Games News

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 – “IF YOU HAVE A PSP, YOU MUST BUY THIS GAME; IF YOU DON’T HAVE A PSP, GET ONE JUST TO PLAY THIS GAME”
- PSM, December 2006

“Steal cars, fly helicopters, blow up everything and find out what your PSP can really do… Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories reasserts the series’ dominance with another sprawling, open-world crime spree… Vice City Stories stands as one of the best games in the GTA series, as well as one of the best reasons to own a PSP.”
- GamesRadar.com

No tricks.
Rockstar delivers the ultimate treat for your PSP System.

The glamour and glitz… the seedy, trashy underbelly… the pressure cooker of a tropical port city blowing out of control with burgeoning drug activity…

The story of Vic Vance – a man wrongly discharged from the US military, finding himself with his back against the wall, and in a position to do whatever he must to make a new life and make things right for himself and his family.

A return trip to Grand Theft Auto’s tropical haven for tumult and excess… Vice City. 1984.

All that… and portable to boot.

Now available: the most anticipated PSP System title of the year –
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Visit www.rockstargames.com/vicecitystories for order options, as well a ton of game information, screens, trailers and more. Make sure to check out the newly updated MUSIC section including information and now download links for Urge.com’s Vice City Stories soundtrack collection. Over 80 songs spanning the Vice City radio dial will be available as of game release.

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories In Stores Now

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 – In celebration of All Hallow’s Eve, we present exclusive:

SCREENSHOTS
A collection of our students’ most ghoulish costumes

VIDEO CLIP
Spooky goings-on about campus

and
FREE MP3 SOUNDTRACK DOWNLOAD
“Halloween” as composed by Shawn Lee, from the Bully Original Soundtrack. Also includes links to Original Soundtrack downloads available on Urge, iTunes, Emusic, and Artist Direct.

GIANT MAGAZINE – 5/5 (PERFECT SCORE)
“…a really hard-to-put-down game… The open world and storyline are fantastically written… The cast of characters is classic… Right now, I’m itching to go back and play some more… that addictive, compelling sense of being taken to another world and wanting more, has been missing from most games released this year… All hail Rockstar as the company that brought back the magic again.”

MAXIM – 5/5 (PERFECT SCORE)
“Rockstar’s products, in addition to tweaking political and social norms, are also pretty goddamn good games. Bully is no exception… Your task: to intimidate the intimidators. Your tools: firecrackers, dodgeballs, and ‘Kick Me’ signs. Another big, bad open-world game… it’s so good…”

GAMEDAILY.COM – 4.5/5
“…originality starved gaming masses will fall fast for the fresh and original vibe in Bully… it’s too bad most video games aren’t this amusing… Bully’s a breath of fresh air in a stagnating game market… complete with cool art direction, a great soundtrack, a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and a gameplay mechanic that’s new, yet familiar… Juvenile delinquency has never been this rewarding.”

This already widely-acclaimed, original, new adventure from Rockstar Games is now available for PlayStation

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 – “Vice City Stories may be the best PSP game we’ve played so far. It’s got everything a GTA should have and more – and it’s portable… If you have a PSP, you must buy this game; if you don’t have a PSP, get one just to play this game”
- PSM, December 2006

The release of this year’s most anticipated PSP title is just one week away.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories will be in stores on Halloween day
- October 31, 2006.

As a soldier, Vic Vance has always protected his dysfunctional family, his country, himself. One bad decision later and that job is about to get much harder. Kicked out onto the streets of a city torn between glamor and gluttony, Vic is faced with a stark choice – build an empire or be crushed.

All of the action and glamour… 1980’s style and music…
and unpredictable mayhem of Grand Theft Auto’s tropical city – now in the palm of your hand.

Visit www.rockstargames.com/vicecitystories for a giant official site update – including…

Another discovered episode of Vice City’s short-lived 1984 news channel, MeTV News
– full up with the footage, images and sounds that defined the era.

The launches of the MULTIPLAYER section, with an overview of all 10 modes available in the game, and the MUSIC section, featuring a comprehensive list of all the music stations in the game, and a sample tracklisting from each (full tracklisting and music downloads launching very soon).

And last but certainly not least – the launch of Official Trailer #3: “IN SO DEEP”. Set to the tune of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight”. Can you feel it?

Visit the BUY NOW section for pre-order options,
so as not to be left out in the cold next week.

www.rockstargames.com/vicecitystories

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – Site Update Featuring Trailer #3

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 – Rockstar’s celebrated videogame adaptation of the cult film classic,
THE WARRIORS, is making its way to PSP System this holiday season.
Swan, Cochese, Luther, Masai, The Baseball Furies, The Orphans, the list goes on…
All duking, bludgeoning and knifing it out in a bloody trip
from Coney Island to the Bronx and back.

Experience this acclaimed brawler on the handheld this December.

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The Warriors Coming to PSP

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 – The first round of press reaction is in and Bully has received glowing marks all around.

1UP.com – 10/10 Perfect Score – “Genius”
“…there’s a good chance Bully will still be enjoyable five or ten years from now. It might even achieve that most elusive of game descriptors: timeless… The best games – games like Bully… push headlong into new places and new ideas, leaving behind the ranks of unimaginative, spit-polished safe bets. Bully takes chances, and the gamble pays off big.”

Gamespy.com – Editor’s Choice – “One of The Year’s Best”
“An elegantly-laid free-roaming title from one of the industry’s best.”

GamePro.com – Editor’s Choice – “A Lesson You Can’t Afford To Miss”
“As Bully progresses and Jimmy finds himself enmeshed in his struggle to survive, the game blossoms, and players will find themselves desperate to see what happens next… Ring the bell because Bully’s ready to give you a lesson you can’t afford to miss.”

IGN.com – Editor’s Choice – “One of the Best Plots of the Season”
“Bully is easily one of the funniest PlayStation 2 titles we’ve ever seen and is one of the few pieces of software out there than can legitimately be called a “comedy.” …a seriously poignant story with great dialogue and strong characters… a great, well-crafted action game… dozens and dozens of hours of fun… Rockstar has put together one of the best stories of the year, which works because of great characters and a biting sense of sarcastic humor that you won’t find elsewhere.”

Bully is in stores now for PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system.
www.rockstargames.com/bully

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Bully – First Reviews Are In

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 – The wait is over. School is in and Bully is out now for PlayStation®2.

Here’s what the press has to say so far:

“With so much derivative stuff both on the market and on the horizon, Bully, frankly, seems like a breath of fresh air… There are some truly amusing characters in this brightly grim world, and we can’t wait to spend more time with them.”
- GameSpy

“Exceedingly big, exceptionally funny, and so far, extraordinarily entertaining… The game has the potential to be one of the year’s elite PS2 titles thanks to its wholly unique concept.”
- IGN

“Rockstar’s really done an incredible job with the presentation… the epitome of what a blockbuster game should be… Bully is so impressive and fun looking that I won’t be able to resist its magnetic pull.”
- GameDaily

Visit the official site.

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Bully In Stores Now For PlayStation®2

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 – The wait is over. School is in and Bully is out now for PlayStation

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 – The Bullworth Academy Campus Rules Handbook is now live. Click here to acquaint yourself with important school guidelines, regulations and standards of behavior – including new and exclusive screenshots and video clips.

Visit the official site and check out the Video Tours section for the launch of Trailer #4, “YOU MUST BE THE NEW KID”.

With the release of Bully only one week away, be sure to also visit the Admissions section for pre-order options before it’s too late.

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Bully In One Week! – Site Update – Campus Rules Handbook & Trailer #4

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 – Fresh to death for the fall semester – a new collection of Rockstar couture has arrived.
Impress your friends and become BMOC with…

The Good Time Tee
The Killer Bee Tee
And
The Barcode Tee.

www.rockstargames.com/warehouse – FINERY section to purchase.

Excerpt from:
Rockstar Warehouse Finery Update – All-New Rockstar Apparel

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 – Rockstar Games is pleased to announce a partnership with Team Bondi Pty Ltd to publish the ground-breaking next generation crime thriller L.A. Noire. Developed by Team Bondi, a new Australian based studio founded by Brendan McNamara, of The Getaway, L.A Noire is an interactive detective story set in the classic noir period of the late 1940’s.

L.A. Noire blends action, detection and complex storytelling and draws players into an open-ended challenge to solve a series of gruesome murders. Set in a perfectly recreated Los Angeles before freeways, with a post-war backdrop of corruption, drugs and jazz, L.A. Noire will truly blend cinema and gaming.

The debut trailer is now live at www.rockstargames.com/lanoire.

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L.A. Noire Announced & Debut Trailer