Rockstar has released the schedule of Social Club multiplayer events for April through June.

• Friday, April 2 (4-7PM EST)
  Grand Theft Auto IV
  For PC on Games for Windows LIVE
  Dust up and bust up - get those skills sharpened for Episodes on PC in mid-April - we'll be throttling up-to-32-player action just like last time...
  

• Friday, April 16 (4-7PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City
  For PlayStation 3 on PlayStation Network

Saturday, April 17 (3-6PM EST)
Episodes from Liberty City
For PC on Games for Windows LIVE

Back-to-back jumpoff weekend in honor of the arrival of Episodes from Liberty City for PC and PS3.  Make sure to get a lot of practice in that first day or two after game release – because we’re planning to have a few folks from both Rockstar North and Toronto coming online specifically to show you how it’s done.

• Tuesday, April 27 (4-7PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City
  For PlayStation 3 on PlayStation Network
  More long-awaited Episodes action on PlayStation Network.
  

• Thursday, May 13 (4-7PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City
  For Xbox 360 on Xbox LIVE
  An official Social Club and Xbox LIVE event, for all the Episodes players on 360.

• Friday, May 21 (4-7PM EST)
  Red Dead Redemption
  For PlayStation 3 on PlayStation Network
  

Saturday, May 22 (1-4PM EST)
Red Dead Redemption
For Xbox 360 on Xbox LIVE

Like we said last week… get your wild bunch ready.  Red Dead Redemption multiplayer – back-to-back for each system on the first weekend after the May 18th game release. Stay tuned for the big reveal of Multiplayer details next week.

• Thursday, June 3 (4-7PM EST)
  Red Dead Redemption
  For PlayStation 3 on PlayStation Network
  Posse up.  Official Red Dead multiplayer events continuing on in June for PlayStation 3...

• Friday, June 18 (4-7PM EST)
  Red Dead Redemption
  For Xbox 360 on Xbox LIVE
  ...and for Xbox 360.  Look for special giveaways during each of the June events.
  
  
• Tuesday, June 29 (4-7PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City For PC on Games for Windows LIVE
  Getting back into some high-def and high-octane PC Grand Theft Auto mayhem.

Rockstar has just posted a list of Social Club events for the rest of February through April. The list is quite big and has something for everyone.

• Thursday, February 18th (4-7PM EST)
  Grand Theft Auto IV Multiplayer Event with Rockstar
  For PC on Games for Windows LIVE
  Yes, our first official PC event in this series – complete with live stream, chat and all.  Let’s get that full-on up-to-32-player mayhem going.

• Friday, February 26 (4-7PM EST)
  Midnight Club LA Multiplayer Event with Rockstar
  For Xbox 360 on Xbox LIVE
  Jumping back into shredding through the streets of Los Angeles – hope to see you all for an intense three hours of racing...
  

• Friday, March 12 (4-7PM EST)
  Grand Theft Auto IV Multiplayer Event with Rockstar
  For PlayStation 3 on PlayStation Network
  A final Grand Theft Auto IV PS3 Multiplayer scrimmage with Rockstar before Episodes from Liberty City invades your world less than three weeks later.

• Tuesday, March 23 (4-7 PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City Multiplayer Event with Rockstar
  For Xbox 360 on Xbox LIVE
  Last licks for a little while for the XBL set – we’ll be spending April giving PS3 and PC gamers their due of The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned multiplayer love.  Look for some special giveaways to be announced.
  

• Friday, April 2 (4-7PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City Multiplayer Event with Rockstar
  For PlayStation 3 on PlayStation Network
  
  Saturday, April 3 (2-6 PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City Multiplayer Event with Rockstar
  For PC on Games for Windows LIVE
  
  Back to back first weekend of Episodes multiplayer events for both PS3 and PC.  Let’s get it on.  Planning for some of our ringers at our dev studios at North and Toronto jumping in to really show you what’s up.  Make sure to take advantage of those first few days after game release to get on point.

• Friday, April 16 (4-8 PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City Multiplayer Event with Rockstar
  For PlayStation 3 on PlayStation Network
  Getting back on PlayStation Network for some The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned modes with Rockstars from across NYC, North & Toronto – look for some special giveaways as well...

• Thursday, April 22 (4-7PM EST)
  Episodes from Liberty City Multiplayer Event with Rockstar
  For PC on Games for Windows LIVE
  Up to 32-players... BASE Jumping...  Free Mode... Explosive Shotgun Deathmatches... let your imagination run wild.  Plus we’ll be giving away some deluxe PC gear to be announced.
  
  PC gamers can also look forward to a new series of Video Editor contests from Social Club TV... with playable Luis and Johnny, all the new multiplayer additions, and extended Episodes music to cut your video soundtracks to...

As with the past few Rockstar multiplayer events, you can watch the stream live on Social Club.

In the works since November of last year, Rockstar has finally launched the friend and message wall portion of Rockstar Games Social Club.

Announcing the launch of the Rockstar Friends System and Message Wall – brand new features exclusively for Rockstar Games Social Club members to come together, interact, and talk trash - regardless of the platform they enjoy our titles on.

The Rockstar Friends System now allows Social Club members to create a custom Friends list based on either:

* Friends lists taken directly from platforms you have linked to the Social Club.
* Your specific Social Club nicknames and/or console identifiers (such as a Gamertag).

Linked Rockstar Friends can then interact via The Message Wall, Social Club’s unique verbal and visual means of mouthing off to your Friends.  Communicate, decorate and/or desecrate each other’s Walls at will.  Each message you send is accompanied by a sticker “envelope” of your choosing that gets posted to your Friend’s wall.  Pick from our collection of hundreds of stickers for the right grafitti graphic to match the tone of your note.

So link up with your Chinatown Wars DS-playing friend, your Midnight Club LA PS3-playing friend, and your Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox 360-playing friend – drop a steaming one on each of their walls and tell them how much they suck.  It’s social networking - the Rockstar way!

Source: Rockstar Games Social Club

Rockstar has silently updated the pages for the two features that have been taunted since the revamp, Message Wall and Friends system. The pages reveal more details on what we can expect the features to offer. They also reveal that both features will launch before the end of this month.

Friends System:

Message Wall:

Rockstar has released an update for Midnight Club: Los Angeles today for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 systems. The patch brings some AI balance on both consoles. The 360 version of the update includes support for leader boards for tournaments, better multiplayer match searching, and the much wanted streaming and performance fixes. As far as I can tell in my 10 minutes playing with the 360 patch, I have yet to see any draw in. Midnight Club: Los Angeles wasn't the only thing that got updated today, Social Club also received an update today adding back ZiT and LAFM. Social Club also gives us hints that Midnight Club Los Angeles will be getting two new sections on Social Club. Sorry PC folks, the update today hasn't added any of the sections such as Blotter and the Marathon for the PC version Grand Theft Auto IV. More than likely Social Club will have those sections added when the much awaited PC patch comes.

Today, Rockstar has revamped Social Club to version 1.1. However, this update seems like a 2.0 update due to the many changes that Rockstar has made:

• New section just for games
• The news now has it's own section
• You can now pick a nickname for use on Social Club
• A friends list is coming soon where you can message your other friends
• Message Wall is coming soon. We're not quite sure what the message wall will be. Perhaps a forum for fans to talk to eachother?
• There is now a platform chooser under the games section when you check your stats, and;
• Perhaps the most significant change is the site has been redeisgned, and is no-longer based entirely as an animated Flash website, which does make it significantly faster and easier to navigate around

There are a couple of things that people may not like, one the fact that they will have to relink their XBL/PSN accounts to Social Club, which really isn't a hard thing to do at all and secondly, anyone that was going to use ZiT and LAFM will have to wait untill the features are relaunched. Overall, Social Club seems to be shaping up to be a...social club!

Official Site: Social Club

Rockstar has launched a new feature called Social ClubTV. You may have guess what it does already, it's the part of Social Club that lets you upload videos from the new video editor in Grand Theft Auto IV for PC.

In addition to the Social ClubTV site, Rockstar also launched the PC section of the Grand Theft Auto IV website. The section includes new screens and higher quality versions of older screens.

 Links: Social ClubTV & Grand Theft Auto IV

A new feature for the Grand Theft Auto IV section in the Rockstar Social Club has been released today, it is all about celebrating those wealthy seven–figure Grand Theft Auto IV players.

The wealth of a member us decided by the single-player missions completion, won races, side-missions and "dropped" money you've picked up on the streets. The Millionaires Club has lanuched, so be sure to login to your account and check it out, perhaps you are one of them...?

Also Rockstar has let word of a new attraction/feature soon to be available in the Social Club, entitled "VIRAL INFECTION". It has something to do with zombies and "how far the infection has spread". Nothing more is known, however given the statement from Rockstar and the fact it is relation to zombies, our money is on it being a calculation of how many GTA IV players have been turned into zombies (click for more info on zombies and GTA IV)...

Social Club Home: http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/

Rockstar has just launched pre-registration for Social Club. If your not sure what Social Club is, Social Club is a new service from Rockstar that will be included in the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles. Social Club will provide leader boards, exclusive contests, etc. According to the site, a card game called "Beat It" will be coming soon to the club. Also, if you sign up before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, you will be entered to win a portrait of you drawn by the art team at Rockstar. If you want to sign up, the link is below.

Pre-Registration: Social Club

After being delayed for two days, originally planned for opening on April the 15th, today Rockstar's Social Club will open it's doors for registrations. Be sure you register up for your chance to enter competitions and of course, extend your GTA IV gaming experience. With future games also using this Social Club, it's a registration you MUST have, there really is no reason not to register. Weather your purchasing GTA IV or not, there will be Midnight Club LA which will no doubt also make use of the Club.

It is unknown when today the Social Club will officially open, however we suspect before this-afternoon.

What is the Social Club? If you missed the news, here's some small snippets:

• The LCPD Police Blotter will feature a map of Liberty City that tracks the criminal activity of the many players connected to the internet. It will feature information such as the more dangerous areas of town and which weapons are more common the others.

• The Story Gang will be a leaderboard that will not only show who completed the main story arc of the game first, but also how long it took. People who become a member of this club will receive special online widgets and merit badges.

• The 100% Club will be extremely popular as it will show who out of the millions of players will reach 100% completion first. The first 10 people to do so will be sent an ultra-rare commemorative 'key to the city' to mark their accomplishment! Later on it will rank members based on who will be able to get to 100% in the shortest amount of time.

• The Hall of Fame will recognize those elite players who have reached the top of various different statistical leaderboards, and will also contain a personal awards display of awards earned in Social Club competitions and via reaching various in-game achievements.

• The Liberty City Marathon will be a ranking of special physical milestones achieved in the game, from the number of miles walked, driven, or swam to the number of bullets fired and stunt-jumps jumped. Other events will be added as time goes on.

Register at: http://www.rockstargames.com/socialclub/