'Ninja Blade' sounds like a new game. 'Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise' and a new 'Scene It' game are also on the list.
What could 'Lips' be?
ALSO, WiiWare starts today. This is Nintendo's version of the Xbox Live Arcade. Instead of ports of older console games (like the Virtual Console), these are original games for the Wii that (hopefully) take advantage of the Wii-moste.
Launching today: Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, LostWinds (which looks awesome!), Defend Your Castle, Pop, VIP Casino Blackjack, TV Show King. The launch games are priced from 500 to 1500 points.
mine keeps freezing right after opening credits i can't play the game at all. I'll keep trying although i don't think its going to work. anybody having the same problem
Mine freezes. It froze on the opening credits and also randomly during game play. I thought it was the disc so I traded it in for a new copy, but it still freezes. I think the problem is my Xbox.
Yes this is happening with my xbox 360. Whats happening is Microsoft is putting 4-5 different dvd Roms in there 360's and not all are capable of reading this disk. Im furious about this being i Just got mine back from repair and the gave me an old referbishd one.Rockstar support told me to call and demand a brand new one. All of us being consumers. We have the right to have a working system capable of playing the products we pay for. Complaints and lawsuits are await.
i got GTA4 FOR THE PS3 and mine freezes at the opening cinima, tried pushing buttons to skip but it lets me drive for a sec then freezes like eric said this is BS, this is what i get for my $65? i hope MGS4 doesn't have the same prob! maybe this is Rockstars version of the red ring of death
Mine was freezing up a little bit the first day I played but has been fine since. I played yesterday for a good 4 hours, with not problems whatsoever. i think my ps3 just had to get used to it lol
I'm on my third rental from blockbuster and all three freeze after the first 5 min of play. I've tried every solution short of smashing my 360 against the wall. Just happy I didn't pay $60 to buy.
I too am one of the unlucky xbox 360 owners. No problems with any games before, went out and exchanged the disk, deleted the save data, cleared the hard drive cache with the x x LB RB x x thing, new gamer profile. No dice. I got through for about 3 hours initially, but once it froze once there was no going back. Freeze either at the start screen with the boxes or about 2 min after gameplay starts when it actually gets that far. Bummer. This is my last free weekend for quite a long time too.
I just bought it for PS3 (60GB) and it when thru the opening movie/credits, and locked up when you were able to drive. Now it locks up at the very beginning and just has "starting a new game" at the bottom right. I deleted the game file and tried again. It never even tried to load a new game file this time. WTF???? I know it isn't my console, I just played CoD4.
I just unpacked and loaded the game, after installing some 3 gb of data. The game went on to "Starting a new game" and its stuck on the same screen.....my friday nite ruineddddd......
I purchased GTA IV on the day it came out at Gamestop. I have a 360 btw. I popped it in and played for say 5 mins and it froze...hmm...i thought. Reset the system. In 30 mins it froze a good 4 or 5 times at different points during game play...never during a cutscene. Took it back...got another copy. used a lens cleaner on the 360...tried multiple different games no freezing. Played new disk. Played for 10 mins or so froze again while walking down the street. Once while driving, again walking down the street. Hmm...not sure what to do...called Gamestop to ask what i should do. They gave me ANOTHER copy...cont. to freeze at intermittent places in the game...makes it super frustrating to play. Bought one from Best Buy today...hasn't frozen so far. We'll see....can't wait to see what Rockstar does.
Hi, I own the 40 GB PS3 and I recently bought Grand theft Auto IV from walmart, and the first two days I played this game without error. Day 3 I start up my game, Keep in mind the disc only got to see 2 seconds of daylight before i placed it inside the ps3, I play for about 5 minutes, and my game freezes. I reset it, tried again, then it froze on the loading screen. I gave it the benefit of the doubt tried it again and played no longer than to get into a multiplayer game and get killed and it froze right up. This is typical, all my other grand theft auto games have had problems, I put no codes in or anything the game is fucked. I will never buy another Rockstar game again if someone doesnt patch this soon.
Mine's starting to freeze and lockup now. First three days were fine, last couple of days I've had numerous ingame freezes (game would just crash, music still playing, needed a reboot) and a few times the game wouldn't start at all.
I deleted the game data cache twice, it wasn't a real fix.
I've got a 60Gb PS3. It's getting worse and worse, bizarre.
Same problem here for my 360. I played for a bout 4 hours with no problems. All of a sudden it froze, I restarted it, it froze again in another 10 minutes, now whenever I turn on the game it freezes within a minute or so.
I am having the same problem for Xbox 360. I took my disc back today and exchanged it for a new one, no good. I put the new disc in and it froze again. I have restarted about 20 times and nothing helps. I usually get through the loading screens but once i actually try and play the game it automatically freezes.
I bought a Xbox 360 half a year ago for one thing the new GTA thats the only reason I played the games that came in the box a little but for the most part my Xbox is brand new as I said I only have a log of like 10 or so hours on it just got GTA and it freezes so bad I mean when I first stuck it in there was no problem I played for 2 hours then a crash/freeze up I try restart Xbox launch game and as soon as I get to loading screen freeze the I try restart again and I get about a minute of game play then bam freeze up...
oh one thing of intrest one of my freeze times the xbox told me Disk is dirty or unreadable take out wipe with cloth or whatever I looked at the back of disk and guess what it looks perfect duh its brand new why is my xbox telling me it cant read it..?
Xbox 360 version, i got threw about 8 hours of play. then mine froze. after that i havent been able to retart the game without a freeze right after the start. i have also tryied deleting all gta memory and getting a new copy but nothing worked.
I have GTA4 for 360 and it is giving me the same problems. I exchanged my disc thinking that was the problem but it didn't work. Still freezing. This is the only game my 360 does it for.
this crap is freezing on my xbox,it will do it for a couple hours then it will play for 4 hours.when the game freezes and i have to restart,instead of saying play game it sais play dvd.i hope someone gets their f'n teeth knocked down their f'n throat
I had the same problem with my 60GB ps3. until there is a solution with an update or so, go to networks and disable the internet connection. then the game will work. I tried it. it works.
i was having a freeze like a minute into the game everytime, on my xbox. today i went into the game option and turned off auto save and the game hasnt froze since. i dont know if thats what fixed it but it working now so im knocking on wood that it doesnt freeze anymore.
Hey, I have a 360 and have been playing the game for a few days. The first time I loaded up, it was fine. then as soon as i was close to the first mission, the game would give an unreadable disc error. It would do that every time. So i deleted the save file and started again. Then I got all the way to the second island before the Francis missions, but then it would give me the same unreadable disc freeze as soon as I get there. I did trade my game in once before and it still did the same thing. From what I gathered, the unreadable disc freezes are caused from corrupted GTA IV data saves on the hard drive. How these files got corrupted is beyond me, since I haven't put in a cheat or anything. Hopefully there's a patch that can fix all this. Fortunately I haven't had these other freezes I've been hearing about, but I feel for you guys. I'd hate to start over from scratch... again.
i own a ps3 40gb and ever since i installed the game i cant get around the freezing the longer my ps3 is turned off th e longer i can play but only around an hour 1/2 at the most but im also have problems with my ps3 freezing during other games now and dvds which never happened before i installed grand theft auto
This sounds too simple but it worked for me. I stood my xbox in the vertical position instead of it's normal position of laying flat. Have not had a problem since. This was after 30 freezes in a row.
I was just discussing with a co-worker that I have never been afraid to use my credit card info on any of my consoles, especially my PS3. So, wouldn't-you-know-it, the rumor that the PSN network might have been hacked pops up on Wired's blog.
Microsoft seems to be alluding to the fact that they think online-distribution of HD content is the way to go. But, as this blog on PCWorld.com points out, that method still has a long way to go and is still too frustrating for users. I second this opinion.
VICTOR UPDATE: I think Microsoft almost certainly WILL NOT offer a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360. What's the point? By time the drive would come out -- probably right before Christmas -- the 360 would be celebrating its third birthday. In other words, assuming the 360 follows the standard five-year console lifecycle, the machine will be closer to the end of its life than the beginning by the time Microsoft could get a Blu-ray attachment to market.
So Microsoft is almost certainly going to just wait for the 360's successor to come out, and then include a built-in Blu-ray drive for games and movies. Bet on it.
There's plenty of rumor-mongering, if you're so inclined (which I am).
My favorite theory is that Gates was all set to announce at CES a new Elite model with a built-in HD-DVD player. But the last-minute Warner defection to Blu-ray effectively neutered HD-DVD and Gates quickly pulled the plug on the HD-DVD Elite.
So now retailers have been clearing their shelves of the old Elite, but the new model with HD-DVD player never came along to fill the hole.
On the UK site, The Sunday Post, the manager of ELSPA's (the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association) Intellectual Property Crime Unit , John Hiller, is quoted saying that 90% of U.S Nintendo DS gamers download their games illegally.
Are you serious, John? I don't even think 9% of U.S. DS owners would know how to do that. I don't think 90% of U.S. DS owners are over the age of 8.... but I don't have those facts.
If it wasn't for an evil friend of mine, I wouldn't even know how to do that (oh, and I NEVER have).
I don't know about American gamers, but I have a lot of students who come over from Korea. We're talking 12 year olds here. I would estimate that 70% of my Korean students have downloaded illegal copies of games.
Doug note: I'm I being totally naive with this? Are there REALLY that many people here playing pirated games?
The pirating of games has always been there, and both the PSP and DS can be modded pretty easily (The DS is especially easy while the PSP takes some work.)
It's really not that hard to find pirated games for the DS. Actually the DS is very easy mod, and it does not require you to open up the DS at all, so warranty is intact.
I buy my games, but it's easier to get it all dumped into one memory card than to carry like 10 of them.
According to 1up.com and Jeff Bell, Microsoft’s head of marketing, Blu-Ray might be coming to the 360.
Jeff says:
"We've been talking to Blu-ray all along because we have the best piece of software in the business, called HDi. It is the backbone that powers interactivity in HD-DVD and we have that available to potentially partner with others."
That doesn't sound like a "no." I'm sure Microsoft is panicking at the comment and there will probably be a retraction soon.
'Lips' a no-show at Gamer's Day
