{"id":5292,"date":"2010-02-01T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gta-iv-dlc-coming-to-pc-and-ps3-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5292-gta-iv-dlc-coming-to-pc-and-ps3-in-march","title":{"rendered":"GTA IV DLC coming to PC and PS3 in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar Games this weekend revealed that Grand Theft Auto IV&#8217;s downloadable content packages &lsquo;The Ballad of Gay Tony&rsquo; and &lsquo;The Lost and the Damned&rsquo; will be available on PC and PS3 in late March.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/62151\" target=\"_blank\">Shack News <\/a>each package will be available as individual downloads or in a standalone retail package entitled &lsquo;Episode from Liberty City&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;The Lost and the Damned&rsquo; was made availbe on Xbox 360 in Feburary 2009 with &lsquo;The Ballad&rsquo; of Gay Tony&rsquo; following in October. This exclusivity period cost Microsoft a reported $50 million (R380 million).<\/p>\n<p>The packages will become available on the 30th of March. No pricing details have yet been revealed although a reference Xbox 360 price of $20 for each package (roughly R150) may be a reliable marker.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Theft Auto IV is one of the biggest games ever released and broke records for sales figures of 3.7 million units on its first day of release.<\/p>\n<p>Related articles<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/3712-Grand-Theft-Auto.html\" target=\"_self\">GTA IV PC review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/4986-Grand-Theft-Auto-Episodes-from-Liberty-City.html\" target=\"_self\">GTA IV Episodes from Liberty City review (Xbox 360)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC and PS3 owners can expect popular downloadable packages in late March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}