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| STORIES ABOUT: Gta IV |
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| New York State Governor Signs Video Game Bill |  | Don't you just love it when politicians elected by people who barely know how to use the Internet and people who believe Fox News when it talks about Mass Effect decide to create laws that target videogames? The Governor of the state of New York, David Paterson, has decided to sign a ... [read more >>] | | 24 July 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Take Two Boss Talks GTA IV Future and Creativity |  | Take Two has been, for the better part of 2008, subject to a hostile takeover launched by Electronic Arts, a publisher that seeks to acquire new assets under the leadership of its Chief Executive Officer, John Riccitiello. But Strauss Zelnick, the chairman of the board of T ... [read more >>] | | 23 July 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Electronic Arts Continues Take Two Takeover Effort |  | If someone wants to make a soap opera set in the glamorous world of the videogame industry the subject they should tackle is Electronic Arts’ attempt to take over Take Two. At first it seemed like love could blossom between these two. The first had the money and the ... [read more >>] | | 10 July 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Rumors Spread of a New 60 GB Xbox 360 |  | There's proof that the 20 GB version of the Xbox 360 console might be ready to depart from stores, being replaced by a 60 GB version of the gaming device. Apparently, an e-mail addressed by Microsoft to GameStop and BlockBuster was leaked; it details the wa ... [read more >>] | | 10 July 2008, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Weekend Reading: The Quick Death of GTA IV |  | Grand Theft Auto IV is, according to reviews and sales figures, the best game ever released. When GTA IV was launched, if you remember, it was a complete hysteria, with thousands of people queuing to purchase it, with guys going on vacation, quitting their j ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2008, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Admits to Pushing the Xbox 360 Over the PC |  | For all the lip service that they pay to PC gaming, with the last week initiative of publishing an open letter to gamers coming off as particularly cheesy, Microsoft is not doing much to promote the PC as a viable gaming platform. And some of its key people seem to be op ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Game Releases in the United Kingdom Might Be Delayed |  | In the wake of the Byron report, which tried to assess the way videogames affect different categories of consumers, mainly children, the United Kingdom government is preparing to propose and then implement a new rating system for videogames.
The current sys ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Sends Open Letter to Gamers |  | Microsoft corporate vice president John Schappert signed an open letter targeted at gamers all over the world, describing how Microsoft supports game development on different platforms and the PC is still one of the most important markets for the company. Considering the mind set the "PC gaming is dead" which seems to be prevailing these days, the letter is surely an interesting initiative, even though, as a PC gamer my ... [read more >>] | | 27 June 2008, 18:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Saints Row 2 Is Very Different from GTA IV |  | Saints Row was praised by some for taking the open world concept developed by the GTA series and crafting a more appealing ambience, where band warfare and a light take on the story created an interesting game atmosphere. Now Saints Row 2 is being prepped by THQ for release on t ... [read more >>] | | 25 June 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| No More ESRB Leaks |  | The Entertainment Software Ratings Board website has been one of the most looked at websites when it comes to the Internet habits of videogame fans because of the fact that the organization sometimes leaked important information regarding upcoming games that it rate ... [read more >>] | | 24 June 2008, 16:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Gets New Patch |  | How long has it been since GTA IV was launched? About two months. Most of us have played the game, finished it or came close, most of us even tried a bit of multiplayer. And now Rockstar wants to get us back in the game’s atmosphere by launching a new patch supposed to fix all the issue ... [read more >>] | | 24 June 2008, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Videogame Music Used in John McCain Presidential Ad |  | Not long ago I was telling you about the fact that videogame playing voters might end up deciding who the resident of the White House would be after the American Presidential elections set to take place later this autumn. And a while ago presidential hopeful Bara ... [read more >>] | | 20 June 2008, 04:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Analyze That: Gamers Might Decide the American Elections |  | The Entertainment Software Association has been taking a lot of flak recently for failing to adequately represent the videogame industry in the United States. Activision and Blizzard, the soon-to-merge videogame giants, and then ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2008, 19:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Denies GTA IV DLC Delay |  | The latest top page story about Grand Theft Auto IV is no longer about the game's super-coolness, but Rockstar's annoying way of dealing with the "right on time" concept. Yes, I am talking about the $50 million DLC purchased by Microsoft which was going to be released early this fall but h ... [read more >>] | | 09 June 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV DLC Delayed |  | Microsoft had to pay $50 million for it; many people bought the Xbox 360 version especially because of that, yet Take Two has decided to delay the whole thing - from fiscal Q4 2008 to fiscal Q1 2009. Yes, we're talking about the exclusive DLC for the Xbox 360 version of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV. The good news is that the key word here is delayed, not canceled. The bad news is the reason: the decision was made due ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Strauss Zelnick Talks about BioShock 3 |  | Take Two might be praising GTA IV for its very good second quarter financial results, but let's not forget that last year the bulk of the profits that the company reported were not brought in by a Rockstar crime drama, but by the more sober hit that was 2K Boston's BioShock. So, it was no surprise that Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick commented on the evolution of the BioShock franchise when he spoke to investors and a ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 10:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Take Two Says GTA IV Is Breaking Sales Records |  | As Electronic Arts makes another extension to its deadline regarding the Take Two takeover, this time because of an ongoing Federal Trade Commission inquiry into aspects of the deal, Take Two is busy providing its shareholders with more reasons ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Defeated Again |  | Just a few days ago, we reported that Rockstar's hit title Grand Theft Auto IV had lost the number one position in a couple of European charts and now we're bringing some similar news - Grand Theft Auto IV has recorded another drop, on the Xbox 360 in terms of playing ti ... [read more >>] | | 05 June 2008, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Saints Row 2 Confirmed for PC |  | With no official confirmation yet on Grand Theft Auto IV heading to the PC, gamers will be happy to know that one of the more GTA-like games out there, Saints Row, is coming to the PC. Even if initial reports only hinted at Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 versions for ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Grand Theft Auto - Achievements (Xbox 360) |  | After a long wait, Rockstar has released the next title in the series featuring an east European character named Niko Belic. Unlike the previous game, Rockstar has concentrated more on the realism and on making the character more believable. This time, you will get to take over Liberty City in an amazing nex-gen environment.
You are slowly dragged into the underground and discover the world is a lot sicker than you could hav ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2008, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PlayStation 3 Needs More Original Material |  | The PlayStation 3 might end up paying good money to get exclusive games, and the online delivery system for games is not going to make disks obsolete during the lifetime of the PS3. This and other interesting comments regarding the console are part of an ... [read more >>] | | 03 June 2008, 10:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Xbox 360 Outselling PS3 Since the Release of GTA IV |  | Microsoft has been delivering stats regarding the sales of GTA IV copies for the Xbox and other "we're better than Sony" things, but they have not officially been confirmed. Until now, when Chart-Track has released the numbers for the past ... [read more >>] | | 30 May 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Soundtrack Compilation Available on iTunes Europe |  | Controversial video game developer Rockstar has announced the availability of "The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV" soundtrack compilation and "The Evil Genius DJ Green Lantern: Liberty City Invasion: Music From and Inspired by Grand Theft Auto IV" via the European iTunes Store. The latter contains eight new tracks made exclusively for DJ Green Lantern's radio show ("Liberty City Inva ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Niko's Voice Actor Disappointed by Lack of Money |  | One would believe that the guy who recored the voice for GTA IV main character, Niko, is a rich fella' sipping expensive cocktails somewhere in the Bahamas, following his stellar pay for renting his voice. Well... you are completely wrong - it seems tha ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 04:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Electronic Arts Extends Offer, Take Two Says No Yet Again |  | Even as the second term set by Electronic Arts for its hostile takeover offer of Take Two has passed, the videogame publisher remains defiant in the face of all analysts that are urging it to review its offer if it wants to have any chance of getting Take Two. EA has again extended th ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Will Electronic Arts Get Take Two? |  | A second deadline has passed as Electronic Arts continues to try and execute a hostile takeover of Take Two. The results of the offer have not yet been made available but there's every reason to believe that Electronic Arts has again failed to acquire the shares it needs to co ... [read more >>] | | 19 May 2008, 10:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Is the Reason Why More In-game Ads Will Follow |  | Following the release of the record-breaking Rockstar game Grand Theft Auto IV, many people have started to either praise or to accuse GTA for all sorts of things – from the increase in violence to the lower income in cinema ticket sales. The latest accusation[ADMARK= ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sony Releases New PlayStation 3 Firmware |  | Eric Lempel, the director of PlayStation Network Operations, has announced in a blog post that a new firmware update for the PlayStation 3 gaming console will be available in a short while. As I’m typing this, the update is live and the PlayStation 3 will urge you to download it the next time you log in.
Eric Lempel only said that the update is here to improve performance for some PS3 games and made no other comments on the su ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hackers Offer Free Versions of GTA IV |  | The popularity of the newly-released GTA IV makes new victims on the web as hackers are now looking to exploit new vulnerable computers using the popular game. According to security company DriveSentry, hackers rolled out malware-infected copies of GTA IV on popular file-sharing applications such as Limewire. Once downloaded and installed, the fake GTA IV copy drops said malware, leaving the computer opened to future attacks.
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| Microsoft Playing up GTA IV Impact on Console Sales |  | Microsoft is clearly trying to pull out the numbers to prove just how much the Xbox 360 is growing, now that the "killer app" that is Grand Theft Auto IV has been launched. The company is now claiming that 40% of the new Xbox sales within the first week of GTA IV's launch have been bundled with the game.
A recent statement from Microsoft also says that 60% of the sales of the gang life game were for the Xbox 360 ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 09:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Barack Obama Name Checks GTA IV |  | Just when everybody though that the economy and Iraq would play the most important role in the United States presidential elections later in the year, it seems that at least one candidate is thinking about videogames and their impact on American society, in the larger context of talk about media in the United States. One of Barack Obama’s latest campaign stops in Indianapolis led to this statement in which he even name-checked a game (ther ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 02:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Weekend Bashing: 5 Reasons Why GTA IV Will Be Better on the PC |  | There is a pandemic going around in the world and it’s called the GTA IV bug. I don't want to be misunderstood, I really liked this latest title from Rockstar but I feel that all the editors in the world, with very few exceptions, are attending group therapy in a broth ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 20:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Bill to Limit Games Sales |  | Despite a host of failures when it comes to legislatures trying to ban or limit the sale of videogames, it seems that politicians never learn. The media reports about GTV IV and the various descriptions that have painted it as "mur ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 03:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Take Two Boss Says There Are No Problems with GTA IV |  | We reported last week that GTA IV seemed to be suffering from some annoying issues, especially freezes in the opening cinematic, both on Xbox 360 machines and on PlayStation 3 consoles. Then, we broke the news that the technical support people at Rockstar had issued a rather long an ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 02:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV 1.01 Patch Released, Freezing Not Fixed |  | The problem that's driving everybody mad and the Grand Theft Auto IV developers older by the hour (probably) - the freezing of Grand Theft Auto IV - was supposed to be fixed with the latest PS3 patch released by Rockstar yesterday. However, it seems that nothing like ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Breaks Records, Drives Xbox 360 Forward |  | Finally, official data have arrived, proving that Grand Theft Auto IV was indeed a success (from a financial point of view this time, since we all know that everybody loves the game). Take Two has released the sales figures, stating that ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 02:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Breaks Sales Records, Still Way Behind Movies |  | Grand Theft Auto IV is dubbed as the biggest game of the year and I really doubt that is a secret for anyone on this planet. Also, Rockstar's game is estimated to generate some $450 million only in the first week, even though the developers say that these figures are actually low. So, one thing is clear: ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One Hour With: GTA IV and Liberty City |  | In today's super quick, hyper active world, there isn't much time for anything. And I find there's less and less time for gaming. Gone are the days when I played bad games almost to the finish just because I could. We, gamers, now live in an age when a game must make an impression or be condemned to the trash bin. The issue is made worse by the fact that the gamer demographic is aging. There are more and more gamers that hav ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Take Two Sues Chicago Transit Authority for GTA Ads |  | It was about two weeks ago when we reported that the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) had decided to withdraw the ad campaign on Grand Theft Auto, following news reports from Fox News stating that recent criminal and violent acts in Chicago were caused by the y ... [read more >>] | | 06 May 2008, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is Xbox 360 GTA IV Outselling the PS3 Version? |  | As the wait for GTA IV came to a close last week and as a result of the furious marketing campaign for the game that only featured the Microsoft Xbox 360, even if the game is also playable on the PlayStation 3, a lot of people have been wondering which console would profit from t ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sony Games Division Slashes Losses |  | Sony Corp is expected to report that operating profits have grown to more than 380 billion yen, which means around $3.6 billion. The main element fueling the growth in profits is the boom in the high end digital camera market, but the games division of Sony also pitched in by reducing its operational losses in the fiscal year of 2007.
Even as the stock market is likely to give Sony grief over the fact that it missed performanc ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 03:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV Freezes in Opening Cinematic |  | What's a big, hyped game launch without a few hiccups? After standing in long lines to get the game at midnight, some gamers returned home to discover that their copy of GTA IV, the most anticipated game of 2008, simply did not want to move past the opening cinematic. ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2008, 05:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PS3s and GTA IVs Offered to Desperate Gamers |  | Grand Theft Auto IV, one of the most expected PS3 and Xbox 360 games ever launched, makes a lot of victims among addicted gamers, and not only due to the fact that the stores' stocks got depleted soon after the game became available. According to ClearMyMail, wise spammers around the world attempt to speculate this moment and try to lure GTA IV desperate fans in all kinds of scams and attacks which may compromise their compu ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GTA IV for PC Release Date Leaked? |  | Probably all the GTA IV fans are already playing the game on their console of choice, but we should never forget the system that gave birth to the first Grand Theft Auto title - the personal computers. Even though Rockstar hasn't officially confirmed anything, ru ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 04:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Grand Theft Auto IV Cheats |  | Grand Theft Auto IV (also known as GTA IV and GTA 4) is a sandbox-style action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North. It is the ninth title in the Grand Theft Auto series and the first in its generation. Grand Theft Auto IV was released worldwide (except Japan) on 29 ... [read more >>] | | 29 April 2008, 03:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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