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Max Payne 3 has been pretty much in hiding since the third game in the gritty action game series was first announced over two years ago by publisher Rockstar Games. Aside from a Game Informer cover story in June 2009 there's been no official word as to the status of Max Payne 3 and its release date has been pushed back many times.

Now there's actually some light at the end of the tunnel as Rockstar's Twitter page has posted up links to two new Max Payne 3 screenshots with only the words, "He's coming". The shots are pretty dark but at least we finally know the game is still in development. You can check out the other new screenshot after the jump.

[Via VG247.com]

Alan Wake was first announced and demoed at E3 2005 as a PC game by Finland developer Remedy. In 2006 Microsoft got the publishing rights and announced that the horror-themed action-adventure game would come to the Xbox 360 as well as the PC. Then came the three year cone of silence that surrounded the game. Remedy and Microsoft finally demoed the game at E3 2009 but on an Xbox 360 console and refused to comment on the PC version.

In early 2010 Microsoft finally confirmed that there would not be a PC port of Alan Wake saying that they felt the game was best played "from the couch in front of a larger TV screen." This week at GDC 2011 during a panel on Alan Wake Computer and Video Games asked Remedy's head man Markus Maki about the canceled PC port. However Maki still is keeping most of the reasons close to the chest, saying, "I can't really discuss that. I will say that it wasn't a technological call. And it wasn't made in Finland."

One of the founders of Remedy Entertainment, Petri Järvilehto, has decided to leave the Finland-based game developer to join another Finland game team, Rovio Media. Yep, that's the folks behind the hugely successful mobile phone game Angry Birds.

At Remedy, Järvilehto helped to develop the first two games in the Max Payne action game series along with last year's Xbox 360 exclusive game Alan Wake. In his new position at Rovio, he will be the company's new Senior Vice President of Console Development. As we reported last month the PC version of Angry Birds has been released via Intel's AppUp program.

Last week Steam had a big week long sale of Rockstar Games' titles. That included Max Payne 2, the second game in the third person action game series from developer Remedy. However there is evidence that the version of Max Payne 2 on Steam may have come from a PC game pirate group rather than directly from Rockstar.

A post on Steam's message board forums shows what the poster claims is a screenshot of Max Payne 2 under a decompiler. It shows a "Myth" logo in ASCII which is a signature from a PC game pirate group. While it's possible that the original 2002 game had this symbol put into the code its perhaps more likely that Rockstar, in providing the game for Steam users, simply decided to find a pirate version of the title. We have emailed Rockstar to see if they have any comment on this issue.

[Via Blue's News]

It's Friday but that doesn't mean the flash sales of Rockstar Games titles on Steam are slowing down. From now until 2 pm Eastern time (that's 11 am Pacific time) you can purchase and download both of Remedy's Max Payne third person shooter titles in a bundle for just $3.74. It's a 75 percent savings from its normal price.

We will try to keep you informed on any more flash sales on Steam for the rest of the week. Keep in mind that all 13 Rockstar games on Steam can be bought in a bundle for just $42.49 until Monday.

If you like these quick but deep sales prices for various Rockstar Games on Steam this week, we got another one for you to check out. From now until 10 pm Eastern time (7 pm Pacific time) you can download and purchase the first game in Remedy's Max Payne series for a mere $2.50.

Yes, you can check out this terrific third person shooter from 2001 from the developer who later promised, and then retracted, their plans to bring Alan Wake to the PC. Just a reminder: You can still get all 13 games from Rockstar that are available on Steam for the bundle price of just $42.49 from now until this coming Monday.

PC gamers were nearly universal in slamming Microsoft's decision to cancel previously announced plans to bring Alan Wake to the PC. Now Oskari Häkkinen, of the game's developer Remedy, states that the real reason why a PC port of the upcoming Xbox 360 action-adventure game was canceled.

Chatting with VG247.com, Häkkinen (kind of) refutes the reason Microsoft gave for the PC version's cancellation where it implied that Alan Wake was better played on a sofa in front of a TV. So what's the real reason? Häkkinen states, " . . . we're a small studio. We're 50 people, and being a small studio, it makes a lot more sense for us to focus on one platform:" And what about a PC port at some time in the future? He says, " I think that's a decision to sit down [and make] with our publisher... and see where the title goes."

It's been a crappy 2009 for 3D Realms. The Dallas-based game developer let go of its internal development team and got into a still ongoing lawsuit against Take Two Interactive over the 12 years (and counting) development of their first person shooter Duke Nukem Forever. Yet the company's CEO Scott Miller claims that their main Duke Nukem franchise is still very much alive.

Shacknews has posted up some new info from Miller (taken from the first print issue of a new game magazine called Gamesauce) where he says, "There are numerous other Duke games in various stages of development, several due out this year." Miller still insists that Duke Nukem Forever is not dead saying, " . . . yes, we released the internal team, but that doesn't correlate to the demise of the project." Even a long-in-development Duke Nukem movie is still in play with Miller saying, " the Duke film is making steady progress."

The article goes into specifics on how 3D Realms was able to stay in operation for so long without releasing Duke Nukem Forever. For example, Miller claims that they made $30 million with sales of Max Payne (which they worked on with Remedy) and made another $48 million selling the franchise to Take Two.

In 1996, Remedy Entertainment (currently working on Alan Wake) developed an addictive top down racing game called Death Rally. Now Death Rally is being re-released, ported to modern Windows platforms, and available in its entirety for free to download and play.

The point is simple: win races to earn money, use that money to buy upgrades, and put the money toward upgrades to knock opponents out to win more races.System requirements are shown after the jump.
Download Death Rally for Windows (42 MB)

Long before their Max Payne games and well before their current work on their Xbox 360 exclusive (maybe) game Alan Wake, developer Remedy released their first title; a car combat title called Death Rally that was published by Apogee in 1996. Now it looks like Remedy is looking to revive the game in a small fashion.

A recent trademark filing by Remedy states they want the use of the Death Rally name for "computer game software." The Escapist has posted up quotes from Remedy's Oskari Häkkinen who states, "With Death Rally we're looking at getting something neat out to the community by having a version that is playable on modern PCs out there." it sounds like that Remedy wants to get the original game, and not really a remake or a graphical revamp, out there to the public. Might we suggest GoG.com as a starting point, Remedy?