To celebrate the Year of the Tiger, Rockstar Games slashed 30-percent off the award winning Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for Apple products.

So. Very. Cheap.

Starting Friday, February 12 and running through until Sunday, Feb. 14, one of the highest-rated games available on the iPhone and iPod Touch will be available for 30-percent off, or a really enticing $7.

If you’ve yet to experience the stellar top-down GTA creation, now is absolutely, unequivocally, the time to do so.

As promised, Rockstar Games released an iPhone/iPod Touch version of the award-winning portable Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars this week and it looks and sounds like a winner.

For $9.99, yes, a penny less than an even $10, you can score yourself the same game available for PSP and DS, and then some.

New to the iPhone/iPod Touch version is Independence FM, an in-game radio station that allows you to import iTunes playlists to enjoy during the game, enhanced 480×320 resolution, multi-touch controls, adjusted difficulty levels, and more.

Enough words. Here’s the action.

Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: Chinatwon Wars on the PSP and PSPgo today, and to complement the release, the studio also set loose a new gameplay trailer.

The video, titled “Out For Revenge,” shows main character Huang Lee, and all the violence, mayhem, and weaponry, the game has to offer.

Additionally, Rockstar today released new additions to the Rockstar Games Social Club including Peking Duck Hunt, a browser-based mini-game that earns players in-game cash and other goodies.

Check out the entire Rockstar announcement at the Rockstar Newswire

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars released 7 months ago in March exclusively on the Nintendo DS, but in two weeks, it’ll find a new home in Sony’s portable line, the PSP and PSPgo.

Chinatown Wars for PSP is bulkier than its DS counterpart. Its got exclusive missions, music, and graphical enhancements that you can brag about to your dual-screen-wielding friends/family members/strangers if you’re so inclined.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars comes to the PSP and PSPgo October 20.

Rockstar, developers of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars announced today that starting this Friday, May 1^st, gamers with the title will be given the chance to get hold of the extraordinary “Bulletproof Hellenbach” vehicle.

If you want the new limited edition auto you’ll have to register with the web-based Rockstar Social Club, where you can synch your in-game stats via Wi-Fi connection

Full details on how to acquire the coveted vehicle are as follows:

(1) Become a registered Social Club member before 11:59 PM ET on May 7th 2009 (Thursday).

(2) Link your Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Nintendo DS Friend Code to your Social Club account before 11:59 PM ET on May 7th 2009 (Thursday).

(3) Sync your stats anytime after your Friend Code is linked.

After you’ve completed the aforesaid process your vehicle awaits you at the Auto Merchant in BAOBO, but you’ll also have to have completed the early mission “The Wheelman” to gain entry to the shop itself.

Head on over to Rockstar’s Social Club for more info on the weeklong promotion and further details on all Rockstar games.

Grand Theft Auto: ChinaTown Wars released about a month ago and with a staggering Metacritic score of 94, as well as a 9.5 of our own, certainly is a masterpiece of handheld mayhem, but what about multi-player?

The kind folks at RockStar Games dropped us a line today, and clued us in to the frenzied multiplayer component to their precious baby.‚  The fifth trailer from RockStar, officially titled “Wi-Fi Mayhem” highlights the titles’ various multiplayer modes.

In total, three types of game-play are shown including the co-op defense oriented “Defend the Base,” the furious, blood-rending “Stash Dash,” and “Race Mode,” where players must put the pedal to the metal and out-drive opponents in any of Liberty City’s 20 courses.

Today is Saint Patrick’s Day, and if in all the excitement you forgot that the ambitious, portable, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars came out today, this trailer, detailing the plethora of weapons available in Rampage mode will surely remind you.

To activate Rampage mode, players must find and access any one of the city’s dozens of skulls, arm themselves, and then go to town, causing as much havoc, death and destruction as possible in the allotted time.