Rockstar Games' 2005 action game launching next week on PlayStation Network for $10. Full Story

Rockstar's Vancouver studio will be gradually moved to a new, larger facility in Oakville, Ontario; studio expansion is being supported by the Ontario government. Full Story

CEO has doubts about big-screen experiences on phones and tablets, says 90 percent of business still comes from packaged games; Take-Two and Rockstar franchise sales totals tallied. Full Story

Publisher posts $8.7 million loss on revenues of $334.4 million in April-June period; Red Dead Redemption franchise sells 11 million. Full Story

Take-Two releases new sales statistics for open-world action game; franchise life-to-date sales climb over 100M; Red Dead sells 8 million, BioShock franchise also sells 8 million. Full Story

Then-series developer DMA Design's Gary Penn says top-down title nearly shelved because it was "awful"; GTA: IV life-to-date sales sit at 17 million. Full Story

Janco Partners' Mike Hickey bullish on Take-Two, believes next installment in series could sell 16 million copies, generate $750 million. Full Story

GTA publisher changes earnings report schedule to better align behind industry seasonality, improve comparability with peers. Full Story

Daily Star admits it "made no attempt to check the accuracy" of story claiming development of GTA Rothbury, apologises unreservedly. Full Story

After four years in development, Ubisoft's spy thriller is finally ready for release. Full Story

Federal judge rules former CEOs and CFOs must defend themselves against claims of securities fraud for allegedly backdated stock options. Full Story

Undersea sequel hits milestone as publisher reports lower-than-expected loss for Nov.-Jan.; NBA 2K10 ships 2 million; NHL 2K11 Wii-only; MLB losses to hit $30-35 million. Full Story

Publisher accedes to activist investor's call to replace CEO Ben Feder, two others on company's governing body. Full Story

National Institute on Media and the Family to close doors after nearly 14 years, marking an end to Video Game Report Card program. Full Story

Aion, Champions Online debut atop NPD's monthly PC rankings, while Kingdom Hearts 358/2, Scribblenauts, and NHL 10 and in bottom half of top 20; [UPDATE] Need for Speed Shift moves under 293K on PS3/360. Full Story

ESRB suggests an uncut release for Rockstar's controversial stealth action game is in the works. Full Story

Dan Houser disbelieves open-world crime games could be turned into two-hour movie, says Rockstar would have to have creative control of any such project. Full Story

Restrictions to be harsher--and legally binding--under just-adopted PEGI system; new body being set up to focus on selecting which games will be banned in the UK. Full Story

British government endorses existing pan-European system, criminalises underage sale of games rated 18+, 16+, and 12+; Video Standards Council can now ban games in UK. Full Story

Publisher posts better-than-expected $10.1 million quarterly loss on $229.7 million revs, but fiscal-year guidance sinks on delays; second GTAIV DLC dated for fall; BioShock 2 due Nov. 3. Full Story

Annual list of world's most bankable development houses topped by the WOW machine; Nintendo bumped into second place. Full Story

Grand Theft Auto IV publisher agrees to disclose additional information regarding Madden maker's $1.9 billion buyout attempt; no monetary damages awarded. Full Story

Big-name DS and PSP installments face off alongside Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, Ready 2 Rumble Revolution, and Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure. Full Story

"Unusual" costs offset Grand Theft Auto publisher's increased sales during November-January quarter; Beaterator, Borderlands, Mafia 2, BioShock 2, Red Dead Redemption, and next GTAIV expansion all due pre-Halloween. Full Story

Rockstar confirms content update censored its open-world crime-spree sim in Europe before just-released patch; add-on reportedly removes Australian government-imposed edits. Full Story

Modern Warfare nets seven nods in extended Brit game awards; GTAIV, Fable II, Little Big Planet. Full Story

SEC filing reveals publisher spent $11.1 million blocking takeover; 82% of earnings from current-gen consoles, with PS3 the top earner; ZelnickMedia paid $2.5 million management fee. Full Story

Record $1.5 billion annual revenue yields $97 million in net income, but Q4 loss doubles; Rockstar cofounders Sam and Dan Houser staying put through 2012, working on mystery game--and new studio. Full Story

Complaints of experience-ruining frame rates, small draw distances, crashes, and more plague Rockstar's port of top-rated action adventure. Full Story

Get ready to break the law on the mean streets of Liberty City, solve puzzles to save the world, and reunite with some old animal friends with this week's Aussie game releases. Full Story

GFW - Live interface update lands tomorrow, desktop Marketplace slated for December; Fallout 3 DLC first in the hopper. Full Story

Amazon, GameStop bump ship date for Rockstar Games' top-rated open-world action adventure two weeks beyond official November 18 launch. Full Story

Activision falls 28%, THQ sheds 39%, EA slides 37%, and Take-Two loses 40% during four-week roller-coaster ride on Wall Street, capped by today's sixth-straight triple-digit Dow Jones drop. Full Story

EA, Activision, THQ, Ubisoft, Sony, and Microsoft partially recover from yesterday's fiscal boot party on Wall Street. Full Story

Michael Pachter believes the contracts of Sam and Dan Houser are up in February, and the Rockstar duo will have a number of interested potential employers. Full Story

Publisher says it has terminated discussions to acquire Grand Theft Auto publisher and won't be making another offer. Full Story

World's largest specialty retailer reports record Q2 earnings on $1.8 billion in sales for the three-month period. Full Story

Madden publisher admits current hostile attempt will be unsuccessful; GTA maker confirms EA now part of its "confidential process to evaluate strategic alternatives." Full Story

Rockstar North's crime epic coming to Windows machines on Nov. 18 in US, Nov. 21 in UK; conversion will feature "expanded" multiplayer modes. Full Story

Arbitrary nature of the UK system for denying games classification puts the industry at risk, says developer representative. Full Story

Grand Theft Auto publisher wows conference attendees with Gearbox's postapocalyptic shooter---first trailer inside! Exclusive DLC also coming for BioShock PS3. Full Story

Manhunt 2 finally gets a confirmed release in the UK this August; Wii Wario Land and de Blob dated for September. Full Story

Industry watchers scratch heads about Rockstar hit's inability to spark Xbox 360 and PS3 system sales. Full Story

As the standoff in Electronic Arts' proposed takeover of the Grand Theft Auto IV publisher continues, Forbes suggests the French publisher might consider a merger. Full Story

[UPDATE] PS3, 360 crime-actioner help raise quarterly earnings 162 percent, returning publisher to profit; 11M units shipped worldwide, episodic content delayed to November-January quarter. Full Story

Madden publisher agrees not to advance with buyout offer until either FTC concludes regulatory investigation or 45-day lapse following "substantial compliance." Full Story

Specialty retailer rides off-peak releases to 151 percent profit growth to $62.1 million on revenues up 41.8 percent to $1.8 billion. Full Story

Declining sales despite GTAIV launch used as evidence that the market is saturated at current price points. Full Story

Rockstar's latest sells 2.85M, pushing total industry growth in April to 47 percent. Full Story

Rockstar's recently released urban action adventure is number one for a second week in a row, despite a huge drop in sales. Full Story

Bipartisan Video Game Ratings Enforcement Act could become federal law, requiring retailers to post AO- and M-rated game descriptions, check IDs of purchasers Full Story

Take-Two proclaims open-world actioner "largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment"; day-one sales top 3.6 million units, week-one sales over 6 million. Full Story

Rockstar Games' critically lionized open-world action game nabs biggest launch in region's history with 926,000 units in week one, takes top XBL activity. Full Story

Publisher's tech support department unveils an elaborate 12-step program to address frequent freezing by deleting saves, disabling online and rumble support; 360 remedy still MIA. Full Story

Over 600,000 units shifted on first day of release; 55 percent of copies sold for Xbox 360; more than trebles record for day-one PS3 sales. Full Story

[UPDATE]: PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 players alike reporting crash problems with Rockstar Games' latest; Sony reports an "extremely low volume" of complaints, promises it is working on a solution. Full Story

The UK retailer sees share price spike after it reports a 156 percent increase in profits. Full Story

Analysts Michael Pachter and Evan Wilson weigh in on just how successful Rockstar's latest open-world mayhem maker will be. Full Story

GTAIV launches down under. Full Story

Rockstar's Dan Houser explains to UK magazine ShortList why GTAIV will change the way people see games. Full Story

Snake's last hurrah gets rated 15 in Britain; ratings board lets slip minor plot spoilers. Full Story

Rockstar cofounder says idea of a big-screen Grand Theft Auto "never seemed interesting creatively," addresses game's delay and turmoil at Take-Two. Full Story

Megapublisher pushes its deadline to May 16, but lowers bid to $25.74 per share following measure approval; GTAIV publisher remains defiant with only 8.3 percent of stock tendered. Full Story

Rockstar Games' heavily anticipated open-world action adventure for Xbox 360, PS3 has entered mass production and is "en route to retailers" for April 29 release. Full Story

Sources "close to" Take-Two Interactive tell Variety that presell figures indicate the darkly comic PS3/360 crime spree will have the biggest debut of all time. Full Story

EA CEO says movie industry more interested in adapting games than vice versa; asserts publisher is going to be "the one great games company." Full Story

Rockstar says cuts to Aussie version of GTAIV are "not significant"; calls for introduction of R18+ rating for games in Australia. Full Story

[UPDATE] Despite violent and racy content, Rockstar's crime actioner gets gov't OK in UK; Janco's Mike Hickey forecasts massive sales in first seven days; game's cutscenes to run eight hours by themselves. Full Story

Rockstar parent believes the offer is "inadequate in multiple respects"; analyst Michael Pachter thinks publisher is making a big mistake. Full Story

CEO John Riccitiello says that wanting to get its hands on the Grand Theft Auto maker is the main reason behind EA's proposed Take-Two takeover, not sports. Full Story

2K Marin developing follow-up to undersea adventure under Ken Levine's supervision; postapocalyptic and urban-auto action games pushed back to later in the year; 2K Boston working on new IP. Full Story

Two major Take-Two shareholders have downsized their holdings in the company; others have filed a lawsuit. Full Story

Headliners take the field alongside Sony and Take-Two's baseball offerings, PC Warhammer 40K: Soulstorm, and downloadables Rocketmen for PSN, XBLA, Super Turrican for Wii VC. Full Story

"We delayed until we were certain we weren't screwing with GTA," says Riccitiello; stresses that Take-Two's value is only going to go down. Full Story

Publisher's board of directors dismisses proposed $2 billion deal as an opportunistic attempt to get on the Grand Theft Auto IV bandwagon; says it will initiate talks after game's release. Full Story

British newspaper The Guardian claims that ministers are set to introduce a legally backed rating system. Full Story

Creator of Manhunt 2 questions the decision by the High Court to send the game back to appeals committee. Full Story

Latest in the Grand Theft Auto series to be released worldwide in just over three months for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Full Story

[UPDATE] British ratings body will apply for a judicial review to prevent the game from being released after losing the recent appeal, Rockstar "disappointed." Full Story

Pacific Crest Securities' Evan Wilson bumps his estimation of Grand Theft Auto publisher's shares up to "outperform." Full Story

Latest preview, titled "Move Up, Ladies," shows series' violence, humor intact; Seth Green voice talent revealed? Full Story

Grand Theft Auto publisher grabs loan to support work during the holiday season and beyond in its UK and US operations. Full Story

Chairman Strauss Zelnick directly addresses reports stemming from his address to a business summit earlier this week, says industry sales shouldn't be so holiday-centric. Full Story

Industry rating board says Take-Two is not culpable for AO-rated violence accessible through mods to M-rated action adventure. Full Story

Tabula Rasa, PS3 Stranglehold, 360 Virtua Fighter 5, Battalion Wars 2, and many others fill up the US Halloween week release slate. Full Story

Janco Partners' Mike Hickey says Rockstar's latest could "conceivably" ship 9.5 million in the first week, more than twice Microsoft's 4.4 million. Full Story

British Board of Film Classification denies a rating to the amended version of Rockstar Games' horror title, which is set to be released in the US October 31. Full Story

Publisher's revenues sink, but loss narrows alongside announcement of casual and family-friendly 2K Play label, Nickelodeon publishing deal. Full Story

Analyst raises estimates slightly on strength of BioShock, release of Manhunt 2, but says investor confidence is misplaced. Full Story

Rockstar Games will release a "modified version" of the controversial action game re-rated by ESRB at the end of October. Full Story

Greenwald calls slip "disastrous" while Pachter says management "stumbled badly," speculates that PS3 version was to blame. Full Story

Company makes an eleventh-hour appeal to the Video Appeals Committee to get the game's British ban overturned. Full Story

Rockstar Games' latest tops demo slate from embattled publisher; Civilization Revolution, BioShock, All-Pro Football 2K8 also on display. Full Story

Downloadable shooter Super Stardust, Dynasty Warriors: GUNDAM demo, and Rockstar Games trailer arrive on the now new-and-improved console. Full Story

[UPDATE] Rockstar Games releases first images of the $90 Grand Theft Auto IV bundle on eve of second trailer's premiere online--and on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network. Full Story

World of Warcraft mod update joined by fan materials for now-delayed Manhunt 2. Full Story

Plans to release game "temporarily suspended" while publisher continues exploring options. Full Story

Industry watchers predict whether Take-Two and Rockstar will tone down the violence in their action sequel or release it with an Adults Only label. Full Story

ESRB tags Rockstar sequel with Adults Only initial rating; Take-Two now exploring its options. Full Story

Industry watchers weigh in on publisher's plans to trim the fat; say it won't be a solution to problems by itself. Full Story

Publisher drops news of impending layoffs, squashes speculation of a delay for its forthcoming crime-action game. Full Story

Advanced copies of the May issue of Game Informer confirm Liberty City is now a warped version of New York, has a Eastern European protagonist--and will have a multiplayer component. Full Story

Gran Turismo HD Concept updated to add worldwide ranking leaders; demo for Armored Core, trailer for GTAIV now available. Full Story

Next installment in legendary series appears to feature immigrant protagonist--but is it set in New York or Liberty City? Downloadable trailer and first screens inside. Full Story

US antigame lawyer vows to make like the Empire in his ongoing saga against Manhunt 2 publisher Take-Two. Full Story

2K and Rockstar Games owner suffers $21.5 million loss for November-January quarter, down from the year before. Full Story

Developer's new London studio debuts with sequel to controversial stealth action game for PS2, PSP, and Wii; teaser trailer inside. Full Story

Rockstar announces portable version of movie-based PS2 and Xbox brawler to hit stores later this year. Full Story

Man who played Cyrus reportedly claims game publisher never obtained the rights to use his likeness. Full Story

[UPDATE] Microsoft confirms next Grand Theft Auto is coming to Xbox 360 in October 2007; Rockstar Games confirms simultaneous launch on PS3. Full Story

Family Media Guide ranks the goriest games of the year; Resident Evil 4, GTA, 50 Cent make list. Full Story

"Cautious" US retail market, game delays, and Hot Coffee fallout all a factor in adjusted numbers; stock takes a dive in after-hours trading. Full Story

Rockstar's game remake of the cult-classic gang movie ships for the Xbox and PlayStation 2. Full Story

Fox turning Remedy and Rockstar's gritty shooter into a proper film noir--no cast or director is yet attached. Full Story

Sales of the latest Grand Theft Auto nearly triple quarterly earnings; publisher also offers to settle an SEC inquiry, evaluates the future of ESPN football games. Full Story