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Looks like The Lost and Damned may be heading to PC if an Achievements page over on GTA4.net is to be believed.

Shown through the link there, is a screen grab of the Achievements listed for GFWL.

The Lost and Damned is only available on Xbox 360 as per an agreement with Rockstar, for the present at any rate.

We’ll sent a mail over and see if anyone bites, but if it is a surprise or a secret, don’t expect more than the canned “no comment” response.

Via CVG.

Rockstar’s Imran Sarwar has said that GTA IV’s downloadable episodes were “part of the plan from the beginning”, and Niko’s story was designed to “make him feel like a small part of a much larger world.”

“Even at the end of [Niko's] story, he’s not the king of the town by any means, ” the associate producer told CVG. “The idea was to use the episodes to reveal the rest of that world, to show some of the characters and events that were invisible to Niko and yet still had a bearing on events in his life.

“I think if we had [put all on one disc] it would have been impossible to focus on each separate aspect of gameplay properly, the stories and the gameplay are inextricably linked.

“We’ve always maintained that Liberty City is the real star of these games, and what makes it truly amazing is that it’s so full of potential as an environment.”

The last bit of DLC for the game, The Ballad of Gay Tony, is out now.

Nelson’s confirmed the release of GTA IV DLC The Ballad of Gay Tony. It’s your for 1,600 MSP.

The first reviews went live last night. Get them here.

Blurb, should you need it:

The Ballad of Gay Tony injects Liberty City with an overdose of guns, glitz, and grime. As Luis Lopez, part-time hoodlum and full-time assistant to legendary nightclub impresario Tony Prince (a.k.a. “Gay Tony”), players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price.

Get dancing, kiddlewinks.

The reviews for GTA IV’s final bit of DLC, The Ballad of Gay Tony, are starting to pour onto the net.

So far, the reviews are generally positive.

You can get in on the action when the episode is released tomorrow via XBL and on disc at your local retailer.

As more reviews hit, we’ll be sure to update the page, so be sure to keep checking back.

• Eurogamer – 8/10
• Kotaku – N/A
• MTV – N/A
• Videogamesdaily (Kikizo) – 9/10
• 1UP – A-
• NowGamer – 9.3/10
• IGN UK – 9.2/10
• IGN – 9.2/10

Rockstar has sent over the final video for The Ballad of Gay Tony before its launch tomorrow.

It features Luis Lopez, a new protagonist for the second episode and right-hand man to Tony Prince.

The full bio for the character as well as the video are posted below the break.

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To celebrate the launch of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City and The Ballad of Gay Tony, Rockstar has announced a weekend filled with multiplayer mayhem on Xbox Live.

From Friday, October 30 through Sunday, November 1 players can experience multiplayer in Liberty City with special guests from Rockstar North and singer/composer Henry Santos Jeter from the band, Aventura.

Multiplayer for the game will be free all weekend for people playing GTA IV, The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Those wanting to play with the Rockstar team or Jeter should add the Gamertags posted below the break to their friends list.

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Rockstar’s released yet more screens of the imminent Gay Tony, this time showing the eponymous club owner doing some kind of funky chicken in front of a TV. They’re on Kotaku.

The GTA IV 360 DLC is actually out this week. Buy it. Relive the dream.

The BBFC’s rated GTA IV DLC The Ballad of Gay Tony as an 18, saying the add-on has “quite strong sex” and “hard drug use”. Shocker.

You can read the full description here, but be warned: spoilers abound.

It’s out on October 29. Thanks, EG.

Indian 26-year-old Chirantan Patnaik has taken the official Guinness world record for the longest continuous play session of GTA IV.

Patnaik played the Rockstar epic for 40 hours 20 minutes at the offices of blog NeuralChaos.com from September 4-6.

An exercise regime of running and yoga helped him reach his goal, apparently, which beats the previously held record of 28 hours and 1 minute, held by an American.

What format? He was playing the game on PS3.

Thanks, MTV.

Rockstar has sent over the new video for The Ballad of Gay Tony, which shows the Nightlife in Liberty City.

The video teases an upcoming episode of the celebrity gossip show, Fizz!, where people are exposed doing all sorts of drunken, scandalous, and not-so-glamorous things.

Can’t wait for its release later this month.

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Rockstar has revealed the first look at multiplayer for The Ballad of Gay Tony.

There’s tanks, attack choppers, new weapons, and, of course, parachutes which are making their multiplayer debut alongside new Deathmatch arenas, kill streaks, and assisted kills.

We have pics of it for you below. A new video featuring the multiplayer in action is expected to be released soon. Meanwhile, for more information on the MP, check out the official site.

Gay Tony is out at the end of this month.

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Grand Theft Auto IV is now available for download on 360, as you can see here.

The Games on Demand version of Rockstar’s opus will set you back a mere £20 and 7Gb. Bargain.

If you don’t own it already, now there’s no excuse. Get to it.

Shack’s posted some new Gay Tony screens – get them here.

There’s one of an APC fighting a cop car there, which is always nice. The second and final episode of 360′s GTA IV DLC hits at the end of this month.

Microsoft said today that some both GTA IV and Dead Space are to be added to 360′s Games on Demand service this month, which is probably pretty awesome.

Dates and other titles:

• October 13: GTA IV
• October 20: Sonic Unleashed, Midnight Club LA, Army of Two
• October 27: Dead Space, DiRT

Call of Duty 3 and Tom Clancy’’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 have already been added this month.

Rockstar has released the second official trailer for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, titled “There’s Always a Girl”.

Episodes From Liberty City will contain The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony in one package when released October 29 for 360.

Head on past the break for the video, complete with music from Roxette.

She’s got the look, fellas.

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Microsoft’s added Grand Theft Auto IV and Left 4 Dead to its Platinum Hits range in the US.

Street Fighter 4, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Saints Row 2 have also been included in the line-up meaning you should now be able to pick them up for around $20.

No news on any similar moves for Europe.

Rockstar has sent us over a brand-new character clip from Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Past the break, you will see Yusuf Amir, the “affable, cutthroat real estate and construction kingpin of Liberty City”.

According to Rockstar, Yusuf’s vast wealth “fuels his over-the-top lifestyle and desire for women and expensive toys, two of the Arab-born’s unquenchable vices.”

Who doesn’t like women and expensive toys?

It’s out October 29.

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Rockstar has announced that there’s a new Title Update for GTA IV up on Xbox Live which will supposedly stop “cheaters” in their paths.

According to the official site for the firm, the Xbox 360 update “fixes the invisible player issue and prevents the use of cheat code exploits in multiplayer games.”

Good to know. Dirty cheaters. They never prosper. Or so they say.

Rockstar’s Dan Houser reckons GTA IV’s DLC episodes have to come to discs because digital distribution for larger items just isn’t there yet.

“I know, as a consumer, I’m more comfortable buying songs, which are almost like playing a jukebox, than I am buying movies as purely digital items,” Houser told USA Today.

“We all feel that way, so we can surely get more people to experience it if we put it on a disc.”

However you end up consuming Gay Tony, it looks as though it’s going to be awesome. Houser expanded on the plot.

“Luis has to do some of these favors and see if he can get them out of debt,” he added.

“The situation with Tony’s drug problems gets worse and worse, and Tony gets more and more out of control.”

Sounds fun. The episode’s first movie was released tonight. It’s awesome. The content releases on October 29.

Rockstar’s confirmed a September 1 date for the first Gay Tony trailer.

Hopefully it’ll feature that woman with the champagne. The MS US po-faces must be having little heart attacks over their exclusive gay bottle-wanking game. Serves them right.

The second piece of 360′s GTA IV DLC is down for an October 29 release.