Downloading legally in a criminal world

The soundtracks from the “Grand Theft Auto” games have long been lauded as super-extra-hipster-awesome. But if you’ve ever heard a catchy tune and then tried to find it online, you know how time-consuming that can be.

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Maker Defends School 'Bully' Video Game

The creators of the popular, but oft-criticized "Grand Theft Auto" games are set to release a new title in which players assume the role of a 15-year-old wannabe tough guy, a premise that drew outcry almost as soon as it was announced last year.

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Rockstar Continues to Diss PS3 Owners

In the late 1990's, a game was released on Playstation that changed the video game industry forever: Grand Theft Auto. As a proud Playstation gamer, I was excited to explore this game, which was, as far as I knew, the very first game of its kind.

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Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for iPhone and iPod touch

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PSP owners expecting a Liberty City Stories-styled facelift for the upcoming port of Chinatown Wars may be a little disappointed. One glance at the first batch of PSP screenshots shows that the game hasn't strayed far from its DS origins.

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Rockstar is bringing the newest chapter of the GTA IV saga to the Xbox 360 in a little over three months, as The Ballad of Gay Tony releases on October 29th!

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Did you know ultra-conservative talk radio guy Michael Savage has intimate family connections to Rockstar Energy Drink? If lawyers for the company have their way, you wouldn't, because over the past week they've started going after people who have publicized the connection.

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Rockstar has announced the next downloadable content for its hit game Grand Theft Auto 4. The expansion called Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony will hit the Xbox 360 this fall for $19 or 1600 microsoft points.

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Very insightful article by Joe Klein of Time Magazine - summing up President Obama's first 100 days in office. Personally, I so happy with our new President. I feel he is the most awesome president in his first 100 days since FDR. We are behind you 100%, Mr.

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Battle of Two big Franchises

In the next week we see the release of two big franchises on the DS. And I have to wonder if they will effect each other. On March 17th we see the release of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown wars so far it is getting rave reviews. It currently has a metacritic rating of 95.

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Red Dead Redemption is a prequel to the Rockstar title, Red Dead Revolver. Not much has been said at this point but we have some screens and Sam Houser is impressed by it;

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Everyone's favorite ex-lawyer is at it again.

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Rockstar's crime thriller L.A. Noire "could be the biggest budget videogame in development anywhere in the world", according to Tom Crago, the CEO of Tantalus and the president of the Game Developers' Association of Australia.

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A pro-smoking campaign launched in Denmark by one of the country's best-known rockstars features a notorious Nazi slogan. The country's modest Jewish community is refusing to take offense.

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A Thai video game distributor has stopped selling Grand Theft Auto, after a local teenager went on a self-confessed GTA style murder and robbery rampage.

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Rockstar's recent TV advert for its controversial Grand Theft Auto IV game on the Xbox 360 has been let off the hook by the Advertising Standards Authority.

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"We find yesterday that enemy combatants at Guantanamo are to get more due process from federal judges than what I am to have. I guess my "mistake" was not killing 3000 people to make my point ... I demand a hearing," Thompson wrote in the letter to Moreno.

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The Joy of GTA

It's been about a month now since Grand Theft Auto IV changed the way I look at the world.

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Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest iteration of the hit video game franchise, racked up first-week sales of $500 million, Take-Two Interactive, the game's publisher, plans to announce on Wednesday. The report exceeded the sales expectations of analysts.

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GTAIV: First Impressions from a GTA Skeptic

Yesterday, what may end up being the biggest game of the year finally hit store shelves, much to the delight of fans. While critics trip over themselves to heap praise on the game, I'm taking a somewhat more moderated approach.

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Fanboy may be a stretch, but he did send in a picture of his smiling self with a copy of GTA IV to Kotaku on launch day. I'm sure it's for "research" though.

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Earlier today we broke the news that some Grand Theft Auto IV gamers were having problems with the game on both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Let's get this out of the way at the beginning. "Grand Theft Auto IV" features bad language, violence and morally reprehensible behavior. So does the Martin Scorsese film "Goodfellas."

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It's not that Rockstar founder Sam Houser is a man of few words. Get him talking about Grand Theft Auto IV and the British-born executive producer of the GTA series will fill two hours of audio tape. He'll go on about how his game's Russian accents trump Hollywood's.

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Former blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has tentatively settled a lawsuit against the Rockstar energy drink company over the use of his picture to promote the product. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed in court papers filed Friday in Superior Court.

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'A judge has suspended the sale of the video game Bully in Brazil on the grounds that its content is too violent for young children and teenagers, a prosecutor said Thursday.

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Every company is a tech company these days. From software startups to hedge funds to pharmaceutical giants to big media, they're all increasingly in the business of software. Quality code has become not only a necessity, but a competitive differentiator.

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