When Max Payne got released in the summer of 2001, it was a smashing success for both Remedy Entertainment and Apogee. The story of the gritty, hardboiled cop instantly put the Finnish game studio on the map. Max Payne gained critical acclaim…
Celebrate the Max Payne 3 10th anniversary with Rockstar Games!
Here’s one to make you feel old; later this month Max Payne 3 will celebrate its 10th anniversary! Oh boy. Contrary to our titular hero, time moves forward anything but slowly! To celebrate the milestone, Rockstar Games announced over at…
Remedy to remake Max Payne 1 and 2 with Rockstar Games!
“I lied to myself that it was over. I was still alive. My loved ones were still dead. It wasn’t over.” The stoic, gnarly voice of James McCaffrey echoes through my mind with every quote I see of our beloved…
Max Payne games are now backwards compatible on Xbox.
Last night, during Microsoft’s 20th anniversary Xbox event, the company announced 76 new games are being added to the Xbox Backwards Compatibility library. Most notably, the entire Max Payne franchise! The addition of the new games came somewhat as a…
Max Payne 20: Remedy thanks fans with video.
The 20th anniversary of Max Payne is already two weeks behind us. We still have some content pieces to put out and ground to cover, so the celebrations are not over yet! First, let’s catch up a bit. On July 23, the…
Max Payne 20: The theme by Petri Alanko.
Back in 2016, I was lucky enough for a chance to interview Petri Alanko. At the time, Petri had just wrapped up work on Remedy’s Quantum Break. The composer, who’s intrinsically linked to Remedy, managed to capture the hearts of…
Max Payne 20: Making of the artwork by Anebarone.
Today is the twentieth anniversary of Max Payne! To be writing that sentence feels incredible. Apart from underlining I’m getting old, it feels special to be part of a community that is still inspired and talking about this game as if…