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If Grand Theft Auto V left you eager to spend more time in Los Santos, you’ll be glad to hear that Rockstar Games is porting Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to mobile devices. Android, iOS and Windows Phone users will get to relive Carl Johnson’s early ’90s gangster saga this December, with more detailed graphics and touch-optimized controls coming to all platforms. Gamers will also get full controller support, including Made for iOS devices if you’re using iOS 7. Rockstar isn’t providing release dates and prices just yet, although the imminent launch suggests that we’ll get more details in short order.

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Unfortunately, as many predicted, the rollout of Grand Theft Auto Online on Tuesday did not go smoothly for many gamers. On launch day many were unable to connect, or connected but couldn’t complete the tutorial, or got into the game and ended up losing created characters. Rockstar Games has posted a list of issues players have reported and says the team is working “around the clock” (presumably the members of the team that aren’t busy counting that billion dollar haul) on fixes. A problem limited the number of concurrent PSN users has been squashed, and they’re working on unblocking users that can’t get through the tutorial. For the time being, the team has also disabled the ability to buy ingame cash with real money. If you’re one of the players affected, keep an eye on the support page for all the latest updates, or contact Rockstar Support via Twitter or on its website, while general suggestions for the online experience should go to GTAOnline@rockstargames.com. We’ve had more success logging on in the last few hours, let us know if your online crews are connecting with any success. If they’re not, check out Joystiq’s early impressions of the multiplayer for a taste of what GTA Online has to offer, when it’s working.

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Ahead of next week’s GTA Online launch, developer Rockstar Games took to its blog to outline what to expect come October 1st. The post goes to great lengths to establish that the entire experience is free — unless you want to buy in-game currency with real money — and incredibly you-centric. Feedback you provide by emailing or posting on the official forums will help shape the game. Where you spend your time and what you end up doing (Sports! Heists! Chaos!) in San Andreas will affect the direction the developers take with future content and how they tune the overall experience. However, while the entry answers a few questions it also creates some new ones. Specifically, we’re curious about the company’s use of “roll out” to describe GTA:O‘s release. An incremental approach is probably best considering the game’s current server strains, but we’re sure that’s not what its some 16.5 million players will want to hear.

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Despite some early leaks, the vast majority of humans can’t pick up Grand Theft Auto V until tomorrow, September 17th. Fortunately for our friends at Joystiq, though, they got to do a dive deep on the latest Rockstar Games flagship in an early review. In traditional GTA fashion, “You can run the streets of a fully-realized world, steal cars, cause chaos and attempt to flee from an extraordinarily irritable police force,” Joystiq‘s Xav de Matos writes. New to the series this time around is heist missions, which task the game’s three main characters (all playable) with, well, heisting valuables from a target (think: banks, jewelry stores, et cetera).

Though De Matos generally found the game worth his time, it sounds like the narrative beats are once again hampered by poor pacing and underdeveloped, over-the-top characters. “Since GTA V features three main characters with vastly different personalities, your time is split, and the narrative isn’t given enough room to resonate,” he says. There is of course much, much more to discuss, which you’ll find in the Joystiq review, right here. We’ve also dropped five minutes of gameplay video after the break, should your fires not be stoked enough already.

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For some, Grand Theft Auto 4‘s multiplayer mode was a promise unfulfilled — it had the open environment of a massively multiplayer online game, but none of the genre’s persistent content. Rockstar is making amends by unveiling Grand Theft Auto Online, an independent counterpart to GTA5 with a few MMO components. While only 16 players can participate in a given session, they all have permanent stakes in the game world: they can raise cash, buy property and build a reputation that unlocks new gameplay. There are “ambient” events, and gamers can even design custom battles or races to share with others.

The new title should also represent a break from Rockstar’s usual business model, which emphasizes blockbuster releases with few (if any) updates. Although GTAO will be available for free to GTA5 buyers on October 1st and start off with that game’s resources, it should receive a steady stream of new missions and purchases. Ultimately, the two GTA games may have little in common. Rockstar hasn’t said whether or not it will charge players for any extras, but we wouldn’t be surprised if they carry price tags.

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