Quote: If EA ends up with Take-Two, Mr. Houser says it's unlikely that he would go so far as to seek EA's approval for game content. Still, he calls Mr. Riccitiello "the real deal" and sees some appeal in an EA alliance, which he says would make Rockstar a "much smaller fish in much bigger pond."
"I'm not someone who has any kind of problem with that," says Mr. Houser, who says EA turned him down for a job in the late 1990s.
Gamespy had an indepth look at the radio stations featured in GTA IV.
Since the game is already in stores and most likely even in your console right now, they added some addition information such as similar stations in previous GTA's.
Looking at the most important aspects, they still can't find any real big differences between the 2 consoles, each has it's own tiny differences.
If you're up for a 4page fest of technical terms, and most fun comparison screenshots and videos, this really is an interesting read.
There have been many humurous takes on GTA, the latest is done on 'Saturday Night Live' yesterday as Niko and Vlad represent the Libert City residents.
Most of the gag appears to be the permanent karate-chop pose of motion-capped hands, overly expressive gesturing and out-of-place dialogue during non-cutscene encounters
Just now I noticed the GTA Advance section was left out of the menu since the last big update a looong time ago.
Though I doubt anyone noticed it, my appologies and it's accessible again through the menu on the right.
As for the new website (which was the cause for this discovery), unfortunately it's still in development and has gotten a currently unknown delay.
The folks over at Gamespot posted an interesting article on how various returning aspects from GTA IV have progressed since GTA III.
Quote: We decided to compare GTAIII, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, and GTAIV for this graphics comparison. All four games have a 3D world and follow the open-ended gameplay now standard in the series.
Rockstar and Sony announced they're releasing a patch for GTA IV on the Playstation 3 today, which should fix some of the conenction and multiplayer problems.
It is currently unknown if the recent freezes will also be affected by this patch.
In general GTA IV is doing very well, some figures have been released concerning sales in both the UK and US, and almost every current chart for the PS3 aswell as the Xbox360 has GTA IV listed at #1.
CVG posted some usefull walkthroughs for missions.
Though their explanations may seem short at times, it could help at that tough spot, be aware of spoilers though.
GamesRadar also posted some 'secrets' and screenshots from the maps with locations for health pickups, friends, weapons and the pigeons.
Which can also be viewed from the ingame internet at www.whattheydonotwantyoutoknow.com
Kotaku posted an explanation on how to get to the litteraly biggest easter egg in the game, the statue of Hapiness' beating heart.
When you're playing GTA IV, you're given some bits of information on Niko Bellic's background, but in the end there are still some blank spots.
