Features:

• The Heat Is On (Need For Speed returns, and this time it's powered by Criterion, the studio behind the illustrious Burnout series)
• Building The Holodeck (We talk to Trion Worlds about how it's setting about transforming the massively multiplayer gaming space)
• Battle Stars (The games, the players and their legions of fans. We visit the biggest scene in professional gaming: Korean StarCraft)
• Social Sciences (What lies ahead for Facebook, the social network site that has become the largest gaming portal in the world?)
• Public Enemy Number One (A look back at Rockstar's GTAIII concludes our series of articles focusing on the greatest games of the last decade)
• A Mini Adventure (How Sony's digital delivery system is refreshing the PSP gaming scene)
• Soul Calibre (The men behind the unrelenting Demon's Souls explain its origins)
• Spellbound (A look at the ingredients going into the pot of The Witcher 2)
• Blood On The High Street (The fluctuating fortunes of the best-known name in UK game retail)
• Moving Up A Gear (We meet Beatnik, an indie dev taking its exploding robots into Move territory)

Including Previews of:

• El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron (360, PS3)
• Dead Space 2 (360, PC, PS3)
• Dead Rising 2 (360, PS3)
• Medal Of Honor (360, PC, PS3)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC)
• Test Drive Unlimited 2 (360, PC, PS3)
• Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (360, PS3)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops (360, PC, PS3)
• Ilomilo (360)
• Blacklight: Tango Down (360, PC, PS3)
• Slage (PC)
• Ghost Trick (DS)
• Okamiden (DS)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Read Dead Redemption (360, PS3)
• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP)
• Blur (360, PS3)
• Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (360, PC, PS3)
• Alpha Protocol (360, PC, PS3)
• Joe Danger (PS3)
• Modnation Racers (PS3)
• ChaosRings (iPhone, iPod Touch
• Trauma Team (Wii)
• Bit.Trip Runner (Wii)
• Ivy The Kiwi (DS, Wii)
• Dodogo (DSi)
• Rocket Knight (360, PS3)
• Flipper (DSi)