April 28^th, 2008 (11:04pm) - While specific budgets for most videogames are rarely disclosed, Leslie Benizies, one of the producers behind Grand Theft Auto IV has stated that the overall cost to create GTA IV is somewhere around the one-hundred million dollar mark. This reported number surpasses that of previous known record holder, SEGA’s Shenmue project (both Dreamcast original and its successor), which had an estimated cost of seventy million dollars. Unfortunately, we cannot confirm if advertising costs has been included into these numbers.