Maxconsole writes: "Rockstar games has updated the Official GTA IV website and it is now carrying a Games for Windows LIVE logo. This has sparked speculation that GTA may soon allow for cross platform play between PC and Xbox 360 and the PC may also be receiving the delayed 'exclusive' Xbox 360 GTA IV DLC..."
GameTrailers TV and Spike TV have announced that they will be interviewing Michael Hollick, the voice of Niko Bellic, in an upcoming episode of GameTrailers TV. During this interview, they will be talking about the upcoming downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV.
GamePolitics reports: "Absent speculation that Grand Theft Auto somehow played a role, the murder of a Bangkok cab driver by a 19-year-old-man in some ways appears similar to the typical murder of a cab driver in the United States.
Via GamePolitics: "Frustrated by sketchy and somewhat conflicting English language news accounts of Bangkok's GTA Cabbie murder, GP went looking for local Thai sources and found Asian Sweetheart. The site is mostly pictures of "gorgeous Thai ladies," but the cabbie murder apparently got the owner's attention away from posting glam shots."
Via GamePolitics: "You knew it was only a matter of time.
In addition to the previous reports of a GTA related murder in Thailand, it appears that the sales of the game will now be halted.
A Thai videogame distributor has pulled copies of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto games from retailers in Thailand following reports of a GTA copycat crime that ended in the murder of a taxi driver over the weekend.
Rockstar sent notices out sometime after midnight to players who achieved 100 percent completion in Grand Theft Auto IV during the game's "Key to the City" contest (now closed, so if you're at 98.3 percent, suck it up.) Reader Farnic sent us a screenshot of his (fullsize after the jump). The fine print: "If you do not respond within seven days, you will be made ineligible for the prize." Also, it could take up to 120 days to get your key, depending on how many they have to make.
Check your inbox eager gamers, Rockstar has announced that potential winners of the GTA IV 100% Club Contest have been notified.
The game, created by Edinburgh-based company Rockstar North, is the latest in the long-running franchise which sees gamers given the chance to run around lavishly-created virtual cities carrying out all manner of criminal activities.
C4D.dk reports: "Rockstar has repeatedly denied plans for a PC version of the ultra-popular Grand Theft Auto IV, which was released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles in April. There have been alot of rumours, latest had a PC dedicated magazine in Malaysia, Niko on the frontpage. But now it should be officially, ESRB has listed GTA IV on the three platforms, in which PC is one of them."
A photo of the cover of the next PC Gamer Malaysia reveals that GTA IV is now coming to the PC!
GamePolitics:
In an interview with Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway [who announced GTA: Chinatown Wars for the DS at Nintendo's E3 press conference], she revealed that Nintendo are pushing on Rockstar for some new stuff on Chinatown Wars for the Penny Arcade Expo.
Kotaku:
So Take Two's conference has to come to an end and a few of Rockstar's titles made appearences including a brief montage of GTA IV, Bully and L.A. Noire, a new trailer of Midnight Club: LA and a brief teaser of the new Red Dead Revolver 2 game.
A pair of hooded robbers who ambushed a man for his copy of the controversial video game Grand Theft Auto IV have been jailed for two years each.
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