Rockstar would seem to be unphased by the possible impending purchase of its parent company, Take-Two, by Electronic Arts. It wants you to remain unfazed, too.
A visit to Rockstar's website (if you use Internet Explorer, anyway - we tried it in our browser of choice first and that didn't work) will flash up an image advising you to, "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON".
SPOnG put in a call to Rockstar for a bit more information on the image, but none was forthcoming. It looks, however, very much like a reaction to the fact that it may soon be absorbed into EA.
So, maybe it's actually advising itself to keep calm and carry on? Or maybe it's just bored out of its mind what with GTA IV almost ready to ship.
EA, if you've had your head up a tramps bottom for the last week, recently made an unsolicited offer to Take-Two's board to buy the company for just shy of $2 billion (£967 million).
The Rockstar team is a notorious bunch, having got Take-Two into all sorts of bother with the likes of the 'Hot Coffee' scandal. Many see keeping the creative talent there on side as one of the biggest hills EA will have to climb in its proposed acquisition of Take Two Interactive goes ahead.
Anyway, enough of those corporate shenanigans. SPOnG put its latest GTA IV hands-on up last night, we suggest you take a look here and then moan at Tim SPOnG on the Forum.
A visit to Rockstar's website (if you use Internet Explorer, anyway - we tried it in our browser of choice first and that didn't work) will flash up an image advising you to, "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON".
SPOnG put in a call to Rockstar for a bit more information on the image, but none was forthcoming. It looks, however, very much like a reaction to the fact that it may soon be absorbed into EA.
So, maybe it's actually advising itself to keep calm and carry on? Or maybe it's just bored out of its mind what with GTA IV almost ready to ship.
EA, if you've had your head up a tramps bottom for the last week, recently made an unsolicited offer to Take-Two's board to buy the company for just shy of $2 billion (£967 million).
The Rockstar team is a notorious bunch, having got Take-Two into all sorts of bother with the likes of the 'Hot Coffee' scandal. Many see keeping the creative talent there on side as one of the biggest hills EA will have to climb in its proposed acquisition of Take Two Interactive goes ahead.
Anyway, enough of those corporate shenanigans. SPOnG put its latest GTA IV hands-on up last night, we suggest you take a look here and then moan at Tim SPOnG on the Forum.
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Bentley 29 Feb 2008 13:05
1/5
Please don't do it, Take Two. A GTA game published by EA is bound to lose some soul and spirit. It could even mean the end for GTA as we know it... Oh dear, oh dear...
SuperSaiyan4 29 Feb 2008 13:23
2/5
Imagine how much content EA could charge for it they got hold of the GTA franchise?
Pack 1 - Includes steel bat with spikes, knuckle duster platinum for extra damage, gold M16 (must purchase in game) All for 400points...
Pack 2
Pack 3
You get the idea...Oh and all this content is already on the disc as well...
Pack 1 - Includes steel bat with spikes, knuckle duster platinum for extra damage, gold M16 (must purchase in game) All for 400points...
Pack 2
Pack 3
You get the idea...Oh and all this content is already on the disc as well...
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deleted 29 Feb 2008 13:27
3/5
When i see Bentley and SS4 both agreeing then we know its a deffo bad deal, just maybe guys the offer was rejected because of this and nothing to do with the cost, but a rejected EA offer could = a MS or Sony offer, therefore making GTA exclusive to one platform or another, funny if nintendo bought them, at least they could have mature gaming department.!
mrAnthony 29 Feb 2008 14:56
4/5
what i want to know is, where are SuperSaiyan 1, 2 and 3. what have you done with them, you hearless bastard, where are their bodies!?? where are their bodies!!!????
deleted 29 Feb 2008 17:49
5/5
mrAnthony wrote:
what i want to know is, where are SuperSaiyan 1, 2 and 3. what have you done with them, you hearless bastard, where are their bodies!?? where are their bodies!!!????
1, 2, 3 were prototypes, apparently though they were rejected by the villagers for they resembled humans far too closely and made people nervous, and as such they were disassembled and put into storage, number 4 is current model, although there are reports of rusty star of death and therefore a new model with a 45nm design is in the works, this model also sports HDMI and Wi-Fi and will be produced in all ethnic minority colours.
Also there is frimware fix for the spurting of bollox problem, and that will be released in the Autumn update.