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Grand Theft Auto III was supposed to turn up in this week’s US PlayStation Store update as a PS2 Classic, but it’s been delayed at the last moment by music licensing issues.

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The American PlayStation blog podcast has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto 3 PS2 Classic will be out on PSN on July 31. Thanks, EG.

As spotted by PSNStores, the ESRB has re-rated Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Both titles are listed with PlayStation 3 as platform and Sony Computer Entertainment America as publisher, suggesting a PlayStation Network release. The lack of a double pack listing suggests we’re probably looking at PS2 Classics re-releases rather than HD makeovers. I’ve sent Rockstar a gleeful fangirl email so fingers crossed for an official update soon.

Someone’s managed to make a mod that allows the world of Grand Theft Auto III to run on the RAGE engine that powered Grand Theft Auto IV. There’s two videos of it below: one that shows a trailer for the mod, another featuring a three minute drive around Portland.

Thanks, GTAForums.

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Sony looks set to release Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as PS2 Classics on PSN, according to recent ESRB ratings. As noted by Siliconera, San Andreas wasn’t rated, however. Sony Computer Entertainment America is shown as the publishers in the ratings, not Rockstar. PS2 downloadable classics have been available since last year in the US, but have yet to make the jump to Europe.

Rockstar’s Android and iOS release of PS2 era classic Grand Theft Auto III is so faithful to the PC version that a number of existing mods can be used with it. You won’t need to jailbreak your device or anything like that, but head over to The Tech Erra or XDA Developers for iOS and Android users respectively to get a full walkthrough.

Thanks, games.on.net.

“We were making up a lot of procedures as we went along, and we decided that the NPCs (Non Playable Characters) should talk and we would have to figure out how to make them talk (using motion captured cutscenes, something that had never really been done before, at least not on the scale we were doing it). So we decided that the game’s protagonist would not talk, partly to aid people identifying with him, but mostly because we had so many other problems to solve and this did not seem like a major issue. We started to discuss introducing a talking lead character when working on Vice City, but it was a lot of work. While the structure of GTA3 may seem obvious or natural now, and the use of cutscenes made in the game’s engine that look and feel like the game may seem simple and easy, it really was not the case back in 2001 when we had to figure out all of these things for the first time. Oh and in San Andreas, CJ calls Claude a mute because he does not talk and CJ finds this unnerving.” – Rockstar on why it went with a mute protagonist in Claude for Grand Theft Auto III.

GTA III 10th Anniversary Edition is out now for iOS and Android.

Rockstar’s launched the 10th Anniversary Edition of Grand Theft Auto III for iOS and Android. Company boss Sam Houser said in a release this afternoon the firm wanted to “deliver the same sense of freedom that made the original so groundbreaking” with the mobile version. You can get it for £2.99/$4.99 from iTunes App Store here for iPhone 4 & 4S and iPad 1 & 2 or Android Marketplace for the same price. A launch trailer is below the break, via GameTrailers.

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Rockstar’s released a fantastic video of Grand Theft Auto III, showing nostalgic moments from the game, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this weekend. An iOS and Android version is on the way for some point this fall. Get the trailer below the break.

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Grand Theft Auto III ended up being in Liberty City, the New York-like city from the series, but that may note have been the case, Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has told IGN.

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Someone’s posted a bit of video of the tenth anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto III for iOS, announced last week by Rockstar, from New York ComicCon. Look in laughter at the player not able to drive off after the break. The game’s out this fall for iOS and Android devices.

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iPhone 4 owners were understandably vexed when they found out Grand Theft Auto III would only be playable on the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, but Rockstar is now changing their tune. More »

Rockstar’s announced this afternoon it’s releasing Grand Theft Auto III on iOS and Android as part of the game’s tenth anniversary this fall.

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Define “cheap”.

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The Trilogy includes Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Rockstar and TransGaming announced today three Grand Theft Auto titles are now available for Mac.

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Good deal.

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Microsoft’s announced several third-party publishers that will support the upcoming reboot of Games for Windows Marketplace.

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Rockstar’s announced it’s releasing all three last-gen Grand Theft Auto tiles on Mac.

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Game Informer celebrated passing 200 issues recently, so to celebrate, they compiled a list of 200 games, which they think are the best games of all time.

The Legend of Zelda for the NES was the winner, followed then by Super Mario Bros, Tetris, Grand Theft Auto III and Half Life 2.

We’re absolutely sickened though that Metal Gear Solid 3 is near all the way the bottom though at 191. Sickened.

Find the top ten below, with the full 200 at Nintendo Everything.

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