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2 million GTA IV Achievements in a day

Totalling over 15 million Gamerpoints.

News by Robert Purchese Associate Editor

Updated on 6 May 2008

Xbox Live bigwig Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has said more than 2 million Achievements were unlocked for Grand Theft Auto IV in just 24 hours, totalling over a whopping 15 million Gamerpoints.

Hryb shared the figures in his latest podcast on his blog where, unsurprisingly, the Xbox Live Activity chart for the week showed GTA IV as the most played game by those signed into the online service.

We're promised many more exciting Xbox 360 GTA IV facts and figures by Hryb in the future.

Later today, or early tomorrow, we should see the UK All Formats Top 40 published, featuring presumably record-breaking sales for the Rockstar game. It will also show us which of the two versions proved most popular.

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