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"Rampant piracy is the real reason for GTA: Chinatown Wars’ slow sales according to Take-Two CEO Ben Feder.
"The handheld market is currently challenged by weak demand and by piracy. Piracy is a real and present danger for our industry and must be addressed, especially in the handheld market. The commercial performance of Chinatown Wars has certainly suffered at the hands of piracy.”"
"Along with the announcement of the April Foolishness sale earlier today, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has revealed a second money-saving event. The PSP Favourites promotion includes a number of PlayStation Portable (PSP) titles that will be discounted on the PlayStation Store beginning this Thursday, April 1st 2010."
"Last night, the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony took place in London, with a number of shocking results. While few would argue that Batman: Arkham Asylum found itself up against some tough competition for the coveted Game of the Year award, the fact that Rocksteady Studios walked away with the award will certainly be a boon to UK videogame development. However, another winner is now going to be a benefit to the UK’s gaming public, as the UK’s largest high street videogames re..."
"With a Platinum and two Gold Awards under its belt, Rockstar's handheld chapter of the massively popular Grand Theft Auto series is now tearing up the App Store charts after the iPhone version was suddenly and unexpectedly released.
And despite all three versions being the same essential game, there are distinct differences between the DS, PSP, and iPhone renditions of Chinatown.
We decided to throw the three handheld gaming platforms into a cage match and see which one was left standing."
Amazon has posted their list of "Cyber Monday" deals and while many of them are repeats from Black Friday, there's still plenty of deals to be had. Some of the games on sale include Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Need For Speed: Shift, The Beatles: Rock Band, WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2010, a great deal on Tekken 6 and discounts on every recent Guitar Hero title.
"Thanksgiving is here and that means one thing for retailers and bargain hunters, "Black Friday" is tomorrow. But rather than wake up at 2 AM or 3 AM or even earlier, Amazon has the perfect solution. Shop for deals from your pajamas a day early. Yes, Amazon has posted their Black Friday deals a day early. With more deals to be added tomorrow."
"Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has now launched on PlayStation Portable (PSP) in North America and Europe, and in an effort to extend the launch celebrations Rockstar Games have today announced a number of new features for players of the game at the official online space, the Social Club. The Social Club is an online community including a space for each of Rockstar Games’ recent releases, and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has received a whole heap of new additions this week."
"RockStar Games have today announced, via their Twitter account, that the PlayStation Portable conversion of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will release in North America on October 20th, 2009. No UK date has yet been announced, though Electronic Theatre expects it will follow within a few days as is typically the case with Grand Theft Auto releases."
"Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be released for PSP this autumn.
Developed by the award-winning studio Rockstar Leeds, in conjunction with series creator Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be available at retail on UMD and digitally from the PlayStation Network.
"We're proud to extend this truly unique handheld Grand Theft Auto experience to PSP and offer a downloadable version of Chinatown Wars for PSPgo," said Sam Houser, Foun..."
"31 studios from across Europe feature in the list - 26 of them in the UK. These include the likes of Rockstar North (third on the list and responsible for the Grand Theft Auto franchise), LEGO Star Wars developer Traveller's Tales (11th) and Media Molecule (18th), the developer of LittleBigPlanet - and the highest placed independent UK studio on the list."
It's all about the DS this week, fellas, ladies. Sure, there's a few notables for the other platforms (Rune Factory: Frontier on the Wii, Resistance: Retribution on PSP), but none of them can top a whopping six high profile titles, and of such a great variety. Three RPGs, one RTS, one shooter, one racer, and GTA: Chinatown Wars? Never been a better time to be a DS owner than now..
The ESRB has unveiled the content descriptions for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The article points out the excerpts regarding the sexual content contained within the game, and there's no doubt that this DS title is strictly suited for a Mature audience.
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"But speaking about Chinatown Wars in September, Rockstar's co-founder Dan Houser told Edge magazine: "It can't be softened to make it family-friendly - that's not the game we're making. We've never not done well by sticking to our guns."
Tim Ingham, editor of games industry magazine MCV, said: "The DS is a console that doesn't exclusively cater for children and families even though it provides a wealth of suitable entertainment for them."
In a shock move, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has given the highly anticipated Nintendo DS game GTA: Chinatown Wars an 18 certificate, despite the game being considerably toned down for the handheld console.
"Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. today announced that it has established a new incentive compensation program for the Rockstar Games label that is primarily based on a profit sharing arrangement, and at the same time has entered into new long-term employment agreements with members of the creative team of its wholly-owned Rockstar Games publishing label. The new employment agreements have an initial term ending on January 31st, 2012."
"By pre-ordering the game at the retailer, consumers will get $10,000 in "cold hard Liberty City cash" and immediate access to the game's entire arsenal from the start of play.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars launches on March 17 in the U.S.
GameStop's exclusive pre-order bonuses are an increasingly common means of drawing consumers into stores, although bonus items are typically those of the physical variety, such as soundtrack CDs and game-related trinkets."
"Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. had announced the release date for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the latest entry into the genre-defining Grand Theft Auto series. Developed by Rockstar Leeds, in conjunction with series creators Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be available for the NintendoDS..."
"If that isn't enough bad news for you wannabe street thugs, it also turns out that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, the DS game, may be delayed as well. Zelnick made sure to mention that Chinatown Wars may not make it's Q1 2009 target release date, meaning that the game will more than likely be pushed back to February, 2009 at the very earliest."
Yesterday it was predicted the drug dealing minigame announced for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars would cause something of a media frenzy, and it came true, though maybe a little sooner than expected.
Tabloid journalism outlet The Sun has posted something on their website which features charities blasting the game, and cites "experts" (editors?) who say the final version will be less explicit than stated (despite Rockstar saying Nintendo is fine with it, and they will not be softening t...
Remember those "tasteful" minigames announced for GTA: Chinatown Wars? Apparently one of them is going to be a drug dealing minigame which allows you to sell drugs for in game profit. Rockstar is saying Nintendo is cool with it. I'm just wondering how they're getting through with this on the DS while Fallout 3 can't get away with it on the PC/Xbox 360, even if Australian authoritative bodies were the main obstacle.
According to an interview in the latest edition of the magazine titled Nintendo Power, Dan Houser - Co-Founder of Rockstar Games - has told us why there is a GTA game headed to the DS and not the Wii. Apparently, "It didnt really feel natural".
Hit the quote for his full answer.
image credit - pcworld
"- True GTA game - sandbox gameplay, open-world environment, gritty crime narrative.
- M-rating
- Isometric camera angle
- Cel-shaded polygons w/ black borders
- good touch-screen implementation - "tasteful" minigames, streamlining interface
- UI based on a PDA - hub for email, contacts, map, music player, GPS, stat-tracking
- stats uploaded to Rockstar Social Club website via Wi-Fi
- finger-sized icons
- missions designed for shorter periods of play, arcade quality
- aiming with cont..."
After a teenager from Thailand was arrested because of murdering a taxi driver, police questioned why he did it. He said he was inspired by the Grand Theft Auto series (police assume from Grand Theft Auto IV specifically). The game was then pulled from shelves in Thailand. Now the Secretary General of the Catalan Taxi Federation in Spain, is asking for a ban of the Grand Theft Auto games, along with the cabbies in Spain.
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