Max Payne 3: Three Million units and counting.

Last week, Rockstar's Max Payne 3 was released for the Xbox 360 and the PS3. The shooter is the latest gem from the brothers Sam and Dan Houser, founders of Rockstar Games. Now, Take-Two Interactive, owners of Rockstar and 2K Games ('Bioshock'), has stated that Max sold three Million units in the first week.

Reported figures also showed a loss of 27 percent over the last year, accumulating a net revenue of 'merely' $825.8 million up to the end of March 2012. Take-Two shareholders however are still smiling, as the corporation expects to make up for it's loss this year around, and forecasts a total revenue of 1.75 to 1.85 Billion before March 31, 2013 (so, in fact even better then the reported 1.13 Billion over 2010/2011), leading me to conclude that GTA V will definitely be released before that.

GTA IV sold 3.6 million units within the first 24 hours and six Million the first week, which made it into the Guiness book of records aka Guiness World Records. (the record for fastest selling game currently stands with Activision's Modern Warfare 3, which sold 6.5 million units on the very first day of sales). All GTA games by Rockstar, going back to the very first one, have been released in October, except for GTA IV, which was slated for October 16, 2007 but was delayed until April 8, 2008 (after the fiscal year ended) due to 'technical challenges', as the official accounts state.

Max Payne Comic.

Completely in style with the first two games (which used comic book panels instead of cut scenes), Marvel Comics just released the first of three comic books about Max Payne, written by Dan Houser himself with Sami Järvi aka Sam Lake of Finnish game developer Remedy Entertainment, the original creators of Max Payne. The limited comic book series titled 'After the Fall' chronicles Max's past, as shown in the original game from 2001 and the sequel 'The Fall of Max Payne' released in 2003. It has great art by Fernando Blanco with stunning covers by Greg Horn. But don't run off to your local comic store just yet, as Rockstar has officially made the series available for free as downloads on their site (a PDF file becomes available if you hover over the cover artwork). Currently only the first issue is available, issue 2 will be available as of June 12, with 3 following after that.