Tag archive: Vice City

Thai video game distributor New Era Interactive Media has announced it is suspending sales of Take Two Interactive's controversial Grand Theft Auto games after a teenager confessed to committing a robbery and murder in an attempt to recreate a scene from the game. According to Reuters, the teenager said he wanted to see if it was as easy to rob a taxi in real life as it was in the game. Although the teenager said he did not intend… Read More

It was a week for video game awards in the UK. Last week saw not only the BAFTA awards, but also the Golden Joysticks. Celebrating it’s 25th year, the Golden Joysticks are voted for by gamers, rather than selected by a panel, and almost 750,000 cast their votes. Gears of War was the big winner. Not only was it Ultimate Game of the Year, it was also Sonopress Xbox Game of the Year, Editor’s Choice and Nuts All-Nighter. In… Read More

Back in 1982 the gaming industry was tiny. But not so small that it couldn’t come up with some awards. So the Golden Joysticks were born. This yearthey’re celebrating their 25th anniversary, and the award nominees have been announced.   Big contenders are rock game “GuitarHero II” and “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories,” which each garnered six nominations, including Best Soundtrackand Ultimate Game.… Read More

Rockstar Games today released details about upcoming Grand Theft Auto games for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 and PS3 is expected to be released Oct. 16 of next year, while Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories will debut on the PSP Oct. 17 of this year. Grand Theft Auto IV, said Rockstar Games, will be brought to the Xbox 360 platform from day one of its global release

Take Two Interactive's Rockstar Games publishing arm has announced it will resume sales of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PlayStation 2 gaming console on October 18, 2005. The new "special" edition of the game will include a DVD with game backstory and a documentary film entitled Sunday Driver. The new edition of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will not include the now-infamous hidden "Hot Coffee" segment in… Read More

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be in stores in Europe on October 29th, 2004. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the next installment in the gaming franchise that has sold over 32 million units to date, including over 13 million units of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and over 11 million units of Grand Theft Auto 3. Additional information about Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is available at http://www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas.

Citing data from market research firm the NPD Group, the Entertainment Software Association said the percentage of “M”-rated games sold fell to 11.9 percent in 2003 from 13.2 percent in 2002. Of the 10 best-selling console titles of the year, by units sold, only one carried an “M” rating. That game, “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,” from Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.  , was publicly… Read More

A Florida city is determined to pass a law restricting children's access to violent computer games despite legal challenges to similar attempts elsewhere, and charges of censorship, its mayor said onFriday. The ordinance proposed by North Miami City Council was prompted by fury in Miami's large Haitian American community at Rockstar Game's top-selling “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City,” in which players are urged to… Read More

Also, Give Back Take Two (thanks Hump and Steve Nutley) has complaints from The New York Post about GTA, apparently making the case for how depicting violence in a game is worse than molestation: “This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy.” The suit was filed December 23 in state circuit court in Palm Beach County. Attorneys for Rockstar Games Inc. opted to… Read More

Some big-name titles that didn't make it out in 2003 are instead scheduled for early 2004, and may stave off the burnout that usually comes when a console hits its fourth year, as Sony's PlayStation 2, Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube are about to do. Having sold approximately 22 million consoles in North America since launching its PlayStation 2 game console, Sony Computer Entertainment dominates the games… Read More

Take-Two has confirmed that the next GTA game will be released in Q4 2004. According to reports, Take-Two executive vice presidentCindi Buckwalter told attendees at a New York City technology conference that the game will be released “in the back half of '04, Q4,” although she wouldn't be drawn on the name – despite widespread internet rumours of a Las Vegas or Los Angeles-based title. Beyond the release date… Read More

The PlayStation 2 price is set to be cut to £129.99 in the UK within the coming months, according to sources who spoke with our sister site Eurogamer.net today – a cut which brings the console in line with the Xbox and GameCube, and indeed with the price of the hardware on the continent. However, Microsoft will respond with a price cut of its own – with Xbox due to come down in price as well, probably to a £99.99 price point.… Read More

TDK Mediactive owns a variety of key franchises, many of them in the kids market – which Take-Two has little presence in at present. Among the franchises which the company will acquire as part of this deal are Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Robotech, The Muppets, The Land Before Time, Masters of the Universe, Ultimate Fighting Championship and Star Trek. “The addition of TDK's mass market and children's licensed… Read More

American games website IGN.com claims that the publisher may use a loophole in its exclusivity agreement with Sony and release the game on Xbox using the name “Vice City” – dropping the Grand Theft Auto moniker entirely. Porting the game to the Xbox would certainly be a pretty simple task for developers Rockstar North, since the title uses the cross-platform Renderware architecture and there's already a PC version… Read More

Gary Locke, governor of the state of Washington in the USA, has signed into law a bill banning the sale of certain violent videogames to minors – including Enter the Matrix and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, both of which depict violence against law enforcement officials. According to US law, a minor is anyone under the age of 17, so this isn't even on the same level as applying an 18 certificate to a videogame here in the UK… Read More