Okay okay! We got an e-mail from Rockstar Games today that GTA IV is hitting the PC. Finally. Way to go every PC person. Looks like Rockstar Games loved playing cat & mouse with every media last year as we were all told that a PC version was “doubtful.” But, as some of you have so politely contacted me through e-mail to discuss the burden of the thought of there never being a PC version, we all knew it was coming.

Seriously Rockstar where do you get off? The nerve! The GTA IV PC version is stated for a November release. Have fun guys.

Press Release After This

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Rockstar UK and Rockstar North introduce you to your character as he is arriving on a ship called the platypuss. Your character Niko Bellic is a Eastern European immigrant seeking to sample the American dream which seems easy until you meet his not so honest cousin Roman Bellic after Niko’s arrival to the city.

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Do you like music? Well, how about the music in Rockstar Games’ GTA IV? We have a treat for you as Rockstar just announced Liberty City Invasion: Music From and Inspired By GTA IV.

Z-Twig here I come. More after the jump.

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Liberty City is one heck of a big place. You can walk around for hours, and never quite understand all of it or even discover all of it, but rest assured there’s a guide to help you in that. The Grand Theft Auto IV Signature Series Guide is the guardian angel of an exclusive relationship between Rockstar Games and BradyGames, offering fans of the series all they need to know to come out king on top. Written by Tim Bogenn and Rick Barba, the guide is comprised of 288 pages with a 10-page foldout full of information that would take someone on both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 years to amass. With such a valuable resource in hand, gamers will come to not just do whatever is needed to be done in Liberty City but mostly live life in the city to its fullest.

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Guess intelligence is a pre-requisite to work at Gamestop.

You must be born on 4/29 or Earlier to Buy GTA IV! [Destructoid blogs]

Probably not nearly as bad as this guy. After losing all electricity for his apartment (for not paying the bills) he headed over to his friend’s house and took root in the only room available, the bathroom.

Never mind, I don’t need to go anymore

We forgot to pay the power bill…[jordanmessina.com]

If you ordered your copy of GTA4 through the mail, you might not be getting it. Some UPS people have been stealing copies of GTA4, which would certainly explain why my copy hasn’t arrived yet. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m suing them! Who would’ve ever thought that the men in brown would steal from people? (I’m referring to the UPS dudes here, not other brown men who contribute as much to society as all the other people on the color spectrum)

Damn you UPS!!

Grand Theft UPS: copies of GTA stolen en route to retailers [Ars Technica]

How do you know when your game is a huge hit? When you’ve got one of its characters plastered on the side of a frickin building, that’s when!!

Can I get that on the side of my house?

GTA4 Wanted [Flickr]

Looking to buy a new Next Gen system with your copy of GTA4? Sony has got your back! They’re releasing a new bundle that’ll come with a copy of GTA4.

The price listed is 4499kr, which is the same as the Gran Turismo 5 bundle that launched just over a week ago. While availability in other countries has not been announced, this indicates that the GTA bundle should sell for £299.99 in the United Kingdom and €399.99 elsewhere.

Sure this version won’t include the exclusive DLC the 360 will get, but the game does come free with every PS3 system. I wonder if this’ll help the PS3 sell more units than 360 GTA4 launches.

GTA IV PS3 bundle coming to Europe [GTA Gaming]

There are 15 multiplayer game modes in GTA IV apparently. The rules of each game are determined by each mode. Does this mean no traditional RANKED GAMES??? Cue the small voice of disappointment.

Multi-player supports up to 16 players. Your online character is fully customizable, and you can alter his race, sex, hair, clothing etc to sexy him up. Yes ladies! You can play females too apparently.

The game modes featured are as follows:

1. Hangman’s NOOSE
2. Car Jack City
3. Bomb da Base
4. Bomb da Base II
5. Mafia Work
6. Team Mafia Work
7. Deathmatch
8. Team Deathmatch
9. Turf War
10. Cops N Crooks
11. Race
12. GTA Race
13. Deal Breaker
14. Free Mode
15.Car Jack City

Strip joints and comedy clubs are in the game, in a way that is “enough to make your head spin.” You can see planes flying through the airport, and if you look closely you’ll even see the pilots. Driving alongside one earned the test a 4-star wanted level. Niko managed to get this response from a cop he encountered: “I’m a cop… and you’re a dickhead!” Houser wasn’t able to elaborate much on the subject of multi-player, however, he did say that is was possible to get together online just to chill out in-game: “I’ll meet you in a car and we’ll hang and just drive and listen to music, chilling in the car, with your 3D model sat next to me,” he says. Newer cars’ paint jobs will look a lot nicer than older cars, which will look rusted and bland. Bullet holes and dirt are permanent markings on cars. Structural damage is possible, “ripping chunks out of the plaster with gunfire.What if these game modes are all a lie and some BS Rockstar made up for the hell of it?–WOULD THIS MAKE THE CONSUMER MAD? Probably.

Microsoft has released an offer that many fans of the GTA franchise cannot refuse. They have offered that if you pre-order the game through select retailers, you’ll receive a bonus 500 Microsoft Points absolutely FREE save them up for down loadable episodes that will be released soon. You’ll also receive codes to download exclusive GTA IV gamerpics. WHO CARES. But: What if the PS3 also got exclusive content as well as the 360? Perhaps a lot of screams of angst and tears of joy.