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Minor Updates & New Chat Server

With the holiday season having just passed and people still recovering from the parties, it’s a rather slow time for GTA news. There are of course the continuing allegations of San Andreas encouraging violence, but I think we’ve all seen enough of those and there’s no need to post every single one of them. In other news, our chat network has expanded

Happy 2005!

From the staff here at GTANet I’d like to wish all of our visitors a happy new year. 2004 has been a great year for the network and all the fans with the run-up to the release of San Andreas and release of the long anticipated game. We look forward to a successful 2005 which will feature the release of both

Official GTANET IRC Channel Launch

A while ago we received an interesting offer from two regulars on our forums, Smithers2 and TwoZero, who run an IRC server and offered to host a GTANET IRC channel. Earlier this week we accepted their offer, and the chat room was opened up a few days ago. Since then, news has been spreading about it by simple word-of-mouth, and now we have

SAM – The San Andreas Java Map

Introducing, Sam – the San Andreas Java Map created by Azkoyen that enables you to select and view the locations of health icons, two-player locations, gifts, police bribes, unique stunt locations and more.

Tricks & Minor Updates

*Contains Spoilers* First of all, this awesome guide was written by Undergroundarts, and provides instructions on how to explore areas of Liberty City during the mission ‘Saint Mark’s Bistro’. Once you arrive at Saint Mark’s: Shoot off all of Forelli’s bodyguards, but do not kill Forelli. When you are at the back of the bistro (outside), push the car away from Forelli. To do this,

Site Development Continues…

Just want to give you guys a heads-up on what’s moving and shaking on the site. I’m sure you don’t check every page daily for updates (if you do, you need a head check), so here’s a quick overview. We’ve started working on a little guide of our own, focusing on the main storyline missions. Available right now are the introductory, Los

Updated Soundtrack Section

The new soundtrack page has just gone up, with all the information so far about the standalone soundtrack boxset and the radio stations. Don’t forget to come back later on in the day for information on Gamespot’s Saturday preview, and pay us a visit on Monday, when we’ll be the first to bring you word on the official track listings.

Fansite Exclusive Screenshots

We’ve been kindly sent 5 screenshots by Rockstar which will be exclusive to fansites for the next 24 hours. This means you won’t see these on any gaming sites! Rockstar also promised fansite exclusives every month up until San Andreas’ release, so keep checking back.

Yesterday’s Downtime

This is just a brief note addressing the downtime that the network experienced yesterday. The downtime was a result of some server-side tinkering to help improve the speed of the websites, and remove all the clutter from our databases. Everything should be back on track now, and there shouldn’t be any problems. If you do encounter an issue of some

Previews section updated.

Just a little note that our previews section has been updated with the new September publications (GamesTM, GMR, Gamestar and PSM2UK), as well as the Bravo Screenfun preview from August.