Payne approaches...

The first Trailer for Max Payne 3 was released a few days ago, confirming the release date as March of 2012.

The game has been in something approaching development hell since it was first announced for release at the end of 2009. Being the first game in the Max Payne series not to be written by Sam Lake or developed by Remedy Entertainment, there was always going to be some scepticism regarding the sequel, but this was made worse by the continued delays associated with the project. It was originally pushed back by a year to 2010 after Take-Two claimed it would "benefit from having more development time", and then in June of 2010 it was delayed by yet another year. It was pushed back one more time after that but finally on September 8th of this year Rockstar announced that they expected the game to ship in March of 2012.

The new release date was confirmed by the trailer, below, that was released a few days later. So come March next year it'll be Happy Birthday to Me!