Heartbreak alert - Rockstar Games have apparently decided to ditch an announcement for E3 2010 which would have launched a new game. This rumour comes from Nuts associate editor Rory Buckeridge. Recently 'leaks' have put Grand Theft Auto V: Vice City at this E3. Salt pinches!
In an odd move the Australian ratings board, the OFLC, reclassified Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City but this isn't a sign of things to come. No don't go shouting from the rooftops the next GTA is Vice City bound as this is back catalogue related, says Rockstar Games. It's MA15+.
Grand Theft Auto IV was released back in 2008 to record numbers and was later followed by 2 DLC episodes starring all-new crazy action. Rumour has it that the new Grand Theft Auto will be heading to Hollywood, home to both crazy and action for sure, with a reveal due soon?
Recently a rumour started that the next Grand Theft Auto will be set in Hollywood, to which Rockstar refuse comment as usual to any speculation. Job listings at Rockstar North have surfaced and they're hunting for new developers who have "professional experience" with 3rd person action.
Online retailer Amazon has listed Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV with a 'Complete Edition' for Xbox 360 and PS3 that's due out October 26th. It includes GTA IV and the 2 DLC episodes. There's no mention of a PC version. The DLC already has its own bundle 'Episodes from Liberty City'.
CEO Strauss Zelnick of Take-Two says in 3 years time they'll be seeing "20, 30, 40" percent of their total sales being made through digital distribution. Currently digital sales equate to "less than 15" percent of their total figures, but "that's clearly growing." Physical discs will remain because of "huge file sizes."
A dispute of the 'Conga Kid' track used in Rockstar Games' Episodes from Liberty City is said to be an unauthorized sample of 'Bota o Dedinho pro Alto'. Brazilian composer Hamilton Lourenço da Silva has taken the matter to a civil court in Brazil, with an injunction stating it must be recalled worldwide.
Helping reboot Games for Windows Live with Microsoft are a number of major studios like Capcom, Square Enix, Rockstar Games and 2K. When the redesigned platform launches November 15th it will be offering titles like Fable: The Lost Chapters, GTA3, Max Payne and more.
Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey believes Take-Two and Rockstar will "likely" unleash the next GTA between April 1st, 2011 and March 31st, 2012. He firmly states it will be another huge blockbuster for the studio and will sell upward of 16m copies worldwide, raking in approximately $750m.
Strauss Zelnick has said Take-Two won't be annualising their big hitters like Activision does with Call of Duty and Guitar Hero, it's just not for them. The publishing boss also proclaims they have no "impediment to being profitable" in a given year now, as Grand Theft Auto isn't their only avenue.
The popular Grand Theft Auto series nearly died on the vine, as the original GTA was nearly canceled.
Fudzilla is pondering when Grand Theft Auto V will be released, and they’re speculating that it’s actually in development, and in the process, killed Max Payne 3.
Senior level persons are 'very strongly rumoured' to be eyeing up rival publisher Take-Two for a possible all-out acquisition, namely to secure Rockstar. It is after all Take-Two's strongest studio, however their top talent like the Houser brothers have their contracts expire in 2012. Its 'just rumour' for now.
Atari and Eden Games' Test Drive Unlimited 2 has raced into the hearts of the British public as it goes number one in the UK chart, nudging Dead Space 2. FIFA 11 holds third while Call of Duty: Black Ops stays fourth another week. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood slips fifth. GTA IV: Complete Edition ninth.
US analyst service First Adopter believes Activision will most likely go after Take-Two, mainly as they have "nothing now outside" Call of Duty and Blizzard. They say Take-Two would likely take a "$20-22 bid" per share this time, after looking "fools for saying no" to EA's $25 bid. EA might try again to thwart Activision.
Take Two Interactive has started registering some interesting domain names that sound a lot like the fake, punny-named businesses you find in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto games.
Rockstar's casting company Telsey and Company have listed a "interactive project" codenamed "Rush"" that some strongly believe sounds like a new Grand Theft Auto game. The cast list sounds like a game in which an FBI agent goes undercover into the Mexican drug trade.
During a talk at the Wedbush Morgan Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference yesterday, Take-Two revealed high figures for several franchises from 2K Games and Rockstar. 2K's BioShock series has sold over 8 million units since its launch in 2005 on Xbox 360, which was later released for PlayStation 3. We would be interested to see sale differences between the first and second BioShock, but this hasn't been revealed. BioShock Infinite is currently in development and will be the third release in the series.
What happens when you set "car friction" to -9 in the .ini files of Grand Theft Auto IV, and set the music to "Yakety Sax"? Complete and utter car madness.
16 years ago studio DMA Design put together an 11-page spread for something called 'Race'n'Chase', which went on to become Grand Theft Auto. Mike Daily, a DMA graphics engine coder, has gifted the world this 11-page gem. It reveals what features they intended, as well as missed opportunities.