Grand Theft Auto IV is, its creators tell me, the biggest leap forward in experiential sandbox gaming to ever come to the franchise, larger even than the one that brought the once 2D top-down series into the third dimension.
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Thompson issued an e-mail on Thursday threatening unspecified legal and political mayhem for Take Two when GTA IV launches: "What the [stock] market is not factoring in, however, is the downside risk coming Take-Two’s way with the sale of this “Mature” game to kids, which is a murder simulator for violence against women, cops, and innocent bystanders..."
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"It's really no surprise to anybody that the PS3 was definitely a contributing factor to that," Barrera told MTV. Downloadable episodic content remains exclusive to the 360 version of the game, and will require a hard drive, however the stand alone game will not.
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The future generations of open-world gaming will not be defined by their graphics anymore. It will come down to the underlying technologies at work that replicate all the subtle nuances of physics, sound, movement, animation and camera control. That's our prediction after walking out of one of the most startling game demonstrations we've witnessed in a long time. The game is Grand Theft Auto IV, long submerged from public eyes, and the technology is Euphoria.
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Janco Partners' Mike Hickey relates the success of Halo 3 to the future potential of GTA IV on XBox360.
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Now this is just what is says a rumour nothing more. That aside if this was proved true the impact could be huge. Sony would effectively be buying exclusivity.
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Here are a couple new details about GTA IV... including an in-game jab at Jack Thompson!
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recent conference call between Microsoft and Take 2's CFO, has revealed that the Xbox 360s exclusive downloadable content for Grand Thef Auto 4, has cost around $50 million mega bucks. Each episodic content package (rumoured to be two) is reported to cost $25 million, with the first episode set be released in early 2008.
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Gamespot Preview News 'Microsoft confirms next Grand Theft Auto is coming to Xbox 360 in October 2007; Rockstar Games confirms simultaneous launch on PS3.'
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At last, confirmation that doesn't come from a nebulous internet entity or a gravelly voiced figure in a trench coat. Not that we have anything against those two fine and often charismatic sources of information, but we're just a teensy bit more confident in Microsoft's confirmation (and corroboration) to us that "exclusive episodes for 'Grand Theft Auto IV' will be available on Xbox 360 starting fall 2008." That's quite a bit better than the rumored January, we think.
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