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Dozens of devastated gamers have swamped the official GTA forums with complaints of repeated freezing when playing the much-hyped Grand Theft Auto IV. Most of the complaints are from PS3 users, though some Xbox 360s are also involved.

An Australian gamer was the first to post, stating: “I got GTA on Sunday and it freezes and I have to restart the console it happens every hour or so, I thought it may be a dodgy disc, so I took the disc back to the shop and got a new one.”

The post continues to say that the second disc also froze after just 40 minutes. One regular Xbox 360 user said that the problem comes from Rockstar programming the game so that it has no loading times. This overloads a console’s cache.
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‘Halo 3′, the long-awaited game from Microsoft, made US$170 million at its XBox 360 launch in the United States alone. This may mark the most successful release in the entertainment industry. Microsoft claims the sum is more than Spider-Man 3.

It is also, according to Microsoft, more than what the seventh Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” made in its first 24 hours. Analysts believe the sum includes presales, which came to 1.5 million games. Read more »