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2K believes its new IP Borderlands can stand shoulder-to-shoulder” with this Christmas’ biggest games, which include Call of Duty, Halo and GTA. The Bioshock publisher told MCV that it hopes Borderlands can become a long-term franchise for the firm, and may even spawn a new genre of shooter. Borderlands is …
Read More »Is Gangstar the iPhones GTA?
Payback and CarJack Streets have both promised it, but you’ll find plenty who say that both titles ultimately failed to deliver. Now Gameloft has become the next publisher to step up to the plate and bring a Grand Theft Auto type experience to iPhone in the form of Gangstar. Footage …
Read More »JAPAN: Chinatown Wars gets Z rating
Following the precedent Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars set in the UK when it became the first 18 rated DS game to hit the shelves, the critically acclaimed title is set to become the first Cero Z rated title for Nintendo’s handheld in Japan. A Cero Z rating is …
Read More »JAPAN: GTAIV goes budget
Rockstar’s next-gen opus Grand Theft Auto IV is getting the budget treatment in Japan with news that the Capcom published title is to be ushered in to the PlayStation Best discount range. Kotaku reports that that the new version will be released on August 27th and will cost YEN 3,900 …
Read More »GTA Chinatown Wars goes to PSP
Rockstar has today confirmed the shock news that DS outing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released on Sony’s PSP later this year. In line with Sony’s digital overhaul of the upcoming PSPgo, Chinatown Wars will be released both as a digital title and on UMD disc. We’re proud …
Read More »GTA DS will have a long and successful shelf-life
The CEO of Take-Two Ben Feder says you should forget everything you know about how DS games sell.0 That’s because adult-focused games like GTA: Chinatown Wars prove there is a market for grown-up games on Nintendo platforms – and that Rockstar’s most recent release will be an evergreen seller like …
Read More »US: Chinatown Wars sales below expectations
US analyst Cowan and Company has stated that it believes Rockstar’s recently released Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars sold just 89,000 units on DS in the territory in March. The firm had originally predicted that the game could sell as many as 450,000 units upon its release in North America. …
Read More »Does mature content have a future on DS?
The failure of Rockstar’s critically-adored Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars to trouble the higher end of the charts has lead one analyst to predict that there are unlikely to be many more 18-rated games released for Nintendo DS. Though the US March sales figures are not known, analysts predict that …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Resident Evil 5 fends off GTA
The ongoing success of Capcom’s Resident Evil 5 continues this week with the news that the next-gen survival horror shooter has claimed the top spot in the ELSPA GfK-ChartTrack All Formats Top 40 for the second week in a row. It does so despite a 52 per cent drop in …
Read More »Sony hints at more GTA on PSP
SCEA’s head of hardware marketing John Koller has hinted that Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto could form part of the Sony’s promised PSP blitz expected at E3 this July. No one should sleep on that franchise,” Koller told Kotaku of the GTA brand. There’s definitely continued conversations with Rockstar on all …
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