On the heels of the game’s release in North America just a few days ago, European and Australian players can now experience the balletic gunplay, twisted noir-style narrative and Max Payne’s iconic Bullet Time® and Shootdodge™ moves, as Max Payne 3 is now available throughout Europe and Australia.
That means it's time for our European and Australian fans to start feuds with rival Crews at the S…
Starting Friday March 23rd – and lasting all weekend – you’ll be able to bag yourself some multiplayer Triple XP in Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Triple XP is available in original Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare too.
It all begins at 4pm Eastern on Friday March 23rd with the Xbox LIVE Social Club multiplayer event when we’ll be taking you …
Want a chance to win two custom, hand painted and very limited edition Red Dead Xbox 360 controllers? Join us tomorrow February 10th for the Red Dead Redemption: Game of the Year Edition multiplayer event on Xbox LIVE and enter on the multiplayer events page. Even if you don’t win the grand prize, 20 runners-up will win a t-shirt, playing cards and stickers.
Triple XP will be on all weekend, and it kicks off with the multiplayer event. We’re activating the extra XP for both Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network.
A live video stream and chat will accompany the sweepstakes on the multiplayer events page, so you’ll be able to see and talk about the action even if you aren’t able to play.
And watch for us to unveil the brand new calendar of multiplayer events including the first dates for our upcoming May release for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360: Max Payne 3.
EVENT COUNTDOWN Don’t know when the event begins in your time zone? Check above in this article on the day of the event for a countdown.
HOW TO FIND ROCKSTAR Start up multiplayer from the main menu. This will place you into a Free Roam lobby. Add one of the Gamertags above as a friend, and while you’re waiting to receive an invite check out the chat and live stream on the multiplayer events page. Also feel free to play through a few rounds with other players.
HOW DOES FREE ROAM WORK? Free Roam is the hub of your online experience. Supporting up to 16 players, Free Roam allows you to explore with your friends and enemies, take out the gangs of outlaws launch into more structured gameplay using the markers placed around the world. We’ll be forming posses and then heading into several game modes across all of the original multiplayer and the downloadable content during the evening.
To form a posse, press the ‘Back’ button and use the menu. This menu gives you several gameplay options and access to the list of players in your session.
FORMING A POSSE To start the game, invite your friends, form a posse and find Rockstar, follow these steps:
1. From the main menu, press ‘Start’ and then enter ‘Xbox LIVE Multiplayer’ by pressing the ‘X’ (blue) button.
2. Once in a Free Roam lobby, press the ‘Back’ button to open the in-game multiplayer menu.
3. Press the ‘RB’ button and then the ‘Y’ (yellow) button to ‘Invite Friends’. Invite at least one friend into your posse using the ‘A’ (green) button.
4. Once your friends are in the game, press the ‘Y’ (yellow) button again to return to the ‘Players’ menu and select them with the ‘A’ (green) button to ‘Propose New Posse’ or ‘Send Posse Invite’.
5. Once you and your friends are ready to go, start up the game mode we’re currently playing. This can be found in the chat as the event rolls along.
As stated, pay close attention to the chat to know what game mode we’re currently playing.
Again, look out for a brand new calendar of multiplayer events to continue down 2012 toward Max Payne 3′s May launch…
The Classic Max Payne Outfit, Mona Sax Outfit, Captain Baseball Bat Boy Outfit and Classic Max Payne Avatar Tee: Available now on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Represent classic Max Payne on Xbox LIVE and show your excitement for Max Payne 3 with a new range of digital avatar costumes and apparel inspired by the original Max Payne and Max Payne 2 – now available at the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Update: The multiplayer event and sweepstakes have ended. Thanks to everyone that joined us, whether you were playing, watching, chatting or just stopping by to enter the sweepstakes.
We’ve got 20 prize packs to give away Thursday January 26th in the Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition Social Club multiplayer event on Xbox LIVE, running from 5-8PM Eastern.
To enter the sweepstakes, head over to the multiplayer events page and scroll down to ‘Sweepstakes Entry’. Submit your details and you’re all set. Winners will be randomly selected and contacted the next day. Prize packs include a shirt, foam hand, pin set, license plate, Grand Theft Auto IV stickers and Rockstar stickers.
We’ll begin the event in Grand Theft Auto IV and later switch over to The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, about an hour for each. Keep up with the modes we’re playing in the chat while watching the live video stream. You’ll be able to play with us no matter what version of the game or episodes you use. GwRockstar6 will be in original Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer for the entire event for those that don’t have the episodes.
OFFICIAL ROCKSTAR GAMERTAGS Participating Xbox LIVE Rockstar Games Gamertags for the event will be:
GwRockstar3
GwRockstar4
GwRockstar5
GwRockstar6
HOW TO FIND US Again, we’ll begin the event in original Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer. To join, start the in-game Party Mode using the cellphone. Make sure that your in-game Party Mode team size is at least two people. Once ready, head to the chat to find out the mode we’re beginning with, and type your Gamertag into the chat. Another way is just to send over a friend request to the Gamertags above. We’ll do our best to get you in for a few rounds. More info on using Party Mode is listed below.
NEED A PARTNER? Hit up the chatbox during the event or just post your Xbox LIVE Gamertag in the Comments section below.
ABOUT PARTY MODE Grand Theft Auto IV’s in-game Party Mode is an easy way to get your group together and find matches. Here are the three quick and easy steps to get you up and running:
Save your current game. To get started, fire up the in-game mobile phone by pressing "Up" on the D-pad. SelectMultiplayer > Party Mode > Yes.
From here, open up your phone again and select the Friends option to invite your friends (you need at least one friend to play with Rockstar).
Once your team is ready to roll, open up the in-game phone again and select Ranked > Team Deathmatch for this event. Follow us in the chat to find out the modes we’re playing.
SPECTATE AND CHAT Can’t jump in and play? As we stated above you can still follow the event at the multiplayer events page. We’ll have a live streaming video broadcast of the in-game matches plus a chat box so you can discuss the stream with others. Look below for specific directions you can follow to get online, grab a partner, and jump into the fray.
We will be giving instructions and updates in the chat box as the afternoon rolls on. Get ready…
Today we’re proud to officially announce that Max Payne 3, the highly-anticipated dark and gritty action experience that continues the tale of former New York City detective Max Payne, will be available for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 on May 15, 2012 in North America and May 18, 2012 in Europe, with the PC version launching on May 29th, 2012 in North America and June 1st, 2012 in Europe.
For Max, the tragedies that took his loved ones years ago are wounds that refuse to heal. No longer a cop, close to washed up and addicted to pain killers, he takes a job in São Paulo, Brazil, protecting the family of wealthy real estate mogul Rodrigo Branco, in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. But as events spiral out of his control, Max Payne finds himself alone on the streets of an unfamiliar city, desperately searching for the truth and fighting for a way out.
Featuring cutting edge shooting mechanics for precision gunplay, advanced new Bullet Time® and Shootdodge™ effects, full integration of Natural Motion’s Euphoria Character Behavior system for lifelike movement and a dark and twisted story, Max Payne 3 is a seamless, highly detailed, cinematic experience.
In addition to an expansive single-player campaign, Max Payne 3’s multiplayer offering brings the game’s cinematic feel, fluid gunplay and kinetic sense of movement into the realm of online multiplayer. Building on the fiction and signature gameplay elements of the Max Payne universe, Max Payne 3 features a wide range of new and traditional multiplayer modes that play on the themes of paranoia, betrayal and heroism, all delivered with the same epic visual style of the single-player game.
Look for much much more from Max Payne 3 in the weeks and months ahead, including the next video in the Design & Technology Series and the official site launch.
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