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The biggest All Formats release ever, Grand Theft Auto IV , has hit the top spot in the UK software chart – outselling last week’s No.1 Wii Fit by nine-to-one. According to ELSPA/ChartTrack statistics, the Rockstar title almost broke the one million unit barrier in the week (Sunday, April 28th …
Read More »360 outselling PS3 in GTA software ‘battle’
More copes of Rockstar’s GTA IV for were sold on Xbox 360 than PS3 in the game’s first week on UK shelves – but both companies enjoyed similar success when it came to the ‘system selling’ influence of the title. That’s according to official ChartTrack figures obtained by MCV, which …
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Read More »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 …
Read More »CNN: GTA IV training our kids to kill
American news network CNN has broadcast an astounding attack on Rockstar’s GTA IV – in which presenter Glenn Beck says the game is training our kids to be killers” and teaches young men to treat women like whores”. In the diatribe, which carries the headline ‘Grand Theft Morality’, Beck likens …
Read More »Microsoft: 360 GTA outselling PS3 version 2-to-1 in US
Microsoft’s product manager for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Aaron Greenberg has claimed that US retailers have sold double the number of units of GTA IV on 360 than they have on PS3. In an in-depth interview with Next-Gen, Greenberg said: "What we’ve heard anecdotally from our retail partners is …
Read More »Barack Obama talks GTA IV
Democratic leadership candidate Barack Obama yesterday mentioned GTA IV’s release in a speech… without even a hint of moral hysteria. Addressing citizens in Indiana, Obama made reference to the game’s popularity – before seeming to back the industry’s message of it being an ‘adult game for adults’. According to GamePolitics …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Which console is best for GTA IV?’
In MCV’s latest Mystery Shopper feature, field marketing experts Infinite check out stores in Edinburgh – and ask them the question the whole industry is wondering: ‘Which console is best for GTA IV?’ The firm checked out eight stores in total, and you can discover what they made of them …
Read More »SIERRA SPRING BREAK ’08: Spyro: Dawn Of The Dragon
Sierra used its Spring Break event in Mallorca last week to demonstrate its new Spyro title. The game will be released on PS3, 360, Wii PS2 and DS in October, and has been developed by Etranges Libellules. Billed as the concluding chapter in the trilogy started with The Legend of …
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