'Max Payne 3' Release Date Slips To May, 'XCOM' FPS To 2013

Mr. Maximilian Payne to be be delayed by two months while we won't be seeing the FPS with little gray men until next year.

In an e-mail this morning, Rockstar PR announced that Max Payne 3 was moving from its initially-announced March 6th release date to May 15th. The move actually places the bullet time shooter in Rockstar's next financial quarter and fiscal year alongside XCOM, the shooter reboot of the long-running strategy series. As an olive branch to gamers looking to pick up the special edition of the game, Rockstar has announced that they've pushed the deadline back to April 2nd so everyone has a chance to get the version of the game with the the most bells and whistles.

On the dollars and cents side of things, this means the company will be reporting a net loss for the fiscal year which ends March 31st. Joystiq helpfully breaks this down, explaining that Rockstar's initially-projected billion dollars in revenue is being reduced by about a quarter.

While I get the Max Payne move by a couple of months, the full year delay of XCOM has set off a few warning bells—it had also been camping out on the March 6th date but it's been a little while since we've heard anything new about the upcoming FPS. I won't place any bets on any kind of lack of faith on the game, but this could mean that XCOM needs a bit more time, making its release date shift more development-minded than related to financial forecasts. Or Rockstar simply wants a major shooter release in 2013—it's too early to say.

[Source: IGN Au]

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