Real original name, i have to say. Storyline sounds far too similar to all other GTAs, but hey, it will rock. Im now going to clean my pants.

Hey hey, THIS is what I've been talking about. THIS is what the we need. We're fed up with all the crap of Vice City Stories and silly remakes, a brand new city or three is amazingly cool and stuff.

*dead chuffed*

Wow! Amazing news! A few weeks ago I found the domains www.gtachicago.com and www.grandtheftautochicago.com had been registered and were parked at Register.com (see screenshot) which as you know is where Rockstar have also parked gta4.com. After contacting Rockstar they told me to keep quiet so I reluctantly did...

But now today, Rockstar Games have announced just one of the cities for the next installment of the series, GTA4. Chicago, the windy city. Unlike previous GTA games where cities have been based upon real life one, GTA4 will take place in real life cities. The storyline from Rockstar sounds intriguing, the game will apparently span across three different eras.

The next two eras have been kept kind of secret by Rockstar, although we hear they are 1970 and 2010, also, Rockstar have currently left the titles of these cities un-announced, probably to let all this hype circulate. We'll be bringing you more news on these exciting revelations as soon as we have it though, so stay tuned!

As you see by visiting the official website, it's almost the same as what the official San Andreas site looked like back when it launched. No flash intro yet, took a month for them to do one for SA so perhaps by the end of the month we'll have one for Chicago? The font they've used for the logo looks like a typical 1930's typeface, seems they're adament on getting the atmosphere authentic.

Anyway enough of my excited babble! Get discussing this in our forums and let us know your wishes for the game!

April Fools

Sorry to disappoint.

Domain servers in listed order:

APRIL.GTACHICAGO.COM

FOOLS.GTACHICAGO.COM

When you copy/paste that into your adress bar it doesnt work. I dont get how you got that anyway, so please explain.

When you copy/paste that into your adress bar it doesnt work. I dont get how you got that anyway, so please explain.

Just look it up at http://www.whois.com.

Put "gtachicago" where it says "Easy Domain Search" Make sure ".com" is selected, then click "GO"

Once the page loads, click on "WHOIS LOOKUP" right above "cancel" at the bottom of the page.

Scroll down the page and you'll find the server names, APRIL.GTACHICAGO and FOOLS.GTACHICAGO.

hmm.. might be april fools, but u never know.

( yes i cut off time from my busy schedule to post here for the exciting news)

Ruin my hopes and dreams people....

If this is just a april-fool joke, then yee-pee-kaa-yey

OMFG!!! NEXT GTA COPIED DRIVER: PARALLEL LINES!!!!! In driver:parallel lines you like go to jail in 1978 and come out in 2006, teh copycat lozers

Good one, but you know mine would have been better

sounds nice but i really wish that there would be more than one city

Good find Chris. It better not be an April Fools Joke

Read more carefully:

"But now today, Rockstar Games have announced just one of the cities for the next installment of the series, GTA4. Chicago, the windy city. Unlike previous GTA games where cities have been based upon real life one, GTA4 will take place in real life cities. The storyline from Rockstar sounds intriguing, the game will apparently span across three different eras."

"The next two eras have been kept kind of secret by Rockstar, although we hear they are 1970 and 2010 from other sources, also, Rockstar have currently left the titles of these cities un-announced, probably to let all this hype circulate. We'll be bringing you more news on these exciting revelations as soon as we have it though, so stay tuned!"

I'm still wondering if its a joke. It could be, but im just gonna keep checking.

As you see by visiting the official website, it's almost the same as what the official San Andreas site looked like back when it launched. No flash intro yet, took a month for them to do one for SA so perhaps by the end of the month we'll have one for Chicago? The font they've used for the logo looks like a typical 1930's typeface, seems they're adament on getting the atmosphere authentic.

Anyway enough of my excited babble! Get discussing this in our forums and let us know your wishes for the game!

April Fools!!!

im not 2 sure tho whever that was for the vice city stories news

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure GTA Chicago was an April Fool's gag.

this information was'nt realesed on april fools day it was released 2 days before

Maybe Chris prepared this. As I read that April Fools News ONCE and then it dissapeared! Strange.

lawl liek teh pr0 faygot n00bs got liek dier arses handed to dem!1111one11!

And yeah, noob site forgot GTA london. Ony like, uber fans of like, GTA, like, remember the updown times and like stuff

Owned. So totally owned. Very successful prank.

And sucks to all those guys that guessed it easily and then tried to spoil it for everyone else.

That includes that person that thought it was clever to edit chris' post to explain it early.

Ha. Brilliant. Can't believe how far round the interweb this thing got, it was only supposed to be a joke for the GTA community but it's on gaming websites everywhere.

It was the most people I've ever fooled in my life. The average viewer wouldn't even notice anything fishy about it, but there's always people more than capable of finding out how it isn't real.

Next year we'll have something totally different happening on April 1st. And no it won't involve me faking a GTA game

Next year we'll have something totally different happening on April 1st. And no it won't involve me faking a GTA game

Yeah, because the game won't be out by then, but we'll have much more information about the game on the next 1st of April.

Owned. So totally owned. Very successful prank.

And sucks to all those guys that guessed it easily and then tried to spoil it for everyone else.

That includes that person that thought it was clever to edit chris' post to explain it early.

If you are talking about me, I never dissected any post. The only thing I explained was how to use whois, and thats because I was asked.

And yes, it was quite successful. Well done. I wasn't sure who had set it up however, didn't mean to try ruin anything. I even posted it on the official playstation forums, but they copped it straight away.

I wasn't talking about you, i was talking about someone that edited chris' actual post. A moderator on this site.

lmao, nice prank, you even fooled me. I'm such a tool.

Zino fooled me with this a few minutes after it was posted, bastard

Lol. That was a pretty good joke. The site looked authentic.

That was pretty awsome man.

It was a great joke. Tricked alot of people Over at GTAForums we we're trying to unraval the mistery of why all of a sudden this site has poped up. And why on the 1st of April. Ah it was great fun. Great work guys.