Entropy

Its time to get in the internet waiting line, in just a few hours the Rockstar Social Club will be opening for pre-registration, 12 days before the launch of GTA IV.

But this Rockstar Social Club to coincide with the release of Grand Theft Auto IV intrigues me. Online leaderboards (for single and multiplayer), a virtual police blotter, wine, cheese … what doesn’t this social club have? Well, the answer is a catchy single like “Rumors,” of course. But that’s not going to stop me from signing up later in the week … or from asking our readers to come up with a catchy pop single for the Rockstar Social Club. Read on at Destructiod …

A seperate Destructoid post has some actual details on what will be included (aside from cheese) for the GTA IV launch –

GTA IV, the first game featured on the Rockstar Social Club, has
exciting features beyond multiplayer leaderboards, including:

* LCPD Police Blotter — A virtual map and tracker of single-player
criminal activity logged in Liberty City from the aggregated data of
millions of connected players - showing the most dangerous areas of
town, most commonly used weapons and more.

* The Story Gang — This special single-player leaderboard recognizes
players who complete Niko Bellic’s main story arc of Grand Theft Auto IV
- The leaderboard ranks players according to the total amount of playing
time it’s taken to complete the story, as well as a historical rank by
who has completed it first.  Members of this club will receive special
online widgets and merit badges marking all of their in-game
accomplishments.

* The 100% Club — Watch to see who will be the first to complete 100%
of the game. The first ten people to be identified on the Social Club as
reaching 100% will be sent an ultra-rare commemorative ‘key to the city’
to mark their accomplishment.  In the future, the 100% Club will then
carry a historical leaderboard showing rankings of who has completed
100% of a game in the shortest span of playing hours.

* The Hall of Fame — This area will dynamically recognize those
singularly elite players who have reached the top of the hill on various
statistical leaderboards, and will also contain a personal awards
display of special in-game landmarks and successes in Social Club
competitions.

* The Liberty City Marathon — A ranking of special physical milestones
achieved in the game - from the amount of miles walked, driven, or swam
- to the number of bullets fired and stunt-jumps jumped.  There will be
additional special marathon-based competitions in the future from this
area as well.