Looks like fans are getting quite creative out there with fun new mods using the recently released fan-created ICEnhancer tools for GTAIV PC..
Among some of the cool ones we’ve seen, this particular mod pits Niko against waves of bloodthirsty undead throughout the streets of Liberty. Proving that modern-day firepower can do the job at least as well as Marston’s blunderbuss and holy water.
Back in the early days of computers, screensavers weren’t just a decorative element people used to customize their idle screen displays. In their initial heyday, screensavers were completely necessary and functional applications used to preserve the integrity of monitors and protect them from image burn — imagine the millions of dollars saved by the Flying Toaster Screensaver. At the same time, those monitors would play stylishly pixilated yet crude animations that looked like reality as filtered through the eyes of pointillist artists. Combining the conservational elements of old school screensavers and the style of 8-bit video games, we present you with the Rockstar Pixels and Polygons Screensaver.
The screensaver transitions through an array of shapes and colors using generative functions to create a hypnotic effect. In other words, there’s some crazy math involved to make your screen look like it’s building itself, changing colors, and then falling back apart one pixel at a time.
Don’t stare at it too long though or you might freak out and think a bunch of brightly colored ants are engaging in unending turf war on your computer screen.
Grab it now at the Rockstar Screensavers Collection.
Check out this video we recently came across by YouTube user YeardlyDiamond1 featuring the cast of Grand Theft Auto IV and Episodes from Liberty City hamming it up to the preeminent internet bait-and-switch anthem, Rick Astley’s "Never Gonna Give You Up".
As you may already know, Grand Theft Auto IV and the Rickrolling meme have some history together – which makes this impromptu Liberty City dance party all the more entertaining.
In L.A. Noire, it’s usually L.A.’s Finest that are asking the tough questions of illicit businessmen, shady suspects and other various persons-of-interest, but now we’re turning the tables on the actors who play L.A. Noire’s detectives with a unique version of our popular ‘Asked & Answered‘ series.
This is your chance to ask Aaron Staton (Cole Phelps), Michael McGrady (Rusty Galloway), Adam Harrington (Roy Earle), Sean McGowan (Stefan Bekowsky) and Keith Szarabajka (Herschel Biggs) any burning questions you may have – insights on their characters, details of the MotionScan process, their reactions and impressions from playing the finished game itself or anything else that comes to mind.
Send us your questions by either posting in the comments section below or email them to us at mouthoff@rockstargames.com by the end of the day Monday August 8th, we’ll review them all, select the best ones and in the weeks to follow we’ll post the answers right here on the Rockstar Newswire giving the selected interrogators full credit for their choice lines of inquiry.
Update: The event and Triple XP have ended. Thanks to everyone that joined us, whether you were in-game, in the chat, on the stream or just stopping by to enter the sweepstakes.
Just as we did for PlayStation 3 fans in our recent Red Dead PSN event, we’re giving away two individually numbered, hand-painted limited edition Red Dead Redemption controllers during the August 4th Xbox LIVE multiplayer event – this time of course for Xbox 360.
To enter just visit the Social Club multiplayer events page during the event between 5-8PM Eastern and enter your information in the Sweepstakes Entry area. And be sure to check out the live video stream of all the Red Dead action and make your presence known in the live chat while you’re there.
When entering, you’ll also be placed in the running to win one of 20 Rockstar prize packs, each consisting of a Rockstar t-shirt and some stickers.
Triple XP will be live for both PSN and Xbox LIVE during the event, and will go all night long until Friday morning. We’ll be playing on Xbox LIVE in many of the multiplayer modes including DLC, so be sure you’re ready with Outlaws to the End, the Legends and Killers Pack, the Liars and Cheats Pack and Undead Nightmare. We’ll have four Rockstar players rotating through the modes, including one dedicated to original Red Dead Redemption multiplayer.
OFFICIAL ROCKSTAR GAMERTAGS
HOW TO FIND US IN THE EVENT
Start up multiplayer from the main menu. This will place you into a Free Roam lobby. Invite at least one other person and form a posse. Then enter the game modes as we announce them in the chat.
HOW DOES FREE ROAM WORK?
Free Roam is the hub of your online experience. Supporting up to 16 players, Free Roam allows you to explore with your friends and enemies, take out the gangs of outlaws or launch into more structured gameplay using the markers placed around the world. We’ll be forming posses and then heading into several game modes across all of the original multiplayer and the downloadable content during the evening.
To form a posse, press the ‘Back’ button and use the menu. This menu gives you several gameplay options and access to the list of players in your session.
FORMING A POSSE
To start the game, invite your friends, form a posse and find Rockstar, follow these steps:
1. From the main menu, press ‘Start’ and then enter ‘Xbox LIVE Multiplayer’ by pressing the ‘X’ (blue) button.
2. Once in a Free Roam lobby, press the ‘Back’ button to open the in-game multiplayer menu.
3. Press the ‘RB’ button and then the ‘Y’ (yellow) button to ‘Invite Friends’. Invite at least one friend into your posse using the ‘A’ (green) button.
4. Once your friends are in the game, press the ‘Y’ (yellow) button again to return to the ‘Players’ menu and select them with the ‘A’ (green) button to ‘Propose New Posse’ or ‘Send Posse Invite’.
5. Once you and your friends are ready to go, start up the game mode we’re currently playing. This can be found in the chat as the event rolls along.
Remember it’s best to be in a posse with at least one other person to play with Rockstar. And as stated, pay close attention to the chat to know what game mode we’re currently playing.
We’ve been known to get on and play at times not previously announced, so be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, the only places we’ll notify you. Triple XP in Red Dead happens often, so we recommend keeping an eye on those two pages…
Previously:
Recap & Screens: Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition Social Club Multiplayer Event on Xbox LIVE (July 7)
Recap & Screens: Red Dead Redemption & Undead Nightmare Social Club Multiplayer Event on PSN (June 24)
Recap & Screens: Grand Theft Auto IV & Episodes from Liberty City PC Social Club Multiplayer Event on Games for Windows Live (June 10)
True Confessions (1981; Dir. Ulu Grosbard)
“The war’s over, people are bored… They gotta have something to sink their teeth into.”
A perfect summary of why the notorious Black Dahlia murder case, and other lurid murder cases, were so outrageously popular in the public fascination during the late 1940s. In this case, fictionalized as the murder of wannabe starlet and ‘party girl’ Lois Fazenda in the shockingly underappreciated “True Confessions” from 1981.
Certainly a superior film to the more recent “Black Dahlia” picture from 2006, “True Confessions” has much that should interest fans of L.A. Noire absorbed by the setting and era of crime and corruption riddled Los Angeles in the post-war years.
A detective story (written by two of the literary world’s most esteemed authors, husband and wife Joan Didion and the late John Gregory Dunne) with a cynical and hard-nosed LAPD homicide detective hunting for answers, an investigation into LA’s sleazy 1940s stag film industry with assistance from the LAPD vice desk, and a grand conspiracy of secrets that leads to the archdiocese of Los Angeles and embroils the detective’s own brother.
Made just a few years after “Chinatown”, it’s hard to imagine United Artists weren’t inspired by that film’s success and really loaded the cast with some of the finest American actors possible – including stars Robert DeNiro as the tortured and soft-spoken Monsignor Desmond Spellacy and Robert Duvall as his brother, the relentless Detective Tom Spellacy, plus a movie buff’s dream team of character actors like Charles Durning, Burgess Meredith and Dan Hedaya (who you may recall not only from Cheers of course, but from our previously recommended “Blood Simple”).
Definitely a somber and serious crime drama more so than some of the pulpy noirs and neo-noirs we’ve recommended this year, but also well worth seeking out for a quality story featuring some of the screen’s great actors in their prime – and to delight in a bit more 1947 style police work: where it’s all no gloves, no warrants, and shoot-first to get that perp.
Previously:
A Film Noir Round Up Part Two – The Neo Noirs
Rockstar Recommends: “Chinatown”
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