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Reports are coming in that a few lucky gamers have been able to get their hands on copies of Rockstar's upcoming blockbuster, GTA IV, already. The game is not set to release officially until next week.

The word on the street is that the next installment in Rockstar's successful "Grand Theft Auto" franchise will be hitting gamers hands this April. Originally expected last year, GTAIV will be the series' first entry in the "next-gen" console arena. On a sidenote, "one of the contributing factors" to the delays turned out to be getting the game running up to par on Sony's Playstation 3 console.

The second trailer for Rockstar's next iteration in Grand Theft Auto series, entitled "Looking For That Special Someone," is now available online for your viewing pleasure. For now I'll hold my judgement on GTAIV's graphics until I see some gameplay but I will note that I think the trailer's cinematics are intense and intriguing and it looks to not disappoint story-wise.

Only one of our registered Xbox Live gamertags was lucky enough to make it through all of the requirements for the "Rule of Three" contest. We'll have to resort to the third and final method to get more of our accounts into the Beta program which means that there will be at least one or more copies of Crackdown obtained by our staff when it drops next week on February 20th.

Yeah, we all know that Nintendo's DS Lite prints money over in Japan but here's where it takes the cake -- even Japanese cats can't resist the chance to play! It seems that Nintendo can't miss with the DS or the Wii, but am I only the only one that thinks that the cat's eyes are very reminiscent of Shrek 2's Puss-in-Boots character?

I-play has announced the release of the sequel to the award-winning mobile phone game "24" today. The new handset game is entitled "24: Agent Down" and places gamers in the role of the star of Fox's hit emmy-winning television series "24." Are you a die-hard fan of the show and have to have everything Jack Bauer related?

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