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Well, it looks like those faithful to Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto franchise will be able to steal cars in New York City in Grand Theft Auto IV. The newest GTA, which won't be released until mid-October is actually a sequel to GTA III, which took place in a "quasi-NYC". It wasn't enough to have Activision's game True Crime, where you could be a rogue street cop (maybe not so far from the truth), but now you can steal cars beat people up. It's almost like an updated version of Rockstar's own video game version of The Warriors.

Has anyone played Project Gotham Racing 3 yet? We were watching TV and saw a commercial, with a car zipping past the Municipal Building. We then went to IGN, where they had screen captures like this one at the Manhattan Bridge! Project Gotham Racing seems like pure fantasy, no one is their right mind should be driving that fast in NYC. In fact, Gothamist can barely remember how drive. Hey, game developers, please create "Project Gotham Mass Transit," where we'd be able to make sure the trains run on time... or we have to get to work on time - have obstacles like an expired Metrocard, sick passenger, and signal problems in it. Something.

Man, we thought we were hardcore nerds-- but we're pussies compared to the freaks who stood outside Circuit City last night in the pouring rain, waiting for the Xbox360 to get released. Check out John's photoset on Flickr for all the soaking wet details. Did anyone manage to snag an Xbox360 last night? And if you did, how do our favorite NYC games (Warriors, True Crime NYC, etc) look on the new system?

- Remember, it's daylight savings time this weekend, so we FALL back

Here we go again. It's probably just that with most of the news media's attention focused on Hurricane Rita metro reporters are trying to find an easy, catchy story, but to be honest Gothamist has very little patience for the non-story that is being set-up around the launch of True Crime: New York City. Let's review.

Updated: Photos of Courtney being released from the 9th Precinct.