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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...

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...

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...

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.

What with two full desks' worth of content cut from the initial release of L.A. Noire, there's no shortage of potential DLC to be released should consumers show interest in the title – which, with all the hype, seems likely. Now the name of the first DLC release has been inadvertently revealed via a retailer advert. A flier for Best Buy urges potential buyers to beat down the store's doors at the stroke of midnight to secure a copy of the upcoming Nicholson Electroplating Arson Case...

So I made a couple of jokes at the expense of the new Sonic trailer this week and I started to feel bad about it. For one, presuming the trailer’s for an actual game (rumored to be called “Sonic Generations”) then it’s a noble effort by Sega to address ridiculous fan outcry so there's no sense in stirring up the trolls.

More importantly, Sonic just so happens to star in one of the FINEST GAME CINEMAS EVER MADE! Of course I’m referring to the Sonic Adventure Intro, which I struggled to recreate using spankin' new footage from Infamous 2, L.A. Noire, Duke Nukem Forever, Red Faction: Armageddon, and tons of others. See all the trailers showcased in their entirety after the jump...