GTAIV is released today and what better way to honour this life sucking franchise than by mind melding it with another slice of the awesome cake that is lego, enjoy..

If you are the sort of person who is into midnight launches, then you will already know about GTA IV’s upcoming release, here is the list so you can start planning now, dont forget to phone before hand as this is subject to change, and also print out this coupon to save yourself some money: http://bayimg.com/kAJIIAABH

Atwater Village
Bay Bridge
Citrus Heights
Elk Grove
Marin City
Mira Mesa
Rancho Cucamonga
Roseville
San Bernardino
San Francisco (Harrison St.)
San Francisco (Geary Blvd.)
San Marcos
Sherman Oaks
West Hollywood
West Los Angeles
Westminster
Woodland Hills

Much like fashion and automobiles, gaming is a magnet for trends. Occasionally ridiculous, and always sweeping, it’s easy to lose the innovators in an angry sea of crap. Light guns, motion sensing, voice chat, hard drives, and more currently the wars over guitar-shaped controllers and the media format itself. But this is just hardware.

The software fad of the hour is the destructible environment. Not the casually absurd, shooting gallery brand that has you blasting apart the Eiffel Tower, but something a little more daunting.

Developers are hyping buildings that can be reduced to scrap piece by piece, terrain that can be reshaped on a whim, and for the lil’ engineer, worlds so detailed the in-game structures must be architecturally sound to stay upright.

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Among my favorite things, I count a pristine Asteroids machine. Also high on that list would be a dive bar. The kind where the light is minimal, the volume is at max, and the locals are all but paying rent. Put an Asteroids machine in that dive bar, and you get something like Miss T’s Barcade, a nightspot on the outskirts of Koreatown. This week I paid a visit, hoping to find something to tide me over until the next Game Night at Brian’s. Unfortunately, the experience came up short.

Miss T’s was featured on Gametrailers TV, with a montage of patrons slamming back Sake Bombs and queuing up to Donkey Kong. It looked dark, loud, and had no real sign, just a blue neon rendering of a Pac Man ghost. It was like a speakeasy for geeks. A Geekeasy.

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