Fresh out of the Jack Thompson School of Making Shit Up, Connecticut Senator Gayle Slossberg (D) recently told The New Haven Advocate that the rape scene in Grand Theft Auto IV, where you earn "points for rape," is so alarming that she'd like to see a law passed that features better warning labels. The problem is that there is no rape scene in GTA IV. Even worse, my city is one that she represents in the Connecticut Senate. I DID NOT VOTE FOR HER.

Rockstar Games has released online patches for both the Playstation3 and Xbox360 versions of Grand Theft Auto IV which fix a number of multiplayer bugs that they have identified. You will be prompted to install the update the next time you sign into the Playstation Network or Xbox Live. Details are below:

1. Fixed an issue where players were unable to enter or exit vehicles in GTA Race.
2. Fixed an issue where scripted vehicles were causing games to unexpectedly crash.
3. Improved reliability and frequency of PS3™ online leaderboard updates.
4. Fixed a rare hang some players encountered when moving from a Race or GTA Race lobby into gameplay.
5. Fixed a hang that would occur when players were switching teams during the countdown in the lobby.
6. Fixed an issue where players were able to get ridiculously high scores from Cops 'n Crooks matches.
7. Changed GTA Race and Race so that the last player remaining always receives a reward of $250.
8. Fixed an issue where spectating players would prevent the game from finishing.
9. Fixed an issue where players were unable to spectate in Round 2 of Cops 'n Crooks games.
10. Changed countdown timer in lobby so that it no longer resets when new players join a game.
11. Changed the kick option so that kicked players are no longer brought back to single player.

Source: Rockstar Games Social Club

Take-Two reported their second fiscal quarter financial results just now with some sales numbers for GTA4. As expected, the game's release was a big help to Take-Two's finances, pulling in $500+ million in revenue and selling 8.5 million copies as of May 31. Compared to Halo3 - which was reported by Microsoft to have sold 8.1 million copies as of January, just three months after its release - GTA4's sales numbers are something Take-Two and Rockstar should be very proud of.

Work on our GTA4 vehicles list is finally complete. Thanks to the combined efforts of myself, forum administrators SwissMiss33 and Zaibatsu, and members gta-player and GeoQuin4, we have constructed a complete list of all 117 individual cars, boats, helicopters, and motorcycles that appear in Grand Theft Auto IV, along with photos of each as well as the name and logo of their manufacturers (where applicable).


While the number of different vehicle models does not surpass that which was in San Andreas, the team at Rockstar took the design a step further and not only added different manufacturers, but about half of the vehicles in the game appear in different "variants" which can include custom paint work, different body styles, painted wheels, rusty "jalopy" versions, body accessories such as spoilers, custom hoods, air intakes, or rollbars, custom trimwork, mesh grilles, and more.