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This week, Rockstar and 2K Games are hitting gamers with a double blow of GTA IV content. Those who have picked up The Lost & Damned downloadable pack can now get, also via Xbox Live, a new add on, called The Ballad of Gay Tony. And those who have not been interested in exploring alternative stories for GTA can now p... |
29 October 2009
17:21 GMT |
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This week has been oddly dominated by news related to Take Two and its biggest franchise, Grand Theft Auto. The company released its financial results for the third quarter of the financial year and things are not looking good, with losses of about 55.5 million dollars and with Red Dead Redemption, BioShock 2 and Max... |
5 September 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Take Two is getting ready to release the second episode of content for Grand Theft Auto IV. The Ballad of Gay Tony, as it is called, will be released via Xbox Live, as was previous DLC The Lost & Damned, but will also be published on a disc.Take Two, which is handling publishing duties on the title, is saying that th... |
3 September 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Once Grand Theft Auto IV was out, a small but vocal minority of fans and industry analysts quickly demanded to know when GTA V would be coming out.Rockstar and Take Two managed to placate them for a while by announcing two DLC episodes, The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, but now that group is growing quick... |
3 September 2009
03:55 GMT |
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Take Two, best known for putting out Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series of games, has published its results for the third quarter of the fiscal year and reported a 55 million USD loss, mostly because it lacked a blockbuster release.The biggest games the company has put out have been The BIGS 2, which was release... |
2 September 2009
03:39 GMT |
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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 |
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Rockstar has announced that it plans to release Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the Sony’s PlayStation Portable on October 20. The date has only been confirmed for the United States and comes from the Twitter feed that Rockstar maintains. Initially, Chinatown Wars was released for the Nintendo DS way back i... |
26 August 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Kids grow up so fast these days, but it seems that they also pick up almost everything they see around them. Such is the case with 7-year-old Weber County resident Preston Scarbrough, who took his family's car on a leisurely Sunday drive. Of course, his skills weren't that up to par, as he blew through a f... |
3 August 2009
03:55 GMT |
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Video games are getting more and more mainstream, but with such a thing comes a huge pressure from various media outlets and from their representatives, which are very biased in the whole matter of video games that are inducing violent behavior in teens. One of the most recent and discriminative acts against video g... |
28 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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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 |
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Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest names in the gaming industry, generating huge amounts of money every time a major iteration is released. The latest GTA IV title even managed to move over 13 million, setting a lot of sales records. With the release of the first DLC episode for it, exclusive to the Xbox 360 and... |
23 July 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of everything hot and interesting from the gaming industry in the last seven days. This past week has been a rollercoaster for gamers, as while upcoming games received new details, others were sadly delayed and scheduled for next year. Speculat... |
18 July 2009
05:31 GMT |
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We've seen quite a lot of news reports about Take Two recently, largely due to the fact that the company has postponed one of its biggest releases of this year, BioShock 2, into 2010, when other high-quality titles like Mafia II or Red Dead Redemption will also be making an appearance. This led to quite a lot o... |
17 July 2009
03:48 GMT |
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In the gaming industry, there are a lot of high-quality and extremely popular franchises, but among them, Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto is the biggest. The series, which has broken records through its latest full-fledged installment, Grand Theft Auto IV, has introduced a lot of innovation in terms of story and gam... |
16 July 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto IV was one of the biggest videogame releases of 2008, managing to boost the overall value of the industry while also making sure that the year was very profitable for Take Two and Rockstar.A part of the same success will be replicated in 2009 as the companies will profit from the release of two downl... |
6 July 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your guide to all of the big news in the gaming industry unveiled in the last seven days. We've seen some pretty big announcements about fresh games, teasers about future ones, and competitions for those that have already appeared. Without further ado,... |
27 June 2009
07:21 GMT |
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Rockstar is one of the biggest companies involved in video game development and publishing. Its Grand Theft Auto franchise made it famous but that doesn't mean that its many development studios won't release any other titles.One of the more recent projects underway at the studio responsible for Grand Theft ... |
25 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the biggest in the world, making a lot of fans due to its complex gameplay, intricate stories and, most of all, to the fact that it didn't shy away from controversy either in its content or, as we have seen recently, in its name, as Rockstart unveiled that the next DLC ep... |
24 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular franchises in the whole world. It introduced a variety of new gameplay mechanics and completely revamped this genre of video games.Almost all of the major releases of the title have gained critical acclaim, alongside experiencing some strong sales everywhere around the... |
23 June 2009
03:23 GMT |
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There are certainly a lot of game publishers out there, but among them only a few stand out in terms of franchises and of how much money they can produce every single year.While behemoths such as Activision or Electronic Arts have the benefit of many yearly series, smaller companies, like Take Two Interactive, only h... |
23 June 2009
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, the roundup of all the most important news from the gaming industry that unfolded in the last seven days. This week was a pretty interesting one, as it is leading up to the start of the E3 conference, so companies were working overtime to reveal some detail... |
30 May 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Rockstar continues to generate hype around its Grand Theft Auto IV game as yesterday it announced the second DLC episode for the game, entitled the Ballad of Gay Tony. Now, after already stirring up a bit of controversy, the company has unveiled the fact that the two DLC expansions for GTA IV will become a standalone... |
28 May 2009
03:20 GMT |
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Can you compare 2008 with 2009? When it comes to financial reports coming from big videogames companies, you need to, although the comparison might be a bit unfair.After all, in the same period of last year, Take Two handled the publishing duties for Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, a blockbuster that managed to ... |
27 May 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Rockstar never ceases to amaze, shock and downright flirt with controversy as it has just announced that the second DLC episode for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV will be entitled The Ballad of Gay Tony. After seeing the adventures of foreign immigrant Niko Belic and the quests of North American biker J... |
27 May 2009
03:18 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise has become a worldwide phenomenon, largely due to its solid gameplay, intricate stories and elaborate takes on the various times our society has gone through. For quite some time, Sam and Dan Houser, the founders of Rockstar, the company behind this franchise, have been associated with ... |
4 May 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the most popular series of video games ever created, gathering a huge amount of fans across the world. Now, with one of its latest installments, Grand Theft Auto IV, its developer, Rockstar, has gained critical acclaim for the solid and immersive game it has offered to fans. ... |
27 April 2009
03:24 GMT |
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One of the big gambles of early 2009 is the release of an M-rated game, which contains strong language, references to drugs and anti social behavior, on the very child and family friendly Nintendo DS. Take Two and Rockstar took this gamble by creating and releasing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which is a very da... |
14 April 2009
18:11 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the biggest and most profitable licensed properties active in gaming today. Its creator, Rockstar, has always broken the mold when it came to what new features the games would have or what innovative story they would tackle.But the out-of-the-box thinking at Rockstar also expa... |
13 April 2009
03:27 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been linked to many controversies surrounding violence and illegal behavior by children or grown-ups, but it doesn’t deserve much of the bad press it has been getting over the years.Now, it seems that one more thing can be pinned to Rockstar's game franchise, as a British... |
9 April 2009
03:21 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto series has always been very close to controversy, whether it was about the violent acts depicted in the gameplay, the indecent story or the bad influence it had on children. Of course, anti-game activists like Jack Thompson have also had a big influence on the bad reputation that it had in the me... |
3 April 2009
03:46 GMT |
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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 |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the most popular series of video games out there, with a massive fan base across all platforms on which its iterations were released. The most recent title is Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS, Rockstar's newest venture on a handheld console, after the ... |
30 March 2009
03:18 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 is in a very good place these days, as more and more units are shipped around the world and its main opponent, the PlayStation 3, still deters clients with its high price tag, customers who are then driven to the Microsoft-made console to meet their gaming needs. The North American console also saw a bo... |
20 March 2009
04:43 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been one of the biggest series of sandbox games out there. As such, along with its popularity has come the attention of a lot of gaming analysts and experts, who have ventured in a lot of predictions over the long history of the series. Now, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter ha... |
9 March 2009
02:25 GMT |
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Hello and welcome to the weekly roundup of the most important gaming news that surfaced in the past few days. This week was almost all about future titles that would be gracing a variety of platforms in the following months. In order to create the biggest amount of hype around them we've seen developers release ... |
7 March 2009
08:11 GMT |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise has always been about breaking conventional norms, either by adopting controversial gameplay, indulging in gratuitous violence or taking promotion to new heights, as seen in the campaign for the latest iteration, Grand Theft Auto IV. But Rockstar, the company behind it, is bent on maki... |
3 March 2009
03:18 GMT |
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With Apple lifting the Digital Rights Management (DRM) system off iTunes content, Rockstar is now seeing the venue as the most appropriate place to sell the 150+ GTA IV songs on Liberty City's 19 radio stations.The shift from Amazon doesn't mean any content will be lost. In fact, new tracks from artists inc... |
10 February 2009
03:41 GMT |
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Among gamers a lot of franchises have gained an iconic status, Rockstar's famous sandbox open world action adventure franchise Grand Theft Auto included. The series really drove the whole game industry forward and delivered great experiences in all of its iterations, coupled with top-notch, movie-like stories. ... |
6 February 2009
04:02 GMT |
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The gaming industry is filled with great IPs (Intellectual Properties) consisting of games that are quite unique in their own genre, but, sadly, not a lot of them get the recognition and become as popular as they should. Such is the case with Rockstar's Red Dead Revolver title, which took the tried-and-true san... |
5 February 2009
16:41 GMT |
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We all know how it goes. Some kid, with obvious issues, marches into the nearest education institution and shoots up the place and the media quickly discovers that he played the “murder simulator” Grand Theft Auto or that he was led to do it by excessive play time with Condemned 2. The social medium, the ... |
26 January 2009
05:09 GMT |
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It seems that the big gaming companies didn't really take much time to re-enter their usual pace of development as, although this is just the second work week of this year, we are already seeing some very interesting developments for a lot of them. While some boast the big sales that their products have had over... |
17 January 2009
08:01 GMT |
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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 |
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Grand Theft Auto is a franchise that has been blamed for quite a lot of bad things. From teaching children that violence is fun or that shooting people on the street is rewarded to engaging in police chases just for the thrills, no aspect of the game has been left untouched by various anti-video game representatives,... |
13 January 2009
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Almost all of the domains of entertainment have a few figures that stand out, some for the best of reasons, but others for some very bad rationales, or thanks to their weird behavior. Such is the case with Jack Thompson, the now disbarred lawyer who went on a rampage against the Grand Theft Auto franchise, because he... |
6 January 2009
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2008 was a year filled with quite a lot of transactions, takeovers, mergers and acquisitions in the whole entertainment industry. The gaming segment didn't escape this trend, and we've seen some very interesting moves on the market, as Tecmo merged with Koei, and Warner bought even more shares in Tomb Raide... |
5 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Things are starting to look good for Take Two, as the game publisher has just announced that it has extended its partnership with Rockstar until 2012, and thus proves the analysts that have deemed the departure of the Grand Theft Auto developer from the company very wrong. After an uncertain 2008, filled with rumors ... |
19 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Rockstar is certainly one of the most popular game developers out there, being responsible for the extremely successful Grand Theft Auto series, and other various IPs (Intellectual Properties) like the Midnight Club racing game. The company has had a long-term partnership with Take Two, in order to publish their game... |
19 December 2008
03:31 GMT |
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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 |
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Take Two is one of the most popular companies in the gaming industry today, as it has a lot of interesting studios in its portfolio. From 2K Games, the creators of BioShock, to Rockstar, the team behind the very popular Grand Theft Auto franchise, Take Two has quite a lot of cult games under the hood.But all these po... |
8 December 2008
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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
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