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Interviews with Rockstar North’s Aaron & Les

As part of the 10 year anniversary celebration for GTA: Vice City, Rockstar North producer Leslie Benzies and Art Director Aaron Garbut took to the web for a series of interviews looking back at the development of the game. While most of the interviews relate to Vice City, there were a few questions and answers relating to more recent things

GTAV Spring 2013 release date announced

Rockstar Games today officially announced the Spring 2013 release date for Grand Theft Auto V, which will be available for pre-order starting next week on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Rockstar says:Developed by series creator Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto V takes place in a re-imagined, present-day Southern California in the largest and most thriving game-world we have ever created

GTAV Easter Egg in Max Payne 3

GTAForums user CantPauseToast made a pretty cool discovery while playing Max Payne 3. He found an office with images of planes up on the wall which look like they were recorded in-game. However, the planes don’t appear in Max Payne 3, and 2 of them look identical to the planes featured in last year’s Grand Theft Auto V debut trailer. GTAV images in Max Payne

Max Payne 3: Hands-on Preview

Two weeks ago, Max Payne & Rockstar Games fansite webmasters were flown in from around the world for a weekend of Max Payne 3 action. Held in Rockstar’s backyard of south-central Manhattan, this was the largest fansite event that the R* team has ever hosted. We’re extremely grateful for the opportunity to check out the game and meet other fansite

GTA V Multiplayer to feature “Crews”

In a new interview with IGN focused on Max Payne 3, Dan Houser has revealed that GTA V’s multiplayer will support “Crews” that are to be introduced with Max Payne 3 and will be used in future Rockstar titles. Crews are essentially clan-like groups where you are rewarded for playing with other members of your crew and completing objectives together. You will

L.A. Noire: Exclusive Fansite Preview Event

Last weekend, Rockstar Games kindly invited illspirit, Jevon, Andy and I to Los Angeles to experience L.A. Noire first-hand ahead of its release next month. We stayed at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (which happens to feature in-game) where we met up with various other fan site operators and contest winners. At previous events hosted by Rockstar, we played together in a single

Rockstar Social Club

To coincide with the release of GTA IV, Rockstar will be launching a brand new website called the Rockstar Social Club. Registration for the club opens up on April 15th (mmm, tax day here in the US..), and it will apparently feature all kinds of multiplayer leaderboards and stat tracking. On top of the standard multiplayer ranking stuff, a press release

Midnight Club: Los Angeles Preview

Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) is the game engine currently being used by Rockstar Games to develop upcoming titles Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles. Kikizo have just released an extensive first-hand preview of Midnight Club: LA, which we felt was worth mentioning since it gives a fair insight into how the RAGE engine performs. Check it out:

New York City Upset by GTA4’s Setting

New York City authorities are upset at the new Grand Theft Auto being set in their city. According to the NY Daily News (via Game Politics and /.), the city councilman and other city authorities have spoken out in condemnation of GTA IV. The city councilman had this little gem to add: “Setting Grand Theft Auto in the safest big city in America would be

Euphoria Engine’s Possibilities for GTA IV

Rockstar and NaturalMotion announced a partnership on February 27, 2007. While the announcement itself was predictably vague, GTA fans immediately caught on, and found several revealing clues. The announcement itself, reads as follows (shortened and emphasized at GTANet’s discretion): “Oxford, UK — Feb. 27, 2007 — NaturalMotion, the award-winning developer of 3D animation technology based on Dynamic Motion Synthesis (DMS), today announced