Michael Hollick, the voice actor who portrayed Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV, blames his union for not protecting the talent.
According to a New York Times article, Hollick was paid roughly $100,000 USD over 15 months for his voice acting and motion-capture work on GTA IV. He takes issue with the fact that he will not receive royalties or residuals as he would for work on television programs, films, radio shows or albums.
Following the recent imminent shutdown of the All-Seeing Eye server browser, and the ongoing popularity of the Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas Race, we have decided to release an update to allow its players to continue playing, although we strongly recommend anyone to upgrade to the more recent Deathmatch releases due to their significantly extended functionality and active development.
The new release with version number v1.1.2 can be downloaded via the Race download page and contains the following notable changes:
* All-Seeing Eye server-browser has been removed in favour of a more reliable and faster replacement
* Removed redundant “MTA Center” references
* Removed support for built-in error reporterWe encourage people to provide us with any feedback or problems with the update (e.g. through our IRC channel).
The upcoming Developer Preview 3 release of Deathmatch will also include the server browser replacement among some other features and fixes and will be released shortly after.
Update: If you’re having errors about missing d3dx9_33.dll, download it from here and extract it to your GTA directory. Alternatively, download the latest DirectX updates by using this installer.
Active development of this project has ceased as of 11th May 2008, apart from any service or security updates.
The master list services have been taken over by littlewhitey of GTA-Host and this service has now been restored.
from: mtasa.com
As you may know, all our Multi Theft Auto versions up until now have relied on UDPSoft’s All-Seeing Eye system to list game servers you can play on. UDPSoft were bought out by Yahoo! back in September 2004.
Today, the acquisition by Yahoo! has resulted in the unfortunate shutdown of the entire All-Seeing Eye network. As a result, the server browser functionality in all released Multi Theft Auto versions will no longer work.
We are currently working with Game-Monitor.com, a server listing website affiliated with Multi Theft Auto to integrate a new server browsing system. This will be incorporated into the next version of Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas which we will be releasing as soon as possible.
In the meantime, we would strongly recommend you to use the following link that lists the current servers queried by Game-Monitor.com:
This slight inaccuracy was printed in a UK newspaper. The mistakes are obvious but I’ll point them out anyway. GTA IV is not on a Nintendo console, Nintendo does not make the XBOX 360 and Nintendo is not spelt Nintento.
Yahtzee, the popular, British born, fully ramblomatic, game crictic has reviewed GTA IV.
We gave up! kaput!
And we don’t wish to be a associated with this program anymore.
So please respect our copyright and license and do not distribute any of our files.
sa-mp.co.uk topic 1
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SA-MP.com
This is not the first time they have quit development and support but it may be the last time.
There is still MTA:SA
Looks like they were removed from youtube.com – This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by a third party.
A More Friendly Tamer Grand Theft Auto
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