As you may or may not know, Grand Theft Auto IV is receiving a trophy update soon to help even out the game’s offerings between the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3.  With 360-exclusive downloadable content for the game looming on the horizon, Sony contact Rockstar to see if they could do something a little special in the trophy update to give PS3 owners a little taste of exclusivity too.  The result?  A new trophy type. Enter, the “Ice Trophy.” 

Unlike Bronze, Silver, Gold, and the elusive Platinum trophies, the Ice trophy is a special trophy only to be offered in games plagued by gameplay halting system freezes.  When contacted for comment, Sony’s Third Party Certification’s Manager Pete Cummings said “GTA IV presented the ultimate opportunity to roll out this new trophy type with its long history of game-freezing issues.  What presented the problem to us though was accurately tracking system freezes, because, well, a successful system freeze… freezes the system!  We worked long and hard on our system freeze tracking tools and have been testing them extensively in the SOCOM: Confrontation beta, the PS Home beta, and lately in the Resistance 2 beta.  We felt that as the tool matured, we could use it to help the community embrace faulty software.  You know, to take the sting off software crashing on our system.  We think the folks out there that are fully addicted to trophies and achievements will eat this sh*t up!”

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