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The subscription-free MMO Guild Wars has reached its fourth birthday, and now ArenaNet is even more happy to reveal its sold over 6 million copies.

Shifting that many copies has proven the free-to-play model is "a big hit with gamers," says studio boss Mike O'Brien. Let good times be free.

THQ has informed Strategy Informer that the release date for Red Faction: Guerrilla has been moved forward a week, giving it a new date of Friday 5th June, 2009.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world action shooter set on Mars, 50 years after the events of the original Red Faction. Players will take the role of an insurgent fighter with the newly re-established Red Faction movement as they battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force.

The differences between the FFXIII demo and it's full retail counterpart are going to be big, the net has been scoured and an evolutionary list compiled.

Among things like you'd expect, like frame rate tweaks, there are some pleasant surprises too. Victory poses are "under consideration," better targeting, subtitles, Summons, and more...

American McGee says user-made stuff was around "back in the Doom days," all that's changed are publishers/developers "trying to monetize it."

The veteran designer believes studios that rely on user-content to drive their games "should find ways" to reward its contributing fans, for their time and effort "developing added value."

In what now comes as no shock to anyone, a Star Trek: D-A-C game for XBLA, PSN and even PC has been made official by Paramount and friends.

The arcade title allows players to "directly control a variety of ships" as Starfleet and the Romulan's battle it out. It has a singleplayer, online multiplayer and co-op mode for Trekkies.

Having been slated for a fall window, the whole Acti-Blizz marriage threw a spanner in the works for developer Frozen Codebase.

Now Zombie Wranglers will be busting out on XBLA early next month, players will control a "quirky suburban" tween on a cell-shaded warpath with the undead. No price tag yet.

The F1 racing game will only be fuelling up and changing tyres on Nintendo Wii and Sony PSP this year, next-gen gamers will have to wait till 2010.

So far the Formula 1 people are "very impressed" with what Codemasters are doing, and they're working "closely together". F1 2009 is expected this autumn, featuring champ Lewis Hamilton.

The singleplayer demo will include a complete mission from the US campaign and two multiplayer modes in skirmish when it arrives.

Eidos and Warner Bros' Battlestations: Pacific combines both sea and air combat, through intense action and strategy. You'll defend against kamikaze attacks, and launch aerial assaults.

Peter Moore, head coach over at EA Sports, is naturally delighted that there is now on average about 2.2 million online sessions played daily.

Avid EA Sports gamers have amassed over 4 billion minutes of multiplayer action since the summer of '08. This huge online trend has "transformed the videogame landscape" notes Moore.

THQ today announced that the single-player demo for Red Faction: Guerrilla is now available to download from the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a 3rd person, open-world shooter featuring real physics-based destruction, a story-driven single-player campaign and robust multiplayer options. The demo features an action-packed single-player mission introducing the groundbreaking GeoMod 2.0 Destruction Engine, and comes just weeks before the June 2nd launch of Red Faction: Guerrilla.