GTA fans, time to get your preorder on. Best Buy is listing GTA IV preorders for the console of your choice.

Let’s face it, we all know that the release date for GTA IV, whatever it turns out to be, is going to be a madhouse. Not everyone is going to get their copy. Sure, Best Buy may make some interest off your money, but at least you’ll get your game on launch day. Plus, you can secure your pre-order for only $5!

If you’re interested, you can preorder from Best Buy’s site for your console of choice, PS3 or XBox 360.

Here’s a short but interesting video slide show. It basically shows the evolution of some of the most popular series in gaming. It includes Grand Theft Auto, Project Gotham Racing, Halo, Metal Gear Solid, Ratchet and Clank, Tekken, Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, and Mario.

Props to PSU for getting this video on YouTube. The music to go along with the memories definitely works with this one.

Pro-G provides the top 20 selling games in the UK for the week 20, 2007. Spiderman 3 for the PS3 dominates the UK top games for a third week.

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2001 ELSPA Ltd
Entertainment Software (All Prices) Week 20, 20071: SPIDER-MAN 3
2: COMMAND & CONQUER 3: TIBERIUM WARS
3: PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 6
4: WII PLAY
5: COOKING MAMA
6: TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 07
7: FIFA 07
8: CRACKDOWN
9: DR KAWASHIMA’S BRAIN TRAINING
10: FINAL FANTASY III
11: THE ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION
12: SINGSTAR POP HITS
13: GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY STORIES
14: THE SIMS 2
15: GOD OF WAR II
16: BUZZ! THE MEGA QUIZ
17: NEED FOR SPEED: CARBON
18: LEGO STAR WARS II: THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY
19: NEW SUPER MARIO BROS.
20: VIRTUA TENNIS 3

Spiderman 3 has to stay on top two more weeks to match it’s predecessor which maintained the lead for five weeks on it’s release three years ago. It will have some stiff competition next week with several new releases hitting the shelves. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, driven by movies sales, will be a stiff competitor. Mario Strikers Charged for Wii, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales for DS and Crash for PSP will also be released this Friday.

Well, you can look for GTA fans to be opening up their wallets again. Rockstar has announced a brand-new Grand Theft Auto IV special edition. Priced at an economical $89.99, and packaged in a swanky customized Grand Theft Auto metal safety deposit box, the Special Edition is planned to launch at the same time as the PS3/XBox 360 versions of the game, which are slated for October 16 (North America) and October 19 (Europe).

What does your $89.99 buy you? Let’s take a look….

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Rockstar has announced that they plan to release a special edition of GTA IV on the same day as the regular edition. The Special Edition will come in a customized metal safety deposit box and contain a slew of goodies. Aside from the game itself, you’ll get a key to the safety deposit box, a art book, a soundtrack CD, and a duffel bag. The one hitch: it’ll cost you about $90. Ouch. The game will be released for the PS3 and X-Box 360 on October 16.

From a development standpoint, going for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 is not setting the best stage for Rockstar Games.

Word on the street, or at least from 1up.com, is that the team putting together Grand Theft Auto IV is having quite a bit of trouble putting things together smoothly for both of the consoles. One of the key developers on the project says his people have a few technological limitations to tackle.

But there is no word on any sort of delay, so the game just might meet any deadline they set. It’s understandable, though–the Playstation 3 has quite a huge chunk of hardware wired into it, and the Xbox 360 may already have at least two layers of dust on some gamers’ shelves after sitting for a year and a half.

You may remember that last month, Take Two filed a suit against Jack Thompson. Basically, they were suing in regards to Thompson’s threat to sue to block sales of GTA IV and Manhunt 2. In traditional Thompson fashion, Wacky Jacky filed a countersuit charging that Take Two had violated the federal racketeering laws. In exchange for dropping this suit against Thompson, as well as the contempt charge stemming from the Bully case in Florida, Thompson has agreed to not sue or threaten suits that would block sale or distribution of any Take Two game, not to accuse Take-two or anyone who does business with them of wrongdoing for selling games, and to make any future contact with Take Two through their attorneys. It’s not a muzzle, but at least it might shut Wacky Jacky up for a while.

The trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV is now in the wild. It looks like every game site out there is talking about it so perhaps I should as well. Let’s see…it’s prettier than any other GTA title. There I talked about GTA:IV. I would tell you more but 1) You’ve got eyes and 2) I could really care less. I mean I’m sorry but am I the only person that thinks the concept is getting a little old? Hopefully Rockstar added something really fresh and innovative. Otherwise I’ll just have to be content with the soundtrack, which always rocks. Yea yea, I have an opinion, if your gonna hate at least buy the T-Shirt.