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Painter, James Barnett, has recreated some locales from video games with his paintbrush as part of his Fauxvism Series. The games featured in his paintings include Fallout 3, GTA IV, Half-life 2, and Team Fortress 2. Some of the paintings are instantly recognizable, while others might be a bit more obscure. If his style seems familiar, it's because his work imitates the Fauvism style of the famous French painter, Henri Matisse.
Check out his site to see all the paintings in his series. It...
Pixeloo, the guy that "untooned" Mario, Homer Simpson and Stewie Griffin, has now created a realistic (and rather handsome) version of Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV. The detail is amazing, going right down to every little stubble hair and pore.
This picture will be featured on the latest issue of the Official Playstation Magazine UK.
"Grand Theft Auto IV's Liberty City is roughly based on New York. Lots of movies are filmed in New York. Here we try and recreate some of Hollywood's New York-based movie scenes using locations from GTA IV. Check out our handy work...
The Film: 1979 flick The Warriors depicts a Brooklyn street gang who find themselves in the Bronx being hunted by every other gang in New York. After fighting their way thorough the Bronx and Manhattan the Warriors return to Coney Island.
Real-life location..."
"Nelson was born and raised in the South Bronx. His life dream was to play video games in his living room for profit. Though that never panned out, he built achievementjunkie.com, a podcast and blog about the Xbox 360, with his partner Natalie Sousa. He now works as an Online Community Manager for Xbox and Games for Windows."
Head on down to your nearest tw@t cafe, and type in www.whattheydonotwantyoutoknow.com and you'll find a plethora of maps... what do the maps show? Well they show locations of three items Pigeons, Armours, Weapons, Unique Stunts, Health Pick ups, Entertainment Areas, AND MORE... images of some of the maps follow...
"Rockstar has been spending big bucks on GTA IV advertisements lately, and with the release date just a week away, a brand new mural has appeared in Downtown Los Angeles. Possibly the largest GTA IV mural to date, the massive paintings are located on the side of the Hotel Figueroa at the corner of Figueroa St. and Olympic Blvd."
A user over at webshots, pallamallawa, uploaded photos of what appears to be a glossy foldable map from the PS3 version of GTA IV. Even if this is a fake it's pretty darn good.
Unfortunately at the moment webshots or the user has pulled the photos. Interesting to note is that Joystiq has also pulled the images from their post on the subject. Rockstar sending out cease and desists letters? Fortunately Kotaku still has the images (high-res).
GamesMaster hits again, we have 8 brilliantly superb pages of GTA4 scans, with loads of detail. Take a look at the magazine scans attached below, and more can be found at the source.
Here's a bit of breakdown on the information from the magazine scans (typing as I'm reading):
"Here's a quick list with some of the notes from the article:
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"Rockstar released four new screens of GTA IV and they are looking really good. Each screenshot speaks volumes in their own way. The one above for example blew me away by the detail put into Liberty City. Just look at the multiple power lines that are run across the city (which by the way, I recall you can climb up those poles).
From what I can tell from these screenshots, it looks like we're all going to be indoors a lot this fall when GTA IV is released. And that's a good thing."
![Box shot of Grand Theft Auto IV [Europe]](http://i.neoseeker.com/boxshots/R2FtZXMvUGxheXN0YXRpb25fMy9BY3Rpb24vQXV0b21vYmlsZQ==/grand_theft_auto_iv_frontcover_small_9dJkKOeGCunDnLi.jpg)