Grand Theft Auto

August 6th, 2008 Posted in DS, News, Written by Valay The first real details about Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars hit the web yesterday via an email survey. However, Rockstar did not seem to be too thrilled about that. The thing is, the details seemed to have come from a broken NDA, so Rockstar is doing everything in their power to have all of the information removed from every website. The funny thing is, the whole situation is strange, since the information has already been posted... Read Full Story

Conversions of big console titles to the Nintendo DS continue. Following the transition of Guitar Hero to the handheld the next in line appears to be none other than R* Games - Grand Theft Auto, with Chinatown Wars being released later this year on Nins pocketable. A gamer survey from Rockstar Games lifts the lid on what DS’ers can expect from the small screen adaptation. By the sound of things you will partaking in the world of a young soldier seeking to make his mark within a gangland power... Read Full Story

Looks like a leaked survey about Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars had the first intriguing details about the upcoming Nintendo DS version of the series -- that is, until Rockstar told the original source to take it down. UGO had a post up with excerpts that purported to be from a consumer survey, which sure sounded like they described a portable GTA with stylus-based mini-games. But soon after the post went up, it was taken down and replaced with this message:So Rockstar just contacted us... Read Full Story

Reuters is reporting that an 18-year-old high school student in Thailand robbed and murdered a taxi driver over the weekend in what the youth claimed was an attempt to recreate a scene from Grand Theft Auto IV. In response, one distributor has moved to pull copies of GTA IV from Thailand retail shelves. Police claim that the youth showed no sign of mental instability while he was being questioned. He told police that he hadn't intended to kill the 54 year old driver. "He said he wanted to... Read Full Story

Some news in today from far away Thailand on an 18 year old man who stabbed a cab driver to death. Apparently his inspiration for the ‘bungled’ crime was the computer game ‘Grand Theft Auto’. The police investigator reports that the killer said that: “…he wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game.” The Sky News source is here and the ‘Yahoo’ news source is here. My immediate reaction to this sort of thing is generally “what a complete fucking dick... Read Full Story