Rockstar have announced today that the third instalment of their bullet-time third-person action game series will be arriving during “Winter 2009″. The game “tells the story of a retired police detective embroiled in a world of corruption, turmoil and intense violence,” Rockstar says. Max Payne 3 will include “hyper-intense action” (“that fans have come to [...]

Grand Theft Auto IV is coming to PC, Take-Two Interactive confirmed today. GTA IV will be arriving on the PC on November 18th in North America, and on the 21st in Europe. The announcement isn’t much of a surprise, as we posted earlier. Hit up rockstargames.com/IV for more info.

Here we go again. An 18 year old in Thailand confessed to the robbery and murder of a 54 year old taxi cab driver, claiming he was trying to recreate a scene from the Grand Theft Auto video game. Distributors of the game in Thailand are now being instructed to remove the game from their [...]

My friend Pete over at slashfilm.com discovered some original poster art measuring 39.5 x 12 inches (in final print format) created by resident Rockstar Games artist, Andrew Wilson. Andrew, who works in Rockstar’s San Diego office, created the enormous illustration, jam packed with pop culture icons, for Crazy 4 Cult 2 event being held on [...]

Many of us have been holding our breath since EA made its initial offer to buy Take-Two, and the company’s comment, stating that they would wait until the release of Grand Theft Auto IV before discussing the offer any further, did very little to ease that sick feeling in our stomachs. EA, who has been [...]

Following up on a story that our own Patrick Steen reported on earlier in the week, the British Board of Film Classification has successfully halted – yet again – the release of Manhunt 2 in the UK.

When you’re a Democrat running for President in a time of war, what’s the best way to score points with conservative Middle America? How about sniping at the videogame industry?

Box art for the upcoming GTA IV made its way on to the web today, as XboxFamily reports that Rockstar sent them three empty boxes each displaying a different design. Rumor has it that there is a forth design in the works as well, though no information has been made available yet.

Leagues beyond Wii Sports Tennis This week Rockstar Games held an informal get-together for game journalists in the San Francisco Bay Area to hang out at a Metreon sports bar, have some drinks, and learn to play Table Tennis on the Wii.

Grand Theft Auto IV delay has everyone pointing fingers The delay of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV video game for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 has fans and fanboys everywhere in an uproar. You can’t browse a video game website without running into something related to the delay. Whether it has to do with [...]

We have all come to love the quirky SNL like in-game Grand Theft Auto radio commercials over the years. Below is a list of a few that will be broadcasted over the virtual air waves in this year’s release of GTA 4. Check em’ out.

THAT is for waking up this morning. THIS is for Nintendo banning Manhunt 2!! Rockstar Games announced that the critically acclaimed game “Bully” will be hitting the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360. The press release stated that the game will have “additional new content” and make its way into stores this holiday season.

The ever glaring eye that has remained open staring down the eager gamers who stared back anticipating its release for what must have seemed like an eternity, has closed its lid today. When all was said and done, it took the combined efforts of a political, legal, and media “witch hunt” to finally put an [...]

Green clover, green clover, tell Rockstar that Manhunt 2 “can’t come over”. According to an article that was published here, Manhunt 2 has just become the first video game ever to be banned in Ireland. The Irish eyes over at Rockstar are definitively not smiling today.

Hmm. Maybe someone should have clicked “learn about bidding” first. According to an earnings call transcript with Take 2′s CFO Lainie Goldstein, Microsoft has spent a total of 50 million dollars acquiring downloadable content for the upcoming GTA IV title.