Rockstar Newswire

Who's ready to Fist Till Morning??

By popular demand from legions of diehard Love Fist fans (looking at you, lol232 and LegionYT1994 and others), we're happy to announce that the original four-track 1986 Love Fist EP has been digitally remastered and is now available  on iTunes for the "nice price" of $0.69 per song - or get the full EP for $1.99 (look for it on Amazon in the coming days as well). This includes the smash hits "Dangerous Bastard" and "Fist Fury" that made a big splash back in those heady and hazy days in 1980's Vice City - as well as two sought-after rarities, “Down Down Down” and “Fist Till Morning." Enjoy these gems from Scottish headbanging legends, Jezz, Willy, Dick and Percy. Sorry, legendary albums The Number of the Breast and Clear the Custard are still out of print.

• “Dangerous Bastard”
• “Fist Fury”
• “Down Down Down”
• “Fist Till Morning”

Lots of new insight into HEALTH's making of the Max Payne 3 original soundtrack and score can be found in this short film just released by The Creators Project, as seen below. Via interviews with the band as well as with Rockstar, you'll get the backstory on how the game's original music came together and the technical approach to its unique dynamic scoring...

Previously:
Watch HEALTH's Official Music Video for "TEARS"
Max Payne 3: The Official Soundtrack - Now Available on iTunes

"The Trunk"

Happy 2013 everyone. By popular fan demand, the downloadable digital collection of official Grand Theft Auto V artwork has now been updated to include all of the original illustrations released to date - including "The Trunk", "Franklin and Chop", "Stop and Frisk" and "Vinewood" as seen here. You may have seen these pieces over the past couple months at local game stores, or in various previews around the web - and you can now download any and all of them as desktops, Facebook covers, buddy icons and as Social Club avatars. You can also check out a complete repository of all GTAV screenshots released to date over at www.rockstargames.com/V.

Stay tuned for lots more ahead, including more artwork and the unveiling of the game's official cover later this month.

"Stop and Frisk"

"Franklin and Chop"

"Vinewood"

In our continuing nostalgic ruminations in this 10th Anniversary year since the release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, today we take a look back at the game’s soundtrack and think back to those halcyon early years of MTV when it actually was all about music + television. In between the channel’s signature moon man interstitials and ‘veejay’ visits to your living room from Martha Quinn and J.J. Jackson, came the original wave of music video programming that transfixed and inspired a generation of kids - including many of us here at Rockstar. Frequently surreal, heavily driven by contemporary fashion photography and design of the period, and now laden with pop music history – enjoy this rundown of just ten (in no particular order) of our favorite 1980s music videos of songs that appeared in the Vice City soundtrack….

"Video Killed the Radio Star" The Buggles (Flash FM)

A bizarre little clip in its own right, now etched in history for being the first video ever played on MTV when they launched in August 1981, is "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Apparently actually the second filmed version of the video - the original being a slightly simpler yet still pretty strange performance clip heavy on post-disco-futurism - this one was tailor made to suit its destiny. Filled with campy sci-fi imagery, follow the wonderment of a young girl seeing her old-fashioned radio explode as Trevor Horn (later of Yes and Art of Noise fame) and The Buggles play otherworldly explorer-scientists heralding in the new music video era...

Hit the jump below for the rest of our faves.

In addition to last week's release of San Andreas in the PlayStation Network's PS2 Classics Collection, a trio of Rockstar titles from the PS2 era have now been made available to download from the PlayStation Store for $9.99 each.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition is now available for select Android devices from Google Play. This 10th Anniversary Edition is an enhanced version of the award-winning original game, optimized for mobile and tablet devices with several new mobile-specific features including an intuitive, fully scalable and customizable user interface, new camera controls, upgraded textures, greater resolutions and increased draw distance. See below for a list of compatible devices. Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition is also available from the App Store for iOS.

Props to LEGO enthusiasts and machinima producers thefourmonkeys for their quite amusing shot-for-shot remake of the first Grand Theft Auto V trailer currently a contender in the Action/Drama category in the Machinima's Interactive Film Festival. Magic!