You may have noticed that there is an ad for "Mr. Wong's Laundromat" at the top of the Social Club page for Chinatown Wars. While Social Club fails to give any details about Wong's, Rockstar's online partner GameSpy, gives us some insight.

Once at the Rockstar Social Club, registered users can also play Flash games like Mr Wong’s Laundromat to unlock additional cash that can be spent back in the game. GameSpy’s custom work links money earned out of game straight back into your in-game funds to spend on bigger guns and more ammo (and you can never have enough of that).

Pretty neat, huh?

Source: GameSpy

Last night's episode of Comedy Central's South Park gave some spotlight to Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. The episode concentrates on the ever worsening economy and confronts who's at fault for South Park's economy turndown. While part of the episode focused on Cartman, and how the economy was getting in the way of him getting his hands on Chinatown Wars:

"Of all the times for people to decide to stop buying things, it had to be the week that Grand Theft Auto IV comes out for Nintendo DS!" - Cartman

I'm not sure if the reference to "Grand Theft Auto IV" is a simple mistake, or if it is relating the fact that Chinatown Wars is set in the same city as GTA IV, in which case I guess the two games could be considers an extention of one-another, but it's hardly important to the episode though.

Cartman and his wanting to have the game continued, later in the episode he was talking with his friends about a dream he had the previous night:

"I had a dream last night. I was in a field, and I had Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars right next to me. But then the sky went black and...Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars just melted in my hands." - Cartman

Further on in the episode, Cartman confronts the self-assigned leaders of the economy who are trying to find a way to solve an issue, somebody is talking out against the leaders and gaining the attention of the people of South Park. The leaders decide they must remove this person from the community in-order to keep the economy afloat. Cartman at this point enters the room and offers his services, at a price, obviously...

"The person you're after might be hard to get, but I can bring him to you. And all I want in return...is Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for handheld Nintendo DS." - Cartman

Nice to see a GTA game receiving some good publicity for once, and not to mention, it's terrific to see a game that wasn't as hyped as previous ones receiving some attention. The South Park episode will be repeated numour times over the next week. But if you live in the US and want to see it immediatly, you can watch it online at the official South Park website.

We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Rockstar and everyone involved in bring GTA to the Nintendo DS. The game turned out great, once again Rockstar took a seemingly limited handheld system, as they did with the PlayStation Portable, and did things we would never have thought possible. Chinatown Wars lived up to true Grand Theft Auto tradition and impressed all of us at RockstarWatch, as we'd imagine it did everyone who bought the game. Top job Rockstar!

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is out now in the US. For you people in the UK, you'll need to wait until the 20th. If your still on the fence, Rockstar has updated the official site with Social Club and multiplayer information.

Rockstar has released yet another gameplay video for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars featuring some rampage in the city.

Since the game releases tomorrow, review sites have been posting what they think about the game. So far, all the reviews have been above 91/100 on Metacritic's scale, which is pretty damn good.

Gamepro: 10/10
EuroGamer: 10/10
Cynamite: 10/10
IGN: 9.5/10 (video)

Congratulations, Rockstar Leeds! We can't wait to get our hands on the game tomorrow!

Rockstar has updated the official site for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars with ten new screenshots.

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They've also posted a remix of the song heard in the first trailer that debuted on the SiriusXM radio show, HeadQCourterz. The original song and the remixed version will be available for purchase on iTunes on the 17th.

Official Site:

Chinatown Wars

Rockstar has released a new gameplay video for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars featuring dealing and delivering. We've embedded the video below. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go buy a DS.

Rockstar has just released a second gameplay video for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars featuring some hacking and sniper rifle gameplay.

Chinatown War is no doubt going to be a huge step for Rockstar, giving some of the award winning franchise to Nintendo fans for the first time (excluding the unsuccessful GTA Advance). However, it is a new avenue for the series, a DS game with the unique DS controls and features.

There is always that possibility with bigs moves like this as to if the game will live up to it's expectations, and obviously Rockstar's last attempt at a GTA on a Nintendo system wasn't all that popular, but take Rapper Fat Joe's word on it, it's "mad ill, [a] dope game".

Convinced now? Okay, so maybe your not completely sure of who this Fat Joe is, thats understandable. Fat Joe has however, as he stated at the beginning of the video, had his music in a GTA game. In Grand Theft Auto IV his popular track Crackhouse featuring Lil Wayne can be heard on The Beat 102.7.

Alright, so he's not exactly somebody of much significance in the world of Grand Theft Auto, but he does seem keen on the game. And hey, if Fat Joe says it's "mad ill"...

Rockstar has released a video showing off hot-wiring, car jacking, and peeling out.

The official site for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars has launched. The site has 15 screenshots (most new) and a new trailer.

Trailer:

Screens: (this is only a selection of the screens)

Official Site: Chinatown Wars