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As it looks, the "Seagull" clue wasn't the only hint at the next location in the GTA series. A close look at the "Liberty City - It's over" ad from the booklet of "Episodes from Liberty City" reveals a stunning resemblance between the ad and the northern european coastline.
This is the award every publisher wants to win, the Ultimate Game The Year award. If you pick this one up, you've made a really good game. In the nominations were giants such as Fallout 3, Call of Duty World at War, Left 4 Dead, Grand Theft Auto, IV and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. See - them's some big guns.
MCV: Rival publishers forecast that Activision title will shift 1.7m UK copies in first week
The final Grand Theft Auto IV add-on The Ballad of Gay Tony is now available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace.
Rockstar lifted the veil on the new music headed to Liberty City with the release of GTA: The Ballad of Gay Tony next week, and chief among the additions is the modern day return of popular 80's radio station Vice City FM - which has been confirmed to be only available in Gay Tony, and only if you buy the Episodes from Liberty City disc which contains The Lost & Damned, the first DLC many gamers already bought.
Kotaku: What did you do between September 4 and September 6? Twenty-six year-old private equity broker Chirantan Patnaik played Grand Theft Auto IV - for 40 hours and 20 minutes straight.
Xbox Evolved writes:
Microsoft has announced a new starting price for Xbox 360 Classics in Europe, and three new blockbuster titles for the program, offering high quality experiences at outstanding value. From this month, Grand Theft Auto IV, Midnight Club Los Angeles: Complete Edition and BioShock will join the best selection of Xbox 360 games in the Classics range. A selection of titles, including Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: VEGAS 2 and Naruto: Rise of a Ninja will now be available with a Recommended Retail Price (RRP) of just £14.99.
Grand Theft Auto IV is now available to download from Xbox LIVE's Games on Demand service for £19.99, or 2400 Microsoft Points.
Gi.biz:
VG247: Microsoft said today that both GTA IV and Dead Space are to be added to 360's Games on Demand service this month, which is probably pretty awesome.
According to Rockstar, all new trailer for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City is coming this Wednesday, named "There's Always a Girl" ,at 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
Microsoft today announced five new entries to their Platinum Hits collection, and revealed a 3-for-2 sale at most retailers.
GTA IV has today been updated to 1500 Gamerscore with the addition of 10 new achievements totaling 250 Gamerscore.
Xbox Evolved writes:
One year ago, french minister of family Nadine Morano described GTA IV as "violent", "immoral" and "potentially addictive". This week, "Paris Match" magazine readers can see her whole family gathered around TV, playing... GTA IV. She answered this morning on french tv show, she wanted to show her kids how bad the game was ! She even added that you can rape women in cars in GTA IV !
Walkthroughs for GTA III, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas and GTA IV are now available on iTunes for your iPhone and iPod Touch! The guides are unofficial and do come at a cost. However, $0.99 is nothing so don't gripe!
JPS Writes: "The new episodes of Grand Theft Auto IV are right around the corner. With this new disc of content releasing, Rockstar has decided to drop the price of the original game once more. GTA IV has dropped by $10 to $29.99..."