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Rockstar has said it won’t rule out the possibility of making a new L.A. Noire, despite the closure of IP creator Team Bondi last year.

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Major Nelson has posted a look at upcoming content scheduled for Xbox Live Marketplace, starting with today’s release of the Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Mediterranean Traveler pack.

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“It was a long, painful process, but making games is like making films in that it’s a marathon, not a sprint – and some people come into the process not knowing that – I’d love to spend more time at home with my family and kids. We run things differently now – we have flexi-hours, for example. But everybody has their view on who’s the worst boss in the world, and maybe that’s me. I’ve read some amazing things about Steve Jobs in his biography, and I’ve never seen him get as vilified any way as much as I have. Sam Peckinpah [’70s film director] fired [plenty of] people off one movie, and nobody said a thing. Werner Herzog pulled a gun on Klaus Kinski to get him to finish a movie! Obviously I don’t compare myself to any of those people…” – Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara to OPM.

Sony’s confirmed a download version of LA Noire will release this week. The Team Bondi investigative thriller, which launched in May this year at retail from Rockstar, will release as part of the PS Store’s content drop in the US tomorrow and in Europe on Wednesday.

Rockstar’s maturation this generation has dumped parachutes and defined the modern console market, pushing the company from Mail-bait and Jack Thompson’s favoured target to a creative giant focused on seriousness and emotion. Johnny Cullen explains.

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Just a friendly reminder to those planning on picking up The Complete Edition of LA Noire on PC, that it is now available for purchase in stores, on Steam and through OnLive. In addition to the original full game, the crime-noire comes with a multi-use code to access all downloadable add-ons and cases. This includes all previously released DLC from the console versions, including: the Nicholson Electroplating Arson case, Reefer Madness Vice case, The Consul’s Car Traffic case, The Naked City Vice case and A Slip of the Tongue Traffic case. The game also features support for NVIDIA 3D Vision. In case you missed the PC specs when the collection was announced, you can view those below. The console version will release on November 15. Watch the launch trailer below as well.

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Jeronimo Barrera, VP of product development at Rockstar, has said that during L.A. Noire’s development, the team played around with allowing Cole Phelps to beat the truth out of a suspect.

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Rockstar has announced the L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition will launch for consoles in North America on November 15 and internationally on November 18. It comes with a multi-use code to access all downloadable add-ons and cases. This includes all previously released DLC from the console versions, including the Nicholson Electroplating Arson case, the Reefer Madness Vice case, the Consul’s Car Traffic case, the Naked City Vice case, A Slip of the Tongue Traffic case, and all weapons and outfits released to date. It will run you $49.99/€49.99/£39.99. The PC version lands in stores November 8 in NA and November 11 in Europe on PC, Steam and OnLive.

According to an Edge report, staff at Team Bondi were owed as much as $1 million.

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Team Bondi head Brendan McNamara has said that when it came to publishing L.A. Noire, no other studio was willing to take a risk on the game other than Take Two’s Rockstar.

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Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara has said that cut content from LA Noire wouldn’t have been able to fit on a single Blu-ray.

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Despite all the Team Bondi drama from earlier this week, Rockstar’s released the first trailer for Reefer Madness, the final DLC for LA Noire. The content, a Vice mission, sees Phelps and Earle in “one of the city’s biggest narcotics rings.” You can get the video below. It’ll cost you 320 MS points/£3.19 on PSN if buying separately on Wednesday. For those with the Rockstar Pass, it’s free.

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“I’m very interested in [LA Noire], and I’m waiting for it to be released in Japanese. I haven’t played it yet but I was able to go to the studio where they were [performing the facial capture]. The technology is absolutely fantastic. Nevertheless, for the next game I want to make, it isn’t necessarily the technology I need, so I don’t think it goes along with the next game I would like to create. This technology, regarding facial expressions – that affect the outcome of the game – I think that’s a huge element that from now on will change the direction of adventure games.” – Hideo Kojima during the Gamelab conference in Barcelona via Edge.

The International Game Developers Association has said it’ll investigate claims over LA Noire developer Team Bondi’s crunch work policy.

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Rockstar’s announced a PC version of LA Noire, confirming it’ll release this fall after the console versions shipped 4 million units to date.

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Team Bondi’s technical director, Franta Fulin, has said development on L.A. Noire took quite a while because when the team first started on it, PS3 “wan’t really something that existed,” yet.

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Rockstar has released the L.A. Noire DLC case Nicholson Electroplating for PSN and XBL.

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Further to claims of over 100 missing staff credits for L.A. Noire, an alleged inside source has described crunched conditions at Team Bondi which led to the departure of frustrated staff.

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Rockstar has released a new trailer for the upcoming L.A. Noire DLC case, “Nicholson Electroplating”, along with some interesting facts on it.

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Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia has revealed that L.A. Noire sold around 900,000 units in the US during May, and according to the cited NPD figued, the game is trailing behind Red Dead Redemption by 40 percent.

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