Hee! Care of the kids over at Gawker, this hed brings up a good point: we haven't a clue as to how play this newfangled vampire game, and we're afraid to ask. Please, Facebook family, stop biting and baiting us. We feel like we're back in junior high, stuck on the football field, frightened by this touch football game all the other kids seem to play so effortlessly.

If you're an outlaw and have a chip-modded PS2 and a DVD burner, you can go ahead and get the torrent at Suprnova, download the game, and start blasting away. The irony here is that a game about armed robbery has now been robbed. Take Two Interactive and Rockstar Games have issued a press release and are requesting tips in their hunt for the parties responsible.

This of course comes on the heels of Halo, Half-Life and Doom all being made available on the web before the official game release. SFist hopes that folks downloading the games are doing it to check the game out before purchase - especially since pre-release version, like pirated movies, are usually not 'gold' versions but earlier versions still being tested. We'd also like to point out that the computer game industry is a hefty part of the Bay Area economy, so remember that you're taking food out of all our mouths.

Well, for the latest generation, there is a game that has crossed the boundaries of geekworld into the mainstream consciousness - even Joe Lieberman knows about it. Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series is already a paradigm shift in what video games can be about. And that's why after GTA III in New York, and GTA: Vice City in Miami were such stand outs, SFist knew right where they were headed. After all, for a game involving stolen cars, drugs, prostitutes and random violence, you've got to set it in California!

is rumored to be complete and is to be released on October 26th according to Inside Gamers Online. Now the GTA 'cities' are stylized renditions, not strict simulacra, and GTA: San Andreas will take place in both the Southland and The City - under the pseudonyms Los Santos and San Fierro. Of course it's San Fierro we're pumped about - Bullitt is one of our favorite movies for a reason! We just can't wait to start careening around cable cars firing semi-automatic weapons at tourists, taking jumps off the hills in some suped-up Shelby Mustang clone. SFist is turning in their request for time off right now...