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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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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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Rockstar has announced Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition are now available for download through PSN. GTA IV will run you $19.99, and GTA IV: The Complete Edition will cost you $29.99. Plus users can also purchase the Complete Edition for 20% off ($23.99) until Tuesday, February 21. Also, those interested in iOS versions of GTA, should note Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Grand Theft Auto III: 10 Year Anniversary Edition are both only $0.99 each until Monday, February 20.

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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Dan Houser, co-founder and vice president of creativity at Rockstar, has said his studio’s open-world GTA games aren’t about violence, but a way to provide players with a medium where freedom of choice is a constant.

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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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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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