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You may remember Red Faction. Set below the surface of Mars, it used the newfangled technology and unprecedented power of PlayStation 2's Emotion Engine to allow players to blow things up in new and spectacular ways. Red Faction: Guerrilla is set on the surface of Mars and uses the newfangled technology and unprecedented power of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 so that players can blow things up in even newer and more spectacular ways.

There's fighting talk today from THQ executive Jack Sorenson, who has told Eurogamer that he reckons Blizzard's all-conquering World of Warcraft has "peaked".

Rockstar has shed some light on a handful of the multiplayer options in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Sony has done a Microsoft and declined to comment on rumour or speculation.

Stardock has picked up the publishing rights to Demigod and plans to release the game next February.

If we made a game, we'd definitely base it on Revelations. "And there went forth a horse that was Red," booms the Darksiders THQ Gamers Day trailer. Yeah. "And power was given to him that sat thereon, to take peace from the Earth." Yeah. "And there was given unto him a great sword." Yeah. And a funny suit, as you will know if you watched to the end of the fairly nondescript teaser. If anything, he's a bit like George Clooney in Batman.

According to a report in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a local World of Warcraft player is suing a gold trading firm IGE for damaging the game's economy and ruining the game experience.

Everybody's Golf: World Tour seems like an anachronism: the cutesy graphics, the tiny list of gameplay modes, the three-tap control scheme, giant "NICE SHOT!" congratulations unfurling at the top of the screen whenever you connect well. It's a far cry from Tiger Woods' world of a billion characters and courses, exploding mini-games and Nike underpants.

Those who fancy a bit of Wii Fit might want to order a copy now, as it's already selling out with more than two weeks to go until release.

2K Marin may be developing BioShock 2 for PlayStation 3 as well as PC and Xbox 360.

EA has confirmed the price for Rock Band, following the European date announcement this morning.

Electronic Arts will be releasing the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band in Europe on 23rd May.

Eidos has plans to pop a fresh batch of Kane & Lynch maps on Live Marketplace and PSN this month.

In a post on the US PlayStation blog, Sony has confirmed details of the latest PSP firmware update.

Microsoft may be developing its own version of the Wii remote, according to MTV News.

THQ boss Brian Farrell has told paidContent.org that the publisher's Warhammer 40,000 MMO is "probably still a couple of years out".

Sony's Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has debuted atop both the German and Spanish charts in sales data released by GfK International, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

American singer-songwriter Charlie Daniels has complained that Activision and RedOctane "violate the very essence" of one of his songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

Gears of War 2 will have drop-in co-operative play and a more expansive campaign mode where you take the fight to the Locust.

Microsoft has revealed that Ikaruga will be the Live Arcade treat this Wednesday.

As the shame of England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008 still tugs at the entrails of our eviscerated pride, EA readies itself to roll out the latest iteration of FIFA in the form of UEFA Euro 2008.

It's a busy time on the test servers at NCsoft and Sony Online Entertainment. Patches for the former's City of Heroes and Tabula Rasa and the latter's Pirates of the Burning Sea and Star Wars Galaxies are imminent (or in the case of SWG, just out).

Having announced Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II on Thursday, THQ promptly forgot about it for most of its Gamers Day event in San Francisco, with no demonstrations, details or gameplay footage. Instead we got three screenshots.

BioShock creator Ken Levine has revealed his top five games of all time, admitting he spends rather too much time playing one of them: World of Warcraft.

Japanese publisher AQ Interactive has unveiled a fresh rhythm game for Wii called The World of Golden Eggs: Nori Nori Rhythm-kei.

If you're going to play Serious Sam, Croteam's riotous PC/Xbox FPS, through to completion, it's hardly going to leave you with any thorny existential questions to ponder. It's a game that's giddying in its simplicity. Several billion (well, many dozen) enemies spawn and charge/shoot at you, and you shoot back at them, endlessly circle-strafing and pumping the trigger in a gloriously dumb haze of gunfire and death yelps. And that's it, over and over, for the entire game. Zero subtlety. Minimal variation. On paper, it's deafeningly flat. It's the action-hero equivalent of LOLspeak. So, if you play Serious Sam through to completion, you are actually left with something to ponder: what the hell am I doing?

Moderators on the official Alan Wake forums have clarified that they have no idea when the media "blackout" on the title will end.

The Trinity upgrade for EVE came at exactly the right moment - a moment at which thousands of gamers had started to realise that the seemingly perpetually beautiful space game was looking a bit more like something made out of cardboard. Now, on the other side of a massive visual overhaul, it is once again the most beautiful vision of bleak interstellar warfare that the world has ever seen. Sure, it doesn't quite run so smoothly on all our clunky old PCs, but you can always flick it back to the "classic" visual theme if you're having problems.

These days there's always an elephant in the room. If you're making an MMO it's World of Warcraft. If you're making a shooter it's Halo. If you're making a fuss it's Naomi Campbell. Pity poor Planet Moon, then, because Battle of the Bands is up against industry super-elephants Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

The organisers of Nottingham's GameCity festival have announced the dates for this year's event: Thursday 30th October to Saturday 1st November 2008.