Remedy Begins Full Production on Max Payne Remakes

Here is a brief digest of everything happening in the global entertainment industry over the past day.

• Remedy Entertainment has moved on to full production on the remakes of the first and second Max Payne games, with Swedish actor Alec Tozelli spotted in the project’s cast
• voices38 could not be arrested just yet as the hacker cracked Denuvo in two games and finished cracking the Dead Space remake
• Developers of the Heroes of Might & Magic V remake on the UE5 engine have shown progress and gameplay, with four factions nearly ready
• A GTA developer has recreated the driving model from the first game for its 30th anniversary, and the prototype runs in the browser so players can test different versions of the simulation created many years ago
• Capcom has significantly improved Dragon’s Dogma 2, bringing important updates to the PS5 Pro and PC that launch alongside the Dark Arisen paid expansion
• Xbox has hit PlayStation where it hurts most by stripping away its main feature, launching its own equivalent to platinum trophies for “mythical” achievements
• A Bungie veteran is confident that Gears of War: E-Day was built by both normal people and others, stating that the rest can go elsewhere
• An improved version of Denuvo that blocks hypervisors has been released, causing cracking issues for Star Wars: Galactic Racer and creating more trouble than usual for DRM this time around
• The release date for Stronghold 4 has been revealed alongside a Steam demo, allowing players to try out the new strategy installment before release
• A former Dragon Age leader has explained why The Veilguard ran into development troubles even though nobody asked, noting that while The Veilguard crashed hard two years ago, Mark Darra believes people are still scratching their heads over how it happened