Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. today announced that it has established a new incentive compensation program for the Rockstar Games label that is primarily based on a profit sharing arrangement, and at the same time has entered into new long-term employment agreements with members of the creative team of its wholly-owned Rockstar Games publishing label. The new employment agreements have an initial term ending on January 31st, 2012.
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17 Dec 2008

GameStop Offers Fake Money for GTA: Chinatown Pre-Orders

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - GameStop Offers Fake Money for GTA: Chinatown Pre-Orders

GameStop's latest exclusive pre-ordering bait will give gamers virtual cash and guns in Take-Two's upcoming Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for DS.

By pre-ordering the game at the retailer, consumers will get $10,000 in "cold hard Liberty City cash" and immediate access to the game's entire arsenal from the start of play.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars launches on March 17 in the U.S.

GameStop's exclusive pre-order bonuses are an increasingly common means of drawing consumers into stores, although bonus items are typically those of the physical variety, such as soundtrack CDs and game-related trinkets.
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16 Dec 2008

GTA: Chinatown Wars : Official Boxart Released

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - GTA: Chinatown Wars : Official Boxart Released

The official website for GTA: Chinatown Wars was updated recently no information on the day though, we'll update you as soon as we have it. The box art was also released. People who subscribe to Rockstars mailing list will see a version of this that includes the DS boarder around it. If you didn't check yet.
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15 Dec 2008

GTA: Chinatown Wars release date announced

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - GTA: Chinatown Wars release date announced

Rockstar Games has revealed the official release date for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS.
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16 Nov 2008

Chinatown Wars to feature almost the entire map from GTA IV

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Chinatown Wars to feature almost the entire map from GTA IV

A Spanish magazine recently got their hands on Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS and discussed map details. It looks as though the game will feature a similar map as GTA IV, though without Alderney...
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15 Nov 2008

Cammie Dunaway Has Played 'GTA: Chinatown Wars'

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Cammie Dunaway Has Played 'GTA: Chinatown Wars'

"Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars," the DS game now possibly not coming out until April of next year, is a mysterious game.

Almost no one MTV Multiplayer has talked to in the industry has played it.

And those who have played it, well… they're not talking.

Yesterday, however, they interviewed Nintendo of America executive vice president of sales and marketing, Cammie Dunaway, and she was ready to spill.
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14 Nov 2008

GTA: Chinatown Wars Delayed, Slated for Spring 2009 Release

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - GTA: Chinatown Wars Delayed, Slated for Spring 2009 Release

Before even receiving a set release date, GTA: Chinatown Wars, the upcoming GTA installment for the Nintendo DS, has joined the ranks of GTA IV PC and Xbox 360 downloadable content as delayed...

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23 Oct 2008

GTA: Chinatown Wars - more mini-games revealed

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - GTA: Chinatown Wars - more mini-games revealed

As well as the now-infamous drug dealing mini-game in which you can sell the likes of acid, ecstasy and cocaine, there's also a petrol station one where you use the stylus to aim a petrol-pump nozzle to dispense fuel into bottles, then stuff them with rags to turn into Molotov cocktails.

One has you fiddling with a car's ignition system with a screwdriver to hotwire it, and another involves punching out the rear window of a car that's sinking in a harbour. There's also a screenshot which seems to show a game that has you inking in a tattoo with the DS stylus.
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25 Sep 2008

"Nintendo didn't want us to make GTA for kids" - Houser

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - "Nintendo didn't want us to make GTA for kids" - Houser

Rockstar vice president Dan Houser has spoken out about how Chinatown Wars will be just as adult as other GTA games when it launches, despite its DS roots.

Talking in the latest issue of EDGE, Houser stated:

"Nintendo wanted us to make GTA, and we wanted to make GTA on their platform. They didn't want us to make a GTA for kids, and we weren't interested in making a game we wouldn't normally make. GTA is about stealing cars and shooting people - how could it not be an 18 rating? You couldn't do GTA without that 18 - it wouldn't feel like it's supposed to feel."
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24 Sep 2008

Edge: Rockstar Talks Chinatown

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DS - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars - Edge: Rockstar Talks Chinatown

Those who thought that the Nintendo DS exclusivity of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars meant it would be a family-friendly take on the series can rest easy, according to Rockstar's vice president of creative Dan Houser.

In the latest issue of Edge Magazine Houser reveals that, while the presentation of GTA: Chinatown Wars will be changed to an isometric viewpoint game populated with cel-shaded characters, the language and themes will stay true to the series proper.
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