...ions with GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS," stated Sam Houser, President of Rockstar Games, in a company press release. "Even though we still have eight months to go, we are starting to become very proud of what we have achieved and we can't wait to get ...
If you've gone to the mall already today and don't know why there was that long lineup outside the video game store, it's because one of the year's most highly anticipated video games went on sale starting today. GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS is the lates...
It may not sound like much to report on, but to GRANDTHEFT AUTO fans any GTA news is worthy of mention: the final box art for GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS has been released by Rockstar Games. Behold and memorize so you know what to buy when the game hit...
If you are looking for GrandTheft Auto 3....2, well welcome to Liberty City Stories. Originally put out for the Sony PSP, Liberty City Stories was the first hit on the system. It showed off what the system could do, and even today it would be my favourit...
The eighties were never as good as they have been in any GrandTheft Auto game. Just as what Rockstar did in the past with the original game for the PS2 (GrandTheft 3), a remake for the PSP was created, with a few new features. Of course rather than ...
GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS, the bestselling videogame of 2004, will soon essentially disappear from store shelves. The game has been re-rated at "adults only," thus, most retailers will be removing it from their stores. "Controversy over the content a...
...ontent on GrandTheftAuto:SanAndreas, paving the way for its subsequent recall. Senators John McCain and Barack Obama have stumped hard against video games’ “affect on the youth,” if less blatantly than Clinton. Meanwhile, the aver...
...igher and GrandTheftAuto:SanAndreas set the bar higher still. The label of GrandTheft Auto has come to symbolize excellence in both form and function.
GrandTheft Auto IV is as big a leap from GTA III as GTA III was from GTA II. The targeting sy...
Interscope Records and Rockstar Games have signed a deal that will see the former release a soundtrack based on the highly anticipated forthcoming console video game GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS. Both companies aren't releasing any details as to which ar...
After surging to the top of the sales charts when it was released in late October, only PlayStation 2 gamers have had the luxury of playing GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS. That will change next summer as Rockstar Games announced today that it will release ...
Take-Two Interactive Software has announced that sales of GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS will resume in October. A couple of months ago the game had been pulled from shelves because hidden sex scenes were discovered that allowed a player's character to sim...
...on 2 game GrandTheftAuto:SanAndreas. (Abe even seems to acknowledge this connection in Portus itself, by outfitting a Tune-Up Soft contractor with a T-shirt bearing the letters \"GTA\".) Now, I\'m not exactly squeamish when it comes to violence o...
...ise entry GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS, which sold a boffo 21.5 million units, one of the highest totals ever for a videogame. Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick said in a statment, "'GRANDTHEFT AUTO IV's' first week performance re...
Ever wanted a game where you can hijack any car, kill any pedestrian, shoot cops, drive hookers to work and blow people up? GRANDTHEFT AUTO III might just satisfy your criminal desires.The story goes like this. You're sharing a police truck ride with a m...
Some new episodic downloadable content has been announced six months after the release of GrandTheft Auto IV, reports USA Today. The newszine says that that the narrative, titled "Lost and Damned" is due out February 17, 2009. From the report, ...
It's not often that a game's sequel arrives while the first game is still selling for the full $50 price tag. The grand success of GRANDTHEFT AUTO III has put Rockstar in that rare position as it releases GRANDTHEFTAUTO: VICE CITY. But is this release ...
In a Knoxville, Tennessee courtroom, a federal judge is deciding whether the families of two individuals shot by a pair of teens have the right to place blame upon the makers of the smash-hit video game GRANDTHEFT AUTO. The families of Aaron Hamel, 45, a...
The new trailer for the upcoming game, GrandTheft Auto IV, has made it's way onto the games official web site.You can find it here.The company has confirmed that all footage in the trailer was captured directly from game play running real time.The game h...
Rockstar games announced today that it has opened the website for one of its most highly anticipated titles, GRANDTHEFT AUTO 3. GRANDTHEFT AUTO 3 is the first game in the series to be released on the Playstation 2 and has full 3D graphics for the first ...
Two days ago Atari Games announced their plans for a new game based on TERMINATOR 3. Titled REDEMPTION, very little about the game's premise or storyline was offered except to say that it will offer gamers "an opportunity to experience the world of Termin...
Blink and you would've missed it. Yesterday a number of video game websites caught wind of a new product listing on Amazon UK's website for the next chapter in the GRANDTHEFT AUTO game franchise. It was called SIN CITY, but if you check the product entry...
Plot:
Taking place in an Atlanta-esc city, you must be ready for the sandbox of drugs, violence, and driving fast.
Platform:
X-Box 360 and PS3
Company:
Rockstar Games
Status:
In Development
Latest Rumors:
One feature may allow for players to jo...
...craze for GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS and HALO 2 (and the whole holiday season, to be honest), but it is good to hear that something like this is going on. While some parents may not agree that children need to be playing video games, few should be a...
...gger than GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS. The one map shown at E3 behind closed doors was cool, and the word from Microsoft employees who are playing the beta is very, very good. We're looking forward to getting our hands on the game whenever Microsoft ...
...won't get GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS until a week later (this seems common to add a week or two for Rockstar). The window is getting very small for gamers to play everything that is coming out this fall. About two weeks after SANANDREAS there is HA...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful, and welcome to another week of editorial content to keep you sane at work. Talking about men in long underwear beating the hell out of each other always trumps filling out TPS reports. For those of you checking in again, th...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
..., as with GrandTheftAuto:SanAndreas. But, as we saw in Marshall, Missouri a few months ago, comics will always provide more than enough visual examples to justify the ire of so many concerned citizens. And, as Boiled Angel creator ...
Reuters has reported that the city of Los Angeles has sued Take-Two Interactive Software for selling pornographic video games to children with its best-selling game GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS. The suit accuses Take-Two of failing to disclose the pornog...
The war on the next GrandTheft Auto has already begun. Big Apple politicians aren’t happy with the setting of GrandTheft Auto IV. The controversy is based on the first and only GTA IV trailer, a 30-second cutscene depicting an Eastern European imm...
Gordian Recon by Captain Gordon Edward (Sat 03-03-2007)
Welcome to the Countdown, which makes next week a little easier to stand. Another week makes their way upon us, and another week we have many quality games at our disposal. March is looking great so far, even if we only look at the non-Nintendo console...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Two weeks ago, the inevitable happened. My laptop died. Its plastic and metal face was worn out from 14 months of heavy travel, egregious multitasking and constant use. It wasn’t a surprise. In fact, in my rough hands, my new or repaired laptops ...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Luckily last week’s freeze on released games was only temporary, so this week we have plenty of different games for people to play. There seems to be quite a few quality games on the stage as we crawl closer to the main holiday of the year. My ex...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How GrandTheft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Ma...
You have to feel sad for Vin Diesel. Aside from his career shift from bad-ass Pitch Black to The Pacifier (or, as I like to call it, Adventure In Babysitters 2: First Blood), the former $20 million man is perhaps the only person in videogame land, and...
Reason #5: No one wants digital books anytime soon
THE SITUATION: The Sony Reader ebook device has had mediocre sales since its 2006 release, while the much hyped Amazon’s Kindle has been “sold out” since its fall debut—though Ama...
Heist by Branislav "Bane" Babovic (Tue 03-13-2001)
Virgin Interactive Europe (responsible for the famous Dune) decided to return to the market with an interesting game named Heist. There have been a lot of games recently that dealt with the criminal "underworld" Games like GrandTheft Auto or the somewhat...
The long awaited sequel to the best selling Rockstar Games title is nearly out and the company has released the final (fourth) teaser trailer for GrandTheft Auto IV, which you can see below. The trailer is called "Everyone's a Rat". Here it is....
The roots of Japanese manga can be found in American cartoons and comics. Pioneer manga-ka Osamu Tezuka got his start by emulating Disney, and from there the medium soared. Now that manga has found its niche in America, the roles have changed a little: Am...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yoshida AkimiTranslated by:Matt ThornAdapted by:What They SayVice City: New York in the 80's...
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of c...
Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on a new deal between Virgin Comics and CGI-house Perspective Studios who aim to partner up to create new intellectual properties for comics, mobile, games platforms and movies.
You've seen Perspective's work before in p...
Now that Warner Bros.' "Superman Returns" has flown around most of the world, the question is: What was the factor that proved kryptonite to weaken the superhero's results?
Was it the studio's marketing campaign? A character too steeped in Americana, a...
"Activision has been listening to criticism of the original [Spider-Man game] for their second web-slinging extravaganza, Spider-Man 2. They have crafted what is best described as GrandTheft Auto for Spidey as the man of web battles Doctor Octopus, ably ...
Welcome to another edition of the Countdown, where even if the N-Gage had a new release, I would include it too. Speaking about overlooked handheld systems, it seems like the PSP has a few games coming out, which almost makes me deem this the week of ...
"All told, 'Spider-Man 2' is much more than a product tie-in, 'GrandTheft Auto' clone or virtual tour of New York. It's a well-made action game that accomplishes its crucial mission: It makes one look forward to 'Spider-Man 3' in 2007. Heck, you may even...
There's a new DVD release hitting shelves tomorrow which is very close to Mania since it was created by a fellow Maniac. While you're at the store picking up GrandTheft Auto IV, you can also pick up the latest release of Headless Horseman. Here's Abbie's...
I met Bob Ross several years ago. I was probably around eight. We first connected between Pinwheel and Quincy, my favorite show at the time. Bob had a large, bushy afro, similar to the one my mom carried around when she carried around me. He would grab...
I believe that 2008 could be the year of the PS3. Microsoft took second place after a monumental pricing blunder by Sony. An arrogant Sony released their new console, as we all know, for $700.00 which forced us to purchase a Blu-Ray player along with...
Just for once I want to sit down and enjoy a game for its originality and stimulating gameplay. Apparently, that is too much to ask of games today. Granted, it's tough to make something unique nowadays, and you'd think that it's easy to critic...
Last week I somehow got into the Hollywood premiere of Grindhouse. It was interesting and… well, I’ll leave any commentary to people actually qualified to review this genre movie. I will say I had fun. In fact, I often found myself being t...
The world of Bully is an interesting one. It is centred in the school of Bullworth, which is modeled after the worst-case scenario of forced education. For the must part, the inmates run the asylum, so long as none of the parental advisors are about. ...
Even days after EA (Electronic Arts) had their original takeover bid expire for Take-Two (creators of GrandTheft Auto), the mega conglomerate of the gaming industry isn't stopping. The latest from Business Wire has indicated that EA will offer another bi...
...his year. GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS, GRAN TURISMO 4, and, of course, FABLE. I honestly think that the latter could possibly be the best game of the year from what I have seen (and hopefully playing early next week). If you're going to look at sales...
Things continue to heat up this week on the videogame side, as an avalanche of games is ready to rock your world, and your wallet. What was more surprising to me though, is that most of these are for the PSP. Perhaps Sony is helping developers to make...
Game Tunes by James Stevenson and Troy Roberts (Fri 03-26-2004)
Music in videogames is one of the most important aspects of a game. While many games are overlooked for the qualities of their composition, how many gamers can hum the theme to any of the MARIO BROS. games without even thinking about it? Groups of dedicat...
What is with the weird obsession with the mafia that Rockstar has? Whatever it may be it has translated into yet another game from the criminal masterminds. This one is THE ITALIAN JOB, a game based on the late 60s cult hit of the same name that starred M...
The next chapter in the GrandTheft Auto series, GrandTheft Auto 4, was announced at E3.The game, which will be available for Xbox 360 and PS3 simultaneously, is planning to hit shelves on October 16, 2007. No details regarding the story have been announ...
With the SAG contract talks coming up very soon, this might become a frequence voice of concern for voice actors in the video game industry. It seems that the top two voices of the recent smash hit GrandTheft Auto IV are not pleased with their salaries, ...
When someone mentions EA to me, I immediately start thinking of cows. Firstly, I like cows: huge docile animals that give everything and ask for nothing in return. Cows are great, I watched the other day the industrial process of milking a cow on 'Dis...
Every celebrity whom went through their own 15 minutes of fame and watched it fly away for the next 30 minutes has some law troubles this week. The topper is the Boy George Law Trouble and I’m sure after you read it, you’ll agree. It left me s...
Plot:The game that started the whole "drive around and thug life it" craze is back with a vengeance. Developer Reflections (Stuntman, Destruction Derby) is promising that this will be its most ambitious project to date.Platform:PS2Company:Reflections for ...
...lease for GRANDTHEFTAUTO:SANANDREAS on the Xbox and PC... The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is proposing a law that would punish those who sell Mature-rated games to kids... Nintendo will release a multimedia adapter to play MP3s and MPEG4...
...her face. GrandTheftAuto:SanAndreas Player is a young man working with gangs to gain respect. His mission includes murder, theft, and destruction on every imaginable level. Player recovers his health by visiting prostitutes then recovers funds by ...
Welcome again to another run of the Countdown. Right now it seems the countdown to school is over, with a bunch of people going back to hit the books. This is the thing that signals the return of released videogames for us to play, like it is each year. T...
It'd be easy to say that THE GETAWAY is merely a GrandTheft Auto clone. But the game has been through much more than that. In development for eternity and costing Sony a fortune, the game has slowly evolved from a game like DRIVER to more of an interacti...
In an author’s world the side project is the inventive diversion from the norm, the natural extension of those delectable creative juices, and the next thing on the horizon of the mind’s eye. In some cases this is an entirely new adventure or ...
When the people of the world share their myths and culture, it builds a bridge across cultural gaps and stereotypes. That's part of the fun of writing about anime and manga for Mania; I've learned a number of things about Japanese culture, and I hope othe...
2002 was one heck of a year, filled with ups and more ups. There were so many games this year that deserve mention, but only so many awards to give out. In our truest Gamers' Thumb fashion, Cinescape hands out this year's Golden Thumb awards. Best PC Game...
GRANDTHEFT AUTO has quickly become the biggest blockbuster of the videogame industry. As with any blockbuster, the videogame industry immediately has games that try to copy the concept. TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF L.A. is one of those games, but instead of be...
JAK AND DAXTER became a hit due to stellar gameplay, beautiful graphics and a wonderful story told through excellent animation. Two years later, Naughty Dog Studios is preparing the much-awaited sequel. This time, though, things are quite a bit different....
Sitting on a United Airlines flight on the way back from an Activision event, I'm watching/listening to the new Dashboard Confessional music video, Vidnicated, the big song to come out of the new feature film, SPIDER-MAN 2. The event in San Francisco gave...
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has announced the winners of its annual awards. HALO took home top overall and console honors, while BLACK & WHITE got the nod for PC game of the year. The biggest surprise was Sony's ICO, which took h...
Before we dive in, there's a new, official-type e-mail address you can reach me at. You can still get me at kurtamacker@yahoo.com, but now comicscape@cinescape.com is up and it comes directly to me. It mostly just makes me look slightly official when I'...
This week, Sony held a press event to show off its upcoming first-party and online lineup for the PlayStation 2 console. The event was an all-day function at the W Hotel in San Francisco, and CINESCAPE was there to check out the games.The day got started ...
No man leads a truly normal life. However we might group and classify others by peculiarity, subculture, or social strata, no group of lives can unite in consensus to define normality in the fullest sense of the word. They can only attain degrees and func...