Grand Theft Auto News

If you got the special edition of GTA4 when you bought your copy, you would know that you get a safety deposit box with it which you can use to stash things in and hide them, such as money, valuables and more, however one guy has used his deposit box and took it to an entire new level.

Mark Harris has used the deposit box and created a Mini-ITX PC from it, and it’s a good size as well, around the size of a hardcover book, take a look at the picture below.

Heres the Xbox 360 Top Live Titles from 5/5 to 5/11, and as expected GTA is still up there at number one spot, with Call of Duty been bumped down to second spot, bet there not enjoying that! =P

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles:

1. GTA IV
2. Call of Duty 4
3. Halo 3
4. Guitar Hero III
5. Gears of War
6. Rock Band
7. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2
8. GRID Demo
9. FIFA 08
10. Bourne Conspiracy Demo

Heres a few interesting stats regarding Grand Theft Auto IV.

• Around 3.6 million copies of the game were sold on launch day
• The game grossed approx. $500 million in its first week
• Many gaming websites have gave it the highest possible ranking
• Some minor bits of the game had to be removed so it could be released in Australia under the classification system
• May 7: The day that Rockstar and Sony released the update for the PS3, it was to prevent the GameSpy servers from getting overloaded
  

We all know how popular Grand Theft Auto IV has been since it’s been released, and as expected some people are kicking up a stink about the violence but the game may have lead to one major controversies.

Devin Moore, an 18 year old male has been accused of killing police officers and his lawyers are blaming the game for encouraging him to commit this crime.

Keep a look out on the site, we will try post more information on this matter as it becomes available, also feel free to e-mail us with thoughts, updates etc.

A patch has been released for PlayStation 3 users of Grand Theft Auto IV. You will be prompted to download the update the next time you load GTA IV whilst being signed into the PlayStation Network. While download and installation is required to continue playing the game; totaling 18 MB, it shouldn’t keep you away for too long.
As for content, the patch addresses certain online issues related to GameSpy’s servers being overloaded. Not surprising, considering the sheer number of those playing the game.

Rockstar Games has released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3 today that prevents the GameSpy servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up. We continue to monitor the performance of the game both on and offline and will provide further updates as necessary. We want to assure everyone that, together with our hardware partners, we continue to strive to give our fans the best possible interactive entertainment experiences possible. This update will ensure that everyone will experience Grand Theft Auto IV the way it was intended. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

Thanks to GTA4.net for this news! :]

GTA4 has been released and it is certainly worth the money, check out these reviews from gaming magazines, websites etc.!

Gamesot 10 / 10
PlayStation: Official Mag (US) 5 / 5
Electronic Gaming Monthly 98.3 / 100
Game Informer 10 / 10
Jolt UK 10 / 10
Gameplayer 10 / 10
Playstation Official Magazine UK 10 / 10
Play UK 9.8 / 10
PSX Extreme 9.9 / 10
GamingExcellence 10 / 10
Ferrago 98 / 100
Gameplanet 10 / 10
Cheat Code Central 4.9 / 5
UGO A+
G4 – X-Play 5 / 5
VideoGamer 10 / 10
PSW Magazine UK 10 / 10
GameSpy 5 / 5
1UP A+
IGN 10 / 10

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