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Variety, citing a “good source,” is rumouring that GTA IV DLC The Lost and Damned has sold around 1 million units since it released in February.

Analyst Michael Pachter has already put the same figure on the download, speaking at the beginning of March. Pachter estimated sales would reach 2 million by the end of this year.

The second and final part of GTA IV’s 360-exclusive DLC will release before the end of October this year.

While we still don’t know exactly how many copies of GTA: The Lost and Damned were downloaded last month, Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg said last night that the figure was more than that achieved by Killzone 2 at retail – 323,000.

The exec told Gamasutra the DLC was “the most successful game add-on content we’ve ever launched,” adding, “If that content was sold at retail, it would be one of the best-sellers across all platforms. It would have outsold Killzone 2″.

It’s worth noting that TLAD launched on February 17, while Killzone 2 released on February 27.

Thanks, Kotaku.

Kotaku’s noticed that the Houser brothers were confirmed getting a Take-Two stock windfall of 2,849,003 shares in last night’s Q1 financials, which equates to roughly $18 million.

Nice work if you can get it.

The Housers are now tied into producing games for the company until 2012. With profit share included, obviously.

Get the rest of the news from last night’s release here.

Take-Two’s confirmed GTA IV sales have now reached the 13 million mark worldwide.

“Over 13 million units of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV have been shipped as of January 31, 2009,” said the firm in its first quarter financial release.

No figures were release in either the cash statement or the now-concluded – and painfully quick – earnings call as to how many units of The Lost and Damned have been downloaded for the game’s 360 version.

The second piece of 360-exclusive DLC has now been confirmed for release before November this year.

Take-Two just confirmed that the second episode of its 360-exclusive DLC for GTA IV will release this fiscal year.

That means it’ll hit before the end of October 2009.

The news came as part of Take-Two’s financials for the quarter ending January 31.

There was no other detail.

Rockstar’s put out another The Lost and Damned video, as confirmed by the Major, this time focussing on character Billy Grey.

Billy’s the president of the Lost bike club. He’s well hard. The Lost and Damned releases, exclusively for 360, on February 17.

Due to our shameful lack of update yesterday, you now only have a half a weekend to take advantage of the fact all Rockstar games have been reduced by 30 percent on Steam until tomorrow.

A string of classics – such as GTA IV, Bully: Scholarship Edition, Max Payne 2 and Vice City – are all for grabs for peanuts. Do yourself a favour, innit.

Rockstar has put out two new high res screenshots for the forthcoming Xbox 360 exclusive DLC, The Lost and Damned.

One of the pictures shows the bikers all leathered up and chatting, whereas the other depicts a man holding a sawn-off over his shoulder staring at Liberty City.

The Lost and Damned is coming next month.

Check them out.

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Rockstar has release two short, new The Lost and Damned videos introducing you to two new characters in the forthcoming 360 exclusive DLC on February 17.

Billy Ray seems to think he’s some kind of leader and Malc reckons he’s all kinds of badass.

The Lost and Damned will cost 1600 MS Points and it seems everyone was pretty impressed with what they saw when the hands-ons were published last week.

After the break.

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EG is reporting that Rockstar has priced 360 exclusive GTA IV DLC, The Lost and Damned, at 1600 MS Points.

So, in real world terms, you’re expected to fork out roughly £14/€19 for the expansion when it’s released on February 17.

A new screenshot was released yesterday alongside all the achievement details, in case you didn’t see it then.

Eurogamer will also be publishing its The Lost and Damned preview at 6pm GMT today. So watch out for that.

Update: EG’s preview is now live. Here’s the bit we liked best:

In gameplay terms, the biggest change is that, while Niko was often a lonely figure on missions, Johnny is regularly surrounded by his gang, who provide backup in battles, and company on the road. Thankfully, they take care of themselves pretty well, with no need for Tom Clancy-style squad controls. Instead, there’s a subtle incentive to keep them alive by watching their backs during shoot-outs: any gang members who survives a mission will gradually level up, becoming harder to kill, and sharper of shot. If they’re offed, however, they’ll be replaced by less useful newcomers, and the process begins anew.

Full thing through the link.

By Mike Bowden

In a feature titled, “The Zombies Look Better Every Year,” the New York Times has named Spore as its biggest disappointment for 2008.

“If Electronic Arts has learned anything from its experience with Spore, it ought to be that a software company should just let its games do the talking, rather than relentlessly hyping a game for years before its release only to deliver a one-note electronic toy in the end,” said the paper.

“Spore would not have fizzled so quickly if expectations had not been so ludicrously inflated to begin with.”

Game of the year? GTA IV, obviously. Worth a read.

Rockstar’s released eight new shots of The Lost and Damned, the 360-exclusive GTA IV DLC scheduled for release next year.

After the break.

The content’s first trailer was shown last night at the VGAs, if you haven’t seen it already.

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Rockstar’s put out three new screens of GTA IV 360 DLC, The Lost and Damned. They’re on Beefjack.

The content – the first chapter in the game’s exclusive extra adventures for the console – is out in February.

According to this MCV story, the Rockstar catalogue’s to appear on games on demand service Metaboli.

“It is a genuine pleasure to be able to list Rockstar in our catalogue and above all to be able to offer the cult GTA IV right from release,” said Metaboli boss, Pierre Forest.

More through there.

Rockstar’s detailed a patch for the PC version of GTA IV. You’re going to get the following:

-A fix to the crash after legal screen that some German customers were reporting.

-Numerous improvements to the video editor: Smarter naming of videos, improved rendering quality, better fx during replays

-Fix to bowling while using certain sensitive mice

-Fix for ATI 1900 shadows

-Overall savings to memory

-Graphic improvements to particle systems and mirrors

-Multiplayer character settings are preserved

-Support for DirectInput controllers. Note: The current hack way of supporting these controllers may not work with the improved functionality. So we recommend you remove the hack before upgrading to the patch.

There’s no specific date on te fix as yet, but you can download a new Nvidia driver in the meantime to help the game, you know, work.

Thanks, Kotaku.

According to this Edge report, Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick’s claimed that tie ratios for GTA IV are the highest of any game in the series, at 32 percent for PS3 and 28 percent for 360.

The exec cited NPD data as proof.

“Our tie ratio for Grand Theft Auto IV illustrates the strength of the franchise,” said Zelnick, speaking at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference this week.

GTA IV is currently the highest ranked game on Metacritic, with a score of 98 percent.

The PC version of GTA IV may be borked, but Rockstar’s working on getting it sorted. Phew.

“We are aware that a small number of fans are having problems running GTA IV on their PCs and we would like to assure them we are working to help solve these as quickly as possible,” a Rockstar rep told GTAGaming.

“We would ask anyone that is encountering difficulties to contact their local technical support helpline for advice and recommendations. These telephone numbers can be found in the game’s manual.

“There is also a regularly updated technical support page available on the Rockstar Games website where there are many useful FAQs, and information on how to resolve some common problems being encountered.”

Thanks, Eurogamer.

Kotaku’s reporting that the PC version of GTA IV is seeing mass complaints thanks to problems ranging from “dire performance issues to numerous error codes to a lack of SLI support”.

Steam is even offering refunds, apparently.

Rockstar’s published a guide to making sense of various error messages.

More detail, including links to shouty forums, through the link.

The PC version of GTA IV will enter Australia with no cuts, Gamespot reports.

“Grand Theft Auto IV PC has been rated MA15+ strong violence, sex scenes, coarse language, and drug references by the Australian Classification Office. The PC game is unedited in any way and identical in content to the international version,” a local Rockstar rep said.

Plenty more through there.

Rockstar’s outlined the DRM methods used for the PC version of GTA IV in this IGN article, confirming that you’ll need to register the game every time you install it on a new machine.

The title will use SecuROM, but you’ll be able to install it as many times as you like.

There’s a lot of info through there, so if getting het up about anti-piracy measure is your thing, it’s Christmas come early.