Rockstar Games have announced that “Episodes from Liberty City” will be released for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Games for Windows® – LIVE on March 30, 2010.
While there has been much debate on whether the exclusive episodes were constrained to a time space or indefinetly, we now know the answer to that one.
Just a quick note about Grand Theft Auto IV: it’s not available for download on Xbox 360.
The Games on Demand version will set you back a mere £20. That’s about $30 for you Americans out there. The downside to GTAIV is that it’ll take up 7 gigs of your HDD.
So, y’know, enjoy!
Rockstar Games has announced that GTA: Chinatown Wars is on its way towards the PSP as both a downloadable title and in UMD format. Apparently the game was so successful on the DS they decided to port it.
“We’re proud to extend this truly unique handheld Grand Theft Auto experience to PSP and offer a downloadable version of Chinatown Wars for PSP Go!,” said Rockstar boss Sam Houser.
“Rockstar Leeds has shown incredible talent in creating games that raise the bar in terms of depth and innovation on portables, and with Chinatown Wars we have a rich, fast-paced, and incredibly addictive entry into the series.”
CEO of Sony America, Jack Tretton, was equally delighted with the news: “Rockstar’s work with the GTA series has been an enormous part of the success of PlayStation platforms.”
“We’re excited to welcome the critically acclaimed Chinatown Wars to the outstanding line-up of great games headed to the PSP platform this fall.”
It will probably sell better than the DS version.
Finally we get to see some real gameplay from Chinatown Wars.
Rockstar put it out earlier this evening and the video contains a solid minute of gameplay, showing off dual screen gameplay, as well as hacking and gun-building minigames.
The game looks as good as promised and brings back nostalgic memories for the first GTA title.
Check it out here
In about a month’s time, the newest addition to the GTA franchise hits Nintendo DSes all over the world, but not until now has a trailer for the game surfaced. And we’ve got it!
There’s some gameplay, albeit very little, but tons of artwork and the feeling that this is a true GTA title.
The game casts you as Huang Lee, a man out to avenge the murder of his father. The DS touchscreen will be used in various gameplay scenarioes like dealing drugs, defusing bombs, assembling weaponry and hotwiring cars.
Enjoy!
The astronomically huge and long awaited Grand Theft Auto IV expansion, The Lost and Damned, has just gone live on Xbox Live!
The DLC should already be appearing on the Games Marketplace to download for most 360 users. If it’s yet to appear in your region, fear not though!
You can access the download by going to Marketplace on Xbox.com, and buy it from there. You will then be able to download it by going to your Active Downloads on your 360 dashboard.
The Lost and Damned will set you back 1600 MS Point, and 1.78GB of your HDD, and has an estimated 10 – 15 hours of gameplay packed away in it. Considering the scope of this content, that’s a generous price.
Microsoft also added new “biker” related avatar clothing earlier to coincide with the launch of the 360 exclusive content. You’ll find a full list of the new clothing under the cut.
Rockstar development boss Jeronimo Barrera has stated in a recent interview why he views the upcoming GTA IV expansion pack The Lost and Damned, which releases tomorrow, as a full game in its own right.
“There’s nothing ever been out like it,” Barrera told Major Nelson in the review, “We’ve done a full game in my opinion, in terms of the production quality and the new gameplay mechanics. We’ve literally reached the maximum memory size that we can do for DLC with Microsoft. You’re going to get a lot of game.”
Rockstar confirms that their recent addition to the GTA series will feature co-op multiplayer gameplay.
So far Rockstar have kept mum about the game’s multiplayer modes, but fliers passed around at New York Comic Con confirms “head-to-head and co-op multiplayer mayhem”
Said flyer also mentions a replay feature that allows players to replay any completed mission.
GTA: Chinatown Wars is released March 17 in the US and March 20 in PAL territories.
The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) has revealed their rating of the upcoming DS-title, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. This is a first for a DS-title.
According to the BBFC the game “countains very strong language and drug references”. This isn’t surprising for a game with a drug dealing minigame.
The ratings board also reveals that Chinatown Wars comes with 168 minutes of cut-scenes.
Chinatown wars comes out in the US on March 17, and three days later in Europe.
It seems Rockstar got what they wanted.
Speaking to the press in a conference call earlier to this, in relation to its full-year financial results, Take-Two Interactive executives revealed that the GTA franchise has been responsible for nearly half of the company’s revenue this year.
Like that really surprises anyone.
The franchise took in over $710 million for the company this year, of the entire revenue total of $1,537.5 million for fiscal 2008.
All in all, that accounts for roughly 60% of Take-Two Interactive’s total publishing sales for the last 12 months.
Impressive? Just a bit.
Rockstar has confirmed that their portable romp in the GTA franchise will be released on March 17 in the US. Europeans will get their hands on the game 3 days later.
“Rockstar Leeds have once again created a game that far exceeds our standard for deep an innovative entertainment,” said Rockstar boss Sam Houser (brother of Rockstar VP Dan Houser).
“We are incredibly excited to share this enormous and uncompromising Grand Theft auto experience with DS fans.”
You can’t fault the man for being enthusiastic about their product.
Spike TV has had gone into overload with its debut trailers this year, and the next big one on the list is the trailer for the 360 exclusive Grand Theft Auto IV expansion, The Lost and Damned.
In it, we get a quick look of the characters and face we will be introduced to in the new chapter, and lots of lots of shots of leather jackets and motorbikes.
The video is under the cut, as usual.
Microsoft has just posted three new screenshots for the upcoming 360 exclusive Grand Theft Auto IV downloadable content, The Lost and Damned over on its website.
Alongside it is a blurb confirming information we pretty much already know, but here it is anyway.
Developed by series creator Rockstar North and set in Liberty City, Grand Theft Auto IV™ The Lost and Damned™ features a new main character, Johnny Klebitz, and plot that intersects with the storyline of Grand Theft Auto IV; new missions that offer an entirely fresh way to explore Liberty City with new multiplayer modes, weapons and vehicles; and a diverse soundtrack with additional music—all with the incredible production values that are the trademarks of Grand Theft Auto.
Rockstar Games have just released the first screenshots of the recently announced GTA IV DLC content pack “The Lost and Damned”, the first of two Xbox 360 exclusive episodes of content for the game.
As will come as no surprise to anyone, they feature lots of men in leather, riding motor-cycles and generally trying to look all tough.
Enjoy.
Officially detailed today, the Xbox 360 exclusive GTA IV downloadable content, entitled “The Lost and Damned”, will include an entirely new side-story, new multiplayer modes, new weapons and vehicles… and even a new radio station.
“The Lost and Damned” will be the first of two episodes, and it will launch on the Xbox Live Marketplace on February 17. The side story will put you in control of Johnny Klebitz, a member of Liberty City biker gang The Lost, and will intersect with the main storyline in places.
“Making these episodes has enabled us to expand the narrative and the experience of interacting with a game world in really innovative ways,” said Rockstar’s Sam Houser. “We hope fans of the game enjoy the new way of experiencing life in Liberty City contained in this first episode.”
Well, when they said they were planning big, they certainly weren’t kidding.
This is what downloadable content should be.
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