This week the 43rd Annual Technology, Media & Telecom Conference occurred in New York, and speaking at the conference was Strauss Zelnick, CEO and president of Take-Two Interactive. Take-Two publishes several big hit AAA games like the Grand Theft Auto series, and Zelnick explained his philosophy toward the DLC approach his company has used on […]
A few months ago, the BBC announced they were producing a new TV movie called Game Changer, a “dramatic recreation” of the events concerning the creation of the Grand Theft Auto series. The movie would star Daniel Radcliffe as Rockstar’s co-founder Sam Hauser and Bill Paxton as the story’s cackling villain, now-ex-lawyer Jack Thompson. All […]
Bill Paxton has joined Daniel Radcliffe to star in a BBC Films-produced movie based on Sam Houser, the creator of popular video game “Grand Theft Auto”. The film will star Radcliffe as Houser as he tussles with Miami-based activist attorney, Jack Thompson, who tries [unsuccessfully] to get Houser to remove depictions of graphic violence from […]
When the PC version of Grand Theft Auto launches next Tuesday, it will come with a new feature called Rockstar Editor that will let users edit and create videos for posting around the social circles of the Net. Rockstar’s website was recently updated with full details on everything the editor will let you do. Its […]
The BBC is pushing an initiative called “Make It Digital,” which they describe as a “major UK-wide initiative to inspire a new generation to get creative with coding, programming, and digital technology.” As one of the methods they’re employing to stir up interest in the game business, they are producing a movie about the making […]
They said it was coming, and they weren’t lying: the 60 frame a second trailer for Grand Theft Auto V’s PC version is now live on the Internet. Originally released in 2013 for last-gen consoles Playstation 3 and XBox 360, the game has since been prettied up for Playstation 4 and XBox One, and will […]
All console versions of Grand Theft Auto V have been newly patched. Patch 1.23 for XBox 360 and Playstation 3 and Patch 1.09 for XBox One and Playstation 4 are available now. The Heists mode was hyped for months but was not available until recently, and then had server issues. With this patch the mode […]
There’s a Grand Theft Auto TV show coming, but, no, it’s not a gritty, satirical look at crime. It’s not even a Republican Space Rangers cartoon. Instead it will be a 90 minute drama about the people behind the game’s creation. It’s part of the BBC’s Make it Digital initiative to interest kids in tech. […]
Here’s a fun look back at the history of the GTA series in video form, courtesy of F3R X. F3R X has tried to cram a representative sample of every GTA game into his video, running from the original Grand Theft Auto released in 1997 to the latest HD wonders of Grand Theft Auto V […]
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars was a pleasantly surprising throwback to the original top-down GTA style when it was released on Nintendo DS five years ago. The game was got a mobile version on iOS in 2010, and now that version is getting a spiffing up and being joined by new versions for Android and […]