{"id":124575,"date":"2022-04-07T08:56:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T06:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124575"},"modified":"2022-04-07T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:17:32","slug":"remakes-of-max-payne-1-and-2-are-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124575-remakes-of-max-payne-1-and-2-are-in-development","title":{"rendered":"Remakes of Max Payne 1 and 2 are in development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remedy and Rockstar Games have <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.remedygames.com\/announcements\/remedy-entertainment-enters-agreement-with-rockstar-games-for-new-max-payne-12-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> they will be remaking <em>Max Payne<\/em> <em>and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were thrilled when our long-time friends at Remedy approached us about remaking the original <em>Max Payne<\/em> games,&#8221; said Rockstar founder Sam Houser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are massive fans of the work the Remedy team has created over the years, and we can&#8217;t wait to play these new versions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The popular PS2 games will be remade using Remedy\u2019s Northlight game engine &#8211; the same engine used to develop <em>Control<\/em>, and the upcoming <em>Alan Wake 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Remedy will be handling the development of the remakes while the development budget &#8211; which is AAA-game level &#8211; will be financed by Rockstar Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Max Payne<\/em> has always held a special place in the hearts of everyone at Remedy, and we know the millions of fans worldwide feel the same,\u201d said Remedy CEO Tero Virtala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hugely excited to be working with our partners at Rockstar Games once again for the chance to bring the story, action, and atmosphere of the original <em>Max Payne<\/em> games back to players in new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Max Payne<\/em> remasters are currently in the concept development stage and will be made for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X\/S.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are pleased to announce that we will remake the iconic Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, in a new development agreement with Rockstar Games.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full press release here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gx9tuH425j\">https:\/\/t.co\/gx9tuH425j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Remedy Entertainment (@remedygames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/remedygames\/status\/1511808969165185035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to New Tomb Raider game announced\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/124554-new-tomb-raider-game-announced-2\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Tomb Raider game announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remedy and Rockstar Games have announced they will be remaking Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":124577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[1966,15397,1870,243],"class_list":["post-124575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-games","tag-pc","tag-playstation","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124588,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124575\/revisions\/124588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}