Google Maps Can't Resist Liberty City [Gta Iv]

Liberty City's a big place. Huge place. Lots of roads, lots of places to see, lots of ways to get lost. Lucky, then, that your woeful Liberty City navigation skills can be bailed out just as easily as your real-world navigation skills, with Google Maps helping set up an interactive map of GTA IV. On ...

News: GTA IV: Most expensive game ever developed?

Producer estimates price tag of $100 million and notes criticism comes mostly from people who haven't played the game

Rockstar Makes A Grand Theft Auto IV Fan Of Jack Thompson [Gta Iv]

Looks like someone was hitting the local GameStop midnight launch in his best cabana wear, as that puffiness and scruffiness is clearly indicative that the self-promoting attorney was pulling an all-nighter. Jack sent the above pic into tips, I presume, to fanboy out with us. We don't know your Gamertag, ...

News: Portal was offered to XBLA, but rejected

Multi award-winning title unsuitable for download platform due to size, and other reasons

Is Ubuntu usable enough for a non-tech-savvy girlfriend yet?

The author asks his girlfriend to perform simple tasks using a fresh Ubuntu installation. It's surprising how some of the simple things we assume to be easy are actually hard for someone who's never used Linux. Interesting insight into how ready Linux is for the desktop.

Metareview -- Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360, PS3)

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, Metareviews Carjack a vehicle and call your favorite escort, it's time for the GTA IV reviews to start flowing in. The embargo on non "exclusive reviews" is over and media outlets are chiming in with initially glowing reviews. Here ...

File Sharing Site Offers 250GB Storage Free to Diggers

This story is geared towards Diggers and I just signed up for it and liked the interface, and the ability to make files either private or public and send someone a download link rather than emailing a big file. 250GB free online storage...wow.

Self-diagnosing Fanboyism [Fanboys]

Destructoid has a handy list, on the heels of TechRadar's "Signs you are no longer a hardcore gamer." Now, Kotaku is an open environment where fanboys are very evidently welcome. But fanboyism is, like terrible driving and owning yap dogs. In case of the former, no one admits to it. The latter, well, ...

Assassin's Creed, I Can't Quit You [Oh Come On Goddammit]

You know, I don't play Assassin's Creed, I don't own a PC, don't game on PCs, but every time I watch this video I feel a mixture of amusement, sympathy and outrage. Plus I love the jolly music. I imagine it as an accompaniment to some poor bastard stepping on rakes and skateboards cleaning out his garage. ...

GTA IV multimedia updates

Gameplay videos and new screenshots have been popping up all over the internet this morning to go along with the online reviews: IGN have addded 15 new screenshots to their GTA IV gallery.In addition, IGN have also uploaded 13 new videos of miscellaneous gameplay action.GamesRadar have added 18 gameplay ...

GTA IV technical Q&A

One of our members, PHiLCORE, has posted a very informative Q&A for GTA IV concerning technical limitations and features as well as some extra bits of information. Something that stood out was that if you're not liking the sound of the new control scheme from what you've heard so far, you can switch ...

GTA Talk

Several webmasters of Grand Theft Auto fan sites will be broadcasting live at 8:00 p.m. EST tonight, discussing our trip to New York City as well as several aspects of Grand Theft Auto IV. To listen in, click below

The Grand Theft Auto IV video dump

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Driving With today's dissolution of the embargo on all things Grand Theft Auto IV, came a veritable deluge of reviews and media related to the game. By now, we've seen all the teasers released by Rockstar, and read the write-ups which ...

Reminder: Mario Kart Wii has voice chat, it's called XBL, PSN, Skype, etc.

Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Driving We thought it'd be best to reprint our advice from the Super Smash Bros. Brawl release: if you want to chat up your friends while doing laps in Mario Kart Wii, here are five options we found -- harnessing the power of other consoles or a com-pu-ter -- for chatting up ...

GTA IV achievements revealed ... can you kill a Rockstar dev?

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure The folks at Xbox 360 Achievements (warning: minor spoilers in link) have posted what they're saying is the official achievement list for Grand Theft Auto IV. There are 50 gamerscore-increasing tasks you must accomplish for a total of 1000 points. The ...