GTA V announced via Twitter? New Gran Turismo 5 info? An HD Zune coming?
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A father-of-two was horrified to discover four ecstasy pills hidden inside a computer game he bought from a High Street chain store.

The father says he got the game from a GameStation store, but the copy shown in the photo actually has a Blockbuster sticker. You make your minds up!
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Ruffian Games have put out a final call for developers to join their merry band on a journey to make awesome games. Having established their studio in 2009 Ruffian's recruitment drive is near an end and the places remaining are few.
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Canadian retail gaming sales grew nearly 33% between 2007 and 2008, and continue to rise despite the current economic climate. The gaming industry generated $2.1 billion in sales, representing a $500 M increase over 2007's $1.6 billion.

Additionally, Canada's top 10 video game titles--ranked by units sold--have been revealed.
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Take-Two issuing over 2.8 million shares to Housers, key studio members following GTAIV's 13 million unit shipment.

GTAIV's sucess bodes well for top Rockstar management, including studio cofounders Sam and Dan Houser and the game's producer, Leslie Benzies. As part of their contract renegotiations announced in December, the Housers and other top Rockstar personnel were offered a stock-based profit-sharing arrangement in order to retain their services until January 31, 2012.

Related to that deal, Take-Two revealed yesterday that it plans to enumerate "certain employees of Rockstar Games" with 2,849,003 in restricted shares in the company during its current fiscal year, which ends October 31, 2009. Take-Two notes that the stock issuance is not yet final, as stockholders will be required to approve the compensation at the company's annual meeting on April 23.
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Take-Two has revealed that the 13 million units of Grand Theft Auto IV it has sold are split more or less evenly across platforms.

Speaking in a conference call following Take-Two's recent financials, one analyst asked, "...can you give us an idea as to this 13 million GTA 4 units, how many of those are Xbox 360 platform? So what's the addressable market for the downloadable The Lost and Damned."

The response from Lainie Goldstein, CFO of Take-Two, was, "It's approximately 50/50, Ed."

Summary taken from spong
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The Take-Two conference call just ended, and the company is still keeping mum on DLC numbers for The Lost and Damned as well as pre-order numbers for GTA: Chinatown Wars for DS.
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Ve3tro writes: "Take-Two today announced financial results for its first fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2009. Net revenue for the first quarter was $256.8 million, compared to $240.4 million for the same quarter of fiscal 2008. First quarter sales were led by Grand Theft Auto IV, Carnival Games, NBA 2K9 and Midnight Club: Los Angeles."
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DarkZero: "Take-Two have published their Q1 Earning Announcement today, including a list of games they plan on publishing before their financial year is over. The biggest entry on the list has to be Grand Theft Auto IV Second Episode (Xbox 360)."
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Slashgamer Writes: "A /gamer reader named Max sent us some info about people having issues with Grand Theft Auto IV's downloadable content. In his email, he sent us a link to a gamefaqs' forum and the topic was about freezing problems with the "Lost and Damned" DLC.

Inside the link, some members of the forum who downloaded the extra content have had an unpleasant headache with the game. Apparently, a small portion of people have had freezing with the title.

For instance, drummer2170 said..."
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Yet again, we hear from John Koller. He's been everywhere since yesterday. He already said that he wanted Ready At Dawn back for PSP
development, and now, it looks like he doesn't want to let go of Rockstar Games too. Well, who wouldn't?

Talking to MTV Multiplayer
, SCEA's Koller says they're not ready to give up on Grand Theft Auto
for the PSP. There's definitely room for more:

No one should sleep on that franchise. That's a tremendous franchise for PlayStation in general. We've had two [GTA:LCS, GTA:VCS] that are the top two sellers on PSP right now. So, there's definitely continued conversations with Rockstar on all their brands. That's nothing that's left the PlayStation family.

My, my, if Sony and Rockstar are having meetings about a new game... this gives the GTA: San Andreas Stories rumor some backing!
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Already owner of the biggest entertainment launch in history, the "Grand Theft Auto IV" franchise continues its rampage on the record books with the Xbox 360 exclusive downloadable episode, "The Lost and Damned." The highest reviewed downloadable content ever from Rockstar Games eclipsed first-day revenue for all previous downloadable content on Xbox LIVE.
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Taking place on Thursday April 23rd at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, this year's MCV Industry Excellence Awards will be the most hotly-contested ever, with 17 accolades up for grabs, across a diverse range of categories covering the entire industry.

Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sega and Activision will battle it out for the Games Publisher Award, whilst individual titles Guitar Hero World Tour, GTA IV, FIFA 09, Fallout 3, Wii Fit and Call of Duty: World At War compete for Game Campaign.
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Eurogamer writes: "Rockstar has popped out a patch that rectifies the GTAIV censorship mix-up reported yesterday

So, Europe will go back to being unchecked, while Australian content will again be toned down.

The blooper was triggered by an update for Xbox 360-exclusive DLC The Lost and Damned, which somehow swapped regional censorship rules, leaving us with bodies that refused to spurt blood and only one camera angle to watch prostitute encounters. Dammit!..."
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OXM UK writes: "Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle can be found hidden in the DLC for The Lost And The Damned.

Boyle can be found performing a stand-up routine at the Split Sides comedy club. Rockstar even motion captured him for authenticity - you can check the credits at the end of The Lost And The Damned if you don't believe us.

"It's highlights from his live act plus at least one GTA IV in-joke," says GTA IV madman and OXM editor Jon Hicks (in that order). "See him at the Split Sides comedy club on Frankfort Ave, one block over and down a bit from Star Junction."..."
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Rockstar has issued a statement to VG247 confirming that some versions of GTA IV have been censored by the game's latest title update, and that the "error" is to be fixed immediately.
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Take Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV too seriously and you'll probably miss most of what it's up to. It's a game, of course, but it's also a biting, unremitting satire. Juvenile-seeming to some, sure, with its lewd and frequently misogynist humor, but no less a scathing sendup of American culture when you strip the top layers away. It's a mirror, but one held up to our silly instead of our serious side. A parody of parodies. A bad-boy-burlesque. That it even offends other satirists (who take special pleasure in calling it sophomoric) simply proves its point.
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MTV:

"The Lost And Damned," a downloadable expansion for "Grand Theft Auto IV," was supposed to debut at midnight on the west coast, but we couldn't locate the 1.78GB file until 40 minutes later. After purchasing some points, it took us 38 minutes, 14 seconds to download the expansion. What about you?"
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Tiltedscreen.com has the latest on the new The Lost and Damned Biker Bundle that is now available for your Xbox 360 avatar
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Major Nelson writes "January 2009 saw the most members join LIVE than in any previous month since the service launched in November 2002. Currently more than 17–million people are now connected over LIVE. In addition, the January NPD numbers also reveal that Xbox 360 sales were up 33 % from last year"
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