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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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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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It's long been a subject of fan speculation as to how much Rockstar Games changed Grand Theft Auto III in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. In the decade-plus since GTA III came out, rumors have abounded: cut sequences where planes hit buildings, a supposedly removed pair of Twin Towers-style skyscrapers and the erasure of children and school buses. More »
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The hardest thing at the end of the year is to parse yourself from the hype you're experiencing and think back to the games you played during the summer, the spring, and yes, 2011's early months. More »
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You might be celebrating GTA III's 10th Anniversary by playing it on your iOS or Android device, with that version freshly out today. Rockstar's celebrating in a different way, though. On their official site, the developer's revealing all kinds of trivia and minutiae about the open-world crime game that put them on the map. 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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For winning the Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition PSN event Rockstar Games held on November 18, Florida's Alvin Ogando walked away with a pair of custom PlayStation 3 controllers that look like someone tossed them in a clothes dryer with a black Sharpie. Congratulations? 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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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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There's a theory, spun by Grand Theft Auto super-fans, that an actor named Ned Luke is the man behind the gravelly voice we heard in the debut trailer for Grand Theft Auto V. More »
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Could Grand Theft Auto V star CJ from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Tommy Vercetti from GTA: Vice City and Nico from GTA IV? More »
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The next Grand Theft Auto will be the "largest and most ambitious" game ever made by Rockstar, the company behind Red Dead Redemption, Bully, and, oh yeah, Grand Theft Auto, said today, one day after dominating the gaming Internet with the debut of the trailer for GTA V. More »
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Squint at the Grand Theft Auto V trailer closely and you might puck up some interesting details. We did. More »
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Here it is: The official Grand Theft Auto V trailer. Was it worth the wait? More »
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For your typical Western game developer, first-person shooters are bread and butter. Rockstar Games is not your typical Western game developer. More »
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Women in Grand Theft Auto games have had many roles. Mom. Girlfriend. Nightclub manager. Criminal. More »
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A decade ago, Rockstar Games was trying to be funny. More »
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Above is the first trailer for GTA IV. Remember that? It came out at the end of March 2007 and answered questions about the next GTA, even as it raised a bunch of new ones. It showed graphics that shamed its contemporaries, revealed Liberty City (aka New York City) as the location and introduced us to the captivating lead character Niko Bellic. More »
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Strengthening long-standing rumors for years that the next Grand Theft Auto would be set in Los Angeles or a fictional version thereof, a source familiar with the game told Kotaku today that those rumors are true. GTA V will be set in some version of L.A., bringing the famous franchise to a place that last got the GTA treatment in the series' top-selling Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. (So much for our other dream GTA V cities.) More »
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Grand Theft Auto is a franchise driven by stories, with a massive cast of characters and nearly endless replayability. But the thing that most distinguishes one Grand Theft Auto from the next is Rockstar's glorious, subversive take on each of the games' settings. More »
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In a year full of headlines about Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, it's possible to think that the forces that shape the future of what we'll play and where we'll play it is now solely in the hands of the people who make plastic and metal boxes. Or maybe it's in the hands of the platform makers, not just the architects of the 3DS, the iPad, the Kinect, the PlayStation 3, but also people like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, get to call the shots. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5853129&view=rss&microfeed=true Yesterday we reported that the 10th anniversary Grand Theft Auto III will be for iPad 2, iPhone 4S and other cutting-edge devices. What of older iPads/iPhones? Rockstar tells us they'll bring it to "single core iOS devices in the future." More »
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Rockstar Games revealed today that it would be honoring Grand Theft Auto III's 10th anniversary with a special edition. Later this fall, it's coming to an array of portable devices for Android, but fewer ones for iOS. 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 »
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Before he died of dysentery, commenter Fernando Jorge had a rather fine idea about the rebirth of a classic educational PC game, and he knew just the developer to handle it. More »
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Evidence of Rockstar Games reissuing crime thriller L.A. Noire later this year in the form of a "Complete Edition" has reportedly been spotted by Eurogamer Czech. That apparent re-release and the PC version of Team Bondi's game are supposedly slated for November. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5843430&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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The March 2012 arrival of Max Payne 3 may be today's biggest Rockstar Games news, but fans of the original, Remedy Entertainment-developed game may delight in "a new way to enjoy the classic Max Payne." 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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Rockstar puts a name and a date of the final free installment of downloadable content for its award-winning western, Red Dead Redemption. More »
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There is a new L.A. Noire mystery: what comes next for the hit detective game? Something... but its creators won't say what just yet More »
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