Red Dead Redemption, GTA4 affected by GameSpy server shutdown
Rockstar saving some services, other titles retired.
Rockstar is working to transition the online components of Red Dead Redemption, GTA4 and Max Payne 3 in response to GameSpy's server shutdown.
Rockstar reveals final Max Payne 3 DLC pack
Out next week.
The final Max Payne 3 DLC pack will release on 22nd January, Rockstar has announced.
Max Payne 3's Painful Memories DLC due next week
Revisit Max's past in multiplayer.
Max Payne 3 is getting four new multiplayer maps inspired by the ludicrously named anti-hero's past in the Painful Memories pack. Due on 4th December for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, it will cost 800 Microsoft Points / $9.99, while season pass holders will receive it at no additional charge.
Counter-Strike: GO misses PlayStation Store for fourth week
Digital releases for Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 aim to scratch your multiplayer itch instead.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has failed to appear on the EU PlayStation Store once again, marking four weeks since it was supposed to launch. Xbox 360 and PC players have been able to play the game since August 21st.
Free Max Payne 3 DLC includes Noir Mode
No need to start Falcon out your cash.
Rockstar is set to add a moody-looking black-and-white mode to shooter Max Payne 3.
2K Games boss says photorealism aids diversity, Notch disagrees
Can games do nuanced emotion like Brokeback Mountain yet?
2K Games boss Christoph Hartmann has gone and said something controversial. He's declared that only when games approach photorealistic graphics will they be able to broaden their genre-horizon and properly do nuanced emotion like Brokeback Mountain - rather than the Mission Impossible experiences we get today.
Take-Two: Sales were "lower-than-anticipated" for Max Payne and Spec Ops
Grand Theft Auto 5 is "making substantial progress."
Take-Two Interactive has had a disappointing quarter with its most publicised blockbusters failing to take off as well as expected, the publisher revealed in a recent earnings report.
Chairman and CEO of Take-Two Strauss Zelnick called sales of Max Payne 3 and Spec Ops: The Line "lower-than-anticipated."
Rockstar's sequel shipped three million units, which isn't too shabby, but it fell short of the publisher's lofty expectations.
Steam Summer Sale continues with new daily deals
Max Payne 3, Payday and Space Marine now added.
Yesterday Steam began its annual Summer Sale with a slew of huge discounts, and it's updated the store with a new batch of daily deals - as will be added everyday until the sale ends on 22nd July.
Max Payne 3 cheaters quarantined to fight among themselves
Cheaters never prosper.
Max Payne 3 developer Rockstar has rounded up all those who break the rules of multiplayer into one one Arkham City-like pit called the Cheater Pool.
Rockstar closing Max Payne 3 studio in Vancouver
And opening a snazzier one near Toronto.
Rockstar is closing the studio in Vancouver that developed Max Payne 3 and Bully.
Max Payne 3's Local Justice DLC pack dated, detailed
New multiplayer maps incoming.
Max Payne 3's first DLC pack, titled Local Justice, launches on 3rd July for consoles and 17th July for PC, developer Rockstar has announced.
Max Payne 3 patch now ready for download
Multiplayer re-tuned, glitches fixed.
Max Payne 3 gets patched up today, developer Rockstar has announced.
The update re-balances the game's multiplayer modes and stamps out various bugs, glitches and exploits.
It's ready for download on consoles now, and goes out to PC owners later today.
US chart: Diablo 3 pips Max Payne 3 to May crown
3DS was the only system to show year-on-year growth.
UPDATE: A few more numbers. NPD's Anita Frazier has confirmed to Eurogamer that Dragon's Dogma sold 92,000 copies in the US during May, while Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter Tweeted that Max Payne 3 sold less than 50 per cent of what LA Noire managed in its first month last year - putting its total somewhere below 450,000.
Rockstar targets Max Payne 3 multiplayer cheats
Convicted "miscreants" will only be able to play with each other.
Rockstar has announced a new initiative to combat cheaters in Max Payne 3 multiplayer.
Rockstar to push Max Payne 3 "to its limits" on high-end PCs
Sextuple monitor support and scalable texture filter promised.
Rockstar has revealed details of exactly what high-end PC owners can expect from Max Payne 3 when it arrives on desktops next month.
Max Payne 3 PC dated, DLC detailed in Take-Two financials.
2K's new XCOM FPS has been delayed yet again. The game will now launch some time between 1st April 2013 and March 31st 2014, according to publisher Take-Two's quarterly financial report.
UK top 40: Max Payne 3 beats Diablo 3
Blizzard's PC/Mac game 8000 boxed sales behind.
Rockstar's new multi-platform shooting game Max Payne 3 has beaten Blizzard's new PC and Mac game Diablo 3 to the top of the UK all-formats chart.
Max Payne 3 crew sign-up gets underway
Your squad will be Grand Theft Auto 5-compatible.
Crew registration for Max Payne 3 is now underway as part of a revamp of the Rockstar Social Club.
Rockstar details Max Payne 3 DLC pack plan
Seven expansions due in 2012, plus season pass.
Seven DLC packs for Max Payne 3 will be made available throughout 2012, publisher Rockstar has announced.
You can receive all of the content by purchasing the Max Payne 3 Rockstar DLC Pass for 2400 Microsoft Points (£20.40) on Xbox 360 or $29.99 (about £18.40) on PlayStation 3. PC plans weren't mentioned.
The first new content will arrive next month, just weeks after the game's European console launch on 18th May.
Max Payne 3 map exclusive to GAME and Gamestation pre-orders
Houser 'bout that then?
Max Payne 3's Cemetery multiplayer map is exclusively available at GAME and Gamestation, the retailer has announced.
Buying the game there isn't enough - you need to pre-order Max Payne 3 in-store (putting down a £5 deposit) or online to secure the extra content.
GAME boasts that the pre-order incentive is already proving to be a "hit", and promises midnight openings for Rockstar's latest launch.
Max Payne 3 system requirements announced
New screens show off DX11 support.
Rockstar Games has detailed exactly what forthcoming action sequel Max Payne 3 will demand from your PC rig when it launches on 1st June.
As announced on the developer's official site, the desktop version was apparently developed "in parallel" with the console SKUs. It's "optimised to run across a wide range of PC setups" but boasts full support for DirectX11.
Here's the full run-down of what you'll need, followed by a few new screens showing off the game's PC visuals:
Max Payne comic book series announced
Houser-authored three-parter delves into Max's past.
A three-part Max Payne comic book series is on its way, just in time for the impending launch in the third game in Rockstar's action adventure series.
Published in partnership with Marvel Custom Solutions it'll explore the events of the original Max Payne game and its sequel, as well as delving a little further back in the protagonist's troubled past.
Rockstar boss Dan Houser and Sam Lake of original developer Remedy are authoring the books, the first of which is titled After the Fall.
Max Payne 3 achievement/trophy list made public
Plus, Rockstar hands out a few new screens.
An almost-complete list of Max Payne 3's achievements and trophies has been made public, courtesy of developer Rockstar Games.
Max Payne 3 PC supports DirectX 11, 3D
Rockstar promises "it's not a port".
The PC version of Max Payne 3 supports DirectX 11 features and 3D functionality, developer Rockstar has revealed.
Max Payne 3 multiplayer "crews" carry over to Grand Theft Auto 5
Play with the same people in both games.
Multiplayer "crews" that you set up in Max Payne 3 will carry over to Grand Theft Auto 5, developer Rockstar has revealed.
Max Payne 3 release date delayed until May
Slips to June on PC. Take-Two now expects financial year loss.
Rockstar's upcoming third-person shooter Max Payne 3 has been delayed from March until 18th May for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in Europe. The game's PC version will then launch 1st June, publisher Take-Two has announced.
In the US, Max Payne 3 launches slightly earlier: 15th May on consoles, 29th May for PC.
Why the delay? In short, the game's not up to scratch.
Remedy "proud" of Rockstar's "brilliant" Max Payne 3
"They don't really make s***ty games, do they?"
Max Payne creator Remedy Entertainment has praised Rockstar's upcoming take on the series, and said Max Payne 3 looks "brilliant".
Max Payne 3 multiplayer details emerge
Gang Wars mode to include Payne-narrated story.
Third-person Rockstar shooter Max Payne 3 features Gang Wars, a "narrative"-based multiplayer mode involving mobs met in the game's story.
Max Payne 3 attempts to mix the tale told in the game's campaign with its multiplayer offering.
"The narrative element of Max Payne 1 and 2, and what we're doing with 3, is obviously very strong," lead designer Charlie Bewsher told IGN.
Rockstar adds cover, zoom-aiming to Max Payne 3
But promises core is "very much run and gun".
Rockstar is fitting Max Payne 3 with familiar shooter mechanics cover, and over-the-shoulder zoom aiming.
Max Payne 3 special edition detailed
Includes exclusive multiplayer content.
The contents of the Max Payne 3 Special Edition have been revealed, and it includes exclusive multiplayer content.
Rockstar controls information so games feel "magical"
Plus, Houser on 3D and nostalgia for Max Payne.
Rockstar controls the release of information about itself so its games feel "magical".
Max Payne 3: Remedy was consulted
"They've been extremely supportive."
Rockstar "discussed" Max Payne 3 with estranged series creator and Alan Wake maker Remedy Entertainment.
Grand Theft Auto 4 ships 22 million
Did you buy or Niko copy?
Grand Theft Auto 4 has now shipped a gargantuan 22 million copies worldwide since its April 2008 release.
Due out on mobiles.
Rockstar Games has announces a HD version of the first Max Payne game for mobiles.
The GTA maker did not specify which mobile devices are targeted, or when the game will launch.
Max Payne on mobile will connect to the Rockstar Games Social Club and include the same features as its PC counterparts, Rockstar said.
Multiplayer confirmed.
Max Payne 3 launches on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in March 2012, Rockstar Games has announced.
Rockstar releases new screens.
Looks like Rockstar is finally preparing to take the wraps off Max Payne 3.
Big shops say Max Payne 3 in 2011
Amazon and GameStop prepare buyers.
The Max Payne 3 release date will be 1st December 2011, according to Amazon and GameStop.
Agent, Max Payne 3 "still in development"
Take-Two confirms MIA projects are alive.
Agent and Max Payne 3 are still alive and well at Rockstar Games, publisher Take-Two has confirmed.
Max Payne 3 resurfaces with new details
Time-jumping story shows young and old.
Update: Max Payne 3 will feature online multiplayer. How wasn't detailed. I skipped over this fact earlier.
Original story: MIA Rockstar game Max Payne 3 is firmly back on the radar. And Max has sprouted hair for the occasion.
A pair of screenshots released late last week preceded a new round of previews - the first tumbling from Edge magazine (scanned by Rockstarspy), the front cover of which shows a hairy Payne with a crazed expression holding his head in his hands.
Take-Two schedule forgets Max Payne 3
2011 release looks unlikely.
A 2011 release for Max Payne 3 is looking increasingly unlikely after publisher Take-Two left it off its latest release slate.
Take-Two reveals all in financial report.
Take-Two has listed all the games it plans to release during the rest of the financial year - and Max Payne 3 is nowhere to be seen.
Red Dead slips, GTAIV sells 15m units
LA Noire, Mafia II, Max Payne 3 updates.
Take Two has announced that Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption is now due for release on 18th May in the US and 21st May elsewhere - three weeks later than originally planned.
The publisher issued its Q1 financial results this evening and also noted that Grand Theft Auto IV has now sold over 15 million units worldwide, while BioShock 2 has shipped three million units.
Elsewhere there was confirmation that LA Noire, Mafia II, Max Payne 3 and Sid Meier's Civilization V are all due out in the company's fourth fiscal quarter - which ends 31st October 2010 - but the publisher noted that its guidance "reflects the potential movement of one of these titles into fiscal 2011".
Max Payne pushed to autumn 2010
Mafia II promised in "first half" of year.
Take-Two has pushed the released of Max Payne to the second half of 2010, sometime between the start of August and the end of October.
Take-Two confirms early 2010 line-up
BioShock, Payne, Red Dead, Mafia by July.
Take-Two has confirmed that it plans to release four major titles in the first half of 2010. BioShock 2, Max Payne 3, Red Dead Redemption and Mafia II will all see release between the start of February and end of June 2010, chief executive Ben Feder told investors.
"We are continuing to evaluate the optimal release window for these titles and still plan to release all four titles in the first half of calendar 2010," Feder said, according to GameSpot. "At this point, we don't expect any of these titles to launch within our first fiscal quarter ending January 31, 2010."
Most of these games were originally planned to see the light of day in 2009 - notably, BioShock 2 was originally slated for a late October or early November release. Announcing the delays earlier this year, Take-Two said the games needed longer in development and that it was seeking an "improved retail environment" - suggesting that it was one of many publishers running scared from the release of Modern Warfare 2 this Christmas.
Rockstar using new Payne voice actor
Plus human shield, last-gap slow-mo kills.
More details have spilt out of the Game Informer first-look feature on Max Payne 3, revealing that Rockstar Vancouver is ditching James McCaffrey, who voiced our hero in the first two games.
Online MP, Bullet Time, RAGE...
Rockstar has revealed that Max Payne 3 sees our hero bald, bearded and addicted to painkillers in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Max Payne 1 and 2 for Xbox Originals?
Games listed by American ratings board.
Max Payne and Max Payne 2 may be on their way to 360 courtesy of Xbox Originals, judging by an ESRB posting dug up by Destructoid.
PC and console, "new direction".
Take-Two has announced that Max Payne 3 is in development at Rockstar Vancouver and will be released for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this winter.
3DR "bewildered" by Max Payne film
But Scott Miller also "proud", bizarrely.
Scott Miller, producer of the Max Payne videogame, has voiced first his bewilderment at the movie adaptation starring Mark Wahlberg, and then, er, his pride in it.
Tops US box office nonetheless.
Critics have sullied what appears on paper to be a successful opening weekend for the Max Payne film.
Payne is Wahlberg's "favourite role so far"
"Plenty of emotion and psychology."
Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg says Max Payne is his "favourite role so far".
Beau Bridges to star in Max Payne film
He'll play our hero's mentor.
Beau Bridges, star of Stargate SG-1, The Fabulous Baker Boys and being Jeff Bridges' brother, has signed up to appear in the forthcoming Max Payne movie.
See Mark Wahlberg as Max Payne
Family Guy's Meg set to co-star.
A new shot of Mark Wahlberg in his role as Max Payne has appeared over on Dark Zero.
To make big screen debuts.
Hollywood producer Scott Faye has confirmed that the big screen adaptations of Max Payne and Alice are still on track and are coming along nicely, thank you.
It's going back to his roots.
It's been four years since developer Remedy first announced that Max Payne was getting an adventure on the big screen - and since then, we've heard nothing.
But now the project is back on track, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which says 20th Century Fox is working with Collision Entertainment and Firm Films to produce Max Payne: the movie.
There's no word on who's set to star or who will direct the film, but apparently it'll be a Dirty Harry-style movie with a storyline that will focus on Max's history and origins.
