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Back in September, you might remember Microsoft making a promise that GTA IV DLC would be available this Autumn and the 360 would be the only platform with content this Christmas.
Well, Rockstar's Dan Houser has gone and dashed those plans by admitting that he has no idea when it will be released. In an interview with Variety last week, he said, "It's going well, but we don't know a date.
"We hope to be announcing that in the next few weeks," Houser continued. "We're still figuring out a few things. We're more focused on quality than dates, always have been. But the development is going really good. It's shaping up to be something we're very proud of. That was our goal.
"We want to give people a rough idea so their expectations are roughly in line," said Houser. "We don't want them to imagine it's this enormous thing that it can never be."
DLC is new ground for Rockstar to cover. It'll be a first for a company to release content for a game on as grand a scale as GTA IV.
In saying that, the game series is becoming as synonymous with delays as it is with drugs, thugs and high speed chases. According to GameSpot, Rockstar Leeds has announced that the DS release of GTA: Chinatown Wars has been pushed back again. If we cross our fingers, we might see it some time between February and April 2009, close to the release of the DLC. We had previously been told to expect the handheld title in January.
GTA: Chinatown Wars is the first game to appear on a Nintendo console since the original appeared on the GBC. The game takes a top down perspective, seen in the original PlayStation titles, and mixes it up with cel-shaded graphics and drug-dealing minigames.
Here's hoping it'll be worth the wait!