Friday Flashback time with a House classic, all the way from 1995 comes this Deep Dish Remix of De'Lacy's "Hideaway", a somewhat odd choice for the mafia heavy storyline of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, but whenever I used to play that game, I always found myself listening to Rise FM and it was because of House/Dance classics like this:


PS: Also a reminder for the Rockstar Games Social Club Multiplayer Event for the PC Version of Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City which starts in three hours time.

You remember Grand Theftendo right? We only reported on it back in October of 2004! The project that was started by Brian Provinciano to recreate Grand Theft Auto III on the NES hardware, developed between 2002 and 2005, the project was eventually put on hold because it was about to become an entirely different beast altogether, but there is footage of the original version around the internet, such as this clip below:


So what happened? Well as development grew, Brian found ways to get even more out of the NES hardware, the project, while still focused on Grand Theft Auto III, eventually started to include reference and jokes to other games of yesteryear. The project then got bigger, shifting development from NES to PC, a couple more people got involved to help with the art and soundtrack and with time this little Grand Theft Auto III demake evolved into the indie game known today as Retro City Rampage by Vblank Entertainment (a company founded by Brian Provinciano). Now, a lot of you guys might be around the same age as me and grew up playing games from the late NES era to the SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive era from a very young age, so some of you might remember playing games like Contra, Mega Man, Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, Final Fight, etc, so for me at least, having a game that was rooted as a Grand Theft Auto III homage then evolve to reference other games of that era is interesting and worth keeping an eye on because, at it's most basic, it's a Grand Theft Auto game of that time, which we never got. You can check out a trailer for Retro City Rampage below:

Retro City Rampage "Big News" Trailer 2012 from Vblank on Vimeo.

Retro City Rampage is currently slated for a May release and will be available via Steam, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network (both for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita) and WiiWare. The PC version is currently available to pre-order Here.

Fans of the British TV Show "Life On Mars" will appreciate today's fan made video in Grand Theft Auto IV by EvilDog Media, who has taken the intro for the show and adapted it to the events that surround Niko Bellic, for those who want to see how well it compares to the original, take a look at the comparison video Here.

Tomorrow (February 24th) Rockstar Games will be holding another one of their Social Club Multiplayer Events for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV & Episodes from Liberty City. The event will take place between 4 - 7PM EST, so head over to Rockstar's Social Club for more details if you want to join in or if you just want to watch their Live Stream of the event and chat with other people in the community!

Just like we previously reported, Rockstar have now added more tracks from Head Radio and Lips 106 to iTunes, this time being songs from Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. Again keeping with their style each track is only $0.69 and the full station packs can be had for only $2.99. Here's a list of the new songs available:

Following the weekly updates for both the US PlayStation Network and the EU PlayStation Network, Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition have now been added to the digital download service, finally making the game available for digital download on all the platforms it was released for. The prices are listed below:

Friday Flashback time, taking you back to the year 1999 with a track that was featured on Game Radio from Grand Theft Auto III. "Scary Movies (Instrumental)" produced by Andy "Red Spyda" Thelusma (credited as Reef/Rush in the games manual), originally made for Eminem and Royce Da 5'9" when they teamed up to become "Bad Meets Evil", the full version of the song was later used as the end credits theme for the year 2000 parody film "Scary Movie". This instrumental version of the track appeared as the opening track for Game Radio as DJ Stretch Armstrong and Lord Sears are introducing themselves to Liberty City.

Ladies and Gentlemen of GTAGaming,

This is Oliver "Ladykiller" Biscuit taking the reigns this Valentines Day and reminding you all to take things slow, groovy and to just let the funk take over between you and your partner. Old Ladykiller is going to help the mood, so settle down, dim the lights, set the food and get those juices flowing to the vibe of this mix tape of the very best from my time on Fever 105, keeping it hot out there all night long.

- Oliver "Ladykiller" Biscuit

It took a while but the Mac versions of the Grand Theft Auto Trilogy (Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) are now available on Steam and of course that means it falls under "STEAMPLAY", so if you already own the PC versions of these games, you will now own the Mac versions to! And to celebrate that, Steam have dropped 25% off the games until February 20th.

Just a heads up for any modders out there, OpenIV 0.9.4 has been released, making it even easier to modify your copy of Grand Theft Auto IV or Episodes from Liberty City and allow you to view and export/import various files from the game, the main changes in this version are as follows:
You can download the latest version from the OpenIV website or from our own GTA4-Mods.com.