Tag: grand theft auto
Red Dead Redemption – Review
Name: Red Dead Redemption Genre: 3rd person open-world adventure Platform: Xbox 360 (reviewed), PS3 Price: £34.99 (Amazon) The sun bears down on a dusty, scorched town, the only island of habitation for miles in a sea of sand and…
Cowboys in videogames – saddling up for Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption, the open-world cowboy adventure from the brains behind the Grand Theft Auto series, is shaping up to be one of the must-have games of the year. A stunning take on Sergio Leone style Spaghetti Westerns, it's a…
Schools using Grand Theft Auto to teach right from wrong
Grand Theft Auto games are always coming under fire from moral pressure groups for being too violent, but here's a story to turn the whole argument on its head. Primary school children in eight Merseyside schools are being shown images…
Switzerland set to ban violent videogames
Here's some bad news for gamers living in Switzerland; a new law has just been passed in the country which will see any game given a PEGI 16+ or 18+ rating banned from sale. The new ruling states that any…
Just Cause 2 's Peter Johansson – Interview
Just Cause 2 is one of the craziest open-world games we've seen here at Tech Digest. We caught up with lead designer Peter Johansson and asked his thoughts on how he feels the grappling hook-wielding explode-a-thon has turned out. The…
Details of the scrapped Grand Theft Auto film unearthed
Movies based on games are invariably bad. Resident Evil, Mortal Combat; both naff. Don't even get me started on the Chun-Li movie, though I do have a silly soft spot for the Bob Hoskins-fronted Mario Bros. film. One game that…
App Store Weekly Round-Up: Jan 20th
It's that time of the week again, when Tech Digest round up all that is good and great from the last seven day's additions to the App Store. This week, the App Store gets its first killer game with the…
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars hits the App Store
Here's one to bolster the argument that the iPhone is a bona-fide gaming console; Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is now available for the iPhone. The perspective has changed, but the idea remains the same; from a top-down viewpoint players…
GTA Chinatown finally given a date for the DS
Forget all this Walk with me! nonsense, Rock Star has announced the release of a proper game for the Nintendo DS this March and it’s the one we’ve all been waiting for – GTA Chinatown WARS!
It’s a more or less simultaneous worldwide release on…
GTA: Chinatown Wars to feature drug-dealing minigame
There was a promise of “tasteful minigames” for the forthcoming DS version of the bazillion-selling GTA franchise. I guess that’s out the window, because one of the games is drug-dealing, where you can sell heroin, cocaine, weed, ecstasy, acid and downers. It’ll get you cash that you can then spend on weapons, or body armour. Rockstar VP Dan Houser said…
