Max Payne 3 screenshots show multiplayer combat

The latest Max Payne 3 screenshots give us our first look at the new multiplayer mode, as season favourites MaxPayneDev3, 4 and 5 take on blue team underdogs MaxPayneDev7, 8 and 9. It’s weird to see nametags floating over people’s heads in a Max Payne game, but it looks as though we’ll be able to dive through things and over things with the same dexterity as Payne himself in multiplayer

The closest comparison I can think to how the whole thing might work is John Woo’s Stranglehold, and that was completely bonkers. You could swing from chandeliers and run up and down dinosaur spines in slow motion shooting each other. Max Payne 3 is likely to take a much more serious tone judging from the screenshots below.



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Rumor: The Wii U Might Become A Fully Functional E-Reader

This report comes from a guy who knows a guy, so get your grains of salt ready, but it all does sound very reasonable, especially when you consider that Nintendo does have plans to expand the Wii U's virtual offerings beyond games.

According to forgetthebox.net, Nintendo is planning to make the Wii U an e-reader capable of downloading books, magazines, and more interestingly, strategy guides and instruction booklets. According to the blog, Nintendo is planning to allow the 3DS to share similar services. In fact, you may be able to download digital versions of magazines you are already subscribed to, and the system could download the latest issues as soon as they become available without any prompting from the user.

The idea of logging into the Virtual Console store and downloading games that come with an electronic version of the booklets that used to come with classic games is very exciting. Those little books used to be the closest I could get to a video game when I wasn't able to actually play them, and I have vivid memories of leafing through them and taking in what little story and hints they were able to add to the game.

This is all without confirmation from Nintendo, of course, but it all seems entirely possible.

Thanks to Brandon for the news tip!

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If Only This Mass Effect Monopoly Set Were For Sale

Unfortunately, it's not, but that doesn't mean you can't look at it and appreciate its greatness.

It's got a custom made board, custom money, custom player pieces, custom everything - except dice oddly. Why Stop there?

You can check out the full gallery here and congratulate deviantART user tommyfilth's handiwork.

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Rumor: Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 Hinted At By Producer

Normally these types of tweets would just be links from a producer pointing fans to interesting articles about the games they've worked on, but this one is a little different.

David Cox, a producer for Konami working with the Lords of Shadow series, tweets links to interesting articles about his game often, but this tweet was directed towards a site with a write-up about wanting to see a sequel to Lords of Shadow. The link was offered with a message from Cox: "Tweeted without comment :)"

Maybe I am looking for subtext that doesn't exist, but that comment about not commenting seems like a hint to me. Or maybe I just really want to see a sequel to Lords of Shadow, and will grasp at anything that seems remotely like a hint. This isn't the first time he has dropped subtle clues about more Castlevania.

Thanks to Aaron for the news tip!

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Nintendo Had A Good 2011

Nintendo sent out a press release highlighting all of its successful sales during the holidays and 2011 as a whole. Some of these details we already knew, but it's always good to get confirmation from Nintendo. Here are the highlights:

Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 were the fastest-selling titles in the history of their respective franchises. They are also the first Nintendo 3DS titles to sell 1 million units each in the United States.The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, broke launch records and became the 45th Wii title to sell more than 1 million units in the United States.Nintendo sold more than 12 million total hardware units in the United States in 2011. This is the fifth year in a row that Nintendo is able to claim this feat.Nintendo sold 4.5 million units of Wii, more than 4 million Nintendo 3DS systems, and more than 3.4 million units of the Nintendo DS family (DSi, DSi XL, etc.) of systems in 2011.The install base for Wii and Nintendo DS is now 39 million and over 51 million, respectively.Mario Kart Wii passed 11 million units sold and New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS family crossed 10 million total units sold since launch.

 

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Star Fox And Steel Diver Miniatures Coming To Japan

Good news all you Steel Diver fans! Japan is getting miniatures of all the memorable submarines from the game. There are also some Star Fox ones, which are pretty cool, I guess.

You'll have to import them if you want them unfortunately, but the set includes an Arwing, the Landmaster Tank, and the Blue Marine submarine. There are also three subs from Steel Diver, but you don't have to keep those if you don't want them.



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Skyward Sword's Mysterious Ancient Hylian Text Has Been Translated

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