Rockstar Newswire

In addition to the previously released Official Soundtrack album and Verve Remixed EP currently available on iTunes for download, we've just created an Official L.A. Noire iTunes Playlist collection of over 25 classic jazz and standards songs heard in the game.

If it's a tune you've heard on the radio in the game and it's on iTunes, then it's here in the playlist - from Dizzie Gillespie to Count Basie to Hank Williams, Peggie Lee and many other legends.

Click here to check it out on iTunes.

Enjoy all.

Happy 10th Anniversary, Grand Theft Auto III. Now added to the Grand Theft Auto III 10-Year Anniversary Collection over at the recently relaunched Rockstar Warehouse, are a special set of limited-edition 12"x18" lithographs - individually hand-numbered, printed on premium grade cover stock with a run of only 500 that will ever be made.

The lithos are now for sale at $25 each and feature the two cover art designs as well as signature Anniversary Edition commemorative artwork of Claude, 8-Ball, Kenji and Misty.

Additionally, you can download desktop wallpapers and backgrounds (as well as avatars and buddy icons) of this rogues gallery of GTAIII character favorites at www.rockstargames.com/downloads.

Previously:
Grand Theft Auto III: 10th Anniversary Artwork Now Available
Rockstar Warehouse Relaunch with New Gear
Announcing Grand Theft Auto III: 10th Anniversary Edition for Select Mobile Devices & the Limited Edition Claude Action-Figure

This Saturday marks the ten year anniversary of the release of Grand Theft Auto III.

We would like to extend our immense gratitude to all GTA fans worldwide for your amazing long-time support, from early on all the way to today. Thank you.

Please enjoy the Anniversary Video above we've put together to help celebrate - and stay tuned for further info about the game's Anniversary Edition release for mobile devices. 

After the jump, you can also wax nostalgic with the original GTAIII TV commercial as well as a fondly remembered fan-creation "Liberty City Tribute" video.
 

Scene of the Crime (1949; Dir. Roy Rowland)

For those wrapped up in the allure of 1940s Los Angeles and the hardboiled detectives, conniving criminals and glamorous femme fatales that inhabit it - and for those PC gamers out there getting ready for L.A. Noire's release in just a few weeks -  we've got another in our continuing list of favorite and apropos Film Noir entries for you to check out.

Set all around L.A., a team of homicide detectives led by Lieutenant Mike Conovan (screen great Van Johnson, known mainly for a career of classic war films but who here plays a complex, nuanced detective) set out to solve the murder of a fellow officer who was gunned down in cold blood by a mysterious and elusive suspect described as having a twisted hand and mottled face. Some great sequences derive from the three generations of LAPD detectives on the team, the lieutenant balancing the tutelage of young rookie Detective Gordon (nicknamed "C.C." for the way he emulates Conovan like a carbon copy - check out the trailer for a prime example of him being schooled in the trade) and the sensitivity of dealing with his elder and mentor Detective Piper who's struggling with accepting his own aging acumen and ability.

With quintessential black and white Noir cinematography (the underground bookie outfit's police-style criminal lineup scene in particular) and a screenplay full of riotous pulp-fiction dialogue ("I'm no Humphrey Bogart. He gets slugged and he's ready for action; I get slugged and I'm ready for pickling"), this one has much that L.A. Noire fans should appreciate - from double-crossing dames, to eccentric interrogations, all the way to an explosive climactic shootout and some third-act twists and turns that you really won't see coming.

We hope this rare MGM Noir makes it to DVD soon, in the meantime keep on a lookout for re-broadcasts on TCM and other classic cinema programming venues.

Previously:
"Crime Wave" aka "The City Is Dark"
"The Naked City"
"He Walked by Night"
 

It's pretty awesome that this long after release, Red Dead Redemption is still inspiring original songs - and custom-made machinima music videos to boot.

Check out this new little folk rock ditty that Miracle of Sound put out last week, "Redemption Blues (Red Dead Redemption)". Nice one, gents.

On The Escapist's site: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/miracle-of-sound/4634-Redemption-Blues-Red-Dead-Redemption

Previously:
A Red Dead Rap Homage by the UK's Akira the Don

Why not? All this Reefer Madness talk got us in the mood.

Good weekend all...

Today, we present the Pop-Up Edition of our most recently released official trailer for L.A. Noire - providing additional info and insights into the game and the world of 1947 Los Angeles that inspired the Vice crimes you'll face.

Among them:

• You may have read about the Vice desk case, "The Set Up" - in which Phelps and his partner Roy Earle investigate the disappearance of a boxer following a fixed fight that's left a few crooked gamblers and mob types a bit miffed. Fixed boxing match scandals were a current affair back in '47 - most famously with this incident, in which both Frank Sinatra and 'Raging Bull' Jake Lamotta were alleged to be mixed up with a mob scheme.
   
• Syrettes are found at the scene when Phelps and Earle investigate the apparent overdose of two junkie musicians in a squalid apartment. Syrettes were notably used for administering morphine to wounded soldiers during World War II, and in the post-war years many veterans tragically wound up addicted consumers of black-market dope to fill their fix.
   
• The 1940s saw rampant accusations of LAPD corruption - something that was blown wide open by ex-LAPD Vice Squad officer Sgt. Charles Stoker's expose Thicker'n Thieves, published in 1951.

Watch the video for lots more and also check out the YouTube Annotated Version at our Official Rockstar Games YouTube Channel.

Previously:
Watch the First L.A. Noire Pop-Up Trailer