Max Payne film appears to be coming after all. The teaser is here.

My first impression of this something along the lines of "it doesn't seem to have a shred of the famous Finnish melancholy". One of the reasons I liked MP1 and MP2 was that they were depressing in a positive way - this place is f'ing dark, life sucks, but if you look at the stuff around you you'll also see funny things (starting, of course, from the very concept that the whole games are so angsty in the over-the-top way).

And, uh, the music is wrong.

Oh well, I guess I'll end up watching it anyway. And I hope Payne and Redemption, if it eventually comes, will do a Maxpaynesque film a bit better. =)

Glest, which I found some time ago, seems like an interesting game. The open source world could certainly use a few good real-time strategy games, especially ones with cute dragons.

A few things seem to speak against Glest right now: While the game seems decent, it's not exactly polished what comes to the user interface. For some reason, from general playability point of view, there seems to be some sort of... well, one could call it apathy. I guess the game core is important, but the rest of the game user interface seems just boring. When you start the game up, you get logo and web site URL. Yawn. Boring fonts. Loading screen is one of those "technical" kinds where boring-font text shows that boring files are being slowly heaved into the computer memory from the disk. Compare this to, say, Wesnoth: Thrilling title screens! Nice buttons all around! Progress bars, while a bit boring, aren't aesthetically dubious, and you don't need to suffer from filenameitis.

Another is that it doesn't really run on the old comp with GeForce 2 MX. And Mac install is... well, really difficult - it's not an .app you can drag to the Applications and remove by dragging it to trash, like Wesnoth - I hate games that have to be scrubbed.

But aside of technical problems, I really hope all of the best for the developers - it certainly looks like a promising game.