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'Jacked' author promises to 'lift the veil of secrecy' at Rockstar; Develop to publish two-page excerpt in April
Read More »App Store Charts: Week 8
Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 3 drives to top of iPad chart
Read More »GTA III helps Take-Two make $26m in digital
Grand Theft Auto III: 10th Anniversary Edition on iOS and Android generated the bulk of $26m in digital revenues for Take-Two in its fiscal Q3. Overall net revenues for the Rockstar and 2K parent stood at $236.3m for the three months ending December 31st, as reported by MCV earlier. However, …
Read More »MCV GameTime: Industry TV advertising monitor (wk ending October 23rd)
We look at recent TV advertising activity for games and find out how Grand Theft Auto could affect the games advertising market next year. This is provided by specialist communication firm Generation Mediawhich focuses on the entertainment and leisure industries. Games and consoles advertising pressure during the week ending October …
Read More »VIDEO: GTA V returns to San Andreas
It’s hard to believe that we’ve only been waiting a week since Rockstar announced today’s release of the first Grand Theft Auto V trailer, but at last the moment has arrived. The short teaser doesn’t reveal a huge amount of information, though the most critical points are answered – it’s …
Read More »OPINION: The Return of GTA
We’re just a few hours away from finally having some of the answers. Will Rockstar North choose to revisit San Andreas, its digital recreation of an entire state, or the neon-clad Vice City? Will it go for somewhere else, but another slice of Americana? Or maybe somewhere different – a …
Read More »GTA5 days away from grand unveiling
Trailer to launch early November, Rockstar confirms
Read More »Brand Map: Grand Theft Auto
GameVision asked 6,728 gamers about Grand Theft Auto IV to tell us about their experiences of the GTA franchise in more detail. Rockstar?Games and Take-Two recently announced that the Grand Theft Auto franchise has now shipped in total a staggering 114m units, with GTA IV alone shipping over 22m. This …
Read More »Metro plans News of the Worldstyle phone tapping spree
Well, it doesn’t. But that’s a great headline, isn’t it? As was astutely pointed out by Premier PR’s Gareth Williams on Twitter this morning, Oh dear, the Metro. Rockstar surely must be as bored of this as we are?”. This morning’s copy of freesheet Metro tells the tragic tale of …
Read More »Mac App Store gets GTA Trilogy
Rockstar Games will launch the GTA III-era trilogy on the Mac App Store over the next three weeks. Grand Theft Auto III, the first game from the previous generation of critically acclaimed crime sims, is available now. The game was originally released in 2001 and pioneered the action sandbox genre. …
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