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December 3rd, 2009 at 02:30pm
Under Xbox 360
Before you put on some sweats, make a little popcorn and sit down for your sitcoms tonight, you may want to gear up for some The Ballad of Gay Tony multiplayer. Rockstar Games has announced it’ll be holding a multiplayer session tonight from 5pm – 8pm ET, allowing prospective Liberty City hoodlums to hang out with some developers in the expansion’s new multiplayer modes for a bit of two-on-two action.
If you want to get involved, pack a parachute and send a request to these Gamertags:
- GwRockstar3
- GwRockstar4
- GwRockstar5
- GwRockstar6
And if you fancy yourself a bit of a voyeur or can’t get to your Xbox, you can still watch the action from the perspective of one of Rockstar’s employees at the Social Club event page here.
Play The Ballad of Gay Tony with Rockstar tonight originally appeared on Joystiq Xbox on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 17th, 2009 at 01:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Despite slow to non-existent sales for several high-profile third-party Nintendo Wii titles, the company’s US head, Reggie Fils-Aime, still believes that third-party publishers on Nintendo’s console can be successful. Speaking with Kotaku, Fils-Aime says he’s “extremely disappointed” with the lack of major third party games on the Wii. He even goes so far as to say he’s spoken (presumably quite sternly) with “every publisher who makes content that is not available on my platform” about the subject.
When questioned as to why major titles like Grand Theft Auto IV and Assassin’s Creed 2 aren’t headed to his company’s console, he explains it as a measure of long lead times rather than technological inability. “Typically decisions are being made two years prior … and so the decisions two years ago were that those types of games would not be effective on the platform.” And though the subject isn’t directly broached, Fils-Aime remains steadfast that third-party titles can be successful on the Wii … with the right marketing. “High-quality, effectively marketed against our installed base, will sell. Period. End of story.”
It would appear then that Boom Blox, The Conduit, No More Heroes, and a mess of other third-party titles, had some truly ineffective marketing by Reggie’s standards.
Nintendo’s Fils-Aime: ‘effectively marketed’ third-party titles can sell on Wii originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 12th, 2009 at 09:47am
Under Xbox 360
With his brother dying in the war and his father abusing the whole family, you’d think that Niko Bellic had lost enough, but now Activision has to come along and take away one of the few things he had left: His day-one sales record. Activision announced today that Modern Warfare 2 sold an estimated 4.7 million units in its first 24 hours in North America and the UK alone, which far exceeds the previous record of 3.6 million held by Grand Theft Auto IV.
In other news, we’re going to go ahead and bring you the world exclusive news that Modern Warfare 3 – 7 will be released in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 respectively. That pattern will likely continue into infinity … but what will we cover in 2020 if we tell you that now?
Modern Warfare 2 breaks record with 4.7 million in day-one sales originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 6th, 2009 at 02:00am
Under Xbox 360
Time lapse videos were all the rage back in — actually, we don’t think they were ever rage caliber stuff, but in the case of this GTA IV video that shows 15 days go by Liberty City, it’s at least reached “oh, that’s neat!” territory. The video comes courtesy of DigitalFoundry (you can watch it over at Eurogamer) and reminds us just how much life there is in the virtual sand box, as cars drive along to their respective destinations, pedestrians shuffle about doing their own thing and, in the case of that one lady around the 32-second mark, loaf around the riverside all day and night. We just hope she’s not doing what we think she’s doing. It’d be such an unbecoming thing of the purest city in all of gaming, amirite?
Video: 15 days in GTA IV’s Liberty City originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 29th, 2009 at 04:45pm
Under Xbox 360
With the release of this week’s second Grand Theft Auto IV expansion The Ballad of Gay Tony, the game’s developer has decided to update the online multiplayer statistics tracking in order to reflect the new multiplayer game types. The addition of “BASE Jump” to the mulitplayer as well as “new, tighter Deathmatch arenas” helped spur the leaderboard overhaul, according to the developer blog. The various new additions being made due to the DLC will even get their own section on the Rockstar Social Club, presumably for the four of you tracking your new GTAIV DLC stats after Modern Warfare 2 releases in a couple weeks.
Rockstar revamps Social Club’s online leaderboards and stat tracking for Gay Tony originally appeared on Joystiq Xbox on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 28th, 2009 at 11:50pm
Under Xbox 360
The second and final “Episode from Liberty City,” The Ballad of Gay Tony, has arrived. As the tale of Liberty City comes to a close, does The Ballad of Gay Tony present an exciting final act or an anti-climactic letdown? We’ll let the critics at large weigh in on this one:
- Game Informer (93/100): “While I preferred the tight-knit story of brotherhood and betrayal in The Lost and Damned, The Ballad of Gay Tony delivers more explosive weapons, death-defying missions, and off-the-wall characters. Don’t miss your chance to close out the GTA IV experience in style.”
- IGN (92/100): “The Ballad of Gay Tony is the perfect way to close out the GTA IV saga. Finally, we know what happened to the diamonds stolen in the main story a year-and-a-half ago. Though Luis Lopez doesn’t have much of a story at all (this is the ballad of his boss, after all), the supporting cast is phenomenal. There are a lot of hilarious moments and ludicrous missions that will please GTA fans. Sure, a few of the missions fall flat compared to the wild nature of others, but all-in-all this is a fine package and worth 20 bucks. “
- 1UP (A-): “This has been one hell of a ride. I’m going to miss seeing something new in Liberty City, as I’ve probably been to every available nook and cranny. I suppose I could still go hunting for those damn pigeons, but with so many other games coming out in the coming months, I don’t know where I’ll find the time… at least until Rockstar gives me a ticket to their next world of crime, violence, and vice.”
- Eurogamer (80/100): “Perhaps Tony Prince does nothing to drag the series forward — somewhat fittingly for a man with his head stuck in the eighties — but the episode Rockstar has named in his honour is a colourful and pleasingly unpredictable adventure that gets better throughout and ends on a high.”
Metareview: The Ballad of Gay Tony originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 28th, 2009 at 03:15pm
Under Xbox 360
Rather than offer interesting social commentary or moody atmospheric tone, the just-released Ballad of Gay Tony teaser instead teaches us that Luis Lopez is not a joking around kinda guy. He takes shots, tosses dudes off buildings – he even goes to the driving range!
In case it weren’t already glaringly obvious to you, the second Grand Theft Auto IV expansion will be taking itself quite a bit less seriously than the first digital release. Thankfully, the wait is nearly over and we can find out for ourselves tomorrow just how much Rockstar Games has twisted its latest opus.
Latest Ballad of Gay Tony trailer showcases Luis Lopez’s many exploits originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 13th, 2009 at 02:15pm
Under Xbox 360
Crime epic Grand Theft Auto IV has arrived (as promised) on the Xbox Marketplace’s Games on Demand lineup. The grand theft mega-hit costs $30 to download, which is the same price as a fresh new retail version — a tiny bit more in some cases. We should probably note that a used copy from GameStop is about $25. By all means, if you have no way of getting to a retailer please feel free to buy the game online.
Oh, wait, that was a missed opportunity for a “steal a car” joke, wasn’t it?
PSA: GTA IV is now available on demand, $30 in US originally appeared on Joystiq Xbox on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 9th, 2009 at 11:00am
Under Xbox 360
The Xbox 360’s Games on Demand service is getting quite the booster shot this month, as Microsoft has announced six new titles coming to the service in October. The festivities kicked off earlier this week with the release of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Call of Duty 3. Here’s what the rest of this month has in store:
October 13
October 20
October 27
There’s no word on price for any of these titles right now, so we’ve checked with Microsoft and will be sure to update you when we hear back.
GTA IV, Dead Space coming to Xbox 360 Games on Demand this month originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 12:15pm
Under Xbox 360
Good friends are hard to come by, especially on the seedy streets of Liberty City. That’s why we’re so glad the above trailer for Episodes from Liberty City (which features snippets from The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Damned) emphasizes the comradery one can experience in the city’s many boroughs.
Don’t believe us? Just ask The Ballad of Gay Tony protagonist Luis Lopez’s childhood friends Armando Torres and Henrique Bardas, who have stuck with Lopez through thick and thin.
New ‘Episodes from Liberty City’ introduces Armando & Henrique originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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