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It's Thursday, which means it's almost Friday, which means it's almost the weekend! That's a reason to celebrate, right? Let's celebrate with some games and videos. I think we'd all like that. More »
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Is it just me or does Max Payne seem really in over his head every time Rockstar shows off a piece of their upcoming noir threequel? More »
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Here's three news screens from the upcoming Max Payne 3. Whenever I think Max Payne, I think a trenchcoat diving in slow-motion, a gun blazing from each hand. I guess Rockstar does as well. More »
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You'll have many armaments at your disposal in Rockstar Games' upcoming noir shooter and it sure looks like the 608 Bull's the one designed to make you feel like Dirty Harry. Witness its thug-stopping power below. More »
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What's your Xbox Avatar's current look? A generic t-shirt with a lightsaber and cat? Come on, you can do better than that. To celebrate the slightly delayed release of Max Payne 3, Microsoft's rolling out virtual threads and accessories that pay homage to Rockstar's modern noir franchise. Among the highlights, guy gamers can suit up with the titular hero's suit from Max Payne 2 and female Xbox users have a choice of clothes from hired killer Mona Sax. There's also t-shirts with box art from the first Max Payne and other goodies that you can view on the Xbox Live Marketplace. More »
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How's Max Payne supposed to shoot in May's Max Payne 3? How's a third-person shooter supposed to feel as good to control as a first-person shooter? More »
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Originally planned for a March 2012, Rockstar Games revealed this morning that the game will get a new launch window. More »
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We've already passed on details about the pre-order loot that early birds in the United States will get with their reservation money, that being early access to the Cemetery multiplayer map. Europe will be getting that same online arena by pre-ordering from the following retailers: More »
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It's never easy taking over an IP from somebody else. Especially when that IP is so iconic. Luckily, Rockstar Games is the sort of company who rises to a challenge and rarely lets us down. Although Max Payne has been in development for what seems like an eternity now, the closer we finally get to launch, the better and better it looks. More »
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Rockstar Games has posted the first in a series of posts about the creation of their upcoming action game Max Payne 3. In this one, they talk about visiting the city of São Paulo, Brazil, the setting for the game. Both Max Payne and Max Payne 2 had been set in New York. More »
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Some of the previous looks at Rockstar's upcoming hard-boiled shooter showed off series hero Max Payne out in the sunny environs of Sao Paulo, vacation shirts and all. More »
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People who I've spoken to at Rockstar Games have hinted to me that the multiplayer mode in Max Payne 3 is going to be something special. According to IGN impressions of the March 2012 game's competitive multiplayer, these people hinted the truth. More »
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Other than the ability to absorb enough human misery to fell any three lesser men and not get addicted to all those painkillers he guzzles, Max Payne has no superpowers to speak of. More »
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Max Payne is a dark, brooding figure. The torment over the violent deaths of his wife and newborn daughter are what drive him. And now they're a great reason to pre-order a copy of Max Payne 3 from GameStop. More »
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May Payne 3's Collector's Edition is so limited that you're going to have less than two months to pre-order it. More »
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Lots of people loved Jimmy Hopkins, the squinty-eyed protagonist of Rockstar's Bully. The academic open-world title didn't set the kinds of records that a Grand Theft Auto game does but it's remained a favorite in the hearts of many gamers. In an interview with Gamasutra's Chris Morris, Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser teases that a Bully follow-up is one the things that the developer's juggling in its schedule: More »
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In this "design and technology video," Rockstar takes a dive into the mechanics and game design choices behind the upcoming action shooter' Max Payne 3's targeting, movement, animation and enemy intelligence. More »
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Gameplay-wise, the Max Payne titles get remembered for a few things: bullet time, the iconic shootdodge and using painkillers to refresh health. But things have changed since we last saw the hardboiled cop in Max Payne 2 eight years ago. Rockstar knows this and is tweaking the Payne formula a bit—but not too much—for the upcoming threequel. Two interviews with Gamespot reveals that there will be a cover mechanic in Max Payne 3 but that the grizzled ex-cop won't have regenerating health as is so common in shooters nowadays. Says Rockstar VP of Product Development Jeronimo Barrera: More »
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According to the Rockstar official site, these new screens for Max Payne 3 represent new features for the upcoming game. You'll be able to trigger Bullet Time events via certain parts of the environment and enemies will show individual reactions to being hurt in battle. Natural Motion's behavior system will create more nuanced movements in Max, too. For someone who's horribly down on his luck, ol' Mr. Payne is looking pretty good, no? More »
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Rockstar Games will end an a 10-month stretch of no major new video games next March. Not with the release of the next Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption, but with the shooter I saw at their New York office this past week, the unexpectedly beautiful and expectedly violent Max Payne 3. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5847289&view=rss&microfeed=true The game's bullets are rendered as physical objects in the game. Bullet Time is back. Those details and more are revealed in the new annotated version of Rockstar's first trailer for Max Payne 3. Check it out at Rockstar's site. More »
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Rockstar Games gave us our first look at Max Payne 3 in action today courtesy of a smart, typically Rockstar, well edited trailer. And they it dropped a little more info on the 2012 game in 140 character and less chunks. More »
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Grant Theft Auto IV. Red Dead Redemption. L.A. Noire. For the last few years every console game from Rockstar Games has been a big deal, creatively and commercially. Next up: Max Payne 3, whose debut trailer hit today and you can see right here. More »
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Next Wednesday, at noon Eastern, Rockstar plans to release their first trailer for Max Payne 3. Until then you're going to have to make do with this poster that confirms that Payne has hair and is a sweaty drunk.... or maybe he just has malaria. More »
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When Rockstar Games dated Max Payne 3 this morning, it also released two new screenshots. You'd think it would've released three, because, you know, it's Max Payne 3. You'd think. More »
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Rockstar Games is releasing Max Payne 3 in March 2012, the company revealed today. More »
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Things have been very quiet on the Max Payne 3 front, so quiet some people thought it was dead. Don't worry, Rockstar says they're about to unleash an avalanche of news about the upcoming game over the next few months. More »
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Two announced Rockstar Games efforts, Max Payne 3 and Agent, were nowhere to be seen on publisher Take-Two's most recent release list. So where are these games, one of which was announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive almost two years ago? More »
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In a series of screens you might have seen in the latest issue of Edge Magazine, Max Payne shows himself to be a man of many faces, outfits, and hairstyles. More »
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Finally, some concrete details about Rockstar Games' plans for Max Payne 3 are emerging, thanks to the latest issue of Edge magazine, which may make Max fans feel less uneasy about the change in direction for the decade-old series. More »
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Upcoming action game Max Payne 3 is set in Brazil. Rockstar, the folks making Max Payne 3, are not a Brazilian studio, so that meant one thing: research. More »
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It's been a while since we've heard from Rockstar Games and Max Payne 3, a game that's still without a release date. But Rockstar promised it's "still working hard on Max" and to deliver "news in the coming months" late last year. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5787323&view=rss&microfeed=true Rockstar Games' delayed Max Payne 3 was curiously absent from publisher Take-Two's 2011-2012 release schedule today, but reps assure Kotaku "We're still working hard on Max, and we'll have more news in the coming months." More »
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Max Payne 3 has been delayed until some time after Halloween 2010, according to a press release from the game's publisher issued today. More »
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Take-Two Interactive has a very busy fiscal fourth quarter, pegging four big games, L.A. Noire, Mafia II, Max Payne 3 and Sid Meier's Civilization V, for release between August and October. However, one of those games might not make it. More »
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Originally planned to hit this "winter" then moved to the first half of next year, Rockstar Games' third Max Payne title won't hit until August 2010 at the earliest, publisher Take-Two Interactive announced today. More »
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The "coming winter 2009" release date at the end of this Max Payne 3 teaser video—slick enough to be professionally made, we think—may not be accurate, but the rest of this bullet-filled clip is right on point. More »
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Publisher Take-Two is going to have a very busy—and likely very profitable—beginning to 2010, with a quartet of top-tier releases all hitting in the first half of next year. That means BioShock 2, Max Payne 3 and more. More »
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Following the delay of BioShock 2, the game's publisher announced that it expects to launch it, Red Dead Redemption, Mafia II and Max Payne 3 before July 1, 2010. More »
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The newest Max Payne shoot 'em up features "drastic changes in setting and character design," in Rockstar Games' own words. We think these new screen shots of Max Payne 3 perfectly illustrate how drastic those changes are. More »
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