Wired: Grand Theft Auto is a satire on street life.

Check out this great Wired Blog, where the author describes the locations and scenes in GTA to what its modelled on its real life counterparts.

Here's a little snippet.

"Let me give you an example. At one point, I was having a typically thuggish day: I'd killed a few drug dealers with a semiautomatic, and while trying to flee, whoops -- I accidentally rear-ended a cop car. Then it was a car chase, all wailing sirens and shrieking pedestrians diving out of the way, before totaling my SUV in a brutal collision and escaping on foot. A total Hillary Clinton nightmare, in other words."

Check it out here.

Wired & Blues.

XBOX Live GTA IV stats.

Wired has made a post that rounds up some of the GTA Numbers following Take 2’s $500 Million dollar announcement earlier today. A lot of you have asked for some GTA LIVE numbers, so let’s take a look a what we have so far:

• In the first week, more than 2.3 million people played Grand Theft Auto IV on Xbox LIVE.

Check out the rest of the story here.

Thanks Blues.

'Grand Theft Auto' backlash begins

GTA Backlash has begun, parents and politicians are once again starting a campaign against our favourite game, our love.

Yahoo has more on this developing story.

Blues, via Ant and Digg.

Grand Theft Auto hits stores.

The Onion has an article on the release of the latest game in GTA series. They list a few of the features in the game, Check it out here.

Link Of The Day: Bluesnews.

Grand Theft Auto IV tips by Atomic Gamer.

Atomic Gamer has published tips for GTA IV, you can check them out here.

Thanks much Blues :)

GTA IV is glitch free, Take-2 chairman.

Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two Interactive Chairman, may have enviable cheekbones and impressive compensation, but what he does not have is a grasp on the software issues surrounding Grand Theft Auto IV.

Get the whole momma jamma here.

Thanks Bluesnews.

Grand Theft Auto IV Breaks Entertainment Launch Records

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., said today that Grand Theft Auto IV has surpassed all-time entertainment records for day one and week one sales by dollar value. Released on Tuesday, April 29th, Grand Theft Auto IV, the critically acclaimed video game, has sold through to consumers approximately 6 million units globally with an estimated retail value of more than $500 million in the first week. Grand Theft Auto IV sold approximately 3.6 million units on its opening day with a retail value of approximately $310 million globally.

Read the whole story here buds.

Thanks Blues.

Grand Theft Auto IV Playstation 3 patch available now

Rockstar Games has released a GTA IV patch for Playstation 3 today that prevents Gamespy’s servers from being overloaded and therefore reduces the impact on those servers that were causing the game to stutter and lock up.

Read more here u kriminalz.

Soundtrack obscure for Amazon!!!

Here's a little snippet from this story "When Rockstar sat down with Amazon to work out their shiny new soundtrack deal - whereby in-game tracks from GTA IV can be saved to a playlist and then downloaded - they didn't just sort out the money-making end of the deal."

More info here.

Thanks Blues.

How GTA threatens the Wii.

Since the launch of the Nintendo Wii videogame console in November of 2006, the Japanese videogame company had not missed a beat. That is, until the release of Grand Theft Auto IV this week.

Nintendo has a competitor :) Catch more here.

NyMag's interview with Dan Houser, On GTA and NY.

Rockstar Games' Dan Houser on Grand Theft Auto IV and digitally degentrifying New York.

Check out this post here.

Thanks Blues.

A more mature & tamer Grand Theft Auto, Part 2.

Check this video out, its cool.

Youtube via Blues.