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New York, NY – August 6, 2008 – Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce that Grand Theft Auto IV will be arriving on the PC on November 18th in North America and on the 21st in Europe, Australia, New Zealand.

"We are very excited to be releasing the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV," said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. "The whole team is dedicated to bringing an amazing gaming experience to the PC. The game looks and plays beautifully on PC and we can’t wait for people to play it."

Developed by series creator Rockstar North and set in Liberty City, the latest installment in the enormously successful Grand Theft Auto series features a painstakingly detailed and life-like city for players to explore; a rich, immersive narrative experience; an original soundtrack highlighting the cultural eclecticism of Liberty City; and newly expanded multiplayer just for the PC .

For more information please visit: rockstargames.com/IV

Source: Press release

A series of amusing live action GTA IV parodies.  There will be 9 in total.

Citizens of GTA: The Date
Citizens of GTA: Pool Party
Citizens of GTA: Streets of Danger

Download HD versions from ign.com

Rockstar Games has sent out emails to all those who achieved 100% completion in Grand Theft Auto IV within those first 3 weeks of the game’s release and registered on the Social Club website.

To confirm eligibility for your “ultra-limited edition key to the city” prize, you are required to fill out a contest form included in the email, as well as print, sign, and return said form to Rockstar Games using one of the listed methods noted on the form.

Congratulations to all winners of the GTA IV 100% Club Contest!

via: gtagaming.com
source: socialclub.rockstargames.com

We are pleased to present today’s launch of the all-new Millionaires Club – recognizing and celebrating all of the wealthy seven-figure Grand Theft Auto IV players at the Rockstar Games Social Club. Millionaire status is determined by totaling all of the money you’ve ever earned in single-player-mode from completing missions, winning races, doing vigilante side-jobs, and fortuitously picking up ‘dropped’ money in the street.

Come and see if you are a bona fide Millionaire, as well as where your single-player time to reach a million compares against all the other nouveaux riche ‘business men’ of Liberty City. If you would like to see just how rich your fellow Millionaires are, you can mouse over each for a quick glimpse of their lifetime single-player money earned. With three leaderboards ranked by who’s become a Millionaire first, who’s done it quickest, and who is the richest in the City. Grand Theft Auto IV Social Club registrants, simply enter the Social Club and click on the GTAIV area to browse to the Millionaire’s Club to see if you’ve earned access.

socialclub.rockstargames.com

You are no longer asked “Are you sure you want to join?”

mpaddon and GH no longer cut off anything important if your Windows fonts are on large or extra large

Removed the splitter bar and made the names, CC and status columns fixed width

Removed the ping column from the names list since it didn’t display a ping value for 99% of players and was just wasting screen space

Changed controls to flat view with a 1 pixel border

Switched the chatbox back to richtext so you can use ctrl+a

Disabled ctrl+o since it could disconnect you unintentionally

Player count is now shown in the header of the names column as a number in round brackets

Fixed a problem with loading settings (only happened if ServerNum was set higher than 7 by an old version of GH)

Fixed a bug that stopped saved column widths from being restored

mpaddon.exe (the enhanced GTA2 network window) now displays the hosts game comment

the topic now displays on one line (if it doesn’t fit, you have to scroll)

Download GTA2 Game Hunter v1.491

When you change the map name on the GTA2 host screen, the map name in GH will also change (there is a delay)

The chatbox is given focus after you click on a nick in the nick list

Alert sounds can be muted while GTA2 is open

Alert sound can now by played for a custom word (it defaults to your IRC nick)

The settings form is reloaded after browsing for the GTA2 folder. This should fix a bug that sometimes didn’t save the GTA2 folder location.

The country lists in settings now display flags

Readded the enhanced GTA2 network screen (mpaddon.exe) by Jernej

The nickserv password in settings is no longer hidden

Changed the chatbox from richtext to standard (this fixes some font displaying issues but it might create new ones if you use non english language)

The IRC server list is now read from servers.ini and if it doesn’t exist then hardcoded servers are used. Port is still hardcoded to 8067 for now.

When you use the /quit command, the IRC server that you will connect to next is no longer changed

Change “message to” and “message from” to “to” and “from”

Removed some status messages (game was removed from list, GTA2 is listening for joiners)

Fixed a bug that resized the column splitter if you clicked the right mouse button on the chat history and then clicked the scrollwheel button

Updated flags and country names:
“Zaire – ZR” is now “Congo, Democratic Republic – CD”
“East Timor – TP” is now “Timor-Leste – TL”

Removed:
“USSR (former) – SU”
“Yugoslavia – YU”

Currently missing flags for:
“Ecuador – EC”
“Timor-Leste – TL”

Download GTA2 Game Hunter v1.49

Today is my birthday!