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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.

Rockstar’s released a pair of new wallpapers for The Ballad of Gay Tony: they’re the two rightmost ones here.

The second part of Microsoft’s exclusive GTA IV DLC releases on October 29.

Microsoft has announced that next week’s Xbox Live Deal of the Week will be Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.

Original price for the add-on was 1600 MS Points ($19.99/£13.60/€18.61) but you’ll get it for 1200 MS Points ($14.99/£10.20/€13.96) instead.

Basically you’ll be saving a five spot. Great. We just downloaded this two days ago.

Thanks, CVG.

Michael Pachter has said that gamers can expect GTA V next year.

According to the analyst, Rockstar has been working on it for quite some time, but declined to tell Wedbush Morgan Securities  when it will be released.

“Management declined to state when the game will launch, but has confirmed to us that the game is in development, has been for over a year, and is using the same game ‘engines’ as the last version.” he said.

“Management also told us that the team at Rockstar North is highly motivated to get the game out, and that the team understands that its highest payday will come from working on GTA instead of any other game.

“When we do the simple math, we conclude that the next installment is likely to be completed by some time in 2010, although given the frequency of game delays, it is not clear that it will necessarily come before October 31, 2010.”

More over on CVG.

Todd Mitchell, analyst for Kaufman Bros. Equity Research, expects Take-Two and Rockstar to release two new episodes for Grand Theft Auto IV in fiscal 2010, GTA V in fiscal 2011, and a new GTA title for PS2 next year.

“I would expect that there would be two more pieces of downloadable content for GTA IV, that’s what has been indicated to me, although formats are unsure,” Mitchell told GI.biz. “It’s been indicated to me that would be the case.

“Coming out of E3 there was no commitment to a new Grand Theft Auto, and I think that’s because of Rockstar’s track record with delivering on time.

“Of the three, I’m least confident in saying for sure there will be a new GTA for PlayStation 2, but the track record shows that PSP titles have been repositioned [on PS2][Chinatown Wars for the PSP].”

Agent will be released in 2010, along with an unannounced title from 2K Games which along with BioShock 2 and Red Dead Redemption, Mitchell says Take-Two is now becoming a “proper company rather than a one hit wonder.”

More through the link.

The PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV has been announced for PlayStation: The Best budget line in Japan.

Think of it as part of a “Greatest Hits” collection.

It will run gamers ¥3,990 ($41) and will be released on August 27.

Game’s been out since October 2008 in the country.

Via Kotaku.

It looks as through three men will be the sole power behind rating games with the new PEGI system in the UK, reports The Times.

Mike Rawlinson, the director-general of ELSPA, says that the three men in the Video Standards Council are “very skilled in their work” and despite BBFC advocates saying otherwise, the PEGI system has been “strengthened and its standards match those of the film censor.”

Meanwhile, another interesting tidbit popped up in the article.

Apparently, the BBFC discovered a recipe for crystal meth when Grand Theft Auto IV was being reviewed for a rating.

After having a chat with Rockstar, who assured the ratings board the recipe was not accurate, it was allowed to remain in the game.

Wow.

Via Kotaku.

Rockstar’s Twitter‘s claimed you’re not going to have to wait long for a first look at 360′s follow-up to The Lost and Damned.

“Details on 2nd episode of GTAIV downloadable content coming soon,” said the Tweet.

So. E3, then. Thanks, GoOnl!ne.

Microsoft says that The Lost and Damned is not headed to PS3.

Responding to rumors that surfaced over the weekend from a PSW article, Gamespot contacted Microsoft for comment and were bluntly told by a rep that “the [GTA IV] episodes are exclusive to Xbox 360.”

Sony and Take-Two both refuse to comment on the rumor, so read into Microsoft’s response however you like.

More through the link.

Halo 3 isn’t going anywhere. The past four weeks have proved it.

Differences this week include FIFA 09 taking the seven spot away from Left 4 Dead, and the Bionic Commando demo falling off the chart and being replaced by Fallout 3.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles

1. Halo 3
2. Call of Duty: WaW
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Gears of War 2
5. UFC 2009 Undisputed Demo
6. GTA IV
7. FIFA 09
8. Left 4 Dead
9. Fallout 3
10. Resident Evil 5

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PSW Magazine has stated in its latest issue that The Lost and Damned DLC for GTA IV will land on PS3 in August.

The article said that Microsoft only had a 6 month exclusivity deal for the content, which is where PSW came up with an August release window.

Take this as a rumor until official word comes out of Rockstar.

Via GamingFront.

Grand Theft Auto IV turned one year old today, and to celebrate, Microsoft will release a Xbox 360 Elite bundle, reports Kotaku.

The Limited Anniversary Edition contains a copy of GTA IV, and two limited edition stickers featuring the GTA IV and Liberty City Swingers team logos.

A code for The Lost and Damned content is not included. You will still have to buy it kids.

No word on pricing or availability yet, but expect an announcement soon.

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.

We met up with Michael Pachter at GDC yesterday. In return for us showing him where to pick up his badge and sneaking him into the Luminaries Lunch, he told us why he thought Rockstar and Microsoft have yet to release any concrete download numbers for GTA IV DLC, The Lost and Damned.

The Wedbush Morgan analyst reckoned the content has so far failed to meet expectations for either company.

“It’s not like The Lost and Damned sucked, because it didn’t, and it’s not because [they] did not market it well,” he said.

“I just don’t think it has met their expectations, and it would have been better if they had set their expectations realistically.”

Pachter opined that the Live attach rate is one of the reasons The Lost and Damned hadn’t hit the intended mark.

“The main reason is because not too many Xbox 360 owners are hooked up to Xbox Live,” he said.

“100 percent of GTA IV owners are not hooked up to XBL. Therefore by definition, not every single person who owns GTA IV has Xbox Live. Because of this, I don’t think the numbers were as high as they had hoped for.

“When I personally look at DLC, I wait until the second one is released, that way I have over 40 hours of extra content instead of 20. It’s like playing a whole other game,” he added. “And I think a lot of people feel the same way.

He also added that he expects Rockstar to eventually offer a special edition of GTA IV to include both The Lost and Damned and the second, in-the-works piece of DLC.

Rockstar’s patched the PC version of GTA IV to version 1.0.3.

Notable features include graphical optimization; greater user control over graphic settings, including a new “OFF” option for reflection and shadow quality; and the elimination of remapping restrictions for keyboard and mouse, allowing for user-custom control schemes.

The update will be installed automatically through Windows Live when you log in, or you can do it manually here.

Detailed breakdown after the break.

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The OXM Awards went down last night, with GTA IV winning Best Action Adventure and Gears of War 2 got best shooter.

No surprises there.

Fallout 3 took home two gongs, one for Best RPG and the other for Game of the Year.

The awards were chosen by readers.

More over at the OXM website.

EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich has predicted that GTA IV DLC The Lost and Damned will bring in some $40 million in revenue.

Currently, Divnich guessed, the content is selling at a 6:1 ratio of download to retail, a gap the analyst expects “to grow even larger as digitally distributed games don’t have to succumb to retail pressures and loss of shelf space/visibility.

“Long-term, we expect Lost and Damned to produce up to $40 million in total worldwide revenue. We expect the original title, Grand Theft Auto IV to produce over $800 million in worldwide revenue throughout its lifetime.”

More on GameDaily.

Guinness World Records has announced some of the biggest feats achieved by gaming franchises.

Of course, you know that the GTA franchise stole the show, but Resident Evil ends up on the list as well, so it’s not just an all Rockstar affair.

For the “record,” they’re all after the break.

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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.