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Locomotion tech works in tandem with Oculus Rift and Wii remote to immerse players in Liberty City
Read More »Inside Rockstar North – Part 2: The Studio
Studio director Andy Semple and president Leslie Benzies take us through how the developer operates
Read More »Inside Rockstar North – Part 1: The Vision
Studio president Leslie Benzies looks back on GTA and how the team shaped a blockbuster IP
Read More »William Hill offers odds on Grand Theft Auto V outselling GTA IV
Reckon Grand Theft Auto V will outsell Grand Theft Auto IV? Then one UK betting agency wants a word. William Hill is offering odds of 4/6 that GTA V will sell over 11m copies in its first month on sale or 11/10 on it falling short of that number. That …
Read More »Devoted modders renovate GTA 3 with Rage engine
Rage Team plan to modernise 2001 game with GTA IV tech
Read More »Get a taste of GTA V
Grand Theft Auto V may have been disappointingly missing in action at this year’s E3, but a new fan mod for GTA IV has hinted at the graphical strides the next incarnation of the series could make. The patch, called iCEnhancer 1.2 adds a number of shader and lighting effects …
Read More »GTA IV nears 20m sales
Almost 20m units of Grand Theft Auto IV have been sold worldwide since its April 2008 release. The GTA series has also topped 100m game sales overall in its 14-year history. The news comes after Rockstar Games and 2K Games parent company Take-Two revealed sales data at a Wedbush Morgan …
Read More »GTA IV gets Complete Edition
A new Grand Theft Auto IV SKU has been announced for both Xbox 360 and PS3 in North America. Called GTA IV: Complete Edition, the bundle will include the original game as well as both DLC releases – The Lost and Damned and The Balled of Gay Tony. Previously the …
Read More »GTA IV sales hit 17m
As well as confirming the Red Dead series’ status as one of the modern games industry’s big-hitters, publisher Take Two has also updated investors on the latest sales successes of its other blockbuster IP. 2008 release Grand Theft Auto IV has now sold over 17m copies worldwide, meaning that in …
Read More »Gay Tony gets XBL discount
Microsoft has confirmed that the second expansion for Grand Theft Auto IV, called the Ballad of Gay Tony, is on sale for the next seven days on Xbox Live. The premium DLC normally costs 1600 Microsoft Points, or around 13.70. However, this week Microsoft has cut 400 MSP from that …
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