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Originally Posted by wraggster

Max Payne 3 has shipped 3 million units since its launch for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in May, Take-Two Interactive announced in its first quarter 2013 financial report today. Max Payne 3 and Spec Ops: The Line both sold fewer copies than Take-Two anticipated, leading to first quarter results below the company's expectations, CEO Strauss Zelnick said.

Still, "the outlook for our slate of upcoming releases

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Originally Posted by wraggster

ArmA II’s mod monster DayZ is rapidly closing in on 1m registered users, so where does it go from here?
Creator Dean Hall touched on a variety of topics regarding his smash hit with VG247, including what has to happen for the title to go standalone and the possibility of the new version arriving in 2012.
“I want to see it become a standalone game, following the Minecraft model of a low price point, but that will only work if we say that everyone is going to pay,” Hall said. “In order

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Yes, you read that correctly: a video game dedicated to the works of famous musical director Andrew Lloyd Webber is on its way.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals: Sing & Dance will be released exclusively for Wii on September 14th, and will feature tunes from throughout Webber's 45-year-long career.
It will be published by Tubby Games, the firm behind last year's Now That's What I Call Music: Dance and Sing, and distributed by Koch Media.
32 classic hits from 13 musicals are promised,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Patrice Désilets, creator of the Assassin's Creed franchise forUbisoft, believes the first game in the series is "the purest" because it gave players a degree of freedom that subsequent games have shied away from.
Speaking to us as part of a feature looking at the making of the firstAssassin's Creed, released in 2007, Désilets - who made a controversial move to THQ in 2010 - admits that giving the player so much freedom meant many missed some of the game's finer moments, something

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Will the new Ouya game console have at least one shmup? Oh, yeah. Indiana-based developer Rapture Game Studios plans to put its first game, the horizontal scrolling shooter Gunblitz, on the diminutive Android console in March.

Before that console is finally Kickstarted into existence, Rapture plans to putGunblitz on regular-sized PCs in September. Rapture has already released ademo of this PC version – thereby anticipating the pseudo-free-to-play model of the Ouya, and letting you try

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