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As the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 draws closer, the hype is starting to build and become frenzied. Every trailer or video that gets released drives the hype and whets the appetite of potential players. It is debated whether the Infinity Ward developed title will break records for week one sales and [...]

This week has seen the opening screenshots of Rockstar’s highly anticipated Max Payne 3. Scheduled for a winter 2009 release on the PC, XBOX 360 and PS3, this edition sees the story of Max move in a totally new direction. A very different looking and desperate Max is intent on revenge and the truth.

2008 saw Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV reach new promotional heights and surpass all-time entertainment records for day one and week one sales. Now 2009 is shaping up for Modern Warfare 2, from Activision and Infinity Ward, to run it very close. The 2009 edition in the ever-popular first person shooter series is aiming to [...]

The shooter genre is heading to the Wild West. This year has already seen Damnation, the ‘shooter gone vertical’ from Codemasters, based on elements of American history. Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, the follow up to the 2006 original Call of Juarez, will take players to the heart of the Wild West with [...]

Rockstar Games has announced that Max Payne 3 will be released this winter on the XBOX 360, PS3 and PC. A teaser site has been put up in preparation for release. The game will follow on from the previous two, Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, and features an older, [...]

After massive console sales, this week sees Grand Theft Auto IV finally hit the PC. A lot of talk surfaced about whether it would or wouldn’t be released on the PC, but after a slight delay from the original November release date, it is now here. The video editor looks a quality addition to the game, [...]

Gamer.tm has, frankly, outrageously good news regarding a newly documented tea bagging feature in Saints Row II. This makes Saints Row II the first video game to feature actual tea bagging, rather than the comical farce that is repeatedly crouching over one’s downed opponent in a crude replication of the true horror of the reality. [...]

1Up is running a rumour mill which indicates with surprising certainty that not only is Rockstar working on the follow up to Remedy’s Max Payne games, but also another unannounced project independent of the GTA series. Remedy originally released Max Payne in 2001, and its sequel two years later – both were startlingly good. Now, [...]

Update: Apparently Microsoft jumped the gun; Rockstar reckons we won’t be seeing any DLC until Jan / Feb next year. 15 hours long, arriving November. There, happy now? There’s not much more confirmed, and no footage, but with release in just two months such things can’t be far away. What’s more, with 15 hours of [...]

There was never a huge amount of doubt we’d be seeing GTA IV arrive on PC this Christmas, but just to seal the deal, Rockstar have made the official announcement. 18 Nov for the States, 21 Nov for Europe. There’ll be expanded multiplayer options, and presumably improved visuals. And that’s that.

� While there has been no official confirmation from Rockstar of GTA IV arriving on PC, the details and rumours continue to circulate.  The July issue of PC Gamer Malaysia has “Now on console – soon on PC” on the front cover. No other details have emerged yet from the magazine, so we’ll wait and [...]

  A recent essay from Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz on The Wall Street Journal website has critically dismissed GTA IV, stating “GTA IV is brilliant, but despite what virtually all the reviews clam, it ain’t the revolution.” “I love GTA IV and I have no doubt that it is art, but an equal to [...]

According to a New York Times piece, Michael Hollick – the voice behind GTA IV’s Nikko – has pointed out that he’s seeing absolutely no royalties on the sales of the game, and isn’t entirely sure that’s fair. “Obviously I’m incredibly thankful to Rockstar for the opportunity to be in this game when I was [...]

Take-Two Interactive announced today that Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV surpassed all-time entertainment records for day one and week one sales. It sold approximately 6 million units globally, creating an estimated retail value of more than US$500 million in the first week. On a related note, Microsoft were pleased to announce that the Xbox 360 [...]

Edit: This ‘news’ item was a fake story posted on www.sarcasticgamer.com. Yes, I fell for it. Sorry. Yes, it’s happened again. Following the infamous Hot Coffee incident in the last GTA (a deleted scene involving interactive sex between the protagonist and his fully clothed girlfriend which earned the game withdrawal from many shop shelves) a [...]