Features:

• Play It Again, Sam (Flooring it with Sam Gideon, the hero of Vanquish, Platinum Games' new breed of score-attack shooter)
• The Empire Strikes Back (How Electronic Arts remodelled its strategy in a bit to reclaim the umber one sport in thirdparty publishing)
• Break On Through (Harmonix puts the band back together for Rock Band 3, and prepares to make its Kinect debut with Dance Central)
• An Audience With... (Alex Garland, the write of The Bleach and 28 Days Later, talks about his experiences collaborating on Enslaved)
• Rare Vintage (As it celebrates its birthday, we visit one of the UK's best-loved studios to talk through 25 years of its games)
• THQ's Art Attack (Doodling with uDraw, the family-friendly Wii graphics tablet hardware from THQ)
• Halo's New Battle Strategy (Bungie discusses the making of its most ambitious game to date, Halo: Reach)
• Moving PS3 Forwards (SCE's US R&D chief Dr Richard Marks on the thinking behind PlayStation Move)
• Played In Full (Rockstar co-founder Jamie King explains his new gaming project, Def Jam Rapster)
• Incoming (Featuring Fist Of The North Star: Den's Rage and James Bond 007: Blood Stone)

Including Previews of:

• Dead Rising 2 (360, PC, PS3)
• Halo: Reach (360)
• Space Marine (360, PC, PS3)
• Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC)
• Skulls Of The Shotgun (360)
• Fable III (360, PC)
• Super Scribblenauts (DS)
• Pac-Man: Battle Royale (Coin-op)
• Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii)
• Conduit 2 (Wii)
• Comic Jumper (360)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Metroid: Other M (Wii)
• Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP)
• Mafia II (360, PC, PS3)
• Kane & Lynch 2 (360, PC, PS3)
• Puzzle Quest 2 (DS, iPhone)
• Ruse (360, PC, PS3)
• Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light (360, PC, PS3)
• Tom Clancy's Hawx 2 (360, PC, PS3, Wii)
• Guwange (360)
• Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (360, PS3)
• Ace Combat: Joint Assault (PSP)
• Shank (360, PS3)