A commercial for the upcoming DS title, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, has started airing in the US.

The commercial is roughly 30-seconds long and contains very little gameplay footage. The majority of the commercial is animated artwork with no voice overs, just text at the bottom of the screen. The commercial concludes with an advertisment from Gamestop offering an exclusive pre-order bonus : Start the game with $10,000 and access to Ammunation right from the start.

The commercial is now viewable over at Gametrailers.com.

The Lost and Damned, the much anticipated first downloadable episodic content for Grand Theft Auto IV, is now available exclusively on Xbox 360 via the Xbox Live Marketplace! The download costs 1600 MS points. It takes approximately 1.78 GB of hard drive space.

We know that GTA-Division.com has not done the best job of covering The Lost and Damned news and updates. We apologize, and we hope to make up for it in the near future.

So go on! Go play it! Watch out for naked guys. And be sure to come back here for the latest L&D updates...and of course, Chinatown Wars.

Earlier today, Kotaku posted an article stateing that Rockstar stepped it up a notch and included "full frontal (male) nudity" in The Lost and Damned. The nudity appears in one of the episode's mission's cutscenes.

To prevent myself from revealing any spoilers, I won't give any more details. If you would like to read more about the cutscene, you can read Kotaku's article. Kotaku also mentioned that Rockstar may have taken it too far. They mention that there is "no lack of of homosexual innuendo".

Even though the episode will be available for download tomorrow, if you would like to watch the cutscene that contains the nudity, 1UP posted the entire thing. If you want to watch it, you can watch the entire cutscene right here.

This little addition of "full" nudity didn't go unnoticed by ESRB. While Grand Theft Auto IV contains the "partial nudity" label in the rating description, The Lost and Damned got an upgrade. The Lost and Damned's ESRB rating just says "nudity". Even though nudity is in the game, the rating for The Lost and Damned is still M for Mature.

It's been about a couple of months since we have done any solid updates to this site. The entire staff has been away taking care of other business. In general, our focus has been on just getting the entire Division-Gaming Network organized and under control. We brought in some more help, and finally got a solid game plan in place. Now that we have that taken care of, we can once again focus on individual sites.

As in previous network updates, GTA-Division.com will once again be the first site to get the update.

This next update will bring with it a new look and feel to the site. We hope we will be able to stick with this new look for a while. Over the last year, we have played around with dozens of different layouts. None of them really satisfied this site's needs. Hopefully this new one will.

We expect to show off the look very soon. Once we get the new look up and running, we will once again start posting news on here.

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned is almost here, and we have missed a whole lot of news and updates for it. Sorry we missed it.

Several gaming websites released their first round of previews of the next upcoming Grand Theft Auto title, Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars.  Just to catch you up real quick, Chinatown Wars is a title set to be released exclusively to the Nintendo DS March 17 of this year.

Some of the main details picked up from the previews are:

• The stylus is used right away when Huang Lee must break a window of a sinking car.
• IGN reports the "F" word is used frequently by pedestrians.
• Audio is lacking in the game.  There are some original songs, but all liscensed music is "instrumental"
• You can climb up fire escapes to reach rooftops
• Instead of fleeing the scene of a crime to get rid of your wanted level, you will have to kill all near by police officers.
• Doing doughnuts in your vehicle before you drive off gives you a speed boost and also shoots out fire which can light nearby pedestrians on fire
• The PDA serves as your email and text message viewer, GPS with waypoints and favorite locations, contact database, music player, money manager, and gun shop.

Check out every detail yourself by going to the following previews:

• IGN
• CVG
• GamesRadar
• GameDaily
• Total Video Games
• 1UP
• Kikizo

Thanks to GTAGaming for all the details!

It's been more than a month since we have posted news on this site due to a server crash, among other small things. So with our return to the news, we have the final results of GTA IV's overall performance at IGN's Best of 2008 Awards.

Grand Theft Auto IV was nominated in literally dozens of categories, winning several. Here is the complete list of the categories for which it was nominated. The categories it won are marked by "Winner", are bolded, and italicized to help distinguish them from the others.

• Xbox 360 - Best Action Game - Winner
• Xbox 360 - Best Graphics Technology - Winner
• Xbox 360 - Best Artistic Design
• Xbox 360 - Best Use of Sound
• Xbox 360 - Best Voice Acting - Winner
• Xbox 360 - Best Story - Winner
• Xbox 360 - Best Online Multiplayer
• Xbox 360 - Xbox 360 Game of the Year
• Playstation 3 - Best Action Game
• Playstation 3 - Best Graphics Technology
• Playstation 3 - Best Use of Sound
• Playstation 3 - Best Voice Acting - Winner
• Playstation 3 - Best Story - Winner
• Playstation 3 - Best Online Multiplayer
• Playstation 3 - PS3 Game of the Year
• Overall - Best Action Game - Winner
• Overall - Best Graphics Technology
• Overall - Best Use of Sound - Winner
• Overall - Best Voice Acting - Winner
• Overall - Best Story
• Overall - Best Online Multiplayer
• Overall - Overall Game of the Year

As you can see, Grand Theft Auto IV walked away from the awards with its head held high.

• It was nominated in 22 categories: 8 Xbox 360 categories, 7 Playstation 3 categories, and 7 Overall categories.
• Out of those 22, it won 9: 4 Xbox 360, 2 Playstation 3, and 3 overall.
• It won all 3 "Best Voice Acting" categories it was nominated for.

Congratulations to Grand Theft Auto IV and everyone at Rockstar Games for making one heck of a game.

Congratulations to Rockstar on releasing Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC on tuesday of this week.  Now onto the bigger part of the story:

Many problems are occuring with Grand Theft Auto IV PC.  Technical issues with audio, graphics, and a huge list of other things are occuring.

Rullon and I agreed upon the following statement (maybe this statement should have been the tiltle of this story), "GTA IV PC, its so good its horrible!"

Before buying the game make sure your system can properly handle the game.  We will post a list of all the system requirments soon.  It seems like the graphical aspect of GTA IV for the PC is so good, most computers can't handle it.

If it comforts you any, Rockstar sent out this statement today concerning the problems:

As more information becomes available we will be sure to post it right here on GTA-Division!

The very first screenshots for GTA IV: The Lost and Damned have been released.

   

  

Along with the first screenshots, the official logo was also released.

New details have emerged about the Episodic Content for Grand Theft Auto IV!  And this time, it's something you'll actually care about.  Read for yourself below:

This article was published yesterday, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 on USA Today's website.  You can get the full details (including four high-resolution screenshots) by clicking here.

Are you wondering where are of the latest GTA Chinatown Wars and GTA IV PC news is? Well, it's out there. It just hasn't been posted on here yet. I will be posting all of the news for the past week on here later today soon.