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Rockstar reveals "Social Club" website for Grand Theft Auto IV and future titles

Xenctuary | March 28, 2008 | News | PC Playstation 3 Company Misc

Rockstar Games have today unveiled a new online project under the name of "Social Club". The website, accessible via your computer browser, will log individual player data for upcoming Rockstar Games titles, starting with Grand Theft Auto IV.

Examples of statistics tracked within games include completion percentages and who amongst your friends managed to reach certain missions first. The service will be made available to each and every Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamer with an online ID.

The Rockstar Games Social Club will launch alongside Grand Theft Auto IV's international release on April 29. Registration will begin April 15.

April 29th is a pretty ginormous and fantasmical day for gamers, what with the release of the much anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV (you may have heard of it). But now those waiting can add another metaphorical flower to their bonnet with today's declaration of developer Rockstar's new online project, Rockstar Social Club, which launches on the same day as GTA IV.

What is the Social Club? Well, it works like Bungie.net does for the Halo series. It's a website that offers GTA IV players around the world the chance to check stats from their games and how they compare to others around the world and it's open to anyone with either an Xbox Live Gamertag or a PlayStation Network ID.

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Xenctuary | March 28, 2008

Addendum: Xbox Live Silver members (ie. those without an Xbox 360's online gaming subscription) will also be able to use the Social Club service.
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Xenctuary | March 28, 2008

This definitely sounds exciting! I wonder if they'll permit uploads of snapshots à la Bungie's community site for Halo 3. That'd be so awesome!
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Subzer0 | March 28, 2008

You know there is an edit button...

But yeah, sounds like a good project.
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  Xenctuary | March 28, 2008
  
  I wanted to separate my personal opinion from the new information that I didn't get to include in the article. Multiple comments do not affect GameGrep points.