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Grand Theft Auto V official cover art released

grandtheftautov-box-largeThe cover art for the Grand Theft Auto games has officially risen to the status of “art.” The images have been praised for their composition and originality going all the way back to Grand Theft Auto III, but for Grand Theft Auto V, Rockstar Games is going a step further. The publisher has commissioned a 30-foot high painted mural on a building in New York City.

If you don’t live in Rockstar’s backyard, you can check out a much smaller version of the official cover art to your right (click to enlarge).

Grand Theft Auto V will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 17.

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Rockstar releases 10 new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots

grandtheftautov-32713-1Just in time for the Game Developers Conference, Rockstar Games has released a new batch of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots they’re calling “Sunsets, Seas, Skies and So On.” Marvel at the world’s scariest pier… Be astounded by main character Michael walking away from his car…

OK, they’re not the most exciting screenshots ever, but they are new.

Grand Theft Auto V will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 17. Hit the jump to view the complete gallery. (more…)

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Grand Theft Auto V release date set for September 17

grandtheftautov-logoWhen I think about Spring, I think about Easter, PAX East, and baseball. What I don’t normally think about is the month of September. But I guess the folks at Rockstar Games think a bit differently from me as they’ve announced that the official release date for Grand Theft Auto V will be September 17, 2013. Let me just check a calendar… nope, September definitely doesn’t fall within the Springtime.

According to Rockstar, the additional development time is required to create the “massively ambitious and complex game” and that it “simply needs a little more polish to be of the standard we and, more importantly, you require.”

I guess we can stop referring to May as the month of Rockstar, huh?

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Microsoft Store bundling 1600 MS Points with some game pre-orders

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Do you plan to pre-order some of this year’s biggest Xbox 360 titles? Then you might want to consider buying them from the Microsoft Store.

Pointing your browser at the New Xbox Products section of the store will produce a list of 11 Xbox 360 games available for pre-order. And if you purchase any of these titles between now and April 6, you’ll receive 1600 Microsoft Points ($20) for free. Sadly, there’s a limit of three per person.

So which games qualify for this promotion? Check ’em out…

  • Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel
  • BioShock Infinite
  • Crysis 3
  • Dead Space 3
  • Gears of War: Judgment
  • Grand Theft Auto V
  • Lost Planet 3
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
  • South Park: The Stick of Truth
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14
  • Tomb Raider

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All I want for Christmas is some new GTA5 screenshots

grandtheftautov-christmascrewRockstar Games is feeling a bit festive today. They’ve released five new screenshots from Grand Theft Auto V featuring Franklin and his dog, a shark that’s about to go Jaws on a swimmer, a submersible, a pair of jet planes, and all three of the game’s playable characters.

Hit the jump to get a look at all five screenshots and don’t forget that Grand Theft Auto V will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 next Spring. (more…)

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The Walking Dead shambles away as the big winner at the 2012 Spike TV VGAs

The tenth annual Spike TV Video Game Awards have been handed out and The Walking Dead has come away the big winner, trouncing more ambitious (and expensive) titles such as Halo 4 and Mass Effect 3.

The episodic adventure game based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series won Game of the Year, Best Adapted Video Game and Best Downloadable Game. Developer Telltale Games also won Studio of the Year while Melissa Hutchinson was honored in the Best Performance By a Human Female category for her role as Clementine.

The other big winner of the night was thatgamecompany’s Journey, which nabbed three awards: Best PS3 Game, Best Independent Game, and Best Original Score. Gearbox’s Borderlands 2 also took home three awards: Best Shooter, Best Multiplayer Game, and Best Performance By a Human Male (Dameon Clarke as Handsome Jack). The viewer-voted Best Character award was also given to Borderlands 2’s Claptrap.

Hit the jump for a complete list of winners from this year’s Spike TV Video Game Awards, which also includes XCOM: Enemy Unknown, New Super Mario Bros. U, Sound Shapes, and many others. (more…)

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Rockstar “considering” other platforms for Grand Theft Auto V

As of right now, Grand Theft Auto V has officially only been announced for the PS3 and Xbox 360. But what about the PC, and more importantly, the Wii U? Well, according to an IGN interview with Rockstar President Dan Houser, anything is a possibility.

IGN: GTA V is only confirmed for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Why not the PC, Wii U and so on?

Houser: Everything else is up for consideration. That’s all I can give you. The main thing is we are not… we are a third-party publisher. We’re not Nintendo, we’re not Sony, we’re not Microsoft. We love all of them in different ways. But we can do what we want wherever there’s the appropriate business opportunity and chance to find a market.

So there you have it. It’s not not coming to the PC and Wii U, but nothing is ready to be officially announced. That said, I would be shocked if Grand Theft Auto V didn’t make it to the PC and Wii U in some form before the end of 2013.

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Check out the second Grand Theft Auto V trailer

As promised, Rockstar has released the second trailer for Grand Theft Auto V and it is a doozy. Full of the Hollywood-style action appropriate to its Los Santos location, the new trailer gives gamers their first look at bank robber Michael, low-life Trevor, and repo man Franklin. If you weren’t excited before, you should be now.

Grand Theft Auto V will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 next Spring.

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