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As promised in Saturday's epic Red Faction: Guerrilla piece, here's part one of the full Volition interview. In addition to the tech stuff covered by Senior Programmers Eric Arnold and Dave Banarec, associate producer Sean Kennedy answered a few of the more general questions I had about the game.

Following yesterday's news that StarCraft II would not support LAN play, requiring all multiplayer to be played through an internet connection and Battle.net, fans have set up a petition asking Blizzard to reconsider.

BBC4 is making an "affectionately comic" TV drama celebrating the central rivalry in British home computing in the 1980s: between Sir Clive Sinclair, creator of the ZX Spectrum, and his former colleague Chris Curry who went on to design the BBC Micro.

UK retailer ShopTo has told Eurogamer that DJ Hero carries a suggested retail price of GBP 107.99. That came directly from Activision, we were told.

Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells has promised another Uncharted: Among Thieves multiplayer demo before the game's autumn launch - a date for which we'll have "very soon".

Xbox 360 owners will be able to access Last.fm to varying degrees whether they have a Gold or Silver account, but full ad-free access will require a premium Last.fm subscription.

The Chronicles of Spellborn, an independently-developed MMO which launched late last year, is to be re-developed as a free-to-play game supported by micro-transactions.

SEGA Europe's development boss Gary Dunn was "blown away" by Microsoft's and Sony's motion-sensing demonstrations at E3 and "immediately" wants to start working with the new technology.

There will be unavoidable nepotism in this review. The UK games community has got so tiny over the years that only developers who deliberately shun the limelight, or (as games industry myth tells tale) deny their workers internet connections and phones, and site themselves in the arse-end of nowhere, are unknown to the welcoming and judgemental circle of UK games writers. When it comes to UK indie developers, like Introversions or Zombie Cow, they pretty much make you know them. I will therefore admit to knowing Dan and Ben, the scriptwriters and narcississistic heroes of this game. However, as my nearest and dearest will attest, I'm pretty much a sociopath with no social skills and face no problems in offending people I know and like, and so I hereby declare that joyously imagining their weeping, betrayed faces when they see the number at the end will have no impact on my review.

Microsoft Research's Kodu Game Lab has launched on the Xbox Live Community Games channel.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that scoffed at the notion that Doom 3 could be downscaled and crammed into the iPhone and iPod Touch, but id Software's John Carmack has a habit of exceeding expectations and the truth is that Doom Resurrection is a remarkable piece of technology that appears to be pushing the base hardware to breaking point.

Taiwanese site UDN claims Sony has signed production contracts to begin manufacturing the PS3 Slim.

Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X has announced that it has acquired The Pirate Bay (we've never heard of it and neither have you) for SEK 60 million (GBP 4.8m / EUR 5.6m), and wants to transform it into a legitimate business.

In the first part of the Volition tech interview, we talked with associate producer Sean Kennedy and senior programmers Eric Arnold and Dave Banarec about a diverse range of topics associated with Red Faction: Guerrilla, the destruction model and the move to an open world being the key issues. In this concluding segment we're interested in a broader range of subjects, including the physics, the lauded multiplayer aspects of the game and of course, the forthcoming DLC.

Once again - at least until Rockstar San Diego tries to bring the cows home with Red Dead Redemption - it falls to Europeans to keep the fine traditions of the Wild West squarely in the crosshairs of popular culture. Just as Italy and Spain did in the spaghetti western films of the sixties and seventies, now an unlikely collaboration between Poland and France - in the form of developer Techland and publisher Ubisoft - is turning out videogames that capture the grit, machismo and melancholy lyricism of the USA's creation myth better than any American studio seems able.

THQ has announced plans to release three premium DLC packs for Red Faction: Guerrilla, the first of which is due out on 13th August.

Aspyr Media has unveiled PC and Xbox 360 first-person shooter Dreamkiller.

Blizzard has announced the development of a faction-swapping mechanic for World of Warcraft, which will allow Horde and Alliance forces on the same server to swap sides.

Blizzard chief game designer Rob Pardo has said that there will be no LAN support in StarCraft II, as all multiplayer will go through online portal Battle.net.

Ian Stevens, boss of Vin Diesel's production company Tigon, believes videogames are "the Field of Dreams", and that Hollywood needs to start treating them as more than the proverbial action figure.

From Digital Foundry's perspective as a commentator on game tech, Red Faction: Guerrilla is one of the most interesting releases of this generation, simply because the core technological concepts are intrinsically tied to a gameplay experience that is quite unique. I was determined to track down Volition and get them on the record about their techniques and achievements. The result was this feature published on the Eurogamer home page last weekend. But as with our Burnout Paradise tech retrospective, there was so much source material that we had to omit a lot of great stuff. So, here's the complete interview, split up into two parts. The concluding section will be published tomorrow.

Interesting news has emerged this morning from SiliconEra, who have produced documents that reveal that Sony is in the process of patenting emulation of the PlayStation2 Emotion Engine chip for Cell-based platforms. That would be PS3 then, and perhaps its successor.

Microsoft has announced that King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match will also be available on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow for 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60).

The Chinese government has put an outright ban on gold farming, outlawing all trading of virtual currency for real money.

Call it Freudian if you like, but I'm a bit of a wet lettuce when it comes to chitinous murder-beasts that impregnate people with their foul spawn, and an ill-advised trip to the Trocadero's Alien War at the tender age of 13 did nothing to endear me to Geiger's scampering Xenomorphs.

id Software co-founder John Carmack has revealed that Wolfenstein RPG is - and has been - ready for release on iPhone for some time. EA apparently held off releasing it so Wolfenstein 3D could have time in the market alone.

Publisher ngmoco has reversed its decision to remove Rolando from the iTunes App Store so that Rolando 2 could launch without any competition from the original.

Microsoft has announced that French Xbox 360 owners will soon be able to watch live and on-demand TV from Canal+ via Xbox Live.

On Friday, Eurogamer gave away 2500 keys for the next phase of the closed beta for Aion: The Tower of Eternity, which runs this coming weekend. Woo!

The world and its dog may be jabbering about Fable III in all sorts of places, but what about you and your dog? Perhaps you fancy running around Fable II's Knothole Island, in which case you'll be pleased to hear it's the subject of a weeklong price-cut.