GTA IV Worldwide on April 29

In a mailer sent out in the wee hours of the morning, New York-based publisher Rockstar Games confirmed that its once-delayed, but heavily-anticipated sandbox opus, Grand Theft Auto IV would be headed to store shelves in just a few months. The official GTA IV website was updated with the same information not too long afterwards.

Officially scheduled for April 29, Grand Theft Auto IV will ship for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 simultaneously, with planned Xbox 360-exclusive downloadable episodes somewhere down the line. A release date for those episodes, however, has yet to be revealed.

Update! Shortly after adding the info to its website and sending out fan mailers, Rockstar also discharged an official press statement confirming that the April 29 date is a worldwide release.

For more on Grand Theft Auto IV, check out our recent preview, just published yesterday. New gameplay tidbits such as the inclusion of the "chase cam," how the cover system works, and plenty of new images are among the article's several updated elements.

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