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Grand Theft Auto Helps Preteen Rescue Family From Crashed Car

Kotaku writes: "While we've seen countless story regarding children using Grand Theft Auto as their inspiration to do wrong, it's extremely rare that we see news about GTA being cited as a cause for good. It happened on August 27th around 9pm, as the Norris family of five was heading to Diamond, Illinois to visit relatives. Their 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved off the road, hitting a guardrail and flipping four times before coming to a stop, caving in the roof and smashing out the back window. With her mother hanging upside down and her father pinned against the steering wheel, 11-year-old Audrey Plique climbed out of the back window and helped her parents and two younger siblings escape the car. The motivation for her heroic act, according to her mother Karen Norris?

'She just knew, from playing 'Grand Theft Auto.' She saw on there that when a car rolls over, it can blow up. She knew that could happen to us'"

PoSTedUP5706d ago

but yea knowing that a car blows up when flipped from playing gta gave the kid adrenalin knowing that that could happen to her family so yea i say that gta played a positive role right there.

sonarus5706d ago

HAHAHA wow. This has to be the funniest video game related accident i have read since ever. Who knew GTA could do that

Dark SeRaNADE5706d ago

Suck it Thompson!

very admirable thing this kid did, most impressive...

I_am_a_gangsta5706d ago

She probably played the game on the 360. 360 fans actually go out side and help people unlike fat droids who just sit there and EATTTTT.

The_Firestarter5706d ago

That truly was a sweet little story. It sure did put me in a good mood. I'm glad everything worked out fine and nobody got seriously injured or killed.

Megatron085706d ago

Ya I agree. To bad they'll never run a postive story about games in the news like this one

InfiniteUnfloppery5706d ago

The superior Playstation 3 Version of Grand Theft Auto 4 has saved the lives of a beautiful American Family:

This Is Living.

jack who5706d ago

u owe me a soda &%%%$

anyways about time vidoe game start saveing ppl

Lord Shuhei Yoshida5706d ago

Yes it has Infinte Unfloppery,the PS3 saves lives while the 360 burns down homes and takes lives.I am confident that the 360 is responsible for the car going up in flames in the first place,but the family did'nt want to admit that they had a 360 in the car knowing how much shame they would suffer if the public found out.

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Where are These Missing VR Games?

As is they're coins down a sofa, some announced games seem to just disappear. So just where are these missing VR games?

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anast45d ago

There wont be enough demand until the tech gets better and more affordable.

ApocalypseShadow44d ago

The article is more concerned with where the announced games are. Not about VR demand.

Even with my thoughts on Facebook, they did supposedly sell over 20 million headsets. Not that I think that many are still using their Quest headsets. But even if it's only 10 million users and 5 million are interested and able to play GTA SA, that's still a lot of consumers and a lot of sales.

It just comes down to why these developers are taking so long. Is something like GTA canceled? Is it being held back for a future event? It's not like there's competition in the stand alone space. And now that I have a Quest 3 myself, I'm wondering as well what's the hold up.

Profchaos44d ago

For GTA SA
Meta made a lot of budget cuts and cancelled a fair few exclusive game contracts we don't know if this was cancelled but it's possible and this was announced prior to the release of GTA definitive edition which was slammed and eventually moved to be supported in house by Rockstar.

Since then we have just gotten the mobile versions a d they are actually the best way to play the definitive edition unfortunately the consoles never got a retrospective patch to implement the improvements they made in the mobile games.

But for VR we know a VR mode was found in the definitive editions game files thanks to data miners so seeming it was meant to be using the definitive edition as a base given its ue4 that makes sense. And the mode is there right now (some Polish may be required still) I would assume this is ready to go but meta got cold feet and cancelled it given the games reputation.

I do hope Rockstar forge ahead and still just launch it anyway on psvr2 as it's a game I've loved since day 1 on PS2 I'll even tolerate the de version to get it in VR

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The Best Video Game Reboots of All Time

Like the film or television industry, the world of gaming has seen its fair share of reboots over the years. While some of these video game reboots have had

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Mainline Grand Theft Auto trailers ranked from best to worst

As we have all been graced by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer, we're ranking the best and worst GTA trailers to date.

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purple101134d ago

We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now

Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.

This site supposed to be for news.

roadkillers134d ago

These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.