A few months ago commemorated the 10th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III.  It was by far and away one of the most epic game of its time and ushered in a new era of gameplay as well as graphical bliss.  Now the game, the full game, not some watered down version, is coming to iOS and Android devices on December 15th.  That said, you’ll be able to control Claude using a set of on screen controls and engage in the same level of mayhem you enjoyed on the console.

But that’s not all the coolness that Rockstar has in store.  For $149.99 you can pick up this fully articulated 1:6 scale action figure of Claude, who comes dressed in his original attire.  It also includes a Liberty City Prison-issued jumpsuit along with a complete arsenal of weapons from GTA III that include a bat, knife, grenades, pistol, sniper rifle, submachine gun, pair of fists, baseball hat, one trigger hand and assault rifle.   The 12-inch figurine will see a limited production of just 1,500 pieces and as far as well can tell they’re still available for purchase.

Is the Grand Theft Auto series dead? Rockstar doesn’t think so and today issued a trailer for, you guessed it, GTA V.

The latest installment in the long running series seems to occur in Los Angeles, a town chalk full of greed, deception and, what else, crime. So there probably isn’t a more appropriate setting for the game to take place.

Our hats are off to Rockstar, since based on what little we’ve seen in the trailer, the game’s environment appears to accurately depict Los Angeles, minus the copious amounts of trash. The main character, who is unnamed at this point, can travel to downtown’s Skidrow district, which like the real world version, is full of drug addicts and the homeless. You’ll also be able to head west towards the beach and cruise around Venice, at least based on one location which is home to the Chinese restaurant Mows.

Unfortunately, Rockstar hasn’t issued an official release describing the game or its mechanics, so we’re left to our own devices to infer what they’ve got in store for us. Hopefully, they’ve done away with all the shortcomings of the previous games and by that we mean the repeative missions.

Release date? Probably sometime at the end of 2012 if we had to guess.

Apparently, Rockstar just confirmed that the ‘Ballad of Gay Tony‘, the second DLC for GTA 4, will launch on October 29th for the Xbox 360 only.  It’ll cost you 1600 Microsoft points, or $20.  I suggest you save your hard earned cash and either wait for a DLC for Modern Warfare 2 or put your money towards the next Splinter Cell.

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Is Grand Theft Auto coming to the iPhone?  There is no way to know for sure, but coming-on-iphone.com has a teaser video that indicates just that.  Of course, this could just be a knock off GTA game and by adding a dash of anonymity they figured they could leverage the GTA brand equitity.  Or some kids on summer break had nothing better to do with their time than get our blogosphere panties in a ball.  Nonetheless, the video says it’s coming this summer, so we’ll just have to wait and see.

Of note: Reghardware said they reached out to Rockstar UK and they wouldn’t confirm or deny the game.  And of course the URL registration info is set to private, but the domain was just registered on May 25th.

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Though no pricing or availability has been announced, Rockstar has divulged that ‘GTA: ChinaTown Wars’ will be a downloadable game for the PSP Go.  Promising new missions, ChinaTown Wars will be a technical downgrade for the PSP Go and I don’t think that the touch screen components from the DS will translate at all.  After all, that was the best part of ChinaTown Wars.  From scratch tickets to sifting through dumpsters for weapons and manually stealing cars, the game was truly designed for the DS.  I don’t understand why we don’t see a San Andreas Stories on the PSP Go!

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