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As mentioned the other day, today marks the beginning of online previews being published by various gaming websites around the world. We're also lucky to have some new, and some unwatermarked screenshots from the GI preview to add to our gallery. Most of the previews posted so far are from European websites, but we've learned of a few new details so far. Also note that IGN will be starting their blowout week later today so we may get even more info later on. UPDATE: IGN's Preview is now up. The Previews English The Guardian IGN Foreign Language: InsideGamer.nl (Dutch - English translation) Gamer.nl Preview and Interview with Dan Houser (Dutch) MeriStation Preview (Spanish) Gamesaktuell.de (German) Jeuxactu.com (French) Multiplayer.it (Italian - English translation) Spiegel.de (German) New Info Whole underwater world, including caves, diving equipment Side-missions like taxi, ambulance, vigilante missions will be back but may not be exactly like in previous games, but they will have "odd jobs to do" Trevor is the skilled helicopter pilot, Franklin the skilled driver, while Michael is a "smooth operator" Missions vary between "big and small events, explosive, infiltration, super spectacular, family, invasion, hostage recovery, heists and robberies. Plus classic GTA missions that have been updated an improved." The mechanics behind the covering system have been greatly improved and will be important to gameplay. Regarding the game's economy, Dan Houser said "You will be able to spend money to buy interesting and fun things like expensive toys. We are still working on the economy but it will be a strong element in the game and players will be eager to make money to spend money. Something along the lines of 'I went through all of this to make all this money and now I'm going to spend it on this crazy item'". No co-op on single player missions but there will be in multiplayer. An increased focus on multiplayer with a lot more content. There is a functioning ecosystem teeming with wildlife. The song was heard playing on the in-game radio. The name of the Salton Sea like area in the game is called Alamo Sea. There is a radial menu to select the 3 protagonists. In some missions, character switching is partially scripted - meaning it will happen automatically. In the final part of a mission journalists saw in the demo, the player was able to decide which character to use. There are multiple different endings to the storyline, these depend on choices you make throughout the game. The majority of the map will be open from beginning, with the exception of a few protected areas. A certain amount of money will be needed to gain access to some missions. New Screenshots Some of these screenshots have been seen before, but we now have unwatermarked versions! See all these and more in our GTA V screenshot gallery. Extended Artworks We now have unwatermarked and extended versions of some of the recent artworks. See all these and more in our GTA V artwork gallery.

For once, Huck is absolutely right! Windows 8 is made for touchscreens and tablets. That's how it works best, and on those it really is great (once you've figured out the swipes and charms). But for keyboards and mice, it's hopeless. Yes, there are a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to open up the various menus, but you still have to use silly mouse gestures, and that should NOT be how an operating system works. The other problem is that SO much of the OS is still in the old-style desktop and old-style control panel. Different settings (even for the same thing, like networking) are spread out across two or three different places. This is hugely confusing for users and totally off-putting for IT pros. Not to mention how hard it is just to shut down! What was wrong with the start menu? Sure it could have done with a refresh, maybe even a full-screen version, maybe even with live tiles, but the new metro Start screen is useless in comparison. With the start menu, in about half a second I could open up any program, utility or control panel applet, or shut-down, or . Now it's a bunch of faffing around. Even once you have the "hang" of it and use shortcuts, it's still a couple of seconds, and nowhere as intuitive or pleasant to use. I get the feeling that Windows 8 was designed as a completely separate OS for tablets, but some genius decided to completely replace the tried-and-test Windows 7 system (with start menus etc), and call this tablet OS "Windows 8" in order to drive sales and adoption. Millions of companies will be effectively forced to upgrade to Win8 to benefit from the latest updates and software etc. I can see why they wouldn't want to make two competing ecosystems, but Windows RT will a great tablet product (when they fix bits of it, like the settings), and it should have stayed as a tablet OS. So yeah, not a huge fan.