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It may be hard to believe but Grand Theft Auto IV was released back in 2008. While that may not seem that apparent, you can always boot it up and see that the game, although it had impressive graphics for its time, isn’t looking so sharp when compared to current titles.
Thankfully, at least on the PC, modders ... |
14 February 2012
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2K Games and Rockstar products are the stars of a recent round of slashed prices on the Xbox Live Marketplace, with gamers that are interested in more content for Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV and other titles able to get them with heavy discounts.
The must-buy content from the huge list posted below includes the Un... |
26 January 2011
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The creative director of Rockstar Games has said that in creating the Undead Nightmare downlodable content pack for its Western shooter Red Dead Redemption the company specifically tried to create a contrast with the gritty realism of the main game experience, delivering ridiculous zombies and putting the characters ... |
20 October 2010
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Sam Fischer, despite his long absence from the videogaming world, seems to still have it as the new Splinter Cell title managed to stay in the number one position for a second week in the videogame chart of the United Kingdom, one of the biggest markets for interactive entertainment in the world. And considering the ... |
29 April 2010
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Take Two has managed to offer analysts and financial markets better than expected results, showing sales going up by a little over 9% year over year for the quarter of the fiscal year, which ended on January 31, reaching 163.2 million dollars. The publisher also managed to reduce its losses by more than a third, to 3... |
4 March 2010
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Rockstar and Microsoft have partnered up to offer Grand Theft Auto IV through the Games on Demand service, which is part of the Games for Windows Live Marketplace. The game costs just 29.99 dollars but it is not clear whether this is a limited time offer or whether this will be the standard price of the Games on Dema... |
3 March 2010
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After more than three years spent in a sort of stealth development program that did not allow for any news related to the game to come out, Team Bondi, the developers of L.A. Noire, which should be published by Rockstar, have begun offering more information on their title, showing off how they plan to differentiate t... |
16 February 2010
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Microsoft re-launched its X series of events related to the Xbox 360 home gaming platform in San Francisco and made some pretty interesting announcements as part of it. And the biggest of them is that the company is partnering up with Infinity Ward and with Activision Blizzard in order to deliver an exclusive piece o... |
12 February 2010
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Rockstar, one of the best known developers in videogaming, has announced that the two downloadable episodes for Grand Theft Auto IV are set to also be released on the PlayStation 3 from Sony and on the PC on March 30 of this year. Until now, the two pieces of content were exclusive to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and ... |
29 January 2010
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Released only yesterday in America, and still waiting for a European launch, Mass Effect 2 has already managed to earn a place among the stars. According to both its developer and its publisher, BioWare and EA, Mass Effect 2 has earned an average review score of 97 for the Xbox 360, an average made up from 29 differe... |
27 January 2010
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The Video Game Awards managed to give off a few awards between playing trailers for pretty much all the major releases coming in 2010 and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony exclusively for the PlayStation 3, has been named as Game of the Year, in a move that snubbed pre-show fa... |
14 December 2009
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Rockstar has confirmed that its Western-themed shooter, Red Dead Redemption, will be released on April 27 of 2010. The company earlier said that the game would be arriving during spring but refused to name a specific date, saying that the calendar for launches was not finalized and that the dates for games from rival... |
2 December 2009
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Joining the long line of delayed games is Rockstar San Diego's Red Dead Redemption that was initially pegged for launched this fall. With just a few days short of winter, the title can no longer make that deadline, so it will be pushed into 2010. Take-Two, the publisher, said that the game would join some of its... |
26 November 2009
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The NPD Group data for the month of October, released last week, were anything but good. Overall, the videogaming industry has shrunk by about 19% over the same period during 2008, with price cuts failing to drive up sales volume for the PlayStation 3, the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, and with customers buying less... |
18 November 2009
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Rockstar has just released The Ballad of Gay Tony, the second and apparently last downloadable content pack for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV, and has also launched a retail disk that combines it with The Lost & Damned for those who are not interested in getting the new content via the network. And it s... |
11 November 2009
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A game has already managed to earn a world record this year, but one thing that happens even less often is a gamer that manages to claim a world record. Still, GTA IV has so far enabled two of its players to enter the Guinness Book of Records. The feat that has propelled the two gamers in the world of the famous is t... |
21 October 2009
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GTA IV really turned out to be a great hit. It surpassed GTA III, which is in itself a great thing, not because GTA was such a great game, which it was, but because sequels are usually bad. Not worse than the previous release, but standalone bad, without the need for any comparison. So every time a game that has a nu... |
15 October 2009
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The Games on Demand system has really taken off and more and more titles are becoming part of the list. The Xbox Live users have been granted special access to some of the best games the console has ever seen, while the Xbox 360 owners can get their hands on titles like BioShock, Mass Effect, Burnout Paradise, Assass... |
12 October 2009
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It seems that the upcoming Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft, which was unveiled by Blizzard at this year’s BlizzCon event, will be paying homage to one of the biggest videogame releases of 2008, Grand Theft Auto IV, by re-creating some of the experiences of that title in the starting area for the newly... |
30 September 2009
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With the Tokyo Game Show wrapped up, the CESA, which organizes the event, also handed out the Japan Game Awards, which have the distinction of honoring both older releases judged to be the most impressive and future titles judged to have the potential for greatness.In the Game of the Year competition, only videogames... |
30 September 2009
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The numbers that the NPD Group releases related to hardware and videogame sales on the North American market are expected towards the end of the week and industry analysts are projecting that they will again be disappointing, with sales going down by 22% overall when compared with July 2008.Michael Pachter, who is an... |
11 August 2009
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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
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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
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The NPD Group, which tracks software and hardware sales in North America, is set to release its data for the month of May at the end of this week and, ahead of that event, several analysts are saying that the numbers will be disappointing, mainly because of the fact that May 2008 was a very good month, with Grand The... |
9 June 2009
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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
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This week, I've replayed a lot of Knights of the Old Republic, trying to point out what makes it a great game even almost 6 years since its initial release. But this space is for news, so let's see what we've written about these days.On Monday, Konami entered the teasing ring offering a countdown to so... |
23 May 2009
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April 2009 will likely not be a good month for videogames. The most reputable industry analysts are saying that a 17% decline in the numbers posted, when compared with April 2008, should not be ruled out as the NPD Group is preparing to unveil its figures.The main reason of the year over year decline is that fact tha... |
13 May 2009
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We're getting pretty much accustomed to people saying outrageous things about videogames, from stating that they directly cause violent crime to saying that they are full length M-rated movies. Some people have even implied that those who play videogames should not be allowed to vote, as they are not mature enou... |
12 May 2009
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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
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Rather than being busy with providing information related to its videogame releases, publisher Take Two is filling the news space with information related to the law suits that it has managed to settle during the recent few days.Today, the company announced that an agreement was reached with a group of share holders ... |
7 April 2009
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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
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Grand Theft Auto IV was undoubtedly one of the most important and successful titles of the last year. Being the first next-generation iteration in the very popular GTA series, the game blew away reviewers, who graced it with near, if not perfect grades. The critical success translated into huge sales for the release... |
13 March 2009
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Take Two has released its financial results for the quarter that ended on January 31. The company says that it has seen an increase of 7% when it comes to year over year revenues, to 256 million dollars, but that did not help when it comes to losses, as they also increased by 32%, going up to 50.4 million dollars. Th... |
11 March 2009
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The videogames industry has been talking quite a bit lately about the used game market. They have been vilified by publishers as one of the reasons of the limited growth the industry has seen in 2008. The idea is that gamers who get GTA IV or Gears of War 2 from someone who already played the game or from GameStop ar... |
3 March 2009
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The new president of the United States, Barack Obama, has just made one of the most important speeches of his presidency, speaking in front of a joint session of Congress about the problems that are facing the nation and about how he plans to tackle them. And amongst phrases related to the economic recession, the war... |
26 February 2009
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the most popular series of video games out there. It has been entertaining players with its intricate stories, amusing gameplay and, with the latest iteration, GTA IV, stunning realism. Now, as the Xbox 360 version of GTA IV is gearing up for the release of its first of... |
13 February 2009
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Microsoft is announcing that, in order to celebrate the release of the Lost and Damned downloadable content for Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV, it is planning to make the Xbox Live multiplayer services, which are usually tied to a paid Gold account, free for five days.The promotion is set to begin on February 17... |
11 February 2009
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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
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One cannot write about a sales chart, be it in Japan or in the United States, be it about hardware or software, without mentioning the Japanese company Nintendo, which produces the Wii and the DS, plus the videogames for these systems. In fact, most of the charts we have reported on lately here at Softpedia have seen... |
4 February 2009
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A lot of ink (well, keyboard strokes) is being used these days to discuss the quality of videogames as compared to the quality of other arts, like movies or literature. And the general consensus seems to be that games should become more mature, giving players more experiences based on great narrative.Well, Dan Houser... |
29 January 2009
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The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced a full list of nominees for the Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, held since 1998. The nominations and the awards are decided by people from the gaming industry, which means that they tend to show how the industry itself sees the gaming scene and which t... |
29 January 2009
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Rockstar is announcing that it has released a second patch for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV. The patch can be downloaded from Softpedia and aims to make the game experience smoother for all those players who have it installed and have met issues related to the graphics engine.Patch 1.0.2.0 is set to add... |
26 January 2009
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When developers like Rockstar strive to put out a list of the Achievements you can get in their upcoming DLC for Grand Theft Auto IV shows how important these rewards have become to videogames.There was a time when players prided themselves on completing the game and, maybe, getting a particular ending. Now, it'... |
22 January 2009
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As part of its reports for December, the NPD Group has also done a bit of math to see which game sold the most in 2008 and came up with a top ten offering few surprises but a lot of space for thought.Unsurprisingly, given the domination of the Nintendo Wii in all hardware charts, the best sold videogame of 2008 was W... |
19 January 2009
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The gaming industry has a few famous franchises that brought innovations and took game design to a whole new level. One of them is the famous Grand Theft Auto series, developed by Rockstar, which won over a huge number of fans with its top-notch gameplay and intricate stories. With its latest iteration, GTA IV, the d... |
19 January 2009
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With the videogames industry slowing due to the recession and with a 2009 that could see the fall of more developers and even some publishers as less titles hit it big at retail, everyone is looking at the NPD Group data for December 2008, trying to see who is doing well and who is not even showing up for the fight.A... |
16 January 2009
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What's a recession hit gamer to do when he hasn't yet played the biggest videogame releases of 2008 even if the gigantic titles of 2009 are knocking at his door and ready to claim share of their wallet? Renting games, although frowned upon by videogame publishers, is clearly the way to go here and companies... |
16 January 2009
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Who thought that the first week (OK, “work week”) of gaming reporting for 2009 would be so filled with announcements, reveals and, well, news? If this is a sneak peek of how 2009 will be, then we're going to have a really interesting and cool year. So, here at Softpedia, we're beginning a weekly... |
10 January 2009
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The open world sandbox genre of games is currently dominated by Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto franchise. It took realism and story telling to new heights with its recent iteration, Grand Theft Auto IV, but, as some fans and critics said, it lost its amusing features and it took itself too seriously. That�... |
9 January 2009
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GameTrailers is one of the most interesting manifestations in the field of gaming commentary for the last year. The guys behind it have used video as a way to review and comment on games, while also offering all the latest trailers, developer videos and commercials related to upcoming releases.They have chosen their ... |
8 January 2009
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