'The 7 wonders of Crysis 3' Episode III - Cause and Effect is out.

'Cloak Engaged!' Our friends at Crytek just released the 3rd episode of their video series 'The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3". It's called 'Cause and Effect' and this time, Prophet takes down an elite group of CELL soldiers, combining his powerful Nanosuit with lethal weaponry. If you haven't seen the previous two episodes, I've created a playlist so you can catch them straight after episode 3, so check the player below (Make sure to toggle HD for accurate image quality).

The video series is produced by Albert Hughes for Crytek's upcoming shooter, CRYSIS 3, which will be released on February 19th in the US and on February 21 in Europe (by the way, if you pre-order Crysis 3, you get the original first game with it for free (digtal copy), which wasn't available for the Xbox and PS3 at first!). Hughes has directed popular movies like 'From Hell' starring Johnny Depp and 'Book of Eli' with Denzel Washington. Albert worked with the crew at Crytek, and wrote the scripts, did the storyboards and the shot plan for each video that was created, entirely using in-game assets only and their new game engine, the CryEngine 3.

According to Cevat Yerli, C.E.O. at Crytek,'The goal with 'The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3' video series is to reveal the incredible world we have been building for Crysis 3 and to let CryENGINE take center stage to highlight the power of our state-of-the-art game engine. We’ve worked closely with Albert on this project and think that the 7 Wonders series will show the leaps and bounds that Crysis 3 is making over its predecessors.'

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.

Moby Dick 2

Because the days between Christmas and New Years Eve are always a bit funky, here's a nice treat to squash some of that time. 'Moby Dick 2' is in my opinion absolutely the best online Flash Game I've played in a long time. It's got some awesome programming done by Denys Moysin at Mostro Games and excellent artwork by Mexican artist Enrique Magaña Cruz with Dulce Villavicencio Diaz. Check out the main site of these guys at La Ventanita and Monstro Games.

Have fun guys, use the left mouse button to swim faster and make sure to upgrade when you're ready with the spacebar. But be aware: this thing it's absolutely addictive!