Like most gamers, the first thing I tried out when I got my hands on Grand Theft Auto IV was the multiplayer. Unsure of how to do pretty much anything, I scoured the manual for some clues. Unfortunately there in no mention of muliplayer.
Today Rockstar Games released a guide containing all the info necessary to get started on GTA IV’s multiplayer.
If you still feel like a noob every time you log on, hit the jump for the full guide. Continued…
Rockstar Games has confirmed that they have released a patch for the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV. Specifically, the patch addresses the issues dealing with online play.
“Rockstar Games has released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3 today that prevents Gamespy’s servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up. We continue to monitor the performance of the game both on and offline and will provide further updates as necessary. We want to assure everyone that, together with our hardware partners, we continue to strive to give our fans the best possible interactive entertainment experiences possible. This update will ensure that everyone will experience Grand Theft Auto IV the way it was intended. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.”
Jason Sanders, Project Manager at GGL, bought Grand Theft Auto IV like everyone else yesterday. However, the clerk at Best Buy neglected to remove the game’s plastic security case while Jason was signing for his credit card.
Find out what happens when you get between a man and his GTA IV below.
As I am sure many of you have discovered, as you eagerly unwrapped your long preordered copies of Grand Theft Auto IV, packaged with the game is a free month of Xbox Live Gold. If the numerous 100% reviews weren’t enough to convince you, maybe this will push you over the edge. I cannot stress to you guys how much fun the multiplayer in GTA IV is. In fact as i write this, my roommates and I are passing around the controller taking turns causing havoc across Liberty City.
This tactic of offering a free month is great, as it will undoubtedly lead to year long subscriptions from players that normally would not have experienced GTA IV multiplayer.
Much like how Take 2 gobbled up Irrational Games and assimilated it into 2K Boston, Illusion Softworks has now joined the ranks of the Take 2 army.
The newly named 2K Czech, developer of the Hidden & Dangerous and Mafia franchises, stated: “We have an excellent working relationship with 2K Games and the utmost respect for them. We are pleased to become a 2K studio and are confident that this new partnership will strengthen our current and future projects.”
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I find it kind of unnerving that all these studios are being bought up. First Pandemic and Bioware are picked up by EA. Then Activision and Blizzard merged. Soon there will be only be three major game companys, Activison Blizzard, EA Games and Take 2. Thank God there is a thriving independent games scene to battle these corporate titans.
The full press release can be found here at BusinessWire.
