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May was a decent month for inquisitive detectives, futuristic refugees and toy pirates, but not so much so for the video game industry in whole. This is according to the bean counters at NPD, whose latest North American sales report reveals L.A Noire, Brink and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game as bestselling games in a month that saw significant dips in hardware and software sales across the board...

Rockstar is giving L.A. Noire audiophiles two ways to enjoy the game's 1940s musical stylings. The publisher has announced it will be releasing a pair of downloadable soundtracks featuring L.A. Noire's orchestral score, as well as a remixed selection of classic period songs composed by modern day DJs and producers...

In case you’ve forgotten, 1940s detective thriller LA Noire finally arrives in stores in less than a week – and just to make sure we all remember, Rockstar’s rolled out a new trailer ahead of the May 17 launch. Offering up a cross-section of sweepingly dramatic dialogue and impeccably dressed hard-boiled cop action, it’s a short but slick reminder of what’s waiting for us next Tuesday...

Team Bondi is being accused of not giving credit where credit is due by failing to acknowledge the efforts of over 100 Australian developers who contributed to L.A. Noire's seven year production cycle, but were otherwise left out of  the end-game credits.

In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, an industry insider told the Australian paper he had worked on L.A. Noire between 2009 and 2010, but left Team Bondi before the game was finished. Nevertheless, the unidentified developer claimed his work appeared in the final retail version, along with the work of over 130 developers who have not yet been officially acknowledged for their efforts. To fix this oversight, the developer has since posted a list of 'complete credits' to lanoirecredits.com, wherein he explains...

Above: Is your next suspect acting suspicious? Does he seem paranoid? Or is he just really, really stoned? Watch the "Reefer Madness" DLC trailer and think about it

LA Noire’s next DLC will be all about drugs. Titled “Reefer Madness,” the new downloadable Vice case finds Detective Cole Phelps looking for the straight dope after a deadly shootout with an LA drug dealer. With his always smirking partner Roy Earle, the two will likely face some extra facial-reading challenges as they interrogate LA’s most paranoid potheads and dangerous narcotics ringleaders...

It's finally here. The first proper trailer for Rockstar's long-in-development, long-said revolutionary noir detective epic. We've been promised great things, and being a game published by Rockstar, we've naturally come to expect them, despite having barely anything to go on.

But now, even with just a minimal amount of gameplay detail on show, this trailer has my interest legitimately piqued. Why? Watch it, and then we'll discuss.