The joys of stompy walker warfare will spread to Red Faction: Guerrilla's multiplayer as part of a new 'Smasher Pack' downloadable content, Volition announced today.

Due to arrive October 1 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for $5 (400 MS Points) The Smasher Pack contains eight new Wrecking Crew maps, as well as the vehicular violence of the Behemoth mode in all three walkers from the shooter's singleplayer.

Snippets can be seen in the first of a new dev diary series about a contest between Volitioneers, where the loser dons "some utterly ridiculous over-the-top hat" for a week.

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PC gamers grumpy to receive Red Faction: Guerrilla three months after it hit consoles will crack a smile at IGN's report that the PC release packs oodles of extra content.

The Games for Windows Live-enabled version of Volition's open-world world-destroying shooter will include the 'Demons of the Badlands' downloadable content, the console pre-order bonus Wrecking Crew mode maps, two PC-exclusive multiplayer maps, plus six Wrecking Crew maps and the Bagman modes from the upcoming second DLC.

Guerrilla smashes onto PC on September 15, with Steam and Impulse throwing in the first two Red Factions for free with $39.99 pre-orders. Thanks for the tip, JediDawg.

Following up on the first downloadable expansion for Red Faction: Guerrilla, which featured some new single-player missions and story content, developer Volition has detailed the next add-on, which brings new multiplayer maps and modes.

Due out September 17, the Multiplayer Pack will deliver eight new maps and two additional modes, Bagman and Team Bagman, to those PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners willing to shell out 560 Microsoft Points ($7). No word yet if the additional content will be coming to the belated PC version of Guerrilla, now expected September 15.

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A free patch for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions of Volition's Red Faction: Guerrilla was released today, bringing new features and fixes to the destructive shooter.

Players will be prompted to download the update when attempting to sign into their console's respective online service, with major tweaks including a new Challenge Mode, everyone getting the pre-order bonus levels, and support for the first bit of DLC.

As an added bonus, players will earn double XP in multiplayer from August 6 to 9.

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With Red Faction: Guerilla already satisfying the urges of pyrotechnic junkies, what is left to possibly add in a DLC pack? Why, more explosions, of course.

The following trailer introduces Demons of the Badlands, an upcoming DLC pack for the sci-fi action title that takes place three years prior to the events in Guerilla.

Demons of the Badlands hits on August 13 for 800 Microsoft Points, or $10 on PlayStation Network.

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The PC version of Volition's explosion-laden shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla will now arrive on September 15 in North America, according to publisher THQ. The international release will take place four days earlier on September 11.

Red Faction was released on consoles during the first week of June. The PC port, expected to see a delay to late summer, was originally pegged for an August 25 showing.

THQ also released the minimum and recommended specs for the game, which can be perused below:... Read more

Digital distributor Impulse is sowing seeds of destruction by offering the first two Red Faction titles for free with PC pre-orders of Volition's shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla.

While Guerrilla focuses on demolishing constructions in the third person, 2001's Red Faction and 2002's Red Faction 2 delighted in exploding environments from a first-person perspective, complete with a terrain destruction engine.

However, Impulse notes you will not receive the two games until you are charged for your $39.99 Guerrilla pre-order--which will only happen when Guerrilla arrives. Publisher THQ hasn't confirmed the PC release date quite yet--the console editions arrived in early June--but several retailers, Impulse included, expect it to arrive on August 25.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 editions of Volition's volatile open-world action game Red Faction: Guerrilla are to receive three downloadable content packs, publisher THQ has said.

The first of those three, "Demons of the Badlands," arrives on August 13. Priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10), the pack is said to add "a destructive single-player mission arc that takes place in a new Mars landscape outside of the game's expansive world."

As for the other two, nothing else is known except that they're both due later this year.

The PC edition of Red Faction: Guerilla has been officially delayed nearly three months beyond the console release, according to publisher THQ. Retail listings for the title had marked the PC version of the shooter for an August 25 release as early as late April. The title is currently scheduled for a June 2 release on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

While THQ was at first reluctant to respond on the issue, the company today confirmed the delay, saying: "The PC sku will ship a bit later then the consoles, during this summer."

A double dose of downloadable demos debuted on Xbox 360 this morning, enabling Xbox Live Gold subscribers to sample EA Tiburon's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 and the multiplayer component of Volition's Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Both titles are slated to hit retailers in June. Red Faction: Guerrilla arrives in PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 form on June 2 with a PC release later on, while Tiger Woods will hit PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PSP at some point in the month.

The Red Faction: Guerrilla multiplayer demo is slated to arrive on PlayStation 3 later today, and don't be surprised if the Tiger Woods demo hits PlayStation 3 soon.

With the single-player demo for Red Faction: Guerrilla having been downloaded over one million times, developer Volition has revealed that a downloadable multiplayer demo will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners on May 21.

The full version of the destructive PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 action game hits June 2.

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These videos promoting Red Faction: Guerilla explain the virtues of attacking chewy convoys and the small comforts of an armed truck.

Red Faction: Guerrilla hits the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on June 2.

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Publisher THQ has freed the Red Faction: Guerrilla demo from its bonds of pre-order exclusivity, to be enjoyed by all proud Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3-owning citizens.

The demo of Volition, Inc.'s destructalicious shooter is available now on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network. PC gamers remain demo-less huddled masses.

Red Faction: Guerrilla is now slated to hit Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on June 2.

By now it's common knowledge that Red Faction: Guerrilla lets you 'splode things real good, but did you know you can spread chaos in jetpacking mechanised walkers?

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It's one of every developers' worst nightmares: pre-alpha screenshots of your game leak on an internet message board and folks respond by saying it "looks like dogshit."

But over a year later, Red Faction: Guerrilla developer Volition has found a way to turn those frowns upside-down, in the form of the "Ostrich Hammer" seen above.

Inspired by this NeoGAF post, the weapon was originally unveiled as an April Fools' gag. The overwhelmingly positive response was all the encouragement Volition needed to reveal that it's actually in the game, as an unlockable multiplayer... Read more

Publisher THQ has dropped releases dates for its major games across the next two years, including Saints Row 3, another Red Faction game, an action game from Dawn of War 2 dev Relic, and its Warhammer 40,000 MMO.

The slide from an investors presentation noticed by GameSpot shows an as-yet-untitled action game, from Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War developers Relic, scheduled for THQ's fiscal year 2011, which begins April 1, 2010.

The sequel to open-world gangbanger Saints Row 2--currently being expanded with downloadable content--is also scheduled for release in THQ's 2011 fiscal year. Volition explained last year that 3 will take the series in "a new direction... Read more

In a double dose of Volition-related news--see today's revelation of Saints Row 2 DLC--the studio's next game, Red Faction: Guerrilla, now has a solid release date.

The destruction-oriented sequel will hit PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on June 9, a representative for publisher THQ informed Shacknews. That's backed up by numerous retailer listings, which show a hard publisher-mandated street date for the same day.

The third Red Faction deviates a bit from Volition's past work on the series--instead of a linear first-person shooter, Guerrilla's a third-person action game set in an open world.

A downloadable demo is slated to apparently slated to hit consoles on April 23, with those that pre-order from GameStop getting access almost three weeks before.

Volition, Inc. have called in Richard Machowicz, host of the Discovery Channel's Future Weapons, to detail Red Faction: Guerrilla's futuristic environment-demolishing arsenal.

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Continuing the tradition set forth by Left 4 Dead and Killzone 2, retailer GameStop has revealed that those who pre-order the console editions of Red Faction: Guerrilla will receive early access to a downloadable demo of the Volition-developed shooter.

The pre-order demo will be available April 3, according to the retailer's listings for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions, with customers given a download code.

The listing specifies that the exclusivity period ends on Thursday, April 23, suggesting that the demo will be publicly released to PS3 and Xbox 360 owners that day.

The open-world shooter is slated to hit PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by the end of June, with GameStop currently listing a street date of June 9.

Lots of things go boom in this trailer for Volition's Red Faction: Guerilla. And you can't really go wrong with a mech as goofy as the one in this video.

The open-world action title hits PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 by the end of June.

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