2 posts and columns on Dan Houser

Grand Theft Auto Maker Take-Two Blows Earnings, Keeps Game Gurus

in Media on December 17, 2008 at 2:47 pm PT

Turns out videogames aren’t immune to the miserable economy, after all. But Take-Two Interactive does have some good news: It has signed the team behind its ultraviolent, ultrasuccessful Grand Theft Auto franchise to a new contract.

The Wii Version Will Come With a WiiBong and WiiSyringe

in News on September 30, 2008 at 12:04 am PT

Oh, look: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has “reignited” the debate about violent videogames. What a surprise. Last time GTA and its publisher, Rockstar Games, sparked this kind of outrage it was for “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and the infamous “Hot Coffee mod”–a patch that unlocked an explicit but anatomically improbable sex scene between the game’s protagonists.