Tomorrow's GTA: Episodes from Liberty City trailer (featuring the first ever footage of GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony) will go online at 1 PM EST tomorrow. That's 6 PM GMT if you live in the UK, and 3 AM (ouch!) in Eastern Australia.

Thanks to GTA Hood for the heads up.

Rockstar has revealed the official box art for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - with scenes and characters from both The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned. Check it out!

It is also available for download as a desktop wallpaper in various formats here.

The debut trailer for Episodes from Liberty City is coming tomorrow, featuring the first-ever scenes from The Ballad of Gay Tony!

Rockstar has just sent over the first official screenshots of The Ballad of Gay Tony, the upcoming episodic expansion for Grand Theft Auto IV:

First impression? Epic. Post your own thoughts here.

The trailer for The Ballad of Gay Tony is coming next Tuesday, Rockstar has announced. They've posted some stills on the official website, which appears to show Luis (the main character) skydiving from a helicopter:

Gay Tony trailer stills: Luis skydiving.

Animation created using stills.

Discuss here!

..that's according to Rockstar. They don't give any clues as to what those announcements will be, but there's a good chance that at least one of them will be Grand Theft Auto-related. Stay tuned.

(UPDATE) The first PSP GTA: Chinatown Wars screenshots have arrived. Visit GTAChinatown.com for more details.

Last night Rockstar Games re-launched their official website, which features a new layout and some content including two new Gay Tony wallpapers. Check them out:

Gay Tony and mysterious female character get bleuter'd.

Two new features are available on the Rockstar Games Social Club - Friends List and Message Wall.

The Friend System allows each Social Club member 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 (like a Gamertag).

Once you have created a Friends List you can begin using the Message Wall. The Message Wall is a unique verbal and visual means of mouthing off to your Friends – including a direct message system and customizable personal graffiti wall. Communicate, talk trash with your Friends, and decorate and/or desecrate each other’s Walls at will. More additions will be made to the Friends System and Message Wall in future.

Last Friday, ATI released the Catalyst 9.8 driver. Some ATI users on our forum have reported significant performance improvements since installing the driver, so if you are an ATI user running GTA IV on the PC, then be sure to check this out and see if it makes a difference.

Related Link: GTAForums - ATI 9.8 Driver Released.

Patrick Brown has released yet another spectacular Grand Theft Auto artwork. Even R* have shown their appreciation for his talent! His latest work depicts a scene from The Ballad of Gay Tony, the upcoming expansion for Grand Theft Auto IV.

We should get new info and some (official) media next week, so stay with us and we'll bring you all the latest updates.

The Lost and Damned will be Xbox LIVE's deal of the week on the week beginning August 24th, so if you're planning to get it then that would be a good time to do so. You will be able to get it for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15.00 USD) as opposed to 1600 Microsoft Points ($20.00 USD) representing a $5.00 price cut.

TLAD is the first episodic expansion of Grand Theft Auto IV, featuring new missions, new weapons, new vehicles, new multiplayer modes and a new main character. It was released in February exclusively for Xbox 360. For more details go here.

We have learned that Xbox World 360 Magazine will have the first ever hands-on preview of The Ballad of Gay Tony in next month's issue. They have literally just been to see the game, and we will get to hear all about it when the issue goes on sale on Monday, 7th September in the UK. We are likely to have a trailer before then, but this will be the first in-depth hands-on preview.

Rockstar Games has revealed on Twitter that a trailer for GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony is "coming very soon". Official updates/trailers are usually launched on Thursdays or Fridays so there's a good chance we could see it tonight (August 7th). We'll let you know if we hear anything else.

Link: Rockstar Games on Twitter

Rumours have been posted on our forums about the USK (German) ratings for The Lost and Damned, leading to speculation over possible new platform (PC) support for the game. We went ahead and contacted Rockstar regarding the matter, and it all turns out to be a big misunderstanding.

In a nutshell: All trailers submitted to USK are listed as "PC", regardless of what platform the product is actually released on. If the trailer itself is set for playback on PC, it's marked as PC. Simple as that.

Nevertheless, feel free to discuss the rumours on our forums.

(Editor's Note from Andy: This post was tweaked to clarify a few details. We offer our apologies to the rabid PC gaming masses for any confusion that we've caused.)