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#redfactionarmageddon In Red Faction: Armageddon, Darius Mason does indeed open up an ancient shaft on the surface of Mars, awakening a long-dormant alien race from its slumber to kill his fellow colonists in droves, but it's not his fault. He was tricked. More »

"It was an accident" flies for smaller mistakes. Unleashing a hellish army isn't one of those mistakes.

Follow Darius as he accidentally breaks the seal holding back an ancient enemy that could unleash hell across Mars.

Most of us are familiar with the heavily destructible environments of Red Faction: Armageddon, but you may not know about its nearly indestructible motion capture actors. The video after the break features them doing any number of inadvisable physical activities. Someone could stub a toe!

Go behind the scenes and see how motion was captured for Red Faction Armageddon!

I think people would take a lot more bodily risks if there were safety pads everywhere.

Video game music peddler Sumthing Else has announced plans to release the soundtrack to THQ's Red Faction: Armageddon. The soundtrack was composed by Brian Reitzell, whose portfolio also includes film soundtracks for 30 Days of Night and Stranger Than Fiction. The soundtrack will be available via iTunes, Amazon MP3, retail and the Sumthing Digital website starting May 31. Amazon currently has the CD available for pre-order at just under $15.

Red Faction: Armageddon itself will hit shelves on June 7.

New York - Sumthing Else Music Works, Inc. proudly presents Red Faction: Armageddon Original Soundtrack featuring the original music score from the highly anticipated sci-fi action video game developed by Volition Inc., an internal studio at THQ Inc. The soundtrack album was written, arranged and se...

Mars doesn't stand a chance.

I appreciate we all have an important job to do in beeing gloomy that the PC won’t be getting a demo of 3rd-person destruct-’em-up Red Faction Armageddon (I personally have sipped my way through a whole cup of tea while staring furiously out of the window), but look at this trailer! I’m sure most of you out there would agree that Armageddon appearing to trade the wide-open outdoor demolition of Guerrilla for some dingy caverns was a crying shame, right? Well, now it’s looking like a good chunk of the game will be outdoors after all! Come see.(more…)

Recently we invited IGN AU readers to submit questions to Volition to gain some insight into Red Faction: Armageddon, the latest in the studio's Mars-based shooter series that aims to literally break new ground. We whittled down the questions to the top ten submitted via the site and our Facebook pa...

Perhaps you were just downloading the Red Faction: Armageddon demo because you like blowing crap up, but you're also helping to set free Mr. Toots, a rainbow-expelling unicorn that Volition will put in the full game if the demo is nabbed one million times. See him in action after the break.

#thq Remember when we told you that Mr. Toots, a wee unicorn with a powerful, rainbow-spraying ass, would come to Red Faction: Armageddon? Well, here's your official confirmation from THQ who also reveals how we'll get our hands on Mr. Toots incredibly destructive rectum. More »

The Xbox Live demo for Red Faction: Armageddon is now available and has everything you could want ... by which we mean "the only weapon you'll ever want:" the magnet gun. The weapon is anything but polarizing, as you might have noticed in our recent preview.

Beyond toying with the magnet gun, you'll get to reassemble demolished buildings and walkways with the nano forge, use collapsible worm holes to implode enemies, and just generally blow up everything in sight. The demo concludes with a note that says the game will launch on May 31, but we'll remind you that the title was recently moved to June 7.

Meet a miniature magical unicorn so powerful that it lays entire cities to waste!

If it weren’t for my throat being quite so epically sore, I’d be sighing long and hard enough to power a hovercraft. After all of Volition’s trumpeting about finally treating the PC as an equal, no longer farming out PC versions of their games, and generally trying to sell themselves as the PC gamer’s bestest friend, the same old tiresome nonsense is occurring. Want to play the demo of Red Faction: Armageddon, a month before the full game comes out? Well, get a 360 then. And if the PS3 ever claws its way out of its current embarrassing mess, they’ll release the demo on that, too. But the PC? Um, cough.

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If you pay close attention to the new "History of Red Faction" video, you will receive an all-too-brief look at Red Faction: Armageddon's glorious magnet gun. Yeah, sure, you might also learn a little bit about the Mars-roving series but, come on, magnet gun.

#martianchronicles Ten years ago the original Red Faction gave PlayStation 2, PC, and Mac gamers their first taste of the future of humanity on Mars. Developer Volition explains how the three games before led up to next month's Red Faction: Armageddon. More »

Take a quick stroll through the history of Red Faction and how far the franchise has come to reach Armageddon.

If you've got Volition and THQ's upcoming, underground shooter Red Faction: Armageddon on reserve at Best Buy or GameStop, you've got one of two bonus equipment packs coming your way. Check out the trailers and galleries below to see what's included in the Recon and Commando bundles!

I remember the exact moment I was hooked on Red Faction: Armageddon. I was about 20 minutes into a four-hour preview session in which I got to sample different missions and cutscenes from the campaign when I first witnessed the raw power of ... pause ... the Magnet Gun.

It's a simple device: place a node on one object (that's the Attractor node) then place a node on another object (the Anchor node), then watch the Attractor node be drawn toward the Anchor node ... with violent enthusiasm. Among my favorite uses were to quickly bring down buildings (node on roof then node on base, watch it all implode on itself) or to drop large pieces of debris on aliens. You want to put nodes on two enemies? You've got a mean streak ... also, that'll earn you a "Martian dating service" Achievement.

On June 7, Red Faction: Armageddon is set to explode onto the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in North America. Red Faction: Armageddon will ship internationally on June 10...

You might be somewhat upset by the news we're about to drop on you, but we encourage you to keep this fact in mind: You can't rush good destruction. THQ has announced that its upcoming underground shooter Red Faction Armageddon has had its May 31 release pushed back to a June 7 release. The international release date has similarly been bumped back a week, from June 3 to June 10.

The tacking-on of an extra seven days to our wait for the environment-obliterating action title is something of a tough pill to swallow. Just think of it this way: That gives you an extra week to spend with the soon-to-be-launched demo, giving you ample time to truly master your backhand. And, by "backhand," we mean "your devastating sledgehammer arc."

Players will be waiting an extra week to stave off the alien invasion of Mars as THQ pushes Red Faction: Armageddon from May 31 to June 7, June 10 internationally. The Xbox 360 demo is still hitting May 3. More »

Did you know that Red Faction was almost just called Red? Yup, it's true. Volition's long-standing franchise has undergone a bunch of changes since its inception in 2001. From Mars to Earth, from destructible terrain to destructible buildings, from first-person shooter to third-person sandbox, Red F...

You’ll be able to get your first taste of Red Faction: Armageddon this coming May 4. Volition and THQ have confirmed that the game’s demo will be appearing on Xbox Live Marketplace and PSN on this day.

Despite the fact that Armageddon’s PC port is being developed in-house, this demo will not be making an appearance on the PC.  When asked if there were plans to release a PC demo,  Volition’s community dude J Goldber replied with a somber  “unfortunately, no,” over Twitter.

 Aliens are never a good sign. Unless you're the aliens.
The demo will take place in an alien-infested sewer where you’ll be given access to the Magnet Gun and the Nano Forge, a gun that can repair what you’ve crippled with your magnet might.  

"For the first time players will assume the role of Darius Mason and fight their way through Martian sewers and an oncoming alien infestation," the official game's blog post reads. "Meanwhile, Darius must clear his name as the colonists have blamed him for unleashing the alien threat that has ravaged the underground cities of Mars."

Red Faction: Armageddon hits Xbox 360, PS3, and PC this June 2. 

Get your ass to a limited portion of Mars with the Red Faction Armageddon demo, currently slated to come to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on May 3. Sorry, PC gamers, but there won't be a demo for you. [RedFaction.com] More »

THQ will give you a chance to take a brief jaunt over to Mars on May 3, when it releases a demo for Red Faction: Armageddon. The demo will launch on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network simultaneously -- assuming that PSN will be functional again at that time, of course -- but no PC demo is planned.

According to THQ's description of the demo, players will get the opportunity to play with the Nano Forge's destructive and reconstructive abilities, and even "throw entire buildings at your enemies with Red Faction's signature weapon, the Magnet Gun." We'd certainly try that for zero dollars.

THQ makes a swift return to Mars with the direct sequel to Red Faction Guerrilla.

When it comes to murdering Martian monsters, four dudes are better than one.