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iPhone gets Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Stuart Dredge
iPhone gets Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

DS/PSP game released on the App Store for a premium price.

Rockstar Games has released the iPhone version of its Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars game.

It's available today on the App Store for $9.99 (App Store link), with a price point of £5.99 for UK iPhone and iPod touch owners.

The price is significant: if any iPhone game had a shot at breaking the ten-dollar price ceiling for premium titles, it was GTA.

A version of Assassin's Creed II appeared on the App Store earlier this month with an $11.99 price point, but turned out to be an early leak, with publisher Ubisoft saying that pricing wasn't final.

Even so, the release of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will bolster Apple's claims of providing true competition for Nintendo's DS and Sony's PSP, since the game debuted on the former before being released for the latter.

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It's not Rockstar's first iPhone app though. In December, the publisher ported its PSP music creation tool Beaterator to iPhone.

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