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Retail set for £100m GTA boost

Financial doom and gloom may be building elsewhere, but the games industry is bucking all the trends as Wii Fit and GTA IV look set to push retail sales up to the 100m mark this week. In the past week, ChartTrack confirmed that Wii Fit has already racked up 16m …

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Microsoft: All GTA 360 owners will join Live

Microsoft is confident that all consumers hwo pick up a copy of GTA IV on Xbox 360 will play the game via Xbox Live. The console’s online service allows up to 16 players to participate in 15 different online game types, ranging from co-operative play to cops-and-robbers team matches to …

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Croydon stabbing ‘had nothing to do with GTA

A Gamestation source has responded to reports that a customer was stabbed as he waited in a queue to buy GTA IV in Croydon on Monday – claiming that the victim had categorically not pre-ordered the game”. According to the source, the incident was likely to have been caused by …

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Rockstar boss: Were the new Elvis Presley

In a revealing interview with The Times, Rockstar North’s president Leslie Benzies (pictured) has compared the GTA series to Elvis Presley – saying that both have been targeted by a section of society which is unnerved by progress”. In his first ever newspaper interview, Benzies also claimed that Rockstar’s Manhunt …

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Pachter: PS3 will ‘win GTA IV battle’

Speaking to Reuters , analyst Michael Pachter has placed his chips on PS3 to ‘win’ the battle with Xbox 360 for GTA IV sales. The title, which is expected to take $400 million in its first week, will directly inspire two million sales of PS3 in 2008, versus half of …

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EAs bid for Take Two the story so far

As the countdown to Take Two’s annual investors’ meeting begins, it’s a timely opportunity to look back on just why EA’s $2 billion bid for the company has come to dominate the headlines of the global games business press this year. It all kicked off on February 24th, when EA …

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Microsoft’s GTA marketing push as big as Halo 3

Microsoft’s marketing machine is ready to kick into top gear with a multimedia campaign across the web, TV and and print publications in an attempt to make Xbox 360 the console of choice for GTA fans. With episodic downloadable content exclusive to 360, head of gaming and entertainment at Xbox …

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Ricky Gervais cameo in GTA IV confirmed

CVG reports that Ricky Gervais will appear as himself in GTA IV within Liberty City’s comedy club, unveiling new material created especially for Rockstar’s much hyped gangster title. Speaking to free London magazine Shortlist, he said: It’s a first – which always interests me. It was shot in New York, …

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Official GTA IV PS3 bundle revealed

Shopto.com has listed and pictured an official GTA IV PS3 bundle on its website. The console bundle is priced at 299.99 and comes with special Grand Theft Auto IV packaging. When contacted a SCE UK spokesperson was unable to comment, but official confirmation of the bundle is expected within the …

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