Chris

The shop is just for a little extra interactivity to the forums, and the current time it serves no purpose The stats you see, shop dollars etc. is earnt by posting new topics and replies, it is what you use to buy stuff from the shop The shop is all sold out because we haven't restocked it yet, I will be doing that today Oh and if the forum is running slower for you it is the server not the shop, the shop would not affect how slow the forum loads, so its nothing i can sort out.

no you're both wrong

coolness, today I had a lot of free time so i decided I would go and manually sort out the shop and it seems to be working fine now. WooHoo! if you see anything that isn't working tell us.

that actually is quite a good idea. We will think about this, the reward of fake money may not be inviting but im sure people would still participate. At the moment the shop is broken for reasons I don't know. the creator of the shop started developing it for IPB 2.0 but he decided he would start learning Python so now he hasn't done much about it. As soon as there is a decent shop available for IPB2 we will upgrade and use, right now im gonna try and fix the one we currently have

Rockstar just emailed us to tell us about the new Postcards they have put on the official site. You can check out these new postcards of Los Santos and San Fierro here - San Andreas Desktop page This comes with two brand new teaser sites: eXsorbeo Forgotten Legends of West Coast Rap

hey maybe we can fish from that boat, we gotta eat remember so I wouldn't rule that possibility out

R* have sent us our September batch of exclusive fansite screens, they look great and there is now less than a month to wait til we can play it. Thanks R* Also on the official San Andreas website there is some new artwork most likely of Salvatore Leone, you should remember him from GTA3. Now I added this artwork to the artwork page when it was first on the site but didn't post about it because I didn't think it was that significant but I see most sites have now posted it so, here it is if you haven't seen it already...

which ones dont you get? maybe you dont get the word 'wanker' if you're american

lol, dunno how i keep missing these also theres the Brown Steak Railroad with its slogan Go For The Brown obviously relating to turd and ----- bum se><

We can reveal that the actor who will be voicing San Andreas' Carl Johnson is Young Maylay, he's an up and coming rapper from Los Angeles. Dan Houser described him as having a "powerful" voice. Official Playstation 2 Magazine USA, Issue 86 was the mag that had the info, an extract from it is below: Thanks to GTAGaming for the heads up

The new artwork on the official San Andreas website suggests that two of Vice City's rather unknown characters who worked at the Boatyard will return in San Andreas, you can see the comparison in this picture below from GTASanAn: You can just make out their name tags which read their names, In Vice City we don't actually know their names but the texture files do reveal them, they are called CSdwayn.txd and CSjetro.txd I'm sure these aren't the only characters to return, there are probably a lot more, if you spot any do tell us about them via the submit news form.

This month's issue of Official Playstation 2 Magazine from the Netherlands features a massive nine page exclusive on San Andreas, containing 26 screenshots, some of which are new. There is a small amount of new info mainly on CJ's skils. GTAXclusive have posted scans on their site if you would like to see them. - You can control trams by yourself. - You can adjust the camera in different directions for example to prevent a crash during a chase. - Tuning with your car will have no effect, only nitro will fasten up your car. - If you gain enough experience you can control a tow truck. With this you can lift up cars and move them. - While diving you can have a nice view on the fish. The time you can stay under water will be notified with a blue stamina meter. - Underwater you can only use a knife. - Rockstar isn't giving any information away about the animals, but in the water they saw some dolphins between the fishes. - Sometimes a plane just crashes out of nowhere, accidents happen. - You must earn some experience before you can play different types of games in Casino's. - At the end of the game you would have made a small army of gangs.

thinking about what you just said, it must be 3 real life days, which means eating once every 30 game days which sounds a lot better. I cant imagine having to make CJ eat once every 3 hours of gameplay

yeah it must be because we got it from one of the screenshots

omg yeah how could I miss those obvious ones, thanks, i'll add them to the list

Well I've decided to bring my famous Sexual Innuendo's topic. I did one for Vice City, so here's one for San Andreas. If you don't know what it's all about i'll explain. Basically we all post sexual innuendos we find in San Andreas (and what they really mean) and we end up with a huge list we can all laugh at. The List: Last Updated 8 Oct 04 Juank Air - The airline - sounds like 'Wanker' Transfender - Car modifying shop - Transgender, people who change sex Wang Cars - Vehicle showroom - sounds like 'Wankers' Cluckin' Bell - Chicken fast food place - rhymes with Fucking Hell the drink 'Sprunk' - spunk = cum San Fierro 69'ers ('69' sexual position) - sports team Hanky Panky Point Well Stacked Pizza Co. - a resemblance to Hooters Jizzy (Of Jizzy's Pleasure Domes in S.F.) - Jizz, british slang for cum (the white stuff) Missionary Hill (San Fierro) - the sexual position. Barber Shop (Reece's Hair & Facial) - Facial probably relating to receiving a facial (sex) Brown Streak Railroad with its slogan Go For The Brown - relating to turd and bum sex eXsorbeo handheld game is shaped like a dildo (dick and balls) and the pink one vibrates exsorboe games: One Eyed Monster - one eyed implies it's a ----- Morning Missile Crisis - could be morning hard-on crisis or if you have diahorrea and are -----ting a lot Pocket Pool - hitting your bollocks around Tonsil Hockey - Self explanitory really, oral sex

Alright, I'll ressurect my famous Vice City Sexual Innuendos topic too illitrate23: No I have no idea what that music is smartboy4: Rockstar havent confirmed it yet, but I dont think we will be able to

maybe, could just be some random normal cops though

oh yeah of course, i noticed on all the special features it has Joyride wtf is up with that???

heh, for a second there I thought it was Elvis I always do that when I see something for the first time, I always see it as something else

Oh sorry, i don't remember seeing a topic like this, anyway it seems to have caused a good discussion so never mind I don't think people will get lost because you've got a phone and you can get taxis to places in gtasa oh and i forgot we have that phone for when we get lost

never actually thought of that but it would be quite cool. Rockstar have never mentioned this though I highly doubt we will see these in the game. Would be a nice suprise though.

yeah see thats what i mean, stuff like that which would make it really complicated, anyway i'm sure Rockstar will have thought of all this at got around it somehow

I read somewhere that you have to eat once every 3 days otherwise you start to get skinny

I was thinking to myself about the sheer enormity of San Andreas today. When it struck me. What if Rockstar have overdone it, what if all this extra stuff messes up the gameplay. See I was thinking about some of the 'less-needed' features that have been added which might actually be a bit of a nuisance. Like Eating: I think this a great idea and it has never been achieved in a game before, it seems incomprehensible to eat to stay a live in a game. But I am concerned that could this become too much of an annoyance as opposed to a cool feature, will it disrupt gameplay and prevent us from doing what we want. The Countryside: Countryside would have been a great addition to both GTA3 and VC, but does San Andreas have too much, couldn't they have done something else with all the extra space, a lot of people are going to get lost out there. Now I'm sure that Rockstar will pull this off, they are an outstanding company and Grand Theft Auto has a genre all of its own, it's just a couple of little concerns I have. I'm sure you guys have concerns about certain aspects of the game too.