Author: Sektor
GTA IV tribute art by Patrick Brown
Gay Tony preview in Xbox World 360 magazine
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Xbox World 360 Magazine contains an eight-page preview of The Ballad of Gay Tony. Here’s a rundown on some of the new stuff mentioned:
Xbox World 360 is on sale now in the UK.
- The HUD (Heads-Up-Display) is a “Parma Violet-style pink/purple”.
- The Ballad of Gay Tony should feature around 20 missions (roughly the same as The Lost and Damned).
- Missions get scored out of 100% depending on your style and efficiency. You can re-play missions at any time in order to improve your scores.
- Three nightclubs are accessible – Bahama Mamas, Hercules and Maisonette 9. Luis is tasked with managing Hercules and Maisonette 9 – the two clubs which belong to Gay Tony. Hercules was off-limits during this preview.
- The golf course in Algonquin behind Memory Lanes is open for business! A golfing minigame is available.
- New websites have been added to the in-game internet.
- A new car based on a Bentley continental Convertible is called the Super Drop Diamond.
- One of the new random character missions involves “a mental ex-girlfriend of Luis’ who places a bomb in his car, leading to a race to disarm it.”
- Four missions were previewed during the demo
Meet Tony Prince – aka Gay Tony
GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony trailer
The debut trailer for “Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City” has been released. It is titled “You’ll Always Be The King of This Town” and is comprised entirely of in-game footage. It shows sky diving, golf carts, new helicopters, fight club, dancing and more.
It’s also on gametrailers.com.
GTA: Chinatown Wars PSP release date
@RockstarGames wrote Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars coming October 20th for PSP. First screens and more coming soon.
It will be available on UMD and as a digital download.
MTA San Andreas 1.0 released
Download from: mtasa.com
Patrick Brown does Gay Tony
Rockstar dated Gay Tony
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City will be released on the 29th of October 2009 for XBOX 360. It will include “The Lost and Damned” and “The Ballad of Gay Tony”. It will not require GTA IV. The RRP will be $39.99 in North America and $69.95 in Australia.
The Ballad of Gay Tony will also be available from XBOX Live and is expected to cost 1600 Microsoft Points ($19.99 USD). This cheaper version will require the GTA IV disc.
GTA2 news
There has been a lot of GTA2 activity in the past few months.
B-$hep is creating a GTA2 map editor in Delphi.
Black Phoenix is reverse engineering GTA2 and creating OpenGBH/OpenGTA2 in C++.
T.M. is working on a map viewer and automated minimap generator in C++ and he might even make a PHP version. It can be used to create some really great images.
Vike the Hube has been patching GTA2.exe using his ASM coding magic.
Sektor and Ben Millard have been working on GTA2 Game Hunter.
None of these projects are really ready for the public yet. I plan to release a public beta of GTA2 Game Hunter v1.5 in the near future.
The petition to release GTA2 source code, now has over 2000 signatures.
GTA2’s 10th anniversary is this year!