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Rockstar's latest smashes records set by The Avengers and Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Read More »GTA V makes $1bn in three days
Grand Theft Auto V has made $1bn in three days. That’s faster than any other entertainment product in history, including movies. It is 12 days faster than Call of Duty: Black Ops II (which was released on more consoles) and 16 days faster than the Avengers movie. Grand Theft Auto …
Read More »CONFIRMED: Digital PSN version of GTA V performs worse than Blu-ray release
Rockstar and Sony are likely to face calls for refunds after it was found that the digital download version of Grand Theft Auto V performs badly compared to its disc-based equivalent. Remember, too, that while the digital version cost 49.99 and Blu-ray SKU could be had for just 34.99 from …
Read More »GTA V makes $800 million on day one
Rockstar's latest blockbuster tops previous record setter Call of Duty: Black Ops II by $300m
Read More »GTA V makes a record $800m in 24-hours
Last year Activision proudly announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops II made $500m in 24 hours. It was a world record for an amount of money made by an entertainment product. Now, not only has GTA V beaten it, but it has smashed it by an astonishing $300m. GTA …
Read More »Report: Grand Theft Auto V PS4 and PC versions unearthed from 360 code
Mention of both the PC and PS4 versions of Grand Theft Auto V have supposedly been dug up in the game’s Xbox 360 source code. Cinema Blend reports on the alleged discovery of the platform mentions in the code, with specific mention of Orbis” – the operating system for Playstation …
Read More »Grand Theft Auto V will make $1bn in first month, claims analyst
Rockstar's blockbuster sequel could ship 20 million units and generate a further $500m by March 2014
Read More »Analyst predicts $1bn Grand Theft Auto V sales in first month
Grand Theft Auto V will generate $1bn in revenue within a month of its launch, analyst firm Baird Equity Research has claimed. By comparison, GTA IV made $900m during its first month, shipping roughly 3.6m units on day one and making $500m in its first week. Through to the end …
Read More »Rockstar releases Grand Theft Auto V iFruit app on iOS
A Grand Theft Auto V app has just hit iOS courtesy of Rockstar. It’s called iFruit – you may well recognise that from the mock-Apple branding that appears in-game and has featured on some of the pre-release promotional material. Once downloaded the app offers two separate components. The first is …
Read More »GTA V UK midnight launches balloon to almost 2,000
There will now be almost 2,000 stores opening on Monday night to herald the launch of Grand Theft Auto V. It could well be the biggest game of the year, in fact, the team over at GAME think it might be the biggest game launch of all time. And retailers …
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