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The creator of a hugely popular Grand Theft Auto IV mod has quit work on the project due to the torrent of vitriol he has been forced to endure online. Hayssam Keilany recently released his 3.0 iCEnhancer update, but has said that it will be the last – for the …
Read More »William Hill offers odds on Grand Theft Auto V outselling GTA IV
Reckon Grand Theft Auto V will outsell Grand Theft Auto IV? Then one UK betting agency wants a word. William Hill is offering odds of 4/6 that GTA V will sell over 11m copies in its first month on sale or 11/10 on it falling short of that number. That …
Read More »Riccitiello: I love playing GTA
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello isn’t just interested in GTA IV because it’s owned by acquisition target Take Two – he actually loves” playing the game. Speaking in a earning call with investors following EA’s announcement of its fiscal results last night, Riccitiello refused to give away any more information …
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 »UK retail running out of GTA IV
Play.com has sold out of its allocation GTA IV pre-orders – whilst GAME and Gamestation’s online offerings have already put up warning of stock running low. Play.com’s head of games Gian Luzio told MCV that the title was far and away the biggest selling title” he’d ever seen on PS3 …
Read More »Rockstar: GTA IV will send tabloids mad
Founder of Rockstar Games Dan Houser has admitted that the company expects an OTT reaction by the tabloid press when GTA IV is released in April. Speaking after a demonstration of the game to North American press, Houser asserted that GTA and other violent titles were a convenient enemy” for …
Read More »PS3 tech contributed to GTAIV delay
With a firm release date now seemingly set in stone by Rockstar, the Grand Theft Auto IV developer has admitted that familiarising themselves with the unique architecture of Sony’s PS3 was a factor in the game’s delayed shipping date. Speaking to MTV, Rockstar’s vice president of product development Jeronimo Barrera …
Read More »GTA IV to arrive on April 29th
The title will be released simultaneously worldwide on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on April 29th. "We are so excited to be releasing Grand Theft Auto IV," said Sam Houser, founder and executive producer of Rockstar Games. "We’ve pushed ourselves very hard to make something incredible and hope the game …
Read More »New Grand Theft Auto IV trailer tonight
A brand new trailer for Rockstar’s massively anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV, entitled ‘Move up, ladies’, is due to hit the virtual airwaves tonight at 8:00pm. The last time the publisher unleashed a GTAIV trailer on the internet the huge web traffic forced the company’s official site to a crushing …
Read More »GTA IV release date up in the air
Speaking at yesterday’s BMO Capital Markets conference, Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick has stated that it won’t commit to any date or time period for the release of next-gen title Grand Theft Auto IV, Gamesindustry reports. It was announced in August that the title would miss its initial October ’07 …
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