It’s been years since we’ve seen Max Payne hit the consoles or the PC. Since then, the property has passed off from Remedy into the caring hands of Rockstar Games, and the studio that brought you GTA and Red Dead Redemption just took off with it. If you’ve been following the gaming websites, there has been a lot of anticipation leading up to this release, the first on this generation of consoles. Through the promotional campaign Rockstar promised nothing short of reinventing the genre with this shooter. Does this one live up to the legacy set up by Remedy or does it miss the target and become one of many bland modern day third-person action games?

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Developer:MachineWorks Northwest

Today’s Free App of the Day is a classic first-person shooter: Duke Nukem 3D

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By developer FuturLab Limited, a new PlayStation Mini games comes in the form of a shoot ‘em up named Velocity. Does this break the standard pattern of shoot ‘em ups or is there some sense of uniqueness to this title?

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Let’s start off this week with a little disclaimer. I have a competitive fighting game tournament coming, so this week besides work I will also be training until the wee hours of the morning sometimes, at which point posting news will be pointless (get it, point? Pointless? Yeah, thought so). In any case, I will still try to get the updates up as often as possible and will be back to appropriate scheduling for next week, but until then, please cope . On the bright side, Max Payne 3 review is forth coming right after I get my fill with multiplayer. And now, to the actual articles.

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Whaaat, Theres two of them...Like a pair of kingpins?

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This week on the ParaNerds Podcast: The Paranerds haven’t had anything new to play. Kevin complains aobut how frustrating Devil May Cry is and that’s all the games. They also read fan mail, go over new releases and news (see below) from this past week. Serge stops by to speak about The Walking Dead: Episode 1, May Payne 3 and Spec Ops: the Line while Kevin and Rooster discuss Minecraft for the Xbox 360.

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Among a few announcements revealed today we also have one for ourselves. I am working on a new logo to better present this little endeavor of mine for the future installments. Still no news on when the logo will make it’s way onto the article, but it’s soon. Trust me… I’m a doctor. In all seriousness though, we get two solid release dates for two games you should be excited about, a couple of big name trailers hitting the net as well as some financial stuff you probably don’t really care about anyways but we’ll still tell you. All of this and more happened today in gaming. (continue reading…)