PCWorld has more details on the PC edition of Rockstar's shooter, Max Payne 3. Here's a snip from a Q&A with lead designer Kevin Hoare:

What are you doing to take advantage of the powerful hardware available in a PC? As you can see from the specs list above, we’ve worked hard to make sure the game will run smoothly on a wide range of PC builds. But it’s when you get towards the top end of that range that you can really push a game to its limits, and the game will look and run incredibly on the most advanced current machines around at the moment and well into the near future.

You’ll find that screen resolution is scalable, there’s triple and even sextuple monitor support which helps to run higher screen resolutions, there’s various anti-aliasing options, scalable water quality, scalable shadow quality, increased detail for characters and vehicles and a scalable texture filter that further increases visual quality. We’re also supporting DX11 with Max Payne 3, with features including Hull/Tessellation/Domain Shaders (which adds curvature to the character/vehicle models), Gather4 (for optimized shadow sampling / FXAA), Geometry shader / Stream Output and DX11 texture samplers to name a few.

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More info about Max Payne 3 (PC) can be found in the rest of the interview (the system requirements are also mentioned).

Another late Saturday update, people. So, sorry once again. One of our colleagues was getting married so I just returned from the wedding and the after party, which was adequately stocked with alcohol. Anyway, I've just dived into Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and Dragon's Dogma, both of which aren't as, um, interesting as I'd thought they'd be. However, I have to stress that I've just scratched the surface here, so you'll know more come next week.

Providing the voice for what's probably one of the best video game villains ever, Mark Hamil talks a bit about his involvement in Batman: Arkham City (other actors from the game are in there too):

Of course, this is also Warner Bros and Remedey's way of reminding us that the Game of the Year edition of Batman: Arkham City is going to launch on May 29.

Bullettime, you just can't beat it. Max Payne returns and he's odler and chubbier now. You still can't mess with him, because he's the ultimate badass.

Rockstar continues to fascinate us with their ability to successfully create a game that looks unique. The characters are believable and the atmosphere is terrific. The graphics deserve praise. There are a lot of areas in the game that are visually on a par with the PS3-exclusive shooter series, Uncharted. Not many games we can say are graphically worthy of Naughty Dog's action adventure. The quality of the product has been strengthened thanks to solid voice acting and what's probably one of the best soundtracks we've heard in a while. We applaud the efforts of Rockstar's audio design team.

Read our review of Max Payne 3.

Blizzard has announced on its official Diablo 3 web site that they are finally going to release a post-launch update for the action RPG. The update is going to arrive next week. In addition, they are postponing the launch of the real-money auction house feature even further.

Since the game's launch, we’ve applied a number of hotfixes to address gameplay issues, made tweaks to improve our service stability, and performed occasional server maintenance when necessary to ensure that in the long term, players have the best gameplay experience possible. Moving forward, additional server maintenances will be required -- and sometime next week, we plan to release a game update in the form of a patch that will further address client issues and apply additional bug fixes.

We also wanted to let you know that we're still looking into the best way to address the achievements that some players lost in the hours following the game’s release. While we don't have any concrete details to share with you just yet, we will have more information to share in the weeks ahead. We appreciate everyone's patience as we work to improve stability and usability for all players.

Hm, real-money auction house. Can't really say that I'm crazy about the idea.

Triple-A gmes should be cheaper. Do you now think so?