Scott Steinberg’s look at online gaming

April 26th, 2008

Scott Steinberg, one of the better gaming journos out there, is producing a bunch of videos about online gaming for DigtialTrends called “Players Only.” The coverage is fairly basic but there are lots of cool interviews and ideas presented.
Wake up and quit playing with yourself: Today’s hottest games can be found online! This week on [...]

CrunchArcade: Pirates downloading GTA IV like it’s their job

April 26th, 2008

Yes, as we all know, Grand Theft Auto IV was leaked onto the Internet earlier this week. But just how many people have grabbed the game, roughly, from some of the bigger sites out there?
Blackcats-Games, one of the biggest private, games-only BitTorrent trackers, has 45,747 users, of which a total of 4,207 users have snatched [...]

GTA IV gameplay in aache dee

April 26th, 2008

GTA 4 Video (720p) - www.cgaming.com from Someone on Vimeo.
I’m really wondering what happened that let R*’s crown jewel out so early. Folks have been playing this game since last Wednesday and it doesn’t launch until the 29th, a strange bit of highly professional piracy indeed. Oh well. R*’s loss is our gain as we [...]

Live podcast at 1:00 PM Eastern today

April 25th, 2008

Join us in about an hour for the CrunchGear and Friends live podcast on BlogTalkRadio.com — we’ll be talking about a whole bunch of stuff from the past week, like Grand Theft Auto IV, new Apple products, and a whole lot more. It’s gonna be a real hoot.
You can chat with us during the [...]

CrunchArcade: GTA IV pre-order and launch details for the big retails

April 25th, 2008

Why all the hullabaloo about this game? It’s just a murder simulator, people! but if you must be there to get it the day it comes out, your favorite retailer has probably made an announcement on how and where to go about it. Best Buy has a store list, Wal-Mart’s internal plan was leaked, and [...]

CrunchArcade: Some kid playing GTA IV live on Justin.tv!

April 24th, 2008

Watch live video from sculay’s channel on Justin.tv
Want to see some British kid playing Grand Theft Auto IV 100 percent LIVE? Yes!!
The soon-to-be-sued young man set up a Justin.tv feed of himself playing a pirated copy of the game. He’s pretty hardcore about it: full audio, takes requests in the chat room (”Turn on electrochoc!” [...]

Sweater Friends Episode 2: The Fall of Facebook, Oink, and Virgin Mobile

April 24th, 2008

In an effort to appear as animals as often as possible, the Sweater Friends will be shown weekly recapping our Friday podcasts. This week’s episode: Virgin Mobile, Nicholas Kills Oink, Matt’s Package, and Facebook Follies.
Listen to us weekly on the CrunchGear Live Podcast, Fridays at 1:00 PM EST.

GTA IV media bonanza: box pics, review scans, gameplay video

April 23rd, 2008

Video switched. Real gameplay in this one after about a minute.
Don’t ask me where it came from, but here is a little splash of GTA action. Box shots, intro/gameplay video, and the last page of a review scanned from the Xbox 360 World review.

Excellent. I figured the sources probably did not [...]

I’m downloading GTA IV right now

April 23rd, 2008

Does that make me bad? Sadly it’s only in PAL but I’m going to give a shot regardless. You’ll be able to find this yourself without much trouble, but Kotaku has calls in to R* to figure out how the heck this leaked.

Interview with Rockstar founder Sam Houser

April 23rd, 2008

1UP.com got a chance to interview Sam Houser, founder of Rockstar — the company behind a little series called “Grand Theft Auto,” which is apparently quite popular with the kids these days.
Houser talks about living in New York (he’s British) and the places he finds unique and interesting, like Brighton Beach, which inspired Hove [...]

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