Many details were of course revealed in the video. First, the game’s just simple graphically stunning, just like Grand Theft Auto IV, but set in Los Angeles. The video was recorded with a camera, therefore that the footage is not completely clear, but all the stunning features of the game can still be seen. As a racing video game title, the cars look and handle spectacularly in Midnight Club: Los Angeles. Even for loading screens, there aren’t any at all after the initial loading screen. Not even when you start a race and the screen jumps up to show the whole of Los Angeles, then zooms down to where the race is. Stunning, impressive, beautiful. Surely, you can find some other adjective to describe Midnight Club: Los Angeles, but we shall leave it to you! What do you think of this game after watching the third trailer and a gameplay video? Give us your comments, and stay tuned for more news! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Video Games Update 8: The Force Unleashed Demo LucasArts have just put out a playable demo of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which can be downloaded from either Xbox LIVE or the PlayStation Network for free. The Force Unleashed is the latest and upcoming video game in the Star Wars franchise, and it’s also the second video game to utilize the Euphoria physics engine after Grand Theft Auto IV. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will be available on multiple platforms, which includes the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, N-Gage enabled phones, iPhone, iPod Touch, and PlayStation 2. It will be released in North America on September 16, 2008, and Australia and Southeast Asia on September 17, 2008. I have just downloaded a copy of The Force Unleashed demo via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and I must say that it looks pretty impressive for a Star Wars game, if we consider the sub-standard quality of the Star Wars games that were released prior to The Force Unleashed. The demo showed how Euphoria and DMM (Dynamic Molecular Matter) played their respective roles in this next-generation Star Wars video game. You can now use the force to control and hurl enemies and objects around from a distance with stunning and realistic effects. The controls were, however, the most disappointing of this game. You can’t really attack or block with ease. However, The Force Unleahed is on overall, a good video game title. Based on the demo, we can expect a full-blown Next-Generation Star Wars video game title with The Force Unleashed. Whether you’re getting it on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, it still will be a purchase well worth it! Here’s all the news we have for now, but be sure to be stay tuned for more news and updates on Grand Theft Auto, Rockstar Games and video games in general! Lastly, don’t forget to download your own copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed too, which is really a demo well worth playing. ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Rockstar Games Update 2: Max Payne Movie Trailer New Theatrical Max Payne Movie Trailer Released A new theatrical trailer has just been released for the upcoming Max Payne movie, featuring Mark Wahlberg and directed by John Moore. Originally developed by Remedy Entertainment, Max Payne is now developed by Rockstar Games. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, the movie wil be released in North America on October 17th, 2008. The movie will be a rough adaptation of the video game title Max Payne. The trailer is quite long at 2 Minutes and 33 Seconds, but features many scenes from the movie. For those uninformed, Max Payne’s storyline follows a cop whose family and partner were brutally murdered. He embarks on a maverick path, venturing into the underworld to find those responsible for the murders, to find that he had been betrayed by a woman he thought was dead. Enjoy the trailer, and don’t forget to be stay tuned for more news and updates! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Rockstar Games Update 1: Rumors & Bully for PC Some Rumored Rockstar Games projects Some of you may have with you the October issue of EGM, which mentioned a few rumors about Rockstar Games’ involvement in several new projects, including Max Payne 3 and a new PlayStation 3 exclusive video game title to be developed by Rockstar North. 1UP: “We’ve been hearing for months that Max Payne 3 is in the works, but this month we got something a bit juicier to add to this rumor: Original Max Payne developers Remedy Entertainment are currently too busy working on Alan Wake to even consider developing the new Payne sequel. Instead, the next-gen noir shooter will be handled by the same internal Rockstar team that created The Warriors. And perhaps even more exciting, we’ve got word that Rockstar is still hard at work on an unannounced PlayStation 3 exclusive. Who’s making it? Why, just the guys behind a little-known Rockstar release from earlier in the year….” Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content: 15 hours of gameplay This is another rumor that came from RPG-TV (don’t bother about the link because the “rumor” claims were removed, which seems fishy). It is based off an Xbox press event held in London - that Grand Theft Auto IV’s Downloadable Content foe the Xbox 360 will be out in November 2008, whcih provides “roughly 15 hours of additional play time”. Bully heading towards Windows PCs Also, in case anybody has missed the news (we know it’s old news), Rockstar Games have also announced at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany that Bully will be released on the Games for Windows platform, which will be released sometime later this year, with a tentative release date of October 2008. The PC version has been confirmed to be based on the Scholarship edition. Here’s all the news we have for today, but be sure to be stay tuned to us for more news and updates regarding Grand Theft Auto IV, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Max Payne, L.A. Noire and Bully, especially Grand Theft Auto news, which has been quite stale for a while. Cheers! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV - Post-Release Update 15 Grand Theft Auto IV Episodic Content coming in Autumn It has been confirmed by Microsoft in the Leipzig Games Convention, which is happening right now, that the first of two Xbox LIVE downloadable episodes for Grand Theft Auto IV will be coming and is scheduled for release this Autumn, which ranges from a few weeks to a few months later. “In autumn there will be news from Liberty City; the first episodes of GTA IV will be available for download exclusively on Xbox LIVE, underlining Xbox 360’s leadership role in the field of digital entertainment.” Grand Theft Auto IV tops the charts The Top Global Markets Report has shown recently that Grand Theft Auto IV has come out first based on the number of sales worldwide for the year of 2008 so far. Behind it are several Wii platform titles, namely Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart and Wii Fit. See the list below for more. Grand Theft Auto 4 — 6,293,000 — 4,711,000 — 1,582,000 — NA Super Smash Bros. Brawl — 5,433,000 — 3,539,000 — 213,000 — 1,681,000 Mario Kart Wii — 4,697,000 — 2,409,000 — 687,000 — 1,601,000 Wii Fit — 3,604,000 — 1,433,000 — 624,000 — 1,547,000 Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock — 3,475,000 — 3,037,000 — 412,000 — 26,000 The first number (the ones in bold font) are the totals for all three regions. The following three numbers show, in order, totals for US, UK, and Japan. This report is a year-to-date software sales total. Also, Grand Theft Auto IV has only been released in the US and Europe on the 29th of April, 2008. This says a lot about Grand Theft Auto’s success. Even with Japan excluded from the numbers, Grand Theft Auto IV is still on top. This is all the news we have for now, but you can be sure to be stay tuned in the future for more news on Grand Theft Auto IV’s episodic content! Also, news of Grand Theft Auto IV on the PC and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be posted here regularly! Cheers! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Grand Theft Auto IV - Games for Windows: Update 1 New PC version information and screenshots released! New details of the Games for Windows version of Grand Theft Auto IV has just been posted by IGN, and there were also ten new screenshots which accompanied the article. Evidently, the PC version now looks sharper, less blurry, with a further draw distance and more noticeable anti-aliasing. The Games for Windows version has also been revealed to have support for both gamepad and keyboard/mouse play, more multiplayer features such as search filters to find your ideal match. The maximum supported screen resolution is also 2560×1600. For many long-time Grand Theft Auto fans, it is a great relief that the 30-second replays will also return for both single player mode and multiplayer games. The second piece of great news is that Grand Theft Auto IV on the PC will now feature a montage video editor where you can add different filters and transitions, and after that you will be able to upload it to the Rockstar Games Social Club where it can be viewed by others. Also, fingerless gloves have been spotted to be in one of the screenshots, as well as a few other clothing items not present in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions. Hopefully, they will be included in the final build of the game. This is all of the information that has been revealed for now, but more details will be revealed in time to come. Don’t forget that Grand Theft Auto IV will be released on the Games for Windows platform on November 18th in North America and November 21st in Europe, so do clear up your schedules and mark your calenders! Stay tuned for more updates! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Liberty ‘08 - A Grand Theft Auto IV Machinima: Trailer 1 I have just embarked on a new Grand Theft Auto IV Machinima project, entitled “Liberty ‘08″. To go along with the plan, I have decided to roll out today the first trailer of the “Liberty ‘08″ Machinima series, which is essentially a series of trailer clips made into a music video. The trailer was set to the tunes of Baba O’Riley by The Who, and also Royal Gregory by Holy F*ck. It’s about 5 minutes long, but you should watch it to the end for maximum enjoyment! It was edited using Apple Final Cut Pro 6.0.4 on a MacBook with High-Definition source clips at 720p. Anyway, back to the point I made about the “Liberty ‘08″ Machinima, which would have an estimated release date of somehwere between December 2008 - January 2009, as that’s when Grand Theft Auto IV would have been released for the PC. More trailers might also be released in the future for the Machinima series to hype it up. The new Machinima will be filmed using the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, which will be released on November 28th 2008 in North America, as I believe it would be of a more professional quality if I used the PC version, as I do not have a capture card to capture footage from the Xbox 360. Currently, I am also looking for voice actors for this upcoming Machinima project. If you’re ever interested in a role for the “Liberty ‘08″ Machinima series, you can drop me a line over at the contact page, or just post a comment here expressing your interest. Just remember to leave your E-Mail address so that I can get back to you! Lastly, you could check it out using the YouTube player right at the top of this post. There is also a high-definition version of the trailer, which will be made available soon, so be stay tuned! Also, don’t forget to check back occasionally for more Grand Theft Auto news and updates! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved.. Need for Speed: Undercover - Detective Teaser Video Need for Speed: ProStreet was a disappointment, but I’m putting my bets on this one - Need for Speed: Undercover. Hopefully, it’ll turn out good after EA Games have learnt from their mistakes on trying to disassociate the Need for Speed series from its underground racing theme. The new “Detective” teaser trailer for the upcoming Need for Speed: Undercover looks good, but since it features live action footage, I will not be quick to judge and jump to conclusions. Let’s wait for more trailers to come our way, alright? Well, it also seems that Need for Speed: Undercover will hit store shelves on November 18th 2008, the same day the Games for Windows version of Grand Theft Auto IV gets released in North America. Too much of a coincidence it is, but I might give it a test drive too if I’d get a chance. So, without much further ado, you can go ahead and watch the Need for Speed: Undercover “Detective” teaser trailer, right here over at GameTrailers, or alternatively, using the YouTube player at the top of this post. But before you go, don’t forget to be stay tuned for more updates! ©2008 -=}{oT~dEv1L 666=-'s HQ. All Rights Reserved..