How long we have waited for another date with a boy named Max. Hardly fair to call him a boy any more, of course – he’s thick of waist, hirsute of chin and, after a time, shaved of head. The New York City cop has moved to Brazil, times are hard and his body is soft. Of course, he still has his best friends by his side – his best friends being an assortment of military-grade weaponry.

This is Max Payne 3, and this is its first-ever trailer – composed entirely of in-engine footage, apparently.
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Our assembly of the definitive list of the most important PC games of the last 150 years continues! On Monday Dr Rossignol talked us through his first instalment, with an eye for first-personly shoot-games. Yesterday saw a guest lecture from Professor John Walker detailing another fifth of our unambiguous inventory. What classics will we cover today? Ah! We must remember our manners. First, let us all thank Intel’s AppUp developer program for their generous sponsorship. Now, to business.

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Remember a couple of years back when it seemed Ubisoft were using a No-CD crack to make their Direct 2 Drive versions of Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 work? Well, news reaches us via LewieP and Torrentfreak that apparently the Steam-version of Rockstar’s Max Payne 2 incorporates the No-CD crack of the now-defunct Myth group. Or, at least, that’s the only feasible explanation of why the group’s ASCII logo appears when nosing at the executable in a hex editor. Torrentfreak cover the story in more detail. In short: oh dear. In less short: oh deary, deary me.