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Fox News: Violence In Chicago Caused By GTA IV Ads

April 22, 2008

cubs-sox-21 Fox News: Violence In Chicago Caused By GTA IV Ads
City officials lobbied successfully to pull GTA IV ads off of city buses and metro stops in Chicago. The reason? Shit was causing violence, yo! Well, that’s the rather muddy point intimated by a Fox News television report account of an increase in violence over the weekend. CBS, on the other hand, seemed to think it had something more to do with guns and gang violence. Neither news outlet felt the violence had anything to do with the catcher-on-catcher violence between Michael Barrett and A.J. Pierzynski during this 2006 Cubs-White Sox game. We just think it’s fucking awesome. Read the rest of this entry »

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GTA IV Hypewatch: Dan Houser Interviewed by Variety

April 21, 2008

danhouser_2 GTA IV Hypewatch: Dan Houser Interviewed by VarietyOver the weekend, Variety’s game blog The Cut Scene posted up an exhaustively in-depth interview with Dan Houser. If you want to kill some time between now and the game’s release on April 29 start hacking away at all 7,000 words with your eyeball axes. In other GTA hype news, Ricky Gervais will make an appearance doing stand up in an in-game comedy club. Someone tell Rockstar to settle down with the avalanche of Euro celebs. They had us at Karl Lagerfeld.