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Rockstar is one of those developers that seems to turn everything it touches into gold. Fans all over the world go nuts for new Rockstar games, and if you haven’t yet experienced how awesome any of the studio’s titles are, allow us to direct your attention to the incoming Rockstar Games Collection: Edition 1. It’s a new retail bundle that brings together four of Rockstar’s most beloved games, and it’s launching next month.

Specifically speaking, Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition, and LA Noire are all included in this bundle. Obviously, two of the games included in this compilation are compilations themselves – Episodes from Liberty City is a collection of two Grand Theft Auto IV expansions, The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Damned, while the Midnight Club Complete Edition includes the base game and all of the DLC cars and locations that have been released since the game launched.

It’s a quality collection, to be sure, but chances are you’ve already played some of the games included in it. If you somehow haven’t, then we have to urge you to go pick up this bundle when it launches on November 6 for Xbox 360 and PS3. Even though it costs full retail price – $59.99 – the games included in it are some of the best made this generation (we’re particularly fond of Red Dead Redemption).

Aside from prepping this collection for release, Rockstar is currently working on the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto V. We’ve been given screenshots to drool over and even a trailer here and there, but for the most part, Grand Theft Auto V is still being kept under wraps. We’re anxiously waiting for new details on Grand Theft Auto V, but in the meantime, this new Rockstar Games Collection: Edition 1 should do something to take our minds off the fact that the studio and publisher Take-Two are really, really good at building anticipation.

Rockstar Games Collection bundles fan favorites, out next month is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you have been following the Grand Theft Auto franchise, then you probably know that that Grand Theft Auto 3 was the first GTA game that allowed players to play from a 3D third person perspective, compared to GTA 1 and 2 which offered a top down perspective in 2D, both of which were and are still extremely fun. In any case if you haven’t played GTA before and are clueless as to all these GTA references made in pop culture, Rockstar has announced that GTA 3 is now available for purchase from the PlayStation Store for $9.99/£7.99/€9.99. This is most certainly not a new game, especially with GTA 5 pegged for a possible 2012/2013 release (depending on which rumor you want to buy), but for those who are looking to relive a classic, or perhaps looking to try it for the first time, just head on over to the PlayStation Store to get your copy!

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Rockstar announces GTA III for Android, Grand Theft Auto 3 arrives on iOS and Android platforms next week ,

Friday is here once again folks, and what a Friday it was. What started out as a relatively slow news day became very exciting later on, as the jury deciding the Apple and Samsung case delivered their verdict after only three days of deliberation. The verdict? Let’s just say that Apple’s lawyers will be having a celebration tonight. Samsung was found guilty of multiple patent infringements, and a lot of that patent infringement was found willful by the jury. To make matters worse for Samsung, the jury found that it wasn’t owed any damages by Apple. Needless to say, we think there will be an appeal.

This verdict comes on the same day that Tim Cook wraps up his first year as Apple CEO, and elsewhere in the world, a similar lawsuit between Apple and Samsung ended with both companies facing bans in South Korea. Ouch. After a bit of a shake up at the OnLive headquarters, things seem to have calmed down a bit, and Steve Perlman will be staying on as OnLive CEO. LG has teased an incoming smartphone with an S4 quad-core processor, and Google’s legendary I’m Feeling Lucky button has been given a pretty major update. It isn’t the same I’m Feeling Lucky button it once was, of course, but we think it’ll begin to grow on you after awhile.

The presidential campaigns will soon begin receiving donations through text messages, and the Nikon D600 full-frame DSLR camera may be getting a release in September. Speaking of cameras, beleaguered Kodak has come up with a new way to raise some quick cash after patent auctions left something to be desired. The much-rumored iPad Mini has apparently popped up in some photos for a pre-fab case, and it seems that Samsung has a new smartphone called the Galaxy Stellar coming to Verizon, which is all well and good, but Samsung actually has yet to announce the phone or release a list of specs.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 has beaten the iPad when it comes to profit margins, and for the third time this week, Rockstar has released a new batch of Grand Theft Auto V screenshots. Astronomers have discovered a pair of new spiral galaxies that have a lot in common with our own, and it would appear that Amazon has leaked its tablet plans through a new advertisement. Wrapping up the news tonight, Facebook is having its developers use the Facebook app for Android in order to get them motivated to fix it, or at least that’s what the rumors say.

As is usually the case here at SlashGear, we didn’t just have news for you today, as Chris Burns provides a review of SuperTooth DISCO 2 for you to check out. Have a good weekend everyone!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: August 24, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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On Monday, Rockstar gave us a trio of screenshots from Grand Theft Auto V, and teased that more were coming later on in the week. That time has apparently arrived, as Rockstar has treated us to yet another group of screenshots. Whereas Monday’s screenshots gave us a look at the various modes of transportation found in the game (including a fighter jet!), this new set offers a glimpse at some of the leisure activities you can (presumably) partake in.

Just like the images from Monday, these ones don’t give too much away. One of them shows a pair of chaps riding dirtbikes through a mountain path. Another screenshot shows a pair of people playing tennis at an estate we could never hope to own. The third one is the most telling, as it confirms that parachuting will be making a return in GTA V. That’s something to get excited about, right?

Truthfully, the entire game is something to get excited about, and Rockstar is doing a masterful job with marketing. The blog post revealing these images, for instance, comes without any accompanying text, and the post is simply titled “Leisure.” Looking at the comments section, it appears that Rockstar’s marketing strategy is working, as many fans have burning questions that the studio probably isn’t going to answer.

It looks like we’ll be getting even more screenshots before the week is out too – taking a look at Grand Theft Auto V‘s official website, we can see that there are three screenshots that haven’t been revealed yet. We imagine this next trio of screenshots will be released in a similar fashion to the others, and if we were to hazard a guess, we’d say they’re coming on Friday. Whenever Rockstar unleashes these remaining screenshots, we’ll have them for you right here at SlashGear, so stay tuned.

Rockstar deals another round of Grand Theft Auto V screens is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you’re the type of gamer that burns through games pretty quickly, then DLCs are probably the sort of features and content that you look forward to. If you’ve completed Max Payne 3 already, you might be interested to learn that according to Rockstar, all Max Payne 3 gamers on all platforms can expect to receive a free DLC which will be released sometime in August (no specific dates were mentioned). The company also went on to detail additional DLCs that will be headed our way this September and October as well, although unfortunately these DLCs will not be free. Either way if you’re not familiar with the Disorganized Crime Pack which will be the free DLC released in August, it basically lets players fight it out amongst each other above the streets of Max Payne’s old apartment in the Hoboken Rooftops multiplayer map. So, who’s looking forward to these DLCs?

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