Speaking at the Game Developers Conference, big wig John Schappert has talked-up the significance of IV, which is set to arrive on both the and on April 29th.

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Microsoft have consistently assured us that the 360 is the best place to play IV, and the firm is rumoured to have paid publisher millions of dollars to secure exclusive episodes.

Schappert is quoted as stating that these downloadables will begin arriving from "fall 2008", while CVG go so far as to reveal that the first downloadable GTA IV episode will hit Live in August. Which we'd call summer... but there you go.

GTA IV is billed as the year's biggest release - and who are we to argue?

By Luke Guttridge