Niko Bellic Wanted for Grand Theft Auto • Aged 28 -32 • Brown Eyes • Weighs 1 75 - 185 lbs • Height: 5′11″ - 6′2″ Little Jacob Wanted for Robbery & Possession of Firearms • Aged 28 -32 • Brown Eyes • Weighs 1 75 - 185 lbs • Height: 5′11″ - 6′2″

A registered forum member with GTAGaming.com has discovered interesting WANTED posters in Leuven, Belgium advertising Grand Theft Auto IV’s Niko Bellic and Little Jacob. These posters provide us with some new physical details about both of them.

However, it seems that these posters are rather old, judging by the “Date Prepared” shown: “10-17-07″ - one day after the initial Grand Theft Auto IV release date. The telephone number provided on these posters is the number to call in to WKTT - a chance for your opinion to be heard on the GTA IV radio.

It seems that the Grand Theft Auto IV marketing has gone out of the US. Besides these WANTED posters, Rockstar Games also has a special Christmas treat strictly for those lucky fans that live in Belgium, Luxembourg or the Netherlands.

These fans who preorder Grand Theft Auto IV this Christmas will get the “IV Chirstmas Pre-Order Pack”. You’ll get some nice treats inside - a DVD with all three currently released game trailers, a GTA IV branded gift card and a set of Grand Theft Auto IV themed postcards.

And lastly, it’s 5 days left till Christmas! Do have a great time looking at all the presents Rockstar Games have given us. Of course, I would rather wish that Grand Theft Auto IV was one of them. At least, there are enough screenshots, trailers and information to tide us over before the game itself! Merry Christmas, guys!

Recently, games industry publication MCV claimed that Grand Theft Auto IV will go on sale in the final week of April 2008, citing sources “close to the game’s publisher”. They say that the game will go on sale in the United Kingdom on April 25th.

Apparently, this follows the release date trends of previous Grand Theft Auto games, usually pushed to the back of Take 2 Interactive’s fiscal year quater. In this case, Grand Theft Auto IV was planned for a February - April release date, which makes it April.

A release date of April 25th in the UK would indicate that the game would release just prior to this in North America, with April 22nd (Tuesday) most likely. As usual though, Rockstar Games said that it does not comment on “rumours and speculation”.

However, as MCV is the UK’s top games industry trade publication, it simply has more credibility than most others worldwide. Its forecasts and industry insider comments are almost always true, with an example being its advanced notice of Manhunt 2 news recently in the UK. At this point, of course, we’re waiting for Rockstar Games to comment on this.

Yeah, guys! “Take me down to the Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty…” Yesterday (actually today), an exclusive Guns N’ Roses Burnout Paradise trailer was released. For the adventurous, the HD version of the trailer can be downloaded here.

This new exclusive Guns N’ Roses trailer for Electronic Art’s upcoming game, Burnout Paradise, features the Guns N’ Roses song Paradise City playing in the background while you see cars cruising around the city crashing and burning.

Yeah, I’ll admit it - the cars, the roads and the city all look great. The cars look especially stunning when they crash, surely signifying a new physics and damage system in the game.

It’s especially great to cruise around an open-ended “Paradise City”, in a Grand Theft Auto-esque style. For the first time, in a next-generation Burnout game, you are allowed to do such a thing. It’s a breathtaking thing to do, no?

Don’t fret, guys! On January 22nd 2008, you can Crash N’ Burn all you like when Burnout Paradise gets released on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It’s surely something to tide us gamers over before Grand Theft Auto IV and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot, isn’t it? Of course, take me to “Paradise City” now!

Resident Evil: Degeneration, also known as Biohazard: Degeneration in Japan, is a new CG (Computer Graphics) film based off the Resident Evil series of video games. It will be produced by both Sony and Capcom.

According to the trailer, the story will be set “7 years from Racoon City” (the events of Resident Evil 2). The trailer, as shown above, is short, but it clearly showed us how amazing the zombies and humans can look like.

The films “Resident Evil” and “Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse” have each grossed more than US$100 million at the Box Office internationally. “Resident Evil 3: Extinction” has been the biggest hit of the series in the U.S. to date, by grossing over US$48 million in just over three weeks, adding to the high performance and public support for this zombie-loving franchise. This new CG movie is expected to be a hit.

It not only features a brand-new storyline and characters, but also groundbreaking visuals. Of course, if you’ve played any of the Resident Evil series of games before, this CG film should be a must-watch. Watch out for Resident Evil: Degeneration!

The news come fast and furious. IGN has just posted an article entitled “The Characters of Grand Theft Auto IV”. In the article, they’ve uncovered to us Grand Theft Auto fans and enthusiastic gamers (yeah, that’s how we roll!) some of the other characters in Grand Theft Auto IV besides Niko Bellic, the protagonist.

Of course, this isn’t any other Grand Theft Auto IV preview that you have seen. We rarely got to know about the characters of Grand Theft Auto IV. Only through screenshots and trailers, many Grand Theft Auto fans like me have speculated about character names. Some were correct, some were wrong. Some even thought Manny was Little Jacob.

Well, some thought Rockstar Games would even abandon their signature humor that was present in the Grand Theft Auto trilogy of games. Yes, Grand Theft Auto IV is now more serious in tone, but the character names sound as if they were from a joke book or a children’s fable book. Believe it or not, Manny and Brucie sounds like the title of a bedtime story.

Now, for the juice. The characters of Grand Theft Auto IV include, but are not limited to Vlad, Roman, Manny, Brucie and Elizabeta (in order of the pictures displayed above). Most of which, were seen in the three Grand Theft Auto IV trailers released. Vlad sounds like the bad guy. Manny and Brucie sounds like your good pals. Roman is, of course, your cousin.

The full article, as well as all the juicy information, can be found here: View Story Source

No I am not. Of course, some of you guys here can turn a short video clip of two gay men having intercourse, or a couple having sex on the beach, into a joke. No I can’t do those, but I sure can sprinkle some humor in my blog posts. Well, can you do that?

Well, I do believe every blogger can do the same thing too - adding a little humor here and there in your blog posts isn’t very hard, is it? Here, I discuss ways to add humor to your blog posts and writing - ways that aren’t too hard to master.

Well, for most of us, it will be quite difficult to create or make up our own jokes. Even if we succeed, our blog readers might not succesfully understand the joke. You might find your joke funny, but your readers might be misinterpreted by your jokes.

Of course, now and then, you could add some comic strips that can spice up your blog posts or even to prove a point. Also, using a funny picture that is relevant to the topic of the blog posts to break up the content in a long post can be useful. It is better to use images and humor to prove a point, because it usually takes longer for your reader to scan through images than to scan through text.

In place of images, you can also use other multimedia, such as YouTube videos or even a bunch of text. Even a funny quote by a famous person or a popular joke can be used to prove your point. However, please do refrain from using adult humor! You might not know if a 10 year old kid or a 60 year old man is reading your posts, would you?

These media, combined with humor, can help better convince your readers, because they’re funny and interesting. We’re all human, and after a hard day at work or school, we’d always like a little bit of humor to freshen us up, wouldn’t we?

At the end of the day, you will realize that it is easier to prove your point with humor and multimedia, rather than with plain text that tries to convince your readers but fails at times. I have learnt about this through the hard way, I guess you would not want. So, take my advice, add some humor to your blog posts or writing today!

Was my advice useful to you? Have I missed out on anything? Do you have any suggestions or feedback? What do you think of this article? Do you have anything to say about this article? Kindly give this post a comment!

Yes, Windows X, also known as LucIfiaR, has just released a new version of his popular Vista Transformation Pack, Vista Transformation Pack 8.0.1.

Vista Transformation Pack is a popular total conversion application for Windows XP which transforms it into a Windows Vista lookalike. This version of Vista Transformation Pack is mainly the same to previous ones except Aero Glass without WindowBlinds and WinFlip featured with overall improvements such as:

-Fixed crappy hotfix issue, no more workaround trick required to avoid that
-Ability to save transforming information for later uses and unattended transformation
-Ability to detect the targeted machine and give suggested setup configuration
-Some transformation procedures refinements you should look at like pre-configure on first run, removed obsolete dialogs and msn skin, etc.
-New 3rd-party apps and new version of existing apps

Of course, it’s free without paying few hundred dollars for some certain stuff you like in Vista. If you get an error on execution and using Intel graphics drivers, please try out the fixed driver, available for download here, to get Vista Transformation Pack runing fine.

To download, please check out the download link below. Also, an updated version of our “Make your Windows XP look like Vista” tutorial can be found here. You can also discuss about this on our Forums.

Download Link: Vista Transformation Pack 8.0 (1047)

Well, I’m finally glad to inform you guys that the Image Gallery is now updated with screenshots of the Grand Theft Auto IV thrid trailer released yesterday, “Move up, ladies”, as well as a few recently released screenshots.

Click here to view the trailer, if you haven’t seen it. Alternatively, you can view the post below this. These High Definition screenshots are taken from the third trailer itself, courtesy of the guys from Grand Theft Auto Network (GTANET).

The Image Gallery also composes of screenshots from the Grand Theft Auto IV first and second trailer, as well as official Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles screenshots. For your convenience, all of the released Grand Theft Auto IV trailers can all be viewed here.

Of course, the screenshots can give you a clearer picture of the third trailer of Grand Theft Auto IV, as well as making it easier for us to analyze the trailer itself. These screenshots can also make good wallpapers for your computer desktop, mobile phone, iPod, PSP or PDA. Well, it’s the season for giving - give Grand Theft Auto some love! Anyway, just click here to view the new screenshots.

Finally, the whole hype about Grand Theft Auto IV is worth it. The third trailer, “Move up, ladies”, was released today. Despite having to wake up at 4 A.M. in the morning to watch it, it was worthwhile. Of course, it wowed me - the music, the guns, the drive-bys, the city, everything. It was amazing, breathtaking. Grand Theft Auto IV lives up to the Grand Theft Auto name, nevertheless.

This third trailer, compared to the first two, in my opinion, is the best Grand Theft Auto IV trailer ever made. It combines 2 minutes worth of in-game footage of cutscenes, drive-bys, dare-devil stunts, shooting scenes, explosions and in-game characters. The graphics are better than ever, and Grand Theft Auto’s signature adult humor is back.

Of course, bits and pieces of the new Euphoria physics engine used in Grand Theft Auto IV are apparent in the new trailer. The character models, the city’s level of detail, the voice acting and the sound modelling of the city are all improved and evident in this new trailer. This third trailer also shows us bits of the storyline, as well as the beginning cutscene of the game.

All these cool parts of the game are taken, stuck together, polished to Rockstar Games’ perfection and set to New York-style rap music, which makes up Grand Theft Auto IV’s third and last trailer, “Move up, ladies”. As seen, the Grand Theft Auto IV hype is back again - the Game of the Year 2008. Enjoy the Trailer!

Download (720p, HD) - Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 3 (172)

Yes, they’re coming in, fast. Just today, one day before the third Grand Theft Auto IV trailer, 5 new screenshots of the game have surfaced from gaming sites, in addition to the 8 screenshots we posted yesterday. 3 of these screenshots were from IGN, while the rest were from Rockstar Games themselves.

These screenshots, contrary to the 8 screenshots posted yesterday, are new screenshots. While the 8 screenshots were taken around July, before the announcement of the delay, these 5 screenshots are truly newly-released. It clearly shows the improvement in the graphics, as well as the texture and modelling of the character’s faces. The face and hairstyle of Niko Bellic, the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto IV, now looks cleaner and neater.

Of course, as the release date of the Grand Theft Auto IV trailer 3 nears, we can start getting anxious. Just what will Rockstar Games reveal about the game this time round? Well, it seems that there is merely just one more day till the third trailer. Be sure to stay tuned tomorrow, when we finally post up the third trailer of Grand Theft Auto IV, “Move up, ladies”.