It looks like at least 600,000 PC gamers are going to be happy today.
That's how many have signed an online petition asking Rockstar to bring its
multimillion-selling hit GrandTheft Auto V to the
platform. On Thursday, specialist news site Eurogamer
claimed to have heard
encouraging news from multiple sources: a release date is apparently planned
for the first quarter of 2014.
Although Rockstar is yet to confirm anything (and it won't
until it's good and ready), the rumours come at an interesting time. On Monday,
Chris R Silva, director of marketing for Intel's premium notebooks,
controversially told PC Gamer: "I don't think it'll be console exclusive
very long. But that's what happens when you have a brand new launch with two
companies that have lots of money trying to make sure they have content.
Somebody paid a lot of money to make sure that title was exclusive."
However, Rockstar has a history of releasing its GTA
titles on console first, before announcing a PC edition months later. GTA: San
Andreas launched on PlayStation 2 in October 2004, but didn't arrive on PC
until the following June, while GTA IV hit consoles in April 2008, with the PC
version arriving in December. And if/when it does show up, it should be worth
the wait: the PC version of GTA IV featured a number of improvements, including
doubling the number of players in online gamesto
32 and adding customisable radio stations.
Meanwhile, back on console, Rockstar has released new
patches for thePS3 and Xbox 360 versions of GTA V, designed to rid
the Online mode of its major bugs. In a statement released on Thursday the
company said:
This title update will resolve the cause of players losing their
gameplay progress except for some specific instances where players purchase a
vehicle and the save does not occur due to a cloud save failure. A fix for that
particular issue is being worked on and we will provide an update as soon as we
know when this will be resolved.
Various other bugs and glitches have also apparently been
resolved, and Rockstar is reminding players that if they want to ensure
progress is saved, they should always end their Online sessions by hitting
pause and selecting to leave – rather than, say, rage quitting in the last five
seconds of a Crooked Cop mission because you've accidentally driven your car
into a river.
Source: TheGuardian
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