Features

• The Beaten Track (Sega's new Racing Studio heads off-road into a world of palm trees, blue skies and mud in the all new Sega Rally)
• Solid States (We talk to Hideo Kojima about the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4 and assess the series' impact and lasting influence)
• Man Of Steel (A year on from leaving Shiny, Dave Perry unveils his plans to revolutionise every single step of the game business)
• Time Extend (It's often reviled, but does Super Mario Sunshine reveal more about the real Mario than the often revered classics?)
• The Making Of... (The stories and schemes behind the neatly Machiavellian machinations and spring-loaded deathtraps of Spy Vs Spy)
• Download And Out (Has the advent of downloadable content changed the value of games?)
• Cock-A-Doodle-Do (Ex-Gathering Of Developers founders take a second stab at indie publishing)
• Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock (We catch up with Tarsier to discover the latest on City Of Metronome)
• Crusading Nights (Burning Crusade breaks all PC sales records. But just who's buying it?)
• Fire Works (Bizarre Creations unveils the team behind an explosive Live Arcade title)
• Exposure (Do the changes made to E3 mean other shows will lose out?)

Including Previews of:

• Hellgate: London (PC)
• Blacksite: Area 51 (360, PC, PS3)
• God Of War 2 (PS2)
• Def Jam: Icon (360, PS3)
• Burnout Dominator (PS2, PSP)
• Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 (360, PC, PS3)
• Virtua Fighter 5 (360, PS3)
• Bubble Bobble Double Shot (DS)
• New Zealand Story Revolution (DS)
• War Rock (PC)
• SimCity DS (DS)
• Valhalla Knights (PSP)
• Coded Arms Contagion (PSP)
• Gundam Musou (PS3)
• Aion (PC)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Crackdown (360)
• Supreme Commander (PC)
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (DS)
• Kaitou Wario The Seven (DS)
• Spectrobes (DS)
• Formula One Championship Edition (PS3)
• Arma: Armed Assault (PC)
• The Sims Life Stories (PC)
• Mach (PSP)
• Trion Cube (DS)
• Ghost Rider (PS2)
• Rocky Balboa (PSP)
• Battlestations: Midway (360, PC)