Last week we mentioned via Twitter that we seen the OSX port of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas being tested on Steam. Today, without any sort of official announcement, the Mac OSX versions of San Andreas along with Vice City and GTAIII have been released on Steam. The best part of this is that all three titles utilize SteamPlay. This means that if you already have a Windows copy of the game on Steam, you'll automatically gain access to the OSX version, and vice versa. Previously, the OSX ports were only available via GameTree and the Mac App Store. To celebrate the Steam release, all three games are currently 25% off. No word on how long the deal will last so if you still don't have these three classics on Steam, now is a great time to pick 'em up!

Source: Steam

Fresh-Prince Creations has been hard at work for over a year and a half endeavoring to recreate the Vice City map in Sims 3, with great success by the look of it. A beta of the modification has just been released so if Sims 3 is your cup of tea, be sure to download it and give feedback to the creator so he can improve upon it.

Check out his site for more images and some videos.

Source: Fresh-Prince Creations' site

Back in July, we reported that the ESRB added OSX as a platform to three Grand Theft Auto titles and the first Max Payne. In the latest edition of Rockstar's "Asked & Answered" series, Rockstar has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will all be coming to OSX later this year. Max Payne was sadly not mentioned in the article so it could be an error on ESRB's part or Rockstar forgot to mention it. More information and an proper announcement will be coming soon.

Source: Rockstar Newswire

UPDATE: VG247 has been in contact with Rockstar regarding the OFLC modification for Vice City, and it appears that Rockstar had the game re-rated as part of "ongoing work with history products". What this means for Vice City, and the three other games listed above, is still unclear. We'll let you know of any updates.

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According to the ESRB's website, Grand Theft Auto III, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas and Max Payne will all soon be making the jump over to the Mac OSX platform. While Rockstar has not announced nor shown any signs of taking this step, it all makes sense considering the recent push to support both Windows PC and Macintosh, most specifically by Valve who have made both their Steam service and their games available on the Mac OSX. Since this hasn't officially been announced by Rockstar, we don't know more than these subtle hints, so whether the ports will be native or emulated is anyone's guess at the moment (though it does seem unlikely Rockstar would port an engine it no longer uses). It is possible that, if the games are available through Steam, they may be listed under Steam Play, meaning those who currently own the PC versions will be able to play on both the PC and Mac without requiring any re-purchase.

Additionally, Australia's OFLC ratings board has mysteriously modified their rating of GTA Vice City, updating it to newer guide terms ("Strong Violence", compared to "Medium level animated violence"). At the moment it is unknown why this change has been made, and whether it was on request from Rockstar, or something the OFLC has taken upon themselves.

Source: ESRB and OFLC

We would like to send our condolences to family, friends and fans of the late Dennis Hopper, who passed away yesterday at the age of 74 after a long battle with prostate cancer. Hopper had a career spanning more than 50 years, acting in over one-hundred movies, including the cult 1969 classic Easy Rider which he both directed and starred in. However, you may remember him best for his fantastic voice acting roll in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, portraying the "artistic" pornography director Steve Scott.

Rest In Peace Dennis Hopper - you were, and will remain, a true film legend.

Ever dreamed of owning every single PC game Rockstar has put out? This week Steam is bringing you one step closer with it's Rockstar Games sales week. All week you'll be able to buy the Rockstar Games collection pack featuring every Rockstar PC game except for Oni and Manhunt 2 for the low price of the answer to life, the universe and everything....$42.49. Need only a single game? No worries as there will be a game each day of the week that will be discounted. Today's game discount is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for the insanely low price of $2.50.

Buy: Rockstar Collection
Buy: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Sad news today for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City fans and rap fans. DJ Mr. Magic (John Rivas) passed away today from a heart attack. Magic was most known for influencing rap stars such as Notorious B.I.G., Tupac and many more with his radio show back in the 80's. GTA fans know him as the DJ on Wildstyle in Vice City. DJ Premier eulogized him in a personal letter released today.

I want to send out the utmost respect and condolences to the memory of John Rivas---- aka Mr. Magic.

He passed away this morning of a heart attack.....

True hip hop heads know that his history is so long due to him being the first rap mixshow to ever be on commercial radio on New York's WBLS --(107.5) with Marley Marl and Fly Ty in 1982-1984.......then went on to WHBI in October of 1984 and then back to WBLS in 1985 and WDAS in Philly simultaneously.

He paved the way for all radio stations that ever did mixshows and also sparked the career of Boogie Down Productions due to the diss he showed when they came to shop their demo to him and was turned away which then sparked "South Bronx" and "The Bridge Is Over".......

He was known for his direct and sarcastic attitude on the air and every artist wanted his approval when it came to breaking new records........ he even had songs dedicated to him by the legendary Whodini -- ("Mr. Magic's Wand") which was surprisingly produced by one of my favorite artists Thomas Dolby.......

Shouts out to Marley Marl and Fly Ty for the correct information on this......

Rest in peace Mr. Magic............. DJ Premier

RIP Mr. Magic.

As I was looking around on GameStop's website today, I came across two Grand Theft Auto bundle packs that have yet to be announced by Rockstar. One pack for the PC is exactly like the trilogy packs released for the PS2 and Xbox consoles. It includes GTAIII, Vice City and San Andreas. We're not sure at the moment if the games have been patched to correctly work on newer OSes. (Personally, I don't have a problem with the games on Vista but some have reported various problems) The other pack for the PlayStation 2 includes both Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories. Both bundles will retail for $30. The PC pack releases on 30th of this month and the Stories pack releases on the 23rd.

GameStop: GTA PC, Stories PS2

A Nintendo news website hosted by WordPress today posted an interesting article on the Top Selling Games of All Time. Although a little bias as 17 of the games were made by Nintendo it does list a few that were not, nothing to surprising in the list, however it does beg the question, can upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV smash the record? GTA Vice City sold the most, beating GTA III by 2 million sales and GTA San Andreas by 1 million sales. Seems there are a lot of 80's fans out there, but can the new re-engineered Grand Theft Auto compete? We'll have to wait and see.

See the full list here.

Awards, awards, awards... It seems like Rockstar can never have enough of them. Their ground-breaking games and digital entertainment are always nominated for awards and honours, usually many at once. Nothing different here either, the 25th Annual Golden Joystic Awards are not so long away and votes are open to the public. Rockstar are currently in these categories;

Handheld Game of The Year
- GTA: Vice City Stories
- The Warriors
The Nuts All Nighter Award
- GTA: Vice City Stories
The One to Watch
- GTA IV
- Midnight Club Los Angeles
Online Game of The Year
- GTA: Vice City Stories
PlayStation Game of The Year
- Canis Canem Edit/ Bully
- GTA: The Trilogy
- GTA: Vice City Stories
- The Warriors
Publisher of The Year
- Rockstar Games
- Take Two Interactive/ 2k Games
BBC 1Xtra & Rampage Soundtrack Award
- Canis Canem Edit/ Bully
- GTA: Vice City Stories
UK Developer of The Year
- Rockstar London
- Rockstar North
Ultimate Game of The Year
- Canis Canem Edit/ Bully
- GTA: The Trilogy
- GTA: Vice City Stories
- The Warriors

Send in your votes for and support for Rockstar now at the GoldenJoystick website. We wish Rockstar all the best of luck, as if they will need it.

Thanks to our partner RockstarUncut for the heads up.