Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is, hands down, my favorite GTA game ever, and it should be yours as well. Vice City gave us lurid Eighties outfits, the first chance to fly a helicopter over its world, and the best hero of the series to date in Tommy Vercetti.

Although the PS2 game can still be picked up second-hand for a couple of bucks, it looks like developer Rockstar is planning a re-release of the title. Kotaku spotted this entry – dated yesterday – over at the website for Australia’s Classification Board.

So Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is coming back in some form, and it’s going to be a “MODIFIED” version. PlayStation Store? Xbox Live Marketplace? I could believe either, though the idea of a modified Vice City with HD graphics and a locked 60fps frame-rate excites my excitable bits. We demand to know more, Rockstar!

See also: Idiot rings police after child refuses to stop playing GTA

[Via Kotaku]

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In the least surprising news of the third millennium, Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar has revealed that it is working on a follow-up to the phenomenally successful (and TOTALLY GAY) Grand Theft Auto IV, which I am tentatively calling Grand Theft Auto 5.

So what’s this one? A knitting simulator? A Japanese dating sim? A horse-riding game for the Wii? Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Staggeringly, it’s going to be … very similar to the others.

“We’ll think of a city first, then the characters,” series creator Sam Houser told The Times newspaper. He also revealed the script for the game will end up about 1,000 pages long, which the paper claims is “nearly ten times as much as a feature film.”

It’s only a brief mention, but confirmation (of an exceedingly predictable event) all the same.

[Via The Times]

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Chirantan Patnaik, a 26-year-old gamer from Mumbai, has broken the world record for the longest time spent playing Grand Theft Auto IV non-stop. Yes, there’s a record for that. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Patnaik played Rockstar’s game for 40 hours and 20 minutes.

He did take four short breaks during this marathon, though the guidelines for the world record permitted him a 10-minute break every hour. Pfft, soft. Pretty sure I’ve done some GoldenEye sessions of a similar length, but this is Chirantan’s moment, so I won’t spoil it. He seems pleased to have broken the slobbiest world record going:

“There are so many other games which I have played for long hours. But I had never tried playing this particular game seriously. However, I knew that I can do it after I saw my brother playing it … I enjoyed the game very much. It’s fun playing long hours. It wasn’t that exhaustive for me, as one might feel.”

Apparently, the new world record holder exercised and performed yoga to prepare, and ate and drank coffee to stay alert while gaming. He beat the previous record of 28 hours and 1 minute, but now wants to aim for 48 hours.

Congrats to you, Chirantan. Now ferchrissakes, go get some damn sun.

[Zeenews, via GameCulture]

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