Grand Theft Auto IV - $500 Million in Sales!

The recently released game, “Grand Theft Auto IV”, has been earning quite some big bucks of $500 million for parent company Take-Two Interactive, as well as developers of Rockstar Games with 6 million copies being sold worldwide, and 3.6 million copies being sold on just the first day.

If you have been reading news in the recent months, you would have heard of giant game publisher, EA, trying to take over Take-Two Interactive. Take-Two Interactive Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, has been trying to convince shareholders not to sell their shares to any potential buyers with promises of at least $400 million in sales.

Seems like Zelnick has been doing pretty well maintaining that promise. Will EA still take over Take-Two Interactive successfully? This is yet to be seen. We shall wait and see.

Visit the link to find out more on the New York Times coverage of Take-Two Interactive’s earnings in the recent week.

To find out more about the Grand Theft Auto Series, right after the jump.

An extremely controversial game to gamers worldwide, it became scandalous during a previous release, “San Andreas” with the tirade over the “Hot Coffee Mod”.

Jack Thompson, a law attorney in Florida, USA, is famously associated with suing the developers of the Grand Theft Auto series for its exposure of explicit content of sex, violence and drugs within the games itself to minors when it was released without a proper rating done. Many had expected the same situation to happen again with Jack suing Rockstar Games, but with a stint with one of the state courts, I guess Jack won’t be doing anything rash soon.

Grand Theft Auto games normally put the gamer into the perspective of a character who works on the other side of the law a.k.a the “bad guy”. Gamers are allowed to use their characters to have sex with hookers, do carjacking and conduct killing acts on other “characters” of the game.

Crimes worldwide has been closely associated with the GTA series, though there are continuous increases in the popularity of the games. Grand Theft Auto IV, was recently released in 2 editions, the Normal Edition and the Collector’s Edition, where gamers receive extra premiums and promotional materials at a more expensive price.

Grand Theft Auto IV, is being discussed throughout news on TV globally, as well as hilarious takes at the release of the game. Let’s take a look at some of those videos.

Some of the videos shown below may contain explicit languages.

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