Grand Theft Auto IV is a choice.

Although the game is expected to generate record-breaking sales, the real battle has gone on behind the scenes, with Electronic Arts eager to acquire Rockstar Games, GTA IV's publisher.

Grand Theft Auto IV is finally out. Gamers can put down the TV remote, grab a controller, and step into a digital underworld of mayhem.

Finding a way to translate a story from one medium to another is tough enough, but how exactly do you go about transforming one of television’s biggest—and most secretive—shows into a video game? “It was a daunting task,” admitted Kevin Shortt, lead script writer and story designer on Lost: Via Domus. The game was published by Ubisoft and developed in its Montreal studio.

Recent game releases let you find your fortune with Francis Drake, answer the call of duty, or become either a medieval assassin or rakish cop.

2007 was a groundbreaking year for first-person shooters, due in part to the processing power of the next-generation consols and an increasing emphasis on story and character development.

The GDC, held this year in February in San Francisco, isn’t a trade show and any attempts by corporations to turn it into a forum for promoting products should be resisted.

Propaganda Games was formed three years ago by a group of former Electronic Arts staffers. Within months, it was acquired by Buena Vista Games, now Disney Interactive Studios. In an interview with the Georgia Straight at Propaganda’s Vancouver offices, general manager and vice president Josh Holmes said the company had been working on an original concept for a third-person action game, but scrapped it when it won the right to develop the new Turok video game for Touchstone, a Disney brand.

The shortlist for the Game Developers Choice Awards has one key omission for game of the year—and one choice that doesn’t belong

Douglas Coupland’s 2006 novel jPod concerns the lives of a group of Vancouver twentysomethings working at a video-game developer called Neotronic Arts. It’s a thinly veiled reference to Electronic Arts (EA), in the same way that Microsoft was the model for the monolithic corporation in Microserfs.

Talented Canadians always make me proud. Feist is a breakout pop success. Sidney Crosby is a phenomenon and an ambassador for the game of hockey. Sarah Polley and David Cronenberg are the toast of moviedom. And in the realm of video games, too, Canadians are being heralded for their creative works.

Canadian video-game rockers looking to make music with Rock Band over the holidays didn’t even get a lump of coal in their stocking. While the highly anticipated game was scheduled for release in North America on November 20 and appeared in the U.S. on that day, copies of the title didn’t start appearing on the shelves of Canadian retailers until December 21.

Gene Endrody stopped working at Radical Entertainment when the GoogleAds money for Maid Marian and his other web-based Flash games exceeded his salary

The big movies of the spring and summer may be gone from theatres, but now you can play Surf's Up, 300, Fantastic Four, Transformers, and Shrek the Third as video games

From Everyday Shooter to Stranglehold, it's an arsenal of new titles to spread some yuletide cheer