Rockstar Newswire

The latest archival update from our friends at the Advertising Council of Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas is an abundant serving of Americana - with classic radio commercials featuring vacuous reality televison shows, contentious wedge issues and more tributes to consumer excess. Listen to these and lots of other spots now at www.rockstargames.com/advertisingcouncil.

• Ammunation: A Visit from Derek the Dodo - Protecting your kids’ rights! Proudly bringing gun safety to your community for over 30 years.
• Athena 200s - This is pleasure that lasts longer. Celebrating the struggle for women’s equality with each full-flavored cigarette.

• Complete the Look: Electro - Vice City’s one stop shop for people who know how to put the ‘hip’ into hip-hop.
• Learn Redneck Pretty Fast - To take full advantage of the remarkable opportunities of this land of select freedom, you’ve got to understand the language of freedom.

• The Mid-Life Crisis Center - You’ll be dead soon. You’ve missed out on so much. It’s not too late to make a change.
• My Five Uncles - The sitcom with a lot of heart. The show that shows family values exist – even in unconventional families.
• Vote Yes on Proposition 832 - Nineteen million illegal aliens live in this country – most of them in San Andreas. Preserve the status quo in OUR favor. 

• Excelsior Extreme 9 Razor (Vladivostok Version) - Blades of Glory. Courtesy of Vladivostok FM. 
• I’m Rich - America can’t stop gawking at directionless heiresses and debutante disasters on the hit CNT show, I’m Rich.
• America’s Next Top Hooker (as heard below) - It’s back, this season on CNT. 20 girls compete for the title everyone wants. Who will go home with the glory?

Here are some new screens featuring a taste of the fast life in Los Santos and Blaine County. You can find these and other screens that have been released in recent game previews in high-definition now over at www.rockstargames.com/V. Stay tuned for much more details and media from the game in August including the first proper unveiling of Grand Theft Auto Online.

This past Independence Day weekend, the Social Club community soaked up four days of 3XP in Red Dead and Max Payne 3 and celebrated with Chihuahua Dogs and Rocket Launcher bombs bursting in air across the skies of Liberty City in GTAIV during our four-hour Sunday live-stream official play session. We salute everyone who participated, from those that got in on games in the Social Club Playlists to the spirited community commentators on our Social Club Mutliplayer Events and official Rockstar Twitch pages.

GTA fan and YouTube musician extraordinaire SquidPhysics released some pretty impressive covers of past Grand Theft Auto theme songs. He proves himself to be quite the Renaissance man - filming, recording, mixing, and playing a wide array of instruments, including the classic violin, the saxophone and the cello as well as a few of the more eclectic instruments like castanets and bongos and found sounds via beer bottles, markers and spray paint. Check out his cover of the theme from GTAIV below. 

You can also hear his renditions of the GTAIII, Vice City and San Andreas themes over at his YouTube channel.

Meanwhile, in addition to all the reaction here at the Newswire to the GTAV Official Gameplay Video (over 28,000 comments and still going strong), it looks like Niko Bellic himself had a profound response - in Yeardley Diamond's follow up to the breakdancing "Gentleman" clip we featured here a couple weeks ago...