When Calvin once asked why the world couldn’t even be unfair in his favour, he would’ve been really happy if he was one of those thousands of people who were left confused, heartbroken and angry after news emerged that GTA IV for the PC could get delayed in the country.

And, to add to one of those rare occasions where we are the bearer of good news, it looks like you really wouldn’t have to wait after all if you were planning to drive Mr. Bellic around town on your monster PC. So yes, the game is coming out on December 3rd, as originally planned and yes, it will be available at the previously mentioned low, low price of INR 499, so there’s really no excuse not to buy one copy for playing and one NRFB copy for a keepsake, like someone I know is planning to do.

And for all those people who were getting increasingly paranoid over the game’s SecuROM DRM software, (yours truly included) it looks like things aren’t as bad as they are with EA’s games. Head over here for a 2-page interview by PC Games Hardware with Rockstar where every detail about the relaxed DRM mechanism in use by GTA IV PC is revealed.

After having a blast getting slaughtered by dogs in the Xbox 360 and PC betas and suffering the ignominy of having it played back to us on the kill cam, Call of Duty (yes, I said doody) World at War fans in India will be able to start kicking the living crap out of my hapless soldier in the game starting today. In what is a welcome change from seeing games release months after their international release dates (or sometimes, not at all, thanks to stupid, mutated two-headed bovines and even dumber Fox network-ey legal types) World at War will be available for the PC, the Xbox 360 and the PS3 for INR 1299, 2499 and 2799 respectively. Sure, you’re not running around gunning Soviet / Chechen / Islamic fundamentalist hydrids and saving the world seven seconds before nuclear annihilation, but hey, at least this time you have the option of being able to train your gun sights on World War II cannon fodder with your friends instead of being humiliated by getting knifed nine times in a row by the multiplayer whore (read “best friend”) sitting next to you.

With Gears of War 2 just around the corner (read tomorrow), we’ve all gone the extra mile to walk around in Marcus’ footsteps - watched marathon sessions of Futurama, bought all the Gears action figures, drooled over the metal Lancer paraded around by CliffyB and Major Nelson and heck, even pumped steroids into our veins and larynges just to be that much closer to Marcus “Candy Bar” Fenix. (You know, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside…)

Or, if you don’t want to go through this much trouble, and spend the better part of daylight huddled in a dark room posting on Facebook, there’s a handy little Facebook app that we got hit up with some time back. We’re still kinda unclear on who designed this, but it’d sure be nice if they could actually, add, like, umm, you know, Gears of War 2 stuff - newer enemies, newer locations, newer weapons, newer contests, newer goodies - instead of all the stuff we’ve been seeing every other minute since we got our Xbox 360s. Hopefully, someone in PR would soon be tasked with the unenviable (oh?) job of getting to work on all this, but until then, if, for some reason, you’ve made the unpardonable sin of forgetting your Gears lore, head on over to the Facebook app page here to jog your memory and add the app to your profile. Quite obviously, you need a Facebook account.

And don’t forget to pick up your copy of Gears of War 2 in stores tomorrow, with the standard edition going for INR 2195 and the Collector’s Edition with your very own photo of Maria for a scant INR 2510.

Lucky buggers in Mumbai, get ready to have your first glimpse of Marcus Fenix and his band of brothers as Microsoft-India prepares to show-off the eagerly anticipated Gears of War 2. Head over to Blue Frog on November 3rd to keep your date with the game. Cocktail and snacks are on the house.

Click on the image on the left to see a bigger, better, more badass version.

In other news, a similar event was scheduled for Bangalore as well with Consoul playing host to Microsoft. Gamers from the city would have been invited over to Consoul, Bangalore’s premiere console-only gaming parlor, to try out the game all by themselves. However, it seems like as of now, the event has been put on the backburner. We will update you as soon as we have some news regarding this.

Edit: More news on the Bangalore event after the jump.

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There are no boundaries. Everything is open to us. For that reason, nothing is truly forever sacred. The only true way to embrace evil is to become it. Are you man enough to accept the challenge?

Seriously, are you? Are you?!

Yes, we’ve all heard this one and there have been over 650 pages of discussion about this at the GTA IV forums, but finally, we can break our six-month silence and echo Rockstar and the entire Internet in welcoming GTA IV for the PC this November. Yes, we’ve known that the game was coming to the PC in November for quite a long time now, along with some really juicy information on the new Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Underworld (I love gymnastic coaches!), but we couldn’t open our mouths thanks to a painful embargo and a whole lotta guns pointed at us.

But teasers aside, GTA IV will finally see the light of day on PC come November 18 in North America and November 21 across Europe. When the game will be made available to the hapless Indian gamer is not certain, but the local distributor in-charge of the license assures us that it will be here “on par with the international street date” and that it will be priced very competitively - a fact that is being looked at with open hostility by the console gamers here, who had to wait an eternity for the game to be available here, most of whom got their copies from the gray market at obscene price points.

While there’s still no word on the official system requirements or whether the DLC will be made available to PC owners for free, as is usually the case with such games, Xbox 360 and PS3 GTA IV fans will have quite a bit of love coming their way – now with the Millionaires Club, soon with the “Viral Infection” zombie mode and a fresh DLC to boot. And for those still trying to figure out the new Ms. Croft, watch out for the lovely Ms. ****** ******* (are we counting the stars, Alice?) at the upcoming Leipzig Games Convention. Cheers!

With more and more unique IPs like Dead Space, FaceBreaker, Mirror’s Edge, SPORE and Crysis: Warhead to show off, we’re still wondering why EA is playing the same old tunes every time we run into them. While we wait for our Red Alert 3 keys and a big, huge project coming your way real soon from EA India (Shh!), we’ve got our hands on the scans of the latest Mirror’s Edge comic from Comic-Con, thanks to Siliconera who were kind enough to upload them for the entire world to enjoy.

Sure, the ultra-mini-comic doesn’t really explain any part of the backstory or anything beyond what Faith and her fellow Runners do, running the Mirror’s Edge on rooftops hundreds of feet above the ground, but this is just a small teaser of what’s to come from Wildstone and Mirror’s Edge writer Rhianna Pratchett, daughter of the legendary Discworld series’ Terry Pratchett, who’s worked on games such as Heavenly Sword and Overlord.

The remaining six parts of the Mirror’s Edge comic will be released before the game ships sometime in Winter 2008.

[via Siliconera]

MIRROR’S EDGE COMIC TEASER

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