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Rum and gun
Max Payne 3 (X360, PS3, PC/Rockstar) finds the titular copper trading a cursed life in a dilapidated apartment for an arguably worse one in Brazil, resulting in an obscenely morbid misadventure that’s more John McClane than Philip Marlowe.
Love hate relationships
Montreal’s Parlovr break up and make up. Everything’s relatively hunky dory now, with their tortured follow-up Kook Soul finally ready for public consumption, but the deeply personal second release was the product of a fractured band.
Sandbox superheroes
Prototype 2 continues to tell a compelling story. This time around it recasts the game’s reluctant hero, the infected, shape-shifting, bodysnatching, hoodie-sporting Alex Mercer, as the solipsistic main foe.
Tilt!
Testosterone-filled wheelie-popping motocross sequel Trials Evolution takes tilting a repeatedly impaled little man and his motorbike to impressive new heights. Evolution is fundamentally the same two-dimensional racing game as 2009 breakout hit Trials HD, except it’s been stuffed silly with new options
COVER: Blood, sweat, tears and pixels
Directors Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky capture the travails of the designers of Fez, Super Meat Boy and Braid intheir award-winning documentary Indie Game: The Movie
Fan service
Long-suffering Japanese role-playing-game fans are often right to complain that not enough RPGs make it to our shores, although this time their voices were heard and against all odds, Xenoblade Chronicles has arrived.
Swingin’ soloist
Local electro-pop lady Mozart’s Sister, aka Caila Thompson-Hannant, of Shapes & Sizes and Think About Life fame, strikes out on her own and evolves from underdog to alpha
