When you think of Max Payne, does Mark Wahlberg come to mind? Yeah, well forget that face because the Max Payne we'll see in Max Payne 3 is going to sport a totally different look. He's older, bald and bearded, but he's still a bloody bad ass. Hit the full article for the cover as well as some rumored details about the new game.

Rockstar Games wasn't kidding when they said this is just a "Teaser" trailer for Max Payne 3 (PS3, Xbox 360). That frozen image you see on the embed below is simply the only thing you'll find in this vid. Well, not entirely though, cos they do show Rockstar's logo at the beginning, as well as the "Winter 2009" mark at the end.

Despite the critical calamity that is the Max Payne movie, the video game arm of the franchise is still going strong. Rockstar Games has sent out a press release announcing that they're planning to release Max Payne 3 by Winter of this year.

More details after the link.

Following the scathing criticisms he leveled at the movie adaptation of Max Payne, 3DRealms CEO Scott Miller did a follow up interview with Edge saying, "To be clear, I'm proud of this film." He noted the many difficulties the movie faced, including Rockstar Games' attempts to stop production after they bought the IP. More in the full article inside.

Despite harsh reviews from both critics and fans, the Max Payne movie raked in US$ 18 million last weekend, easily landing the top spot in the US box office. An impressive feat considering that even the original game's producer, 3D Realms, had some major issues with the John Moore film.

Everybody knows that game-to-movie adaptations never really turn out too well, but maybe, just maybe, with a decent budget and a solid lead actor, Max Payne may be the first to beak the game-movie stereotype.

Then again, maybe not. Early reviews are already out and the prognosis isn't exactly glowing.

In the news today, Uwe Boll was assigned to work on the movie adaptation of Duke Nukem...

... Kidding.

But seriously though, there is a Duke Nukem movie in the works. The project is led by Scott Faye, the producer behind the Max Payne movie. Details in the full article.

The Qmann is back in the latest issue of EGM and has a lot of juicy tidbits to grind in the old rumor mill. Some of these include updates on the rumored Max Payne 3 game that is currently in the works, and word of a new PlayStation 3 exclusive title from none other than the developers of the Grand Theft Auto series, Rockstar. Find out more about these new rumors in our full article after the jump.

EGM is stirring it up again with a bunch of hot new rumors from Quartermann. Looks like we're in for a pretty sweet season: Quartermann's latest gossip includes word on a Halo spin-off coming late next year, a Grand Theft Auto MMO, and a whole lot more. Rumors galore in the full article!

Some of you may wonder why Digital Extremes designed Dark Sector (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) to be a third-person shooter when it could have been just as promising as a first-person affair. In the video interview which you'll find after the jump, you're bound to be convinced that the devs had good reason to do so. Details up next.