MCV: GTA IV to hit UK April 25

by Kyle Orland { Dec 19th 2007 at 11:55AM }

Ever since the Grand Theft Auto IV's much-ballyhooed delay to the somewhat nebulous "Q2 2008," would-be gangsters everywhere have been clamoring to know the specific date the game would hit (and Take Two has been no help on that score). Now MCV purports to have an answer, citing "senior industry sources" to pin the game's British release date at April 25, 2008.

If MCV's unnamed "sources close to the game's publisher" are correct, the game would just sneak in before the end of Take Two's promised second fiscal quarter, which runs from February through April. The story gives no hint at a U.S. release date, but recent games in the series have hit our shores a few days before Britain's.

Rockstar gave MCV a blanket "no comment" or the rumor, and one source hinted that we might not get much official warning from the publisher. "I'd expect some more concrete news from them two or three weeks before release," a retail source told MCV. Yikes! That doesn't leave much time to rob enough hookers for the needed cash to buy the game.

Tags: Grand-theft-auto, grand-theft-auto-4, GTA, GTA4, GTAIV, MCV, release, release-date, Rockstar, Take Two, TakeTwo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

darkeyez @ Dec 19th 2007 12:11PM

I never played GTA...

Bloo @ Dec 19th 2007 2:48PM

I never played Devil May Cry...

gonk @ Dec 19th 2007 12:19PM

don't forget to run over those hookers after you rob em

ToonPac @ Dec 19th 2007 1:13PM

Watch out though, some of them manage to hide knives somewhere in their bra and hotpants...

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Dec 19th 2007 2:38PM

dude. They're sex workers.

Secura @ Dec 19th 2007 12:19PM

I'm gonna wait until this game is around $20 before I buy it. Too many other great games to buy that will be better than this.

Luka M. @ Dec 19th 2007 12:34PM

GTA4 is definitely the top game for that period. Xbox360 at least.

jynxycat @ Dec 19th 2007 1:36PM

What else is coming out in the spring ?

What's that, nothing ?

Buy it.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Dec 19th 2007 2:39PM

ummm like what? GTA4 owns your soul.

Secura @ Dec 19th 2007 3:34PM

Sorry, but unlike you I don't spend $60 on every game that comes out. I didn't say I won't get it, I just have a lot to catch up on from the past couple months plus the games in spring. It's not worth spending $60 on when I could spend that money on a game that I will have a better time with. I will probably get MGS4 or Haze plus LBP if it is cheap.

No need to get mad at me for not buying a game that you are obviously going to get. That's just one more for the big fans of GTA to get instead of me.

XanthouS @ Dec 19th 2007 12:24PM

GTAIV can't come soon enough. It feels like a decade since San Andreas released.

The new gameplay improvements and sheer amount of detail put into Liberty City are very exciting.

Marty @ Dec 19th 2007 12:25PM

If it's as big as GTA: San Andreas, and has the quality of current games in similar genres, you can count me in. Multiplayer sounds like it will be worth the price of admission alone.

I have to say though, I picked up Saint's Row for $20 a few weeks ago, and once you get past the framerate it's actually quite a good game... hopefully GTA 4 is better.