Xbox 360 Previews

We’re fresh from our first hands-on time with Red Faction: Guerilla at THQ’s Editors Day. We were fortunate enough to have Dan Cermak, Vice President ad developer Volition, to walk us through a small slice of Red Faction: Guerilla’s open, destructible world. Red Faction: Guerilla is the third game set in the Red Faction universe, 50 years after the events of the first game. Mars has been terraformed, and the Earth Defense Force (savior of the first RF) has become Big Brother.

The Baja 1000 hosts some of the most hardcore off-road racing imaginable. In the marquee race, million-dollar cars battle for over 1000 miles, and each year there are reports of booby traps and spectator-created jumps and obstacles - built for their amusement. There are no closed streets - no, these madmen race through civilian traffic.

Just as Baja racing is the ultimate in off-road racing, the MX vs. ATV team is building what they'd

Being a human-abducting, DNA-stealing, everything around you blowing-upping alien invader can take a lot out of a guy. Luckily, revenge, intolerance and indignation are wonderful motivators, so it’s business as usual for our interstellar overlord Crypto in Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon.

Saints Row 2 is not pretty, it is not refined, and it is not realistic. "We're going for a very over-the-top feel," commented James Tsai, the game's lead designer, as we chatted with him at THQ's yearly preview event.

The game is very over-the-top, both in gameplay and story, the latter of which has been criticized as an exercise in tired racial stereotypes and naive views of "street life." James disagrees. "It's about having fun. The

The next time someone says that they’ve got ‘fond memories’ of the original Golden Axe (or look at you in all seriousness and claim that it was “really good”) remember to tell them in the kindest possible way to stick it.

It was bad enough you could complete it using the same move over and over, but it was made worse by the fact that the only long-term amusement to be had was seeing how far you can get

Sega snapped up the license to print mon... er, develop a game based on… well, a load of Olympic events, plainly. Beijing 2008 is set to feature no less than 35 events, including (deep breath, and in almost alphabetical order) diving, swimming, archery, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, handball, field hockey, Judo, pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, softball, table tennis,

First look at the special Aerosmith edition of the party favourite, Guitar Hero. Is it all Aerosmith songs? Do they actually look 60 years old? Do you really recreate their first ever gig? All is revealed inside...

Forget global warming - the greatest threat to planet Earth and the survival of mankind is a green radioactive extraterrestrial crystal that is spreading like a cancer across the entire surface of the globe. Or maybe Deal or No Deal.

“Tiberium is the catalyst for everything, it’s our One Ring, our Matrix, our Force, and that’s why it’s the name,” says executive producer Christopher Plummer.

Where once we played a TOCA game which covered pretty much every kind of racing discipline, we now have a svelte and well-buff racer, and it’s left its past behind. “Hey TOCA! How are you?” we said - but it totally blanked us. It only answers to GRID now. It hasn’t gone all supermodel-thin by any means, but latest-gen tech is being tapped to angle for more realistic racing over sheer size, so