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The weekend arrival of Grand Theft Auto V with some Amazon customers is being investigated by the retailer. MCV reported yesterday that some Amazon customers received their game on Saturday – three days ahead of Rockstar’s apparently strict sales embargo. We have established processes in place to deliver new titles …

Games the Shop and Landmark stores in Mumbai and Pune held midnight launches for Grand Theft Auo 5 last night. Aside from the stores that had been confirmed beforehand, both Landmark and Games The Shop in Infiniti Mall at Mumbai’s Andheri suburb were also open at midnight. We made our …

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Valve boss hints at announcement to come next week

Rental subscription service Gamefly has opened up its new online distribution store, Gamefly Digital. The new digital distribution outfit offers more than 2,500 titles, specifically featuring publisher and genre collection stores” including EA, Rockstar, Valve, Bethesda and Indie Games, among others. GameFly is celebrating the company’s new arm with a …

Capcom has shipped 2m Monster Hunter 4 units out to retailers just days after its arrival on Japanese shelves. The publisher announced the milestone for the latest effort in its popular action RPG, claiming that the game has had more shipments in its first week than any other third-party 3DS …

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 …

Valve plans to peel the curtain back on its first entry into the hardware market sometime next week, company head Gabe Newell has revealed. Speaking at LinuxCon, Newell preached to the choir regarding the event’s titular operating system – stating that Linux is the future of gaming, as well as …

Rockstar's blockbuster sequel could ship 20 million units and generate a further $500m by March 2014

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 …