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Rockstar have launched the official website for the Xbox 360's first downloadable episode, The Lost and Damned. The official game description and features are shown as well as the official box art for the game, and a couple of new mini trailers have been added, "Billy Grey" and "Malc", you can watch these below. The Lost and Damned will be available for download on February 17th, and will cost $19.99 or 1600 Microsoft Points.

The large gaming sites have all posted their first previews of The Lost and Damned, along with a plethora of new screenshots. Check out the following sites for all the juciy new details. Kikizo IGN Kotaku CVG GamesRadar GamePlayer.com.au See all 30+ new screenshots From these previews, the following information has also surfaced: The length of the episodic content is, according to Rockstar, more or less the same as that of the original storyline. Johnny (Our new main character) helps head the notorious motorcycle gang 'The Lost' with his brother Billy, who has recently been sent to rehab to avoid imprisonment. The storyline relates closely to that of the original game's. It's reported that we'll meet Niko, Playbox X and Elizabeta, and actually re-play some of the missions from the original story, from Johnny's perspective, instead of Niko's. The Lost are currently in a gang rivalry with another motorcycle gang, 'The Angels of Death'. There is a lot of friction between Johnny and his brother, mainly regarding leadership of the gang. The first mission previewed was called "Angels of America." This mission saw Johnny hunting down members of the opposing gang, using the sawn-off shotgun to kill them off before they can let their gang members know that the war is back on. Several new vehicles have been added, including some motorbikes which are specific to The Lost. Your starting bike is unique to you and cannot be retrieved if destroyed. A new feature added to the episode is formation driving, where you can interestingly initiate dialogue with other gang members. This is done "by keeping yourself inside of a floating Lost emblem, which trails behind the convoy leader's ride at all times." Also, "pressing down on the d-pad displays a whole list of bar-graph stats for your gang members."[CVG] Talking to your fellow gang members, defending them and saving them during battle will boost their Ability and effectiveness in combat. If a gang member is killed, he gets replaced by a rookie, so it's important to look out for your most hardened members. One of a few new weapons is the grenade launcher, grenades "pop out of the nozzle with an ever-so-satisfying sound effect, arch into the air with a trail of smoke and bounce around a corner before blowing enemies sky-high." More new weapons include an automatic 9mm, a sawn-off shotgun, an assault shotgun, and pipe bombs, which can be dropped from your motorcycle. The Lost and Damned features new building interiors which aren't available in the original game. Mini-games become available at the safehouse - a hi-low card game, an arm wrestling game, as well as additional TV material. You can now also get Little Jacob to deliver weapons there. New Internet sites have also been added. The radio stations remain the same, but with the addition of lots of new music to Liberty City Hardcore, including a new (as of yet unnamed) DJ. A redesigned pause menu now carries a stamped rubber effect to it's lettering, the health and armour bars now being white and blue respectively. Johnny's phone also has a different , more worn appearance to Niko's. A new grain filter background effect has been added, but Rockstar aren't sure if it will remain in the final version. Rockstar have introduced a new feature which was the main game lacked, mid-mission checkpoints. In long missions, reaching checkpoints will save your progress, so if you are killed, or another important person is, you don't have to redo the entire mission. See all 30+ new screenshots

Wow, has a shit ton of explosions in it. Dunno if it's gonna improve the series though. I'll watch it just for the sake of it anyway though, just because I've seen all the others.

Yeah it's just a viral achievement. Pretty much everyone gets it in their first online match now.

'Dans' does mean in, but in the sense of going inside something, usually. to say "in French" you just say "en français". Sorry just thought I'd correct that

WTF, it means that in England too. WTF did this guy actually mean? :/ From a shitty part up north yes. I prefer you when you're from Armenia or whatever WTF part of England has people saying that :| I lol'd at the translation though, which btw, I had to read otherwise I genuinely wouldn't have understood your post.

Lol that's so random. Those emails are legit but they charge shitloads for it. If no one buys it, they just let it drop, then you can buy it for a few dollars (normal price) from any domain registrar. No idea why you got that email though, that should have been sent to me since I own the domain, we have quite a few GTA domains actually but they all redirect to TGTAP... weird though.

Wow, seriously? You can't see that there are three sex jokes in that description alone? Getting wood = getting an erection whack off = masturbate 69 = sexual position None of this slang means anything to you? The first two are double entendres, wood meaning the baseball bat and an erection, whack meaning masturbate and hitting someone.

I've deleted the beta from my hard drive for now. Just can't be bothered to try it properly. I'll just wait til the second beta or maybe even the RC's before I try it again. Assuming they do the same sort of releases as they did for vista.

Fucking Sweden, and your awesome Internets

Here's an moon for San Andreas. Enjoy Add it to the first post if you like. I'll work on getting this in IV later. Haven't actually tried modding it yet.

Mug is used pretty much everywhere south of the Midlands in the UK, i.e. all the good parts of England

I fixed the border. I'm actually going to upload this.

Looks a bit shit. I'll need to replace the flare effect too I think so the border doesn't look all lame. I'll try and get in in IV after.

I bet the vast majority of people here have no idea where : awesome: actually comes from. Include this link in your topic for Internet newbies: http://driph.com/words/2008/04/origin-of-awesome/ Another link to add is ED since it has a massive gallery, site has many NSFW pages though, maybe one or two NSFW images in the gallery too but yeah: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Awesome IDEA: Fuck. Has anyone changed the moon in SA to the awesome smiley? If not then I'm doing it right now!

Gotta love the sex jokes!

But to be fair it doesn't tell you the weight of it. It must be heavy as fuck with all that armour which would explain the low mpg. Pretty fucking epic.

LOL squire. Blatantly some cockney twat from London, I haven't heard anyone use that for ages. You normally sound like a dick if you say that. Bleeding btw, is just an even more mild form of 'bloody'. You basically have to be from London to get away with using that to avoid sounding like a posh cunt. "Amico mio" just means "my friend"

Rockstar has released to the GTA fansites a new screenshot of Johnny from The Lost and Damned, and also the new achievements! Check them out below: Get Good Wood – 50G: In the Bike Races, whack off 69 bikers with a bat. Easy Rider – 100G: Finish The Story Full Chat – 70G: Your backup are riding at their best! The Lost Boy – 25G: All hail the leader of The Lost! One Percenter – 5G: Billy is back on his bike. More information, screens and videos will be released for TLAD on January 22 when gaming sites will be putting up their previews, so look out for updates on them. Thanks R*!

YouTube is not a respectable site to become popular on because it's not for talent it's for video views, and the videos are shit. I say don't do it.

LOL. Then TGTAP really would be a gay-haven. With us all showing off our flat hairy (forgot you guys are all underage :/) chests. It would be worth it though if women are nominated.

Rofl. Where do you get all these excellent walls from?

The various gaming websites are all publishing their new hands-on previews of Chinatown Wars tonight. Websites with previews up are: Kikizo IGN GamesRadar CVG GameDaily 1UP Total Video Games GamePlayer We've also updated our Chinatown Wars screenshot gallery and artwork page with all the newly released imagery.

Anyone see this on the second page?

The inventor of the dictionary and thesaurus, Gerard. I was gonna come up with some insanely awesome sentence using a shit ton of long words. But I couldn't.