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Lesser known gaming website Kikizo has come up with an incredibly detailed preview of GTA IV which they published recently, seems like we completely missed it. Like all the other previews we've seen recently in magazines and on the Internet, Kikizo received the same demo, however they picked up on a lot more of the intricate details that we missed out on. I've highlighted a few points of interest from the article below, some we may have covered already, but perhaps not in so much certainty or with clarification from Rockstar. According to Rockstar, the AI, physics, character models, textures, pedestrian dialogue and music are all still in development and placeholder to some extent - but "it all looked pretty damn smart". One pedestrian quote Kikizo picked up on was "Do you know in Italy they get three hours for lunch?!" Clarification on the size of Liberty City is brought up, Rockstar's Hamish Brown told Kikizo: "On the one hand you've got horizon views, on the other you've got many layers of a city built upwards towards the sky. It's definitely the biggest single city we've ever done. That city isn't going to be the size of San Andreas, because that would be absurd, but if you take into account the level of verticality of the city, the number of buildings you can go into, and the level of detail in those buildings, then you're talking about a game that is similar to San Andreas in terms of scope." Some people have claimed that the game will take 100 hours to complete, Rockstar also commented on this saying "We honestly don't actually know at the moment, how many missions and how long it's going to take to complete the game, but there's an awfully large number of things to do - probably more than ever before - we can safely say that." While Niko was driving a car, Kikizo noted that "A great piece of funky jazz music (Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears & Blood) played on the bassy car stereo" which really added to the vibe. Whether or not this will end up in the final game is not known, Rockstar aren't able to confirm what licensed and unlicensed music there will be, only that it will span decades and cover numerous genres. You may have read on a number of gaming websites over the past week or so, news that a financial analyst has suggested that Rockstar should delay the release of Grand Theft Auto IV by up to two weeks so that it is not so close to the release of Microsoft's Halo 3 (due for release in late September). According to this Kikizo article, they contacted Rockstar for comment who then contradicted the by confirming that GTA IV is indeed on schedule for release in late October - you can now breathe a sigh of relief. I would definitely suggest you read the Kikizo preview in full as it is very detailed and exactly what the hardcore fans like yourselves want to read. Thanks to J.Combs for sending this in.

Moved to Vice City help. Read the forum names before posting a topic next time.

This is fucking awesome.

So, today is Gerard's 18th birthday. He's been one of the best people you could ever wish to have on your forum moderating team. He's helped out with this forum a hell of a lot during his time as both a forum moderator and super mod, and has strived to keep it running smoothly - which it mostly has done, thanks to him and the joint efforts of the other staff here too. Gerard can now legally do a lot more than he could yesterday, buying a GTA game for instance, but also other important things such as buying alcohol and pr0n. Now I could go on here, but knowing you lot you probably wouldn't bother reading the whole topic But anyway, from September (if all goes to plan) Gerard and I will be studying at the same university which should be good fun, we've already become great friends through the Internet, and have met a couple of times in real life before. So here's to Gerard, let's hope he continues his great efforts in moderating the forums, and indeed on running his own websites such as Grand Theft Wiki and Shock Gadgets. Happy Birthday mate!

Bald: you forgot a letter! Hey guys, why does the TGTAP banner apear sometimes, and sometimes dont? I ussualy get Spam Ads there LOLWTF. You shouldn't get that error there, that's for when a page isn't found :/ You normally only see that for example if you go to a page that doesn't exist, such as http://www.thegtaplace.com/lol_omg_wtf and oh snap, an error!

Obviously you weren't here last year when all IPB 2.1 forums on the Internet had trouble with them. They're scripts which are written to sign up a member to a forum and post topics in random forums filled with links to random sites, normally those selling drugs such as viagra, or selling electronic products and stuff. They can sign up hundreds of fake members and create hundreds of spamvertising posts every month, they were a pain in the ass to deal with even with things such as email validation turned on, they would always used free web based email accounts.

We didn't need to make any fake members for this forum. We already had 2 previous crashes, so all the members from those just re-registered more or less instantly. TBH, I can't actually remember making any fake accounts for the first 2 forums we had anyway. And regarding spam bots, we always delete those accounts. Luckily we seldom get them now.

I know this is a little different but I live in England and that didn't stop R* sending me things. Jared lives in Australia and he is trying it, you may as well try too Unless it actually says US only somewhere, do you know if it does OGTAM?

Lol, obviously you've never been to ebay before. People sell email addresses all the time, though normally they're famous peoples names etc. And I doubt it's a fake account, it will be real and the seller will simply give the buyer the password for it. The seller is a retard for putting the starting bid at $200 though, most celeb email addresses will go for a few dollars at the most. OP probably did make the auction himself though ("found" on ebay wtf? why would you search for such a thing?) so I'm removing the link.

There is a list Backward Compatible [xbox.com] games for the original Xbox which work on the Xbox 360. However, you do need to have it connected to the Internet to download the update for them. For the PS3 it depends where you live, the North American consoles are better are playing older games. As far as I'm aware there isn't actually a list of games, however you can search backward compatible games here. If you live in Europe you can simply look on this list to view the games which are compatible. And I'm not sure, but I believe you also need to have your PS3 hooked up to the internet to download the required firmware. For both consoles, it may be possible to download the updates on your computer, burn to a DVD, and then put in your PS3/360. However I'm not sure if this is possible or not but it might be something you could look into if you want to.

They are always going to stay.

You know, if you're going to post some hot women, post them in the Awesome Women Thread. That thread didn't see any action during May, it desperately needs some now IMO.

Meh... this is actually good for those of you who aren't lucky enough to be a member of the press or the webmaster of a large a site. I would do this but I have enough merchandise to last me quite a while I do have pics of most of it somewhere, will probably upload to my flickr account later actually, it would be better there. But ya it's pretty cool they did actually send you stuff back, props to you for trying that out.

Is anyone here into photography? Over the weekend I got out my camera and decided I'd do some macros of things I have, I mainly took pics of my games consoles but also my phone and some other random things. I uploaded the ones of my consoles and phone to my flickr page so you can check them all out there. Click on the My Consoles set is probably the easiest way to browse through them. The ones of my phone are in the Macro set. Let me know what you think of my photo skills, and also share with us your photos, preferably on your flickr account if you've got one. This could become the official photography thread if enough people like it.

I decided to a bit of photography this weekend. Thought I would do some macros (close ups) of some of my stuff, well mainly my games consoles and my phone. I did do some macros of some other random things but I haven't uploaded any yet. You can see all my photos on flickr, on the right if you click on My Consoles they're probably the best pics. Let me know what you think of the pictures.

lol. I took a cam-whore style pic of myself today, in the mirror holding my camera, also with a little facial hair, haven't been bothered to shave recently... edit: can't really see on the pic, well just the sideburns anyway :/

I've posted here several times.

ROFL! Funny thing happened... So I logged into the admin panel of ImageLodge.net today, for the first time in months, and I notice some Indian guy had uploaded about 200 pictures to his account, and then deleted them all (but not permanently so they are still on the server). It turns out ALL of them are amateur porn images (some are good lol) and some of them are Indian women showing skin (which apparently is frowned upon a lot if in public in Muslim countries). Looks like he had been posting on a few Indian forums (I searched his username on google). But yeah, banned him since it's against the TOS, all the images are deleted now. Just a bit of a strange thing to see when I logged on! Boner ftw btw.

lol im so cool. I use the rich text editor to post my posts. Don't you just love trying to read this. It was really worth your time wasn't it

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You can post your fanfic in the graphics and writer's pad forum which is in our Lifestyle forum.

Same here Spaz, when you view your profile you can click on the Settings tab to make it so you have to approve them. Also what I forgot to mention was that on the Manage Friends window, after clicking on the Mutual Friends tab, you can then select Show who has added me from the dropdown box and you'll get a list of all the members who have added you. Mine is massive...

Quick status update: I have indeed done some coding today, I got quick download done, now I'm working on getting the view file page done.