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TalkRadar 6 - 100% more Scottish than last week's edition

Game developers are wrong about 90% of everything 83% of the time. I know, because I’m a super-expert on facts. My dad invented facts. So hold on to your sugary carbonated bevorage, uncross your legs and take your left hand off your face, because I'm about to drop a straight-up 10-megaton truth bomb on this bitch. All the subjective bullshit and “artistic license” that game designers cower behind is polluting the hard facts...

The main campaign of Red Faction: Guerrilla has received its fair share of accolades, chief among them our suggestion that it's one of 2009's most intense, satisfying experiences. The majority of its appeal comes not from story or character, but from using guns, missiles, trucks, even walking mech-tanks to annihilate buildings in the most destructively gratifying manner we’ve ever played.

Sony's new advertising campaign begins tomorrow night. Take a look at what it contains here

We've all seen dozens of lists over the years that recount all the things old-school game designers loved to include in their games for bizarre and unknown reasons, like exploding barrels and wolves that carry gold and chainmail for you to loot upon their death. Yes, these things were weird, and yes, they were ubiquitous in 8-,16-, and even 32-bit games.

Since the concept of the phone 'app' or 'application' entered into pub conversations (even if it was via the low-brow Fart Machine or Sexy Clock series) it seems everyone has their own idea for a killer download that would make them millions. But how many of these half-formed plans come to fruition?

Well how about you take that seed of an idea, bash it out on paper and submit it to Vodafone? If your app idea is

THE TOPICS

Top 7… games that need prequels – listen as we brutally dissect a Top 7 whose author is too sick to defend himself

Wolfenstein 2009 released – and we talk about it for minutes!

Paul Ryan is leaving us! – so we make fun of him for 30 minutes

AND MORE!

At any games show there are always a handful of titles that are so impressive they fuel an excitable word-of-mouth buzz that rises above the raucous din of the showfloor. And things at Gamescom are no different. We've seen an absolute ass-load of games since we arrived, but we're only talking obsessively about a select few of them. And after chatting with other show-goers, it's pretty obvious which games have had the most impact and left a

Prepare for this week's Gamescom convention by looking at the sexy ladies from last year's show. It makes perfect sense.

The debut trailer of one of this year's most talked about films was released yesterday and demanded repeat viewing - even if it was just to decide what you thought of the weird-looking blue Avatars.