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News Rockstar: Grand Theft Auto V Bound For Los Santos, Multiplayer Confirmed
Rockstar's formally announced Grand Theft Auto V after yesterday's debut trailer
According to the official press release, the game will take place in Los Santos and its surrounding hills, countryside and beaches. Rockstar describes the game as the "most ambitious yet". The game will see you go in "pursuit of the almighty dollar in a...
Rumour Grand Theft Auto V Releasing May 24th?
Tenuous one this, but still fun
NowGamer has spotted what it believes to be a cryptic release date in Grand Theft Auto V's debut trailer. There's lingering scene that focuses on a man erecting a 'For Sale' sign. Written on the curb to the right is the number '2405', which NowGamer hypothesises could point towards a May 24th release date. Before you...
News Rockstar Releases Debut Grand Theft Auto V Trailer, Sets The Internet On Fire
Douse those flames and calm down for a second
If your Internet connection can hold out for long enough, you might just get a glimpse of the world's first trailer for Grand Theft Auto V. As previously rumoured, the game will take place in a fictional Los Angeles. It's a sunny, stylish trailer that shows off the game's variety of districts. Rockstar's...
News That's Not Ray Liotta In The Grand Theft Auto V Trailer
Some of the hottest speculation following yesterday's Grand Theft Auto V trailer suggested that the narrator was none other than Ray Liotta -- or Vice City's Tommy Vercetti as you may know him
That rumour's been squashed. But while that particular point of discussion's off the cards for now, PC Gamer has popped up with its own theory. It reckons...
News Prepare Your Body: Grand Theft Auto V Goes Boom At 16:00GMT
Expect servers to crash, tears to be shed and fanboys to flip out later this afternoon
Rockstar's preparing to release the debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, and it's going to pretty much dominate conversation for the coming weeks we should imagine. What are they going to show? We're not sure. It's too tough to call. The strongest rumours place...
News Analysts Pick Numbers For Grand Theft Auto V
We don't really know anything about Grand Theft Auto V other than that we'll get to watch a trailer of the game next week
But it's not stopping analysts from predicting sales for the hotly anticipated sequel. Sterne Agee of Arvind Bhatia reckons the game will move about 25 million units, figures on par with Call Of Duty: Black Ops. Take Two's shares...
News Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Countdown Revealed
Seven days
Six hours. Thirty-one minutes. Six seconds. That's how long (at the time of writing!) you've got to wait until you get your first glimpse of Grand Theft Auto V. Aware of the magnitude of the announcement, Rockstar has started counting down to next week's debut trailer. Seven days. Six hours. Twenty-nine minutes. Fifty-eight seconds.
Rumour Grand Theft Auto V To Feature Multiple Protagonists, Set In Los Angeles
Hot on the heels of yesterday's shock announcement, the rumour mill for Grand Theft Auto V has hit overdrive
Perhaps the most persistent rumour at the moment is that the game will take place in a "Rockstarified" Los Angeles — a rumour that's been running since before the game's announcement. Are we on the cusp of experiencing a...
Breaking Grand Theft Auto V Announced, Trailer Coming November 2nd
If you saw this one coming, you should take up a new position as a psychic or something
Rockstar just officially announced Grand Theft Auto V without even the slightest sniff of a warning. Details are still ridiculously scarce, but Rockstar's promising a new trailer will release on November 2nd. (That rains on Nathan Drake's parade a touch, doesn't...
News L.A. Noire: Complete Edition Cofirmed For PlayStation 3
If you didn't get a chance to dive into L
A. Noire</a> yet, Rockstar's confirmed that the game's Complete Edition is coming to PlayStation 3 on November 15th and November 18th in North America and Europe respectively. The Complete Edition comes with the main campaign (obviously) as well as all the pre-order gubbins and DLC. It means you'll be...
In order to celebrate the release of the Red Dead Redemption: Game Of The Year edition, Rockstar's announced it's opening up Triple XP for its rootin', tootin' sandbox shooter this weekend
Players with any version of Red Dead Redemption will be able to hop online from 9PM GMT, Friday, October 14th and enjoy enhanced multiplayer rewards all weekend...
News Team Bondi Owed Lots Of Money To Lots Of People
L
A. Noire</a> developer Team Bondi owed debts to the tune of AU$1,425,156 ($1.4 million USD / £900k) before it was closed. EDGE reports that more than a million dollars were owed to staff, with executives claiming up to $100k a pop. Unbelievably, Team Bondi closed owing $150k to Depth Analysis, the company that created the MotionScan facial...
News Max Payne 3 Dual-Wields In New Screens
Forget one gun, Max Payne doesn't do things by halves
In a batch of new screenshots for Max Payne 3, Rockstar has shown off the moody character clasping weapons in both hands. It's all looking rather dark and gritty. Which we suspect is exactly what fans of the series have been clamoring for.</em>
News L.A. Noire Developer Team Bondi Is No More
What an extraordinary story
L.A. Noire developer Team Bondi was subject to enormous critical acclaim before getting hit by an employment scandal. And now it is no more. The studio entered administration in late August, with its assets supposedly sold to Australian production company Kennedy Miller Mitchell. Despite critical and commercial success, a...
News Rockstar Fleshes Out Last Week's Max Payne 3 Trailer
Catch it after the jump
Never ones to shy away from a second appearance on a video game website, Rockstar's let us know it's released an updated version of last week's Max Payne 3 trailer. This time, though, pop-up captions are on-hand to explain everything that's going on.
News Pachter: Grand Theft Auto Leadership Won't Last Forever
Some people would argue that in spite of the insurgence of Call Of Duty, Grand Theft Auto is still the franchise to beat
Unlike Activision's first-person shooter series, GTA is put on a pedestal. There's really no other series quite like it. But veteran video games analyst Michael Pachter believes that dominance won't last forever. Call of Duty is...
News Grand Theft Auto IV Sales Surpass 22 Million Shipped
Grand Theft Auto IV is still selling
Rockstar's brilliant open-world crime adventure has now shipped 22 million units since its release in 2008. The PS3 title has surpassed the sales for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, with the franchise reaching a total of 114 million units shipped since 1997. Rockstar's also announced that Red Dead Redemption has...
News Rockstar Confirms Red Dead Redemption: Game Of The Year Edition For PlayStation 3
Rockstar has announced a Game Of The Year edition of Red Dead Redemption for PlayStation 3
The package will include all of the previously released DLC expansion packs, and will release on October 11th in North America and October 14th in Europe. The full breakdown of content can be viewed after the jump. Original Red Dead Redemption game with a...
Rumour L.A. Noire Game Of The Year Edition Coming November?
A number of European video game retailers are listing the release of a Game Of The Year edition for L
A. Noire</a>, due for release this November. And yes, you'd be right for pointing out that L.A. Noire has yet to win any Game Of The Year awards — largely because the game only released in May of this year. Still, the package promises to...
News Max Payne 3 Launches March 2012, Introduces Multiplayer
Rockstar's lifted the lid on Max Payne 3
The anticipated sequel will launch in March 2012 on PlayStation 3. The third-person shooter sends Max to São Paulo, Brazil, tasked with protecting his family. While Max Payne 3's single-player campaign sounds like it's set to be a solitary affair, it'll be accompanied by a multiplayer component, pitched as...
News Rockstar Dates Final Red Dead Redemption DLC
The final Red Dead Redemption DLC pack will launch for free on September 13th, Rockstar has announced
The pack includes a selection of a new maps and characters for the game's multiplayer mode. There's a full rundown of the content on offer after the jump. New maps: Cochinay - Gold Rush, Shootout, Gang Shootout, Stronghold Nekoti Rock - Gold Rush,...
News Rockstar Randomly Releases New Max Payne 3 Screenshots
"I'm not dead," screams Max Payne in a duo of two new images released today by video games mega-label Rockstar
At least, that's the assumption we're making based on the screenshots randomly released by the publisher this Bank Holiday Monday. With L.A. Noire out of the way, Rockstar describes Max Payne 3 as its "next big release on...
Rumour Leaked Screens From Rockstar's Agent Emerge Online
It's been a long time since we learned anything new about Rockstar's Agent
The game first appeared as part of Sony's 2009 E3 press conference, where the company touted the game's exclusivity to the PlayStation 3 platform. Earlier in the year, Jack Tretton backed away from that statement, suggesting that the game might be multi-platform after all...
News Just What Is Citizen Skywatch All About?
The Citizen Skywatch website doesn't say much at all
In fact, other than the words 'Citizen Skywatch' themselves, the website is a barren waste-land devoid of any compelling information. But the Internet is much more investigative than that, and a prompt WHOIS search reveals that the website was registered by Take Two on the behalf of Rockstar...
News L.A. Noire Developer Sells Assets To KMM
According to a Develop source, the rumours regarding Team Bondi are true: the company and its assets have been sold off to KMM Productions, the company owned by Mad Max creator George Miller
According to Develop, all Team Bondi staff have received a letter offering them a job at KMM or a severance package. It's unknown whether Team Bondi will...
News Is Grand Theft Auto V On The Horizon?
Take-Two is preparing to announce new titles scheduled for release in its next financial year "in the coming months", leading to heavy speculation that we're on the cusp of a Grand Theft Auto V reveal
Interestingly Take-Two said that it expects to exceed a net income of $2 per share during the next fiscal year (April 2012 through March 2013), a...
Rumour Team Bondi Bankrupt, Folded Into KMM
According to reports on NeoGAF, L
A. Noire</a> developer Team Bondi has gone bankrupt, and is being folded into KMM Studios — the animation outfit currently working on Happy Feet 2. The news follows a series of rumours about the developer's fate. Apparently Depth Analysis, the company Team Bondi formed in order to create L.A. Noire's...
News Still Not Played Red Dead Redemption?
Looks like Rockstar might have your back -- a Game Of The Year edition of Red Dead Redemption has popped up on the website of a British ratings board
Often developers stick the ol' Game Of The Year tag onto their popular game in order to get re-release onto store shelves, but in the case of Red Dead Redemption it's totally warranted — we gave the...
News Rockstar Announces New Red Dead Redemption DLC For September
Red Dead Redemption is set to get one final DLC pack, Rockstar has announced
The "Myths & Mavericks" pack is due out in September for the lowly fee of nada, and will bring with it a few "fan-favourite" character skins, as well as new arenas for Deathmatch, Gang, Grab the Bag and "other popular online modes".
News Team Bondi Blames Blu-ray Space Limitations On Cut L.A. Noire Content
Team Bondi's Brendan McNamara has revealed that content was cut from L
A. Noire</a> due to the limitations of using a single Blu-ray disc — even though L.A. Noire does not use the maximum capacity Blu-ray available. According to McNamara, two desks known as bunko and burglary were written, designed and had art assets created — despite...
News June NPD: Patrick Seybold You Sly Dog, You
Turns out Patrick Seybold was very crafty with his wording of inFamous 2's sales success
While Sucker Punch's super-hero adventure might have been the top selling single SKU in June, it did not manage to outsell its multiplatform rivals L.A. Noire and Duke Nukem Forever. But that's ok, we'll forgive it that. Finishing up in third on the...
News Let's Take A Look At L.A. Noire's Final DLC Case
We assumed Rockstar and Team Bondi would continue to release L
A. Noire</a> DLC for as long as the market demanded it, but we suppose this content is expensive to make. As such, Reefer Madness is being touted as the final case in the detective game's post-release collection. The Vice case sees Phelps paired up with Earle, attempting to uncover...
Report Rockstar Won't Publish Team Bondi's Next Title
It's funny what goes on behind closed doors
While the relationship between Rockstar and Team Bondi seemed water-tight during the public build-up for L.A. Noire, it's capitulated ever since. Talk of long hours, poor management and "disdain" between the developer and publisher have surfaced over the past few weeks — prompting a report from...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: L.A. Noire's 'Nicholson Electroplating' DLC Is Out Today
Heads up detectives: Rockstar's just sent us word that L
A. Noire's</a> "Nicholson Electroplating" DLC is out today on the PlayStation Network. If you've already purchased an L.A. Noire season pass it will cost you the grand total of $0.00. The best price. Those of you without a season pass will need to cough up $3.99. Still not a...
Report Grand Theft Auto V 'Pretty Likely' To Release In 2012
All this umming-and-ahhing over Grand Theft Auto V is starting to drive us insane
Sometimes we get cravings for a new GTA, y'know? We'd pull out Grand Theft Auto IV again, but our copy is hidden right at the bottom of our collection of PS3 games. We have a lot of PS3 games. It would take too much effort to find the disc. Yes, we're lazy. Anyway,...
News Rockstar Releases Debut Trailer For L.A. Noire's 'Nicholson Electroplating' DLC
Rockstar's released a trailer and new details about L
A. Noire's</a> latest DLC pack. There's been an explosion at the Nicholson Electroplating plant and its down to Phelps and his arson desk partner Biggs to solve the case. At 9.45 in the morning, a thunderous explosion rocks Los Angeles," explains Rockstar. "City blocks are...
E3 2011 Tretton Unclear About Agent's Exclusivity
Remember Agent? The Rockstar Games developed project was announced at Sony's 2009 E3 briefing as a PlayStation 3 exclusive
During a live interview on GameTrailers this afternoon, GTTV host Geoff Keighley asked SCEA president Jack Tretton about the title, to which the PlayStation gaffer responded it was "more a question for Rockstar"...
E3 2011 Grand Theft Auto V Speculation Mounts
"There's no smoke without fire," notes MCVUK
com</a>. If the website's inside sources are to be believed, we might catch a glimpse Grand Theft Auto V this evening. The industry website notes that some insiders are certain Rockstar will announce Grand Theft Auto V at either Microsoft or Sony's E3 press conference tonight. Appropriately, sources...
News Rockstar Pass Video Tries To Make Sense Of L.A. Noire's Bemusing DLC Plan
If you buy the Rockstar Pass for L
A. Noire</a> you're essentially able to pre-order all of the game's seven DLC packs for a one-off price ($10) that's roughly 50% cheaper than it would be if you bought all of the content separately. Or something. Seeing as the whole concept is all a little bit bemusing, Rockstar's released the above trailer...
News Rockstar Announces Pass For L.A. Noire, A Nifty Method Of Keeping Used Copies Off The Shelves
Rockstar's announced its "Pass" service for L
A. Noire</a> this afternoon, a nifty method of keeping the primarily single-player title out of used game stores. The service will essentially allow players to "pre-purchase" all of L.A. Noire's upcoming DLC for $10. The content will still be available a la carte, but will cost you 50%...
News UK Sales Charts: DiRT 3 Unable To Overtake L.A. Noire
L
A. Noire</a> has held onto the UK sales charts top spot for a second week running, beating off Codemasters' semi-sim DiRT 3 which finished up in a respectable second. LEGO Pirates Of the Caribbean, Zumba Fitness and Brink all held onto their high positions to round out the top five, with familiar faces such as Crysis 2 and Call Of Duty:...
News Expect L.A. Noire DLC News On Your Desk Next Week
Rockstar's confirmed that details of L
A. Noire's</a> DLC plans will be revealed next week. The company announced the, errr, announcement in a Tweet overnight. There are already two additional L.A. Noire cases made available through various retail chains: The Naked City and A Slip Of A Tongue. Details on a third DLC pack, Nichlson...
News Take-Two Keeps Hold Of Houser Brothers, Rockstar Games
In its latest financial report, Take-Two has announced that it has renewed employment agreements with "key members of the creative team of Rockstar Games"
Bosses Sam and Dan Houser have renewed their contracts, alongside Leslie Benzies on what the company notes as "substantially similar economic terms". Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick...
News Rockstar: Agent Is 'Still In Development'
Remember Agent? No
Well, fair enough, it has been a while. Allow us to jog your memory: back at E3 2009 Sony announced that Rockstar was developing an exclusive PlayStation 3 title called Agent. Since then we've heard absolutely nothing about the game. Despite the lack of information, Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick insisted the game was "still...
News UK Sales Charts: L.A. Noire Takes Top-Spot, Becomes Fastest Selling New IP Of All Time
Team Bondi's crime-thriller, L
A. Noire</a>, has literally flown out of the gates, becoming the fastest-selling new IP of all time in the UK. The game — which knocked Brink from its perch atop the charts — outsold Rockstar's previous effort, Red Dead Redemption, by some margin to claim the accolade. The UK chart is actually a pretty...
News Analyst Expects L.A. Noire To Sell 3-4 Million Copies, We Reckon It'll Go Higher
Arvind Bhatia of analyst firm Sterne Agee reckons L
A. Noire</a> will sell 3-4 million copies. Based on the critical and consumer reaction, we wouldn't be surprised if the game doubled that estimate over the course of its life-span. We think the Street is expecting the title to sell 3 to 4 million units and so far the initial reviews seem...
News L.A. Noire's 'Nicholson Electroplating' Arson Case Due Out On June 21st
As part of a promotion with Best Buy, Rockstar awarded the first sixteen purchasers of L
A. Noire</a> with a free redeem code for the game's first batch of DLC. The pack, entitled the "Nicholson Electroplating" Arson Case, will be available next month according to the redeem code's instruction page, which slaps a June 21st release...
News L.A. Noire Pushes Take-Two Shares Through The Roof
L
A. Noire</a> is not yet out in the UK. The crime-thriller released overnight in North America. Even though it's early days, the unique Rockstar published title has already made a killing for Take-Two. A round of positive reviews pushed Take-Two's shares up by 7.75 per cent to $17.10, a 32-month high for the company. We wonder if Sony regrets...
News L.A. Noire Reviews Make The Wait For Release Even Tougher
Let's be honest: most people have already decided whether they're going to buy L
A. Noire</a> by now. There's no need for reviews at this point. Still, L.A. Noire is a video game, and naturally publications will review the game. So what's the consensus? It's good, really good. GiantBomb's Brad Shoemaker scored it a 5/5, explaining that...
News PlayStation 3 The Lead Platform For L.A. Noire, Says Team Bondi
Team Bondi has confirmed that the PlayStation 3 was the lead development platform for upcoming crime thriller L
A. Noire</a>. It's not much of a surprise, given that the game was originally intended to be a PS3 exclusive. "For this project, we led on PlayStation 3, and in a way I think that's what most people are doing," Team Bondi...
