The Ballad of Gay Tony

Following the release of Grand Theft Auto IV's first DLC The Lost and Damned, Rockstar has announced The Ballad of Gay Tony as the second downloadable episode which will be released in the Fall of 2009. This episode will cost gamers 1600 Microsoft Points, or $19.99 US, and is exclusive to the Xbox 360.

Changing gears from The Lost and Damned's seedy biker gang theme, The Ballad of Gay Tony will focus on the glitzy "high-end night life" of Liberty City. This time around you will be playing Luis Lopez, an assistant to Tony Prince, aka Gay Tony, Liberty City's legendary nightclub entrepreneur. According to the official press release, "players will struggle with the competing loyalties of family and friends, and with the uncertainty about who is real and who is fake in a world in which everyone has a price."

Also announced was the interesting bit that both the first downloadable episode and The Ballad of Gay Tony will be released together as a retail boxed product for $39.99 at some point in the future. The disc will not require Grand Theft Auto 4 to play, being an entirely standalone product, and will be called Episodes from Liberty City.