Today Grand Theft Auto IV is FIVE years old! At the time it was the first proper Next Gen outing for the Grand Theft Auto Series appearing on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (and Grand Theft Auto V intends to end that era with a bang!) with a PC release arriving later in the year.

We've seen the modding scene grow to insane highs through our own GTA4-Mods.com and various other GTA websites, and that will only continue to grow as more tools become available, such as OpenIV which is still being updated to this day with a new release due out soon! With projects such as IV: SA and Iron Man IV, it should give you an idea of how much effort people can really put into their ideas and mods and how much it benefits from that attention. Here's to many more mods and projects to come!

With OVER 25 MILLION copies sold and trunk full of awards, Grand Theft Auto IV is one of the most successful GTA games around and yet is also one of the most argued about with many different opinions ranging from people thinking the game is too serious, lost its way, etc splitting some gaming communities in half with one side opting for Saints Row, which lead to one of the more creative response videos from the GTA Community, which only started off the zany direction many mods followed on with. And yes, you guys even followed trends such as Gangnam Style (even Gentlemen) and the Harlem Shake.

Of course it wasn't all just crazy videos and funny stuff, we also had genuine well made and edited videos such as the amazing "Niko Bellic - Man On Fire" tribute (and in my opinion, the better "Peace and Prosperity be Damned" tribute) so it feels fitting to highlight the next video, which shows a playthrough of all three stories at once, showing the events of the now well known "Impossible Trinity", the GTA IV Diamond Story Arc. So before we start with the Grand Theft Auto V stuff and go full out with it, here, watch this video, see what it's like to have Three Protagonists running through the story at the same time and see how diverse it can be as well as how fitting it is to have it follow multiple arcs between the characters...

Join Rockstar Games and Co this Friday (January 25th) between 11am - 2PM EST as they play through a mix of multiplayer modes on Grand Theft Auto IV, The Lost & Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony across all three platforms! You can find Rockstar using the following accounts:
Be sure to also enter the sweepstakes to be in for a chance to win a Grand Theft Auto V T-Shirt and Sticker Prize pack!

At the end of last year, OpenIV, the most powerful Grand Theft Auto IV modding tool, got a major upgrade to v1.3. The most significant changes included:

• Ability to view WDR and WDD models from Max Payne 3
• Support for WFT fragments allowing for 3DS Max vehicle import and destroyable map objects, shown in the video below

Today, the new release got a few minor upgrades to v1.3.1, so we encourage you all to download OpenIV v1.3.1 at GTA4-Mods.com.

In case you missed it this week, the GTA IV mod that brings the Liberty City we knew from Grand Theft Auto III to the enhanced experience of the RAGE engine has made its first public release! GTA III RAGE Classic is available for download now for GTA IV 1.0.7.0.


Grab the full archive at Mod DB and start cruising around the familiar streets of Portland, Staunton Island, and Shoreside Vale.

From Today (November 28th) until December 5th, the EU PlayStation Network are having a sale on all Grand Theft Auto IV related items, so if you've recently got a PS3 and want to grab Grand Theft Auto IV and the DLC, now would be a good time, full details are as follows:

To take a quick break from all the Grand Theft Auto V news, here's a very well made Live Action tribute to Grand Theft Auto IV called "Grand Theft Auto: RISE", taking inspiration from the multiplayer modes as well as a couple of main story missions:

From Today until the 9th of November (GMT), Steam have slashed 75% off Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition as well as the regular edition of Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City. A somewhat support push as the Grand Theft Auto V Game Informer Issue will be released before this deal ends!

Recently there has been an apparent leak of a new bundle from Rockstar Games known as the "Rockstar Games Collection: Edition 1" with an NA release date of November 13th and priced at $59.99.


The collection is suppose to include the following games:
Now this is NOT confirmed by Rockstar Games and so far the only artwork source seems to be that one post which could indicate some sort of a hoax but the game does have a listing present on both Buy.com and CDuniverse.com. Overall we are not sure what to make of this as of yet but we just wanted to let the rest of you know as it's currently doing rounds on various websites.

With GTA V news at another slow, GTAGaming member Ketoth decided to take on the project of remaking the game's debut trailer in Grand Theft Auto IV, using the IV:SA mod, which brings San Andreas into the RAGE engine, to get the Los Santos landmarks that we all recognize.


Aside from being a creative video, the end result really shows us how far the graphics in GTA V have come, and what a stark contrast this game will be to the Los Santos we know from GTA: San Andreas.

You really can't escape Gangnam Style these days, the smash hit Korean Pop song which has spread like mad over the Internet and spawned off many parody videos, it was only a matter of time before we saw a Grand Theft Auto version! Today we thank Auxeum for his attempt at remaking the video in Grand Theft Auto IV: