Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has now launched on PlayStation Portable (PSP) in North America and Europe, and in an effort to extend the launch celebrations Rockstar Games have today announced a number of new features for players of the game at the official online space, the Social Club. The Social Club is an online community including a space for each of Rockstar Games' recent releases, and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has received a whole heap of new additions this week.
De Telegraaf writes: "Last weekend the TMF Game Awards was presented at the FirstLook event in Amsterdam. Killzone 2, the Dutch development studio Guerrilla Games, received an award for best PlayStation 3 game Gears of War 2 and went with the prize for best Xbox 360 game off."
It's turning out to be a busy week for GTA developer Rockstar. Aside from releasing the first trailer for The Ballad of Gay Tony, it's just announced the formerly DS exclusive Chinatown Wars is headed to an iPhone and iPod Touch near you later this year.Rockstar has further revealed its music-making game Beaterator, which has already been announced for PSP, will also be coming to the two slinky, app-guzzling gadgets. It's ...
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Rockstar Games revealed today that Beaterator and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, both in development for the PSP, will be released for the iPhone and iPod Touch as well.
Koku Gamer writes: 'Rockstar's VP of Creative Dan Houser doesn't believe a GTA movie would work due to the creative limitations of the film industry.'
This fall Japan gets the DS version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and it's rated CERO Z, that's like the equivalent of being rated AO by the ESRB.
Grand Theft Auto has graced Nintendo platforms in the past. The series landed on the Game Boy Advance and most recently, the Nintendo DS. One request that seems to be universal amongst fans, however, is to see a GTA title on the Wii.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is a DS exclusive no more; Rockstar Games announced today the touch screen-enabled trip through Liberty City is arriving on PSP later this year. Lower-than-expected sales may have been a primary motivator here, but is moving the game to PSP the right move? Chinatown Wars is not the GTA experience Rockstar has delivered on the platform before -- in fact, prior to Chinatown Wars' release, Rockstar told the press there were specific reasons GTA was different on each platform.
31 studios from across Europe feature in the list - 26 of them in the UK. These include the likes of Rockstar North (third on the list and responsible for the Grand Theft Auto franchise), LEGO Star Wars developer Traveller's Tales (11th) and Media Molecule (18th), the developer of LittleBigPlanet - and the highest placed independent UK studio on the list.
Thatgamingsite writes:
VG247: Dead Space: Extraction exec producer Steve Papoutsis has pinned MadWorld and GTA: Chinatown Wars' lacklustre reception on Wii and DS down to general unsuitability.
Even though Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has gotten off to an admittedly slow start, Nintendo has indicated that the company has faith in the game. Nintendo's Denise Kaigler believes that the sales of the game will continue to grow over time while Steve Singer expressed that Chinatown Wars is an important title in terms of strategy.
The game's publisher and retail chain GameStop already told MTV Multiplayer earlier today that there's no reason to count the game out yet. Later in the afternoon, Nintendo said the same thing.
Initial NPD sales data reports are in for two hardcore Nintendo titles: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and MadWorld. Unfortunately, neither title seemed to have sold particularly well.
The NPD group's sales stats for U.S. video games in March will be released this Thursday. But, before then, top analysts have cast their predictions.
Leigh Alexander from Gamasutra writes:
It'll take more than the Chinese Mafia to muscle in on Xploder's business interests , they've started a gang war and taken down the Triads in Rockstar's latest offering
DarkZero: "Pandamator, who recently posted in the official Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars thread on neoGAF, has shown how crazy Germany has got on games that showcase any type of adult themes by posting a photo of his copy of the game."
America accounts for the majority of sales with roughly 80,000 units being sold on week one, while Europe (including Australia, Asia and other niche markets) follows at a close second with 60,000 copies according to estimates from videogame tracking firm VGChartz.
BeefJack writes, "Finding a good deal on video games is becoming increasingly easy as the economy continues to go down the drain all over the world...