Rockstar and Take Two extend partnership until 2012

Take Two and Rockstar have extended their partnership until January 31, 2012. You can read the full press release on Take2Games.com.

Rockstar Video Editor Contest

Rockstar are hosting a video editor contest where you can win $300 to spend in the Rockstar Warehouse.

Enter our inaugural Video Editor Contest at Rockstar Social Club TV for the chance to win a Grand Theft Auto IV prize pack and a $300 shopping spree at our Rockstar Warehouse (www.rockstargames.com/warehouse) online store - where you can purchase of Rockstar games, clothing, and limited-edition merchandise. Just what Aunt Sadie wants for Christmas! To enter, create a video using the Grand Theft Auto IV PC in-game Video Editor suite of tools and upload your clip any time between December 12th through the 14th using the tag 'best-in-class-contest'. Rockstar will then pick the winning clip, looking at editing skills, user ratings, and overall creativity. Keep checking back throughout and following the weekend to see how other Social Club members think your clip fares against the rest and stay tuned for the winner announcement.

If you are intrested then head on over to Rockstar Social Club TV.

Rockstar Talks GTA IV Technical Problems

IGN have published an interview with members of the GTA IV development team. As you can probably guess the article focuses on GTA IV's technical problems, which many users are suffering from. To take a quote from the article;

IGN: Can you talk about what you're working on right now, like a patch?

Kevin Hoare: We've never stopped working on the game, we're working on it every day. We haven't had the typical break after it's gone gold. We're continually working on improvements, we're working on a patch right now.

Well it's good to know they aren't giving up! In the meantime you can check out the beta of the latest Nvidia drivers, which are due out on the 10th.

Rockstar Release GTA IV PC Troubleshooting Documents

Rockstar have released two documents for GTA IV PC. The first covers how to get the most out of the game's graphics and how to counter poor graphical performance and the second explains the games error codes, like the one mentioned here.

You can download both the graphical settings and error codes documents from our downloads section.

Rockstar Social Club Website Updates

The Rockstar Social Club has recieved a welcome update (I always felt the site looked like a holding page from something bigger). The site now has wealth of content and feels much easier to use.

Rockstar Social Club Sweepstakes

The Rockstar Social Club are giving away a $6,100 entertainment system to one lucky Social Club member. In order to enter you must be;

• Member of the Rockstar Social Club
• Legal residents of the 50 United States or Canada
• Eighteen years of age on the date of entry

In order to enter you must simply sign into your Social Club account during the content period; the Sweepstakes starts at 12:01 AM Eastern Time on Friday September 19, 2008 and ends 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time on Sunday September 28, 2008. Winners will be picked at random and notified by email.

For full details head on over the the Rockstar Social Club contest page.

7 Days to claim your 100% key

The above image is an email that Rockstar sent winners of the "Keys to the City" competition (Getting to 100% completion of GTAIV). The competition is now closed, however if you are lucky enough to have completed the game within the alotted time period then you should be recieving a key, much alike the one in the image I would assume.

Note that the key could take up to 120 days to arrive depending on the demand and you must respond within 7 days or will be ineligible for the prize!

Rockstar Social Club Millionaires Club

Rockstar have today openend the "Millionaires Club" which includes players who have earned more that $1,000,000 in GrandTheftAuto IV. Take note that this takes into account your overall earnings and not your current balance.

Once you have hit the big $1m you an compare yourself to others who also have a 7-figure balance.

Thanks to Chris from TheGTAPlace for the news.

GTAIV Downloadable Content Delayed

Yesterday it was announced that GrandTheftAutoIV's highly anticipated downloadable content will not be released until between November 1st 2008 and January 31st 2009

According to Rockstar the new downloadable content, available on both PS3 and Xbox360, is set to add around 10 hours of new gameplay including (hopefully) some additional features.

Hot Coffee Settlement

GTASettlement.com reports that there have been developments on the "Hot Coffee" front. Apparently US citizens who purchased the game prior to July 20 2005 and were offended by the "Hot Coffee" content will be eligable to claim up to $35 USD or get a replacement disk

The amount that you can claim back depends on several factors, which you can see below:

If you have and submit	What you may get
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas First Edition Disc	Replacement Disc
Detailed Store Receipt	Cash payment up to $35.00
Disc/Purchase Details	Cash payment up to $17.50
General Credit Card Statement	Cash payment up to $10.00
No Disc/Purchase Details	Cash payment up to $5.00