MCV reports that ChartTrack have announced GTA IV has smashed UK sales records selling 926,000 copies in its opening week on sale, raking in a cool £40 million. 631,000 copies were sold in the first 24 hours. The record was previously held by GTA: San Andreas on PlayStation 2 which sold 677,000 copies in it’s first [...]
In the midst of all the GTA IV hype, Sierra released 6 new screenshots from their forthcoming Ghostbusters game. Release date for the game is down as “Autumn” this year on all formats. Check out the screenshots below from the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions below:
GAME, one of Britain’s biggest games retailers are at this point in time only selling GTA IV standard edition in pre-determined bundle deals on it’s website. If you wish to purchase the standard Xbox 360 version you can only do so if you buy a copy of Kane & Lynch, Bully or Devil May Cry 4 along with [...]
If you are one of the many people with no pre-order and could not get a copy from a supermarket midnight launch then where should you go today to try and get a copy? Your best bet would be the Argos website where you should be able to check stock and reserve a copy from about 8 [...]
The BBC have covered the launch of GTA IV on the 6 o’clock news. True, they covered the launch of Halo 3 as well but it’s pretty unusual to find any form of games coverage at all on the BBC these days. As is usual for mainstream media, the report mainly focuses on the fact it’s rated [...]
Gametrailers have posted an 11 minute video review of GTA IV.The review does contain some minor plot spoilers from the initial start of the game as it’s practically 11 minutes of gameplay footage. The review is very in depth and offers a good balanced opinion, highlighting a couple of the games flaws along the way. [...]
The GTA IV review emargo has been lifted and the scores are starting to come in along with lots of new gameplay footage in video reviews.
Eurogamer - 10/10
Gamespot - 10/10
IGN - 10/10
IGN UK - 10/10
Gamespy - 5/5
1UP - A+ (10/10)
Teamxbox - 10/10
Gameinfromer - 10/10
GameDaily - 10/10
GamePro - 10/10
VideoGamer - 10/10
total Video Games - 10/10
IGN AU - [...]
IGN have released their review of GTA IV ahead of all other sites who arn’t allowed to publish theirs until 5pm on Sunday. Check out the video review below which shows off non plot spoiling gameplay footage. It gets 10/10 by the way.
Most if not all shops now have their stock of GTA IV sitting in the warehouse. There seem to have only been very isolated cases of retailers breaking the street date and these are by mistake due to uninformed staff at random supermarket branches. Of the usual suspects for early release, Indi games shops are [...]
Here’s a round up of the weeks biggest news stories in brief that we were unable to cover this week due to commitments.
Activision have hinted that the next installment of Guitar hero will feature new instruments. Probably means a microphone and drum kit bringing it in line with rock Band.
Sony have pushed back the public [...]
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