Much like the Call of Duty franchise, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto has managed to sell quite a bit of copies ever since the market recovered from the initial shock of Grant Theft Auto 3 (its awesomeness, that is). Currently, Grant Theft Auto IV is the the latest version of the game and has a few different DLC packs including The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost & Damned.
While the game has been out for quite some time, we haven’t heard much in terms of recent sales numbers. Luckily, Take-Two has just come forth to speak of the matter saying that the title as at nearly 20 million sales. Additionally, it’s also been made known that collectively to date over 100 million its of the GTA series have been sold. That’s no laughing matter.
Now, Take-Two, let’s hear a little bit about Grand Theft Auto 5. Please?
If you’ve been living under a rock for 95% of your life and haven’t had a chance to give classic Rock Star titles like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City a go, you’re in luck. Valve, has just announced that they will be holding a 50% off promotion on the Rock Star Collection, if you’re willing to purchase it though Steam, that is.
Anyways, you’ll be able to get 13 Rockstar titles for just $42.49. Yes, this includes Grand Theft Auto IV. Go get it.
2K Games‘ Mafia II has gotten delayed a countless number of times but that doesn’t mean the studio is stopping the hype train anytime soon. In fact, they have recently went on record to say that the city featured in the game is about a third of the size of Liberty City featured in Grand Theft Auto 4.
Sure, this may not seem like a notable feat but due to the smaller size, 2K Games is saying that they will be given time to properly polish every square inch of real estate and deliver a near flawless (hopefully) games.
While BioShock 2 hasn’t received the same critical acclaim that the first title did, it has still received some pretty damn good reviews. And reviewers apparently aren’t the only ones who like the game as it was just announced that BioShock 2 has sold 3 million copies across the Xbox 360 PC and PS3.
That’s not all though, Take-Two also took the time to let us know that Grand Theft Auto IV has sold 15 million copies worldwide since its release.
Some pretty big numbers here now I just wonder how much their sequels will sell.
With the game industry growing bigger and bigger comes the increased opportunity for game studios to make money. I mean just look at Activision with Guitar Hero, how many titles are there again?
However, despite these increased opportunities studios like Take-Two aren’t willing to turn a premiere franchise such as Grand Theft Auto into crapware and release a new title every year. In fact, if Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick has any say in it (which he does) that will never happen because he feels “triple-A” games such as Grand Theft Auto require a lot of time to properly develop and deliver to the masses. In fact, he is satisfied with just testing out new formats and platforms such as DLC for GTA 4 and the Nintendo DS and PSP with Chinatown Wars.
What’s next for Take-Two and Grand Theft Auto? Well, let’s hope the company sticks by Zelnick’s words and gives us a quality GTA V regardless of when it comes out.
GTA 4 fans will be happy to hear that Rockstar has unleashed the game’s latest DLC pack ‘The Ballad of Gay Tony’ onto Xbox Live for 1600 Microsoft Points. Now, I bought the first DLC pack and wasn’t very satisfied with spending the $20 but Gay Tony looks to be a lot better.
Don’t know what’s included in this new DLC pack? Head here and watch a trailer for the game.
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Games on Demand service went live not too long ago and launched with a decent amount of games in the library. Today, Microsoft has announced 6 new games that are set to hit the service in the coming weeks including Grand Theft Auto IV, Army of Two and Dead Space.
The full list of games and their release dates are below
For the 10 of you out there that still play Grand Theft Auto 4 online (for the Xbox 360, mind you) you will be happy to hear that Rockstar will soon be releasing a patch that will prevent people from cheating online. Exactly what cheats, we don’t know, but this patch will apparently fix them.
Expect this patch to be pushed out in the coming days making GTA 4‘s multiplayer ready for the influx of players that are sure to hop online after purchasing the game’s newest expansion, The Ballad of Gay Tony.
What you see above is a recently released trailer for GTA IV‘s latest expansion, The Ballad of Gay Tony, called ‘You’ll Always Be The King Of This Town’.
Some interesting things to make note of from the trailer are the introductions of UFC style cage fighting, sky diving and a whole lot of awesomeness.
Grand Theft Auto IV‘s The Ballad of Gay Tony will be made available through Xbox Live on October 29th for 1600 Microsoft Points. Alternatively you can pick the expansion up with The Lost & Damned as part of the Episodes From Liberty City retail bundle which will presumably ship around the same time.
If you didn’t know, Rockstar is gearing up to launch a GTA IV DLC retail bundle called Episodes From Liberty City that is to include both The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. The bundle is reportedly hitting store shelves this fall for $39.99 and will not require gamers to own the original GTA IV game.
Anyways, what you see above is the recently released official box art for the bundle for you to feast your eyes on.
