GTAIV Social Club Multiplayer Event Including Double Live Stream and Prize Packs (January 25th, 11am-2pm EST)

Update: The multiplayer event has ended. Thanks to everyone that joined us. Get ready for our next Social Club multiplayer event happening Thursday Feb 7th. Check the Winter Calendar for info and stay tuned for more details as we get closer to the date.

This Friday January 25th, 11am-2pm EST / 4-7pm GMT, our latest live-streaming Social Club Multiplayer Event invades Liberty City for three hours of melees, mayhem, and mischief in Grand Theft Auto IV. Come look for our dev players in-game on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, or tune in to our double live-stream on theSocial Club Multiplayer Events page. There you'll also find our Rockstar-hosted Social Club chat and the chance to win one of ten GTAV prize packs, each including the GTAV Logo Tee, GTAV Tee, and GTAV and Rockstar logo stickers, in our giveaway.

We'll play a mix of original GTAIV modes, as well as The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tonymultiplayer modes, and you don't need to own the Complete Edition to play in the event - you can join us whenever we're playing a mode that you have. Our devs will clear their friends lists beforehand, and you can enter the giveaway on this page under the Sweepstakes Entry tab.

Two of our devs will be streaming their GTAIV gameplay live on the Social Club Multiplayer Event pagewith a live chat, and a third video stream will run on our Rockstar Twitch page with a second hosted chatroom.

ROCKSTAR DEV ACCOUNTS

• PlayRockstar11 (PSN)
• GwRockstar3 (Xbox LIVE)
• GwRockstar1 (PC & streamed on our Twitch TV channel)
• PlayRockstar12 (PSN)

We'll accept as many invites as we can during the event, but we do recommend playing with Social Club members to make sure you get in on the action. Getting in a game with a dev is not a guarantee, but it is something we absolutely attempt to do for as many people as we can when we host a multiplayer event.

FINDING US IN-GAME
Want to know which multiplayer mode our devs are about to play? Pay attention to the live chat on theSocial Club Multiplayer Event page. We'll begin in Grand Theft Auto IV in GTA Race, and later progress to The Lost and Damned in the second hour and The Ballad of Gay Tony in the final hour. Use the in-game cellphone to select the mode we're playing during the event.

NEED A PARTNER?
For team-based modes such as Team Deathmatch, gather your friends using Party Mode. You can also hit up the chat during the event or just post your PSN ID/Gamertag in the Comments section below.

ABOUT PARTY MODE
Party Mode is an easy way to get your group together and find matches.  Here are the three quick and easy steps to get you up and running:

1. In single player, open the in-game mobile phone by pressing "Up" on the d-pad. Select Multiplayer > Party Mode > Yes.
2. Next, open up your phone again and select the Friends option to invite at least one person into your Party Mode game.
3. Once your team is ready to roll, open up the in-game phone again and select Games > GTA Race.

New Grand Theft Auto V Screenshot

As part of an update to the screenshot section of the official GTAV website, Rockstar released a new screenshot featuring Trevor.

An additional screenshot, that was previously featured in a magazine preview, was also released in digital form.

Rockstar also released various downloadable versions of previously released artwork, and noted that the game's official cover (front of box art) will be released later this month.

Our GTA V screenshot gallery has been updated to include these latest screens.

Links:
- Official GTAV website
- GTAV Game Wallpaper Collection
- Newswire Post
- GTAForums Topic

Five New Screenshots

In what could be considered Rockstar's holiday gift to their hoards of GTA fans, they releasedfive new screenshots in the early hours of Monday morning showcasing more of GTA V. Share your thoughts on these new screenshots over at GTAForums.

GTAV Fan Trailer with Niko, Luis & Johnny

While we know through Game Informer's preview that GTAIV's main character Niko Bellic won't be making an appearance in GTAV, Rockstar Games aficionado and CGI expert JANTSUU went to work to give us a realistic (and humorous) take on what it may look like if Niko, along with the two other main characters from GTAIV's episodes, appeared in the game.

Watch on YouTube

Amazing work! Make sure to check out his other GTAV video and channel, as well as the related topic on GTA Forums.

Fan Video: GTAV Trailer 2 remade in GTAIV

A lot of you have probably already seen the recreation of the second GTAV trailer within GTAIV by GTAForums user Golonka. We never get tired of these, so we wanted to shareanother recreation uploaded today by YouTube user GTA5Poland.

Great work indeed! We particularly loved the boat and dog scene recreations.

GRAND THEFT AUTO V Official Announcement

We are very proud to officially announce that Grand Theft Auto V is in full development.

Developed by series creator Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto V heads to the city of Los Santos and surrounding hills, countryside and beaches in the largest and most ambitious game Rockstar has yet created.

A bold new direction in open-world freedom, storytelling, mission-based gameplay and online multiplayer, Grand Theft Auto V focuses on the pursuit of the almighty dollar in a re-imagined, present day Southern California.

Download Grand Theft Auto V logo desktops, backgrounds, avatars and icons at the Rockstar Games Downloads section.

Previously:
Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

Interviews with Rockstar North's Aaron & Les

As part of the 10 year anniversary celebration for GTA: Vice City, Rockstar North producer Leslie Benzies and Art Director Aaron Garbut took to the web for a series of interviews looking back at the development of the game.

While most of the interviews relate to Vice City, there were a few questions and answers relating to more recent things that we thought were interesting and worthy of sharing, including thoughts on future GTA locations and the possibility of setting a game in Vice City again!

Below are the links to the full interviews, followed by quotes we pulled out that we found interesting:

• Leslie's interview with Digital Trends
• Aaron's interview with Crave Online
• Aaron's interview with T2

First is from Aaron, talking about modern day research trips at the company:

These days it's a very structured affair. Our research team schedules and organizes the artists with guides and off-duty cops and we come back with hundreds of thousands of extremely hi-res GPS stamped images.

Second is where Aaron talks about how there were thoughts on doing more than just a city in GTA Vice City:

We had talked about doing the Everglades. I think we even roughed some of it in. That would have been great. Basically expanding out of the city into the surroundings would be good, you get such good contrasts, but that was something that we devoted a lot of energy to in the later games.

Next is where Les talks about future GTA locations, answering the question "Any chance that Vice City might return in a future GTA?":

It is always a possibility. There are a few references to the city in our current-gen GTAs so it is part of that HD universe, and it is certainly somewhere we would love to revisit. However Vice City, perhaps more than any other GTA game, was as much about the era as the setting. Miami in the 1980's is so iconic it would feel strange to revisit the city in a different time period.

Of course at some point we would like to have one big world containing all our cities and let the player fly between them and revisit their favorite areas, and in that context reimagining Vice City would be very interesting.

Lastly, is just a little fun and interesting quote from Aaron:

I unfortunately do torture myself reading every comment I can find on Twitter or forum which is never good for your headspace.