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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 »GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony announced
Never one to shy away from the eye-catching, Rockstar has named its next piece of downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version of Grand Theft Auto IV – The Ballad of Gay Tony. Sporting a rainbow-tinted logo and guns, glitz, and grime”, the second piece of GTA IV DLC will …
Read More »Rockstar developing ‘GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony’
New 360 DLC named, arriving this autumn; New GTA SKU heading to retail
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 »Rockstar looks to link Flash games with Nintendo DS title
SPECIAL REPORT: New Chinatown Wars feature sees mini-game feed into new DS title
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 »Microsoft hints at Lost and Damned sales figures
Whilst we’re still waiting for the exact sales figures of Rockstar’s recently released Grand Theft Auto IV DLC The Lost and the Damned, Xbox 360 product manager Aaron Greenberg has said that the content has outperformed much of its boxed opposition. The Lost and the Damned is the most successful …
Read More »Retail losing out on Lost and the Damned
Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divnich has stated that the firm believes that online sales of GTA IV expansion The Lost and the Damned have bettered retail sales by a ratio of six-to-one. Though Rockstar has not yet released firm sales figures for The Lost and The Damned, …
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