It probably goes without saying (but I will anyway) that most of our formative experiences with video games stem from childhood. Whether it was skipping school to hike to the nearest Street Fighter II cabinet, or locking yourself in your room to explore the vast kingdom of Hyrule, most of us will have some key memory that comes to define what games are to us and they would have been formed at a pretty young age. For me, they were worlds of wonder; simple though they may have been, they unlocked my imagination more than any teacher-fed book could ever hope to do. And though I find myself fawning over the ability to now play as a fully fledged criminal in the online space, I still think the contemporary world of video games is incredibly limited, at least for children.

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My neon-lit, arcade childhood was a world where winners didn’t do drugs and the baddest kind of dudes were the ones that ended up rescuing the president. A generation of regular Snake Plisskens. Now, one of the most anticipated games of the entire generation looms on the horizon, but GTA V isn’t offering us the chance to be a hero, rather, it’s giving us the chance to be the criminal badass of our dreams. There’s no denying it: being a criminal is a shit-load of fun.

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Here is the gameplay trailer for Rockband’s Grand Theft Auto: 5. It’s pretty much what you’d expect for the thirty-third installment in the series, with a few twists and nibbles along the way.

How stoked are you for this title? Probably more than me.

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Rockstar has dropped a slew of trailers that take players into the lives of the sociopaths they will be controlling in their next Grand Theft Auto game. It also serves as personal reminder that this newest installment shall be arriving soon. With all the fervor about the next generation of consoles arriving, and other games on my plate, I keep forgetting that this son of a bitch is dropping before this year’s calendar expires.

Hit the jump to check them out.

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Hello friends, and welcome to another edition of Press Start! For the uninitiated: this is a gathering of stories from the world of video games. I try to pick amusing, or over-looked stories that you perhaps haven’t managed to read because you were so overwhelmed by the amount of map pack release announcements or touching human interest stories about daddy and son waiting in line to pick up their Wii U. It’s enough to make a man sick, isn’t it?

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First let me say that I know it me. I don’t care about this game one bit. Caffeine is stuck in the real world, so I am being called into service to regurgitate news.  Your challenge Omeganaughts, convince me this game isn’t going to just be a rehash of GTA IV.  Hit the jump for the video.

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Have I already written an intro where I apologise for it being a ‘quiet news week’ and then try to make light of the situation and appear witty and insightful by pretending that I know lots about the video game industry? I have? Damn. Well, somehow the games industry has managed to stay quiet throughout NYCC. Go figure. The nether realm is upon us and reality has collapsed into itself. I don’t believe in anything any more.

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Yo, flying a jet is cool. It really is. However, all I want in this world is to snap on a fucking jet pack and party like its San Andreas.

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Some wizard analyst is predicting that Grand Theft Auto V: Still Poorly Influencing Children  is going to drop in the first of quarters, 2012+1. It will also sell a lot. Go figure.

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Snap! Is Belgian gaming magazine Chief  about to blow the tits off Grand Theft Auto V  in its upcoming issue?

Hit the jump for the purported cover.

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