Grab your leather jacket and suck on a lemon, for the mobile edition of Max Payne launched today for iThings. Remedy's hard-boiled, side-diving shooter costs $2.99, and is coming to Android soon too.

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Rockstar Games is dipping into its vault once again for yet another mobile adaptation. Max Payne Mobile is coming to iOS and Android devices later this month.

As with Grand Theft Auto 3, the mobile version will offer the "full" experience found in the PC release, optimized for the mobile platforms. The updated release will include HD graphics, high-resolution textures, Social Club connectivity, and user-customizable controls.

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Last Wednesday we added 2001's Max Payne to our growing list of video game classics, presented by MobyGames.com.

Max Payne delighted and surprised many gamers and critics alike when it was released back in 2001 for the PC with its blend of solid 3rd-person shooting and gritty noir-style presentation. The introduction of Bullet Time--which allowed players to slow time to a crawl while dodging and returning enemy fire--was brand new, and quite a huge deal at the time. Comic book-style cut-scenes and some appropriately melodramatic voice-over narration blended with the revenge-themed story to create an experience brimming with as much style as gunplay.

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Max Payne delighted and surprised many gamers and critics alike when it was released back in 2001 for the PC with its blend of solid 3rd-person shooting and gritty noir-style presentation. The introduction of Bullet Time--which allowed players to slow time to a crawl while dodging and returning enemy fire--was brand new, and quite a huge deal at the time. Comic book-style cut-scenes and some appropriately melodramatic voice-over narration blended with the revenge-themed story to create an experience brimming with as much style as gunplay.

Today we add 2001's classic third-person shooter, Max Payne, to our growing list of video game classics, presented by MobyGames.com.

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Today's release announcement for Max Payne 3 carried another little nugget of info inside of it: the original Max Payne will be re-released on mobile platforms. Rockstar announced that the mobile version will be redressed in higher resolution, and sport many PC features.

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The original Xbox versions of Max Payne and Max Payne 2 are available now for Xbox 360 as Xbox Live Marketplace downloads, publisher Rockstar has announced.

Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne cost 1200 MS Points ($15) each. Read more »

Listings on the ESRB website suggest Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne are headed to the Xbox 360, Joystiq has spotted.

This points to likely releases as downloable Xbox Originals, especially considering Remedy Entertainment's explodalicious noir-tinged third-person shooters are playable on the 360 through backwards compatibility--a prerequisite for an Originals release. Read more »

The Mark Wahlberg-starring, John Moore-directed Max Payne feature film will arrive in DVD and Blu-ray form come January 20, High-Def Digest reports.

Released to theaters on October 17, the game-inspired flick was panned by reviewers, but topped the box office during its first weekend. Overall, the movie is said to have grossed $40 million in the domestic box office. Read more »

Despite some intial harsh words, 3D Realms founder and original Max Payne producer Scott Miller says he is "proud of this film" and believes it is one of "the best game-to-film efforts we've seen in the industry."

"Along with the first Tomb Raider, I think it's hard to argue that Max Payne isn't one of the best two adaptations yet," he explained to Edge Online. "This kind of opening [hitting number one at the box office] brings us a lot closer to the reality of a sequel." Read more »

As head of the studio that took a producer-like role in the original Max Payne, 3D Realms CEO Scott Miller knows Max very well. And he didn't exactly like the film, not unlike the zillions of Americans who paid a combined $18 million to see it and hated it.

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Despite panning reviews and an average rating of 3.7 / 10 on aggregate review site RottenTomatoes, the feature film adaption of the Max Payne video game series topped this weekend's North American box office by pulling in about $18 million.

According to estimates from analyst group Media By Numbers, the North American box office revenues for the weeekend's top 12 films were as follows: Read more »

Reviews for the Mark Wahlberg-starring Max Payne feature film adaptation have started coming in prior to the movie's October 17 debut, and despite some earlier praise, the results aren't pretty.

"I suffered through it, and you shouldn't have to...Nobody comes out of this thing looking good," reads Latauro's Aint It Cool News review, which later labels the film as "the year's most socially reckless movie" due to a plot twist near its end. Read more »

Chicago residents had the chance earlier today to meet up with Max Payne film stars Chris "Ludacris" Bridges and Mark "Animal Talker" Wahlberg, who were on hand to unveil local street artwork inspired by the upcoming movie.

Urban artists Zore, Rawfa, and Rogue have created three unique works in the Max Payne style that will be located throughout the city for a limited time. Wahlberg and Bridges showed up for a brief premiere of the pieces. Read more »

Valve today announced that the entire Rockstar Games collection will be discounted by 50% for this weekend only.

That puts the cost of Max Payne and Max Payne 2--the acclaimed slow-motion shooters from developer Remedy Entertainment--at only $5 apiece, or $7.50 for the two-game bundle. Read more »

Max Payne film director John Moore has won his battle with the Motion Picture Association of America to secure a financially-advantageous PG-13 rating for the movie. The violent video game adaptation starring Mark Wahlberg had initially been rated R by the MPAA. Following the decision, director Moore used strong language in a complaint to DasGamer while arguing the R rating was unjust when comparing Max Payne to similarly intense blockbusters.

"The Motion Picture Association of America gave The Dark Knight a PG-13 rating and basically sucked Warner Bros.' cock," said Moore at the time. Read more »