Here's the official Max Payne 3 promotional trailer, which premiered last night on ESPN during the Los Angeles Lakers-San Antonio Spurs game. I suppose I should have been watching that, but I was playing Trials: Evolution and swearing loudly.

Where was I? Well, the slow motion and the trails following every. single. round are rather in your face as to what this game is all about. That upturned empty bottle of booze also is unsubtle. But then, Max Payne never struck me as much of a subtle guy.

Max Payne 3 arrives on May 15. This ad is going to be shown internationally through that date, for sure.

Because, well, that's what you do in Grand Theft Auto IV. You wreck cars.

YouTuber InsaneGaz has one heck of an enjoyable channel, featuring hundreds of videos in which he takes modded cars and crashes the living hell out of them. He even hits the Optimus Prime mod!

Some highlights are above, but you can go check out all of the videos at his channel.

(Thanks, Samantha!)

What are you going to do while waiting for Max Payne 3's release on May 15? Well, there's a new Max Payne game out today, but it's for the iOS platform. So if you have an iPhone, iPad, iTouch, iWhatever, you're in luck for some of that bullet time, graphic novel-esque experience on the go.

Although Rockstar has optimized the game to fit the iOS platform, the dual stick controls work just as awkwardly as they do in the many other shooting games in the App store. It feels weird to switch between running forward and simultaneously adjusting to turn left and right, and then to react to shoot down newly encountered enemies. Fortunately auto-aim helps to not have to aim perfectly for each shot, but some of that precision gets lost when bullet time is activated.

Still, it's hard to resist the urge to use bullet time every moment you're confronted with several enemies at a time. Max can tumble forward in slow motion, or evade to the side just like you're likely familiar with in the console and PC franchise. He can rotate directions mid-time-freeze, as well. This comes in handy when you're surrounded by goons. It's easy to get the hang of using bullet time to kill enemies easily and compensate for the weird controls.

The graphic-novel inspired cinematic experience is well replicated in the iOS game, too. Though the graphics are certainly nowhere near as impressive as they can be on the console or PC, the writing is solid and still feels like a Rockstar, Max Payne game. Even the UI tries to emulate the console experience, and it does so fairly well.

Besides during the uncomfortable control style that seems to plague so many iOS games, you'll be reminded again that you're not playing a console/PC title when you see the characters up close. Their blocky faces are strangely realistic in detail, but the overal composition is laughable (in a light hearted way).

If you're feeling lonely from lack of Max, you should definitely consider picking up the bite-sized experience on iTunes, available as of today.

Max Payne Mobile [$2.99, iTunes]

Bullet time. It used to be the thing that separated the Max Payne games' operatic gunfights from everything else in video games. Then it got adopted by everybody and became as unexciting and commonplace as jumping. But, this new video shows how the slo-mo shooting gets a major upgrade in Max Payne 3.

Rather than just a cool stylistic flourish, it looks like Bullet Time is going to be tightly woven into every aspect of the gameplay in Rockstar's hard-boiled threequel. I love that making your gunfights look cool pays off with replenishment of a gameplay resource. Given that you're not going to have regenerating health in Max Payne 3, it seems like you're going to have to master Bullet Time to become a Payne master. It looks like you're going to have a lot of fun doing it, though.

Rockstar today released the full list of achievements for upcoming third-person shooter Max Payne 3, which will be out May 15.

You'll get trophies for pulling off headshots, ingesting painkillers, collecting Golden Guns, dangling from chains, and killing your friends, among other gory acts. Check out the full list on Rockstar's website.

The Achievements and Trophies of Max Payne 3: Complete List and New Screens [Rockstar Games]

We've still got another month before the third installment of Max Payne hits the Xbox 360, PlayStation3 and PC. Why not spend that time reliving the original on the iPhone or iPad?

In honor of the upcoming Max Payne revival, Rockstar Games is releasing a remastered version of the 2001 original for iOS devices and, eventually, select Android devices. This gussied-up version of the original game features HD graphics, high definition textures, user-configurable controls and hooks to the Rockstar Games Social Club, because nothing is as depressing as an anti-social shooter.

Max Payne Mobile hits iTunes on April 12, ready to rock on your iPhone (3GS and up), iPad (any model) or iPod Touch 4.

I love Gav and Geoff from Rooster Teeth's Achievement Hunter. They always find the most pointless, yet hilarious things to do in games.

In today's edition of pointless, yet hilarious things to do in games, the duo launches their character into the air in Grand Theft Auto IV. GTA is known for some wacky glitches that launch people and even cars into the air, but this discovery might be the funniest one to come from the open-world franchise yet.

Plus, it involves jumping onto a helicopter. Provided you jump in the right direction, the blades of the helicopter will shoot you out, likely spinning you around in the process. Gav and Geoff suggest equipping a gun to shoot wildly in the air while doing so, because why not?

Back when Jenna Jameson was still doing porn, she appeared in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as blue movie actress Candy Suxxx. As recount in the new book Jacked, Jameson showed up to the recording session with her father.

For the session, Jameson was motion captured as she was on her back, feigning intercourse.

Vice City developers Dan Houser and Navid Khonsari were apparently uncomfortable with the notion of Jameson faking an orgasm in front of her dad. Khonsari is quoted as telling Dan that he didn't have a problem with her father, but he did not feel comfortable asking her to moan and groan as if she was having sex.

When it came time for Jameson to record her orgasm, Houser awkwardly asked Jameson to act like she was excited. Jameson wasn't sure what he meant, and Dan apparently told her to act like she was really happy or having a great time or eating a chocolate bar.

Jameson asked if she was supposed to act like she was eating a chocolate bar or like she was having sex. Houser told her to act like she was having sex, and they nailed the scene, in front of pops and all.

For more on Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto, read Kotaku's previous coverage.