Move over Niko Bellic. A new GTA star may be around the corner already! What with development for the DLC episodes, Rockstar Games isn't done with Grand Theft Auto 4 just yet. Despite that, analyst Michael Pachter is already pegging 2010 as the perfect time for the next console iteration of the sandbox franchise. And that's not all: Pachter's also making sales forecasts for GTA 5 already!

Did you get the latest title update for Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360, PS3)? Well if you did, then most likely you ran into that uncharacteristic, out of place censorship in Niko Bellic's world. Wow, who could have ever imagined that will ever take place? I mean, yeah, ESRB and other moral groups have tried time and again, but this from Rockstar's own backyard? Hold up, it was just an "error", they said.

This trailer's pretty cool. Maybe even cooler than any of the trailers of the actual game. Yes, it looks like GTA4's first DLC episode is worth getting, if only for the chance to go back into Liberty City and cause mayhem again (yay for the grenade launcher!). Gotta love the music in this trailer too. Perfect for the biker gang member that Johnny Klebitz is. And speaking of familiar characters, make sure you watch this all the way to the end for a surprise reappearance of a very familiar face...

If you were hoping that Grand Theft Auto IV's expansion will give you some bonding time with Niko Bellic, think again. When asked if Michael Hollick will return to voice Bellic for The Lost and Damned, Rockstar replied "Hell no!"

Ouch. Find out why after the link.

After everything was said and done, Grand Theft Auto 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) walked away with the Game of the Year award at this year's Spike TV Video Game Awards, winning out over Fallout 3, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and Gears of War 2. Hit the full article for a rundown of the big winners during the event.

A conservative Christian Investment firm, The Timothy Plan, puts out a warning for parents on getting some games for their kids for the holidays. For that, they put out a list of the 30 "most offensive" video games out there today. The list includes your usual suspects, but The Timothy Plan flags games that ring the gay-dar, even those little negligible things like Niko Bellic turning down gay ads in online dating.

Move over Niko Bellic, there's a new bad ass in town. Meet Johnny Klebitz, a member of Liberty City's biker gang, The Lost. He'll be the star of the upcoming DLC for Grand Theft Auto IV, which will be available on February 17.

Details after the link.

Looks like sackboys have nothing on Niko Bellic. Grand Theft Auto IV and LittleBigPlanet both launched on the same week in Japan, and it's pretty clear who the winner is. The PlayStation 3 version of GTA IV sold more than twice LittleBigPlanet did. Also worth noting that the PS3 version of GTA IV sold almost 4 times the Xbox 360 version did.

Full list of Japan's top games in the full article.

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu recently gave out scores on today's hottest titles. Four reviewers would score a game on a scale to 10, with 10 being the highest. With a near-perfect score, it looks like Niko Bellic and the gangboys of Grand Theft Auto 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) bested the LittleBigSackboys in LittleBigPlanet - even by just a tiny margin. Full scores and details in the full article.

We were recently surprised to find that Malysian gaming mag PCGamer appears to claim that GTA 4 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) will be heading to the PC. Not exactly a lot of information to be found in a magazine cover, but it does intrigue us, to be sure. Find the cover after the jump.