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Rockstar Vancouver closing, absorbed by Rockstar Toronto

Rockstar Vancouver closing, absorbed by Rockstar Toronto

Rockstar Vancouver is being dismantled, Take-Two Interactive announced today. The 35-person team, best known for its work on Bully, is being offered new positions at Rockstar Games, specifically the expanded Rockstar Toronto studio.

The plan is to bring all of Rockstar's Canadian development talent "together under one roof." In a press release, Rockstar VP Jennifer Kolbe said that "a single Canadian team will make for a powerful creative force on future projects."

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Max Payne 3 PC specs, pre-order bonuses revealed

Max Payne 3 PC specs, pre-order bonuses revealed

PC gamers will have to wait two weeks to get their hands on Max Payne 3. While the console version launches on the 15th, the PC release is making a slow-mo dive to digital retailers on May 29th.

The PC version will support "DirectX11 including tessellation, as well as a number of additional advanced graphics options." And of course, there are tons of pre-order bonuses, based on where you choose to spend your digital dollars.

See: New screens, the specs, and new commercial trailer »

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'No plans' for Max Payne 3 demo

'No plans' for Max Payne 3 demo

Max Payne 3 certainly looks jolly nice, but will Rockstar let us try for ourselves before we buy? Of course not. There will no demo for Max Payne's Brazillian adventure, Rockstar has confirmed, so if you're still skeptical about Max's Brazilian adventure, you may have to pop around a friend's and play their copy.

Read more: Confirmation via, unhelpfully, Twitter »

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First Max Payne 3 PC screenshots surface

First Max Payne 3 PC screenshots surface

Though still getting ready for a May 29 release in North America (and June 1 in Europe), Rockstar Vancouver has unveiled the first PC-specific screenshots for Max Payne 3. The shots show off an incredible amount of detail, and feature Max with hair, Max without hair, and Max in a tense showdown with a member of a gang called the Crachá Preto. Roughly translated from Portuguese, the name means something along the lines of "Black Badge."

Check out: Max Payne 3's first PC screenshots »

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