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GTA: Chinatown Wars Unlockables II (DS)

The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon...

29 September 2009
06:40 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Unlockables (DS)

The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon...

28 September 2009
05:37 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Cheats V (DS)

The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon...

25 September 2009
09:40 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Cheats IV (DS)

The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon...

24 September 2009
07:03 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Cheats III (DS)

The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon...

23 September 2009
07:17 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Cheats II (DS)

The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon...

22 September 2009
10:33 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Cheats (DS)

The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon...

21 September 2009
09:57 GMT

Max Payne 3 Delayed, BioShock and Mafia II Before July 2010

Take Two seemed to be one of the powerhouses of videogaming during this holiday season. Rockstar was slated to put out Red Dead Redemption, Mafia II was widely seen as the definitive period gangster piece and BioShock 2 was set to give gamers more of the very popular Rapture.And let's not forget that Max Payne 3...

2 September 2009
14:11 GMT

iPhone Gets GTA: Chinatown Wars in Fall

The publishing label of Take-Two Interactive known as Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is coming to iPhone and iPod touch this autumn. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is currently available only for the Nintendo DS, and is also set to make an appearance on Sony’s PlayStationPo...

1 September 2009
09:40 GMT

No Plans for a Grand Theft Auto Movie, Says Rockstar

The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the biggest names in the gaming industry, setting a new standard in terms of story, gameplay and the overall quality of the experience the player goes through. But with the prestige and popularity with the gaming industry, many analysts wondered just when the franchise would ...

28 July 2009
03:57 GMT

Media Brings Out the Worst Behavior in Teens

Seeking to find a reason why teenagers in the United States engage in such risky behavior as “car surfing,” researchers at the Case Western University School of Medicine, in Cleveland, Ohio, have set out to analyze what drives the young ones to perform true acts of madness. Moving past a simple neurologic...

21 July 2009
20:51 GMT

E3: All Points Bulletin Coming to the PC in Early 2010

Realtime Worlds, the developer of All Points Bulletin, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Electronic Arts to deliver its MMO in the early part of 2010 to the PC. The game has been in development for quite some time and it aims to create a living, breathing world focusing on the continual struggl...

2 June 2009
03:10 GMT

Chinatown Wars Still Not Selling

When Chinatown Wars, the Grand Theft Auto-themed game for the Nintendo DS, was released way back in March, analysts were saying that the game would be considered a flop if it only managed to sell 200,000 units in its first month on the shelves. Well, GTA: Chinatown Wars has not managed to reach that figure in two mon...

19 May 2009
05:07 GMT

No New Consoles Coming Until 2013

New hardware launches are only a remote possibility, given the performance of the current gen consoles and the numbers posted by companies like Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. This is what Michael Patcher, a consultant with Wedbush Morgan, thinks when surveying the videogame market.Patcher said that “We note that...

6 May 2009
03:48 GMT

Sony's Attach Rate for Blockbusters Is Better than Microsoft's

Sony is pushing hard to show gamers that the gap in performance between the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 is not that great. And the latest argument pushed by the Japanese company is that the attach rate for major titles is bigger for the PS3, which means that those who get the console are more eager to get and play...

15 April 2009
13:01 GMT

Videogame Industry Will See No Growth in March

Do you remember March 2008? Yes, it was just over one year ago in real time, but it seems like an eternity when it comes to videogame releases. In March 2008, we saw the launch of two of the biggest games of last year, Grand Theft Auto IV from Rockstar and Take Two, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl from Nintendo.The relea...

15 April 2009
05:04 GMT

Download Free Grand Theft Auto IV Theme for iPhone

Developer Meebz has created a cool iPhone theme featuring Grand Theft Auto characters, and a slew of GTA IV-styled icons for iPhone owners and fans of the series. All you need is an iPhone and you're good to download this theme right here, right now.According to Meebz, Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition is a be...

30 March 2009
08:49 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Could Sell 2 Million Copies

Can the Grand Theft Auto franchise do anything wrong? It seems not. Grand Theft Auto IV was one of the best sold videogames of 2008, also taking home quite a few awards at the ceremonies held at the end of the year.Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned, the first downloadable content pack for the game, which was laun...

18 March 2009
17:01 GMT

Rumor Mill: The Next Grand Theft Auto Could Arrive by the End of 2009

The Grand Theft Auto franchise is probably one of the best-known and most popular sandbox game series out there, winning over a huge number of fans with its realistic gameplay and intriguing story. The brainchild of the Rockstar team, the franchise sold extremely well, and, with its latest iteration, Grand Theft Auto...

15 January 2009
03:24 GMT

Hardcore Gamers Will Carry the Videogames Industry Forward

Recession is hitting hard. Midway was just sold for around 100,000 dollars. Eidos is looking for someone to bail it out. Brash Entertainment went under. Electronic Arts has laid off 1,000 people, about 10% of the staff it employs and announced closing down nine studios, including Need for Speed Undercover developer B...

23 December 2008
11:21 GMT

Crackdown 2 Might Be in Development

Crackdown is what the gaming industry calls a “sleeper hit” because it was not a huge best seller at launch but it managed to sell steadily for a long period, resulting in a lifetime total of 1.5 million copies sold until now. It is one of the initial action titles for the Xbox 360 and, as the console has...

22 December 2008
05:30 GMT

Nintendo Announces 2009 First Quarter Line Up

Nintendo of America has just released to the press a list of videogames for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS it plans to launch in the first quarter of 2009. The most important properties that the company is releasing are Pokemon Platinum for the Nintendo DS handheld, arriving in North America on March 22, 2009, and ...

19 December 2008
20:31 GMT

Revenue and Losses Increase at Take Two

Take Two has revealed its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008 and the results are all but good. The company that published such hits as Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar, has seen revenue from videogames sales increase, while the losses it has incurred reached 15 million dollars, which is double...

18 December 2008
04:56 GMT

Developer Says GTA: Chinatown Wars Will Change DS Games

Grand Theft Auto is by far one of the most popular franchises out there, as it dominates its sandbox game genre and, with its latest installment, Grand Theft Auto IV, it has achieved record sales on both the consoles, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and the PC, for which it has recently been launched. But, although the ...

9 December 2008
15:01 GMT

Here Are New Details on GTA: Chinatown Wars

Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular open world sandbox games out there, having a huge number of fans. This is largely due to the excellent gameplay, which, combined with the amusing story, offers players a great experience that they won't forget for quite some time.Recently, Rockstar, the developer behin...

17 November 2008
03:40 GMT

Take Two Boss Talks About GTA IV DLC and GTA Chinatown Wars

Take Two is one of the most popular game publishers out there, releasing hit titles such as Grand Theft Auto IV or Bioshock. But popularity doesn't always pay off, because the company has recently seen stock prices fall on account of the recent recession, which, although it seems to be more gentle with the gamin...

14 November 2008
15:31 GMT

Grand Theft Auto Developer Talks About User Feedback

Grand Theft Auto is the most popular series in the whole open world sandbox genre. Ever since the first titles, the franchise received a lot of praises, and with its latest installment, GTA 4, the developer, Rockstar, gained critical acclaim for mixing the gritty realism of everyday life with the trademark humor of t...

3 November 2008
11:01 GMT

Developer Says Saints Row 3 Will Go into a New Direction

Saints Row is a pretty interesting franchise, with the first Xbox 360 exclusive title gaining a fair amount of fans and having pretty decent sales. Recently, the second title in the series launched and promised to take the action and story from the first game to new heights in terms of graphics, gameplay and offer th...

28 October 2008
00:38 GMT

Car Jack Streets, a GTA-Type Mobile Game

Car Jack Street is a mobile game that has you hijacking cars, and then driving them around a city to complete various missions. If it sounds a bit like GTA, that’s because it was developed by two former members of the original GTA development team at DMA Design. The two signed a publishing contract with I-play ...

6 October 2008
09:24 GMT

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars to Feature Drug Dealing

Well after the first details on the Nintendo DS version of Grand Theft Auto, subtitled Chinatown Wars, appeared, some thought it might lack the controversy associated with any GTA title. Well, for those people, Dan Houser, one of the founders of Rockstar, the developer behind the GTA franchise, said, in a recent inte...

25 September 2008
20:01 GMT

New Rumored Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Details

The GoNintendo site reveals that the latest issue of Nintendo Power magazine will contain the first features and details about Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The game is exclusively developed for the Nintendo  DS and according to these new details, it will take full advantage of the unique tra...

19 September 2008
06:01 GMT

Uwe Boll, the Perfect Director for a GTA Movie

Most of the gamers on the planet seem to hate Uwe Boll for his poor movies, but the German director doesn't really care about that. With ten movies released in eight years (you can find three of these titles on the IMDB Bottom 100 films list), an online petition initiated by video game fans in order to stop him ...

13 May 2008
04:51 GMT

Electronic Arts, Not the White Knight

EA Chief Executive John Riccitiello, the man who wants to start a revolution at Electronic Arts, has recently made a very interesting comment regarding the offer of his company to take over Take Two and, implicitly, game developer Rockstar. The New York Times has him on record as saying "We, in many ways, represent a...

19 March 2008
07:45 GMT

Prostitution, Morality and Videogames

We've heard it a thousand times. Games are evil. There's considerable potential for discussion in the sentence. Games are bad. There's no questioning the fact that there are really bad games out there, just not bad in the sense that Jack Thompson would like us to believe that GTA is "bad." Games promot...

14 March 2008
06:36 GMT

Sony Talks About Possible Getaway Movie

The Getaway, billed by many to be a GTA clone, is an action-packed fast-paced game series set in London. It includes two installments to date: the original Getaway for the PlayStation 2 that was released in December 2002 and its sequel Black Monday, released in 2004. The third game in the series is slated for release...

10 March 2008
04:28 GMT

Pachter Analyzes GTA's Future

I really doubt that anybody who knows about the recent hype surrounding the EA - Take Two proposed deal doesn't have already a script for what could happen with the Grand Theft Auto franchise. And, basically, there are two different points of view: the acquisition would have a good result or a really bad one. Ho...

27 February 2008
04:32 GMT

Did Hot Coffee Disgust You? Get Your Money Back!

Strange things happen, that is a proven fact. And if you would like to disagree with the previous statement, we have another proof for you, coming straight from Rockstar, a company that is no stranger to lawsuits and big huge game scandals. They are known to defend their games (duh!) like any other developer would. S...

30 January 2008
05:35 GMT

Rockstar Brings Games to Steam

Rockstar Games and Valve have announced the launch of the Rockstar full game library of PC games on Steam. This means that any titles produced by the developers can be purchased online, with a very special offer being available until the 11th of January: a 10% discount for any title bought.Both sides involved in thi...

7 January 2008
02:53 GMT

Rockstar Might Leave Take Two in 2009

After the recent Activision-Vivendi deal that probably scared a little the Electronic Arts empire, everybody wonders what moves is EA going to make in order to re-establish its top position. While everything is just a speculation, the fact that it comes from people who, supposedly, know what they're talking abou...

7 December 2007
02:42 GMT

GTA IV Box Art Revealed. New Trailer Coming, Too

Yes, GTA fans, Rockstar has stamped the game's website with the official box art, also revealing that a new trailer for the game, entitled "Move up, Ladies", will be released next Thursday, on the 6th of December, at 3:00 pm, EST. Click on the image to the left to enlarge.Here are some of the most important mome...

29 November 2007
04:48 GMT

Rockstar Developer Passes Away. No Cause of Death Established

Sad day over at Rockstar's development studio, as Joseph J.M. Howell, who carried out a lot of work on the company's most popular titles including the Grand Theft Auto series and Manhunt, has recently passed away, with no cause of death established so far. There's really no room for comments here... Th...

28 September 2007
03:44 GMT

Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories Hints and Glitches (PSP)

The core gameplay consists of elements of a third-person shooter and a driving game, affording the player a large, open environment in which to move around. On foot, the player's character is capable of walking, running, swimming and jumping, as well as utilizing weapons and basic hand to hand combat. Players ca...

25 September 2007
12:06 GMT

Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories Hints (PSP)

GTA Liberty City Stories is an all new epic adventure set in now classic Liberty City. Taking place three years prior to the events of Grand Theft Auto 3, you'll play as scorned wise guy Toni Cipriani who has just returned to Liberty City after having been forced into exile for killing a made man as a favor to m...

25 September 2007
09:31 GMT

Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories Cheats and Unlockables (PSP)

The core gameplay consists of elements of a third-person shooter and a driving game, affording the player a large, open environment in which to move around. On foot, the player's character is capable of walking, running, swimming and jumping, as well as utilizing weapons and basic hand to hand combat. Players ca...

24 September 2007
13:36 GMT

GTA Liberty City Stories Glitches (PSP)

GTA Liberty City Stories is an all new epic adventure set in now classic Liberty City. Taking place three years prior to the events of Grand Theft Auto 3, you'll play as scorned wise guy Toni Cipriani who has just returned to Liberty City after having been forced into exile for killing a made man as a favor to m...

24 September 2007
08:57 GMT

Exclusive GTA IV Trailer Prepared by Yahoo

The Sunnyvale company Yahoo recently signed an exclusive deal with the producer of the famous game GTA IV to show trailers, photos and other multimedia content concerning the upcoming well-known title. Although there is no official statement about the agreement, PSPSPS sustains that Yahoo bought the exclusivity for t...

22 June 2007
08:50 GMT

Penny Arcade Rejects Thompson - Jack Blows the Whistle

Last week, a top-secret panel being planned for this August's Penny Arcade Expo 2007 was revealed by Jack Thompson (one of the panel's participants), who was severely offended by a Penny Arcade request saying that it would be better if he kept a low profile. These facts were presented under the form of a pr...

7 June 2007
04:23 GMT

GTA IV Included in Google Maps

Google Maps is not only a useful service that allows users to view maps and other imagery captured from the satellites but also the base for other interesting solutions. Take for example a recent mashup of Google Maps that displays Liberty City, a town included in the famous game GTA IV. The results of the design are...

26 April 2007
03:22 GMT

Jack Thompson Bitch Slapped

Jack Thompson had to say that the massacre taking place at Virginia Tech happened because of video games. He can't help it. It's like a compulsory thing I guess. Anyway, we shall see what other people have to say about this and why it appears that Thompson and his fellow believers (that games are to blame ...

23 April 2007
02:31 GMT

BBFC - Video Games Aren't to Blame After All

Reading this title I thought: "What? Again they're blaming games for who knows what this time?" But no, this time I stumbled upon a British Board of Film Classification report posted on GameIndustry.biz, containing information regarding why people blame games like Grand Theft Auto, Manhunt, or The Sims when some...

18 April 2007
09:36 GMT


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