Crime caper Grand Theft Auto IV has been yanked off Thailand’s shelves after a teen confessed to murdering a taxi driver, having been inspired by the carjacking title.
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Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, has hinted that Grand Theft Auto IV could be coming to the Wii, making arm-swinging car-jacking a real possibility.
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It’s time to crack open the bubbly, because there won’t be a Grand Theft Auto movie after all. Rumours were spreading that GTA would be turned into a blockbuster, possibly starring rapper Eminem, but they’ve been shot down by a legal settlement.
Given how bad game movies tend to be, that’s not a bad thing.
There’s no doubting that Grand Theft Auto 4 made a lot of people smile. Hardly surprising since it became the fastest selling video game in 24 hours. But now you don’t even need a console to get in on the action: one dedicated fan has made her own GTA4 from paper, complete with a vicious-looking cut-out Niko.
Nintendo’s been crowing about its April sales, shouting that the Wii was the biggest-selling console, despite GTA 4’s release on Xbox 360 and PS3 in the same month.
Sony has just unleashed the newest PS3 firmware update, pushing software version 2.35 down the broadband lines of giddy gamers. So what does it do? Give Freeview access? Prep your console for the belated PlayStation Home? Enable the PS3′s secret time-travel capabilities?
You go and create a game based on killing, car jacking and general law breaking and next thing you know virus writers start using it as bait to try and snare unknowing internet miscreants looking to download hokey copies.