Fans of explosions and things that go boom will really like the new screens we have of Red Faction: Guerrilla. Almost every single one has something blowing up, which isn’t quite what I associate with Red Faction, but it still looks pretty cool.

I’ve got extremely high hopes for the game, despite being majorly disappointed by Red Faction 2. The original game was a real favorite of mine and my go-to FPS on PC for several years, and then when RF2 came out, it ruined everything I liked about the first game and stripped online multiplayer for no apparent reason.

Guerrilla seems like a step in the right direction. Here’s hoping for a GeoMod comeback.

There is a great big pile of win coming to the Xbox Live Arcade in the next 4-6 weeks, including Bionic Commando Rearmed, Galaga Legions, Castle Crashers(!), Braid, and Geometry Wars 2. Joystiq learned the news from XBLA’s director of digitally distributed games, Scott Austin, during some demo time they got at E3.

Galaga looks amazing, as does Geometry Wars. Castle Crashers has been on many people’s radar since it was first shown back in 2006, so it’s certainly been a very long wait for an Arcade game. Hopefully the wait will have been worth it.

There are no shots at Grand Theft Auto in the the new screenshots of Saints Row 2, but they’re still worth checking out if you haven’t already gotten your fix of violent, open-world games this year. The game looks pretty good, judging by these stills, even if the “Pimps ‘n Hos” gang style thing just strikes me as somehow being pretentious.

I’ve already got a pre-order down on the game (because I’m a nice guy and like to help out the people working at GameStop), but even as big a fan of the genre as I am, I’m beginning to feel a little burned out on this style of open world game. Mercenaries 2 is close to being released, I played more than my fair share of GTA IV, and I still find myself playing Crackdown from time to time. But I can’t help but feel like many of these games aren’t innovating enough to justify their release.

The title of this story sure is a mixed bag for Gran Turismo fans. Joystiq got to speak with the father of Gran Turismo, Kazunori Yamauchi, and he revealed that Polyphony Digital is focusing on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. He suggested that the proper version of Gran Turismo 5 might not be released before 2010, which somehow wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

Prologue should continue to see significant support, with new cars, tracks, and features. So there’s at least some consolation for GT fans.

But that’s not all — Yamauchi confirmed that Gran Turismo for PSP is still in development, although you shouldn’t expect that until after Gran Turismo 5 is released. So, yeah, it might be a while.

As a huge fan of Super Stardust HD (I’d go so far as to say it’s still my favorite game on PS3), I was really excited about the news that Stardust would be making its way to handhelds. So even though the video is only 14 seconds long, I had to share the debut trailer for Super Stardust Mobile that GameVideos posted this week.

Given the length, it’s hard to extrapolate much, but I do see a number of enemies from HD, including those blasted worms that grow and get faster if you hit their sides. The interface also looks exactly the same as the game’s big brother.

This game more than any other is going to make me yearn for a second analog nub on the PSP. It’s such a shame that it doesn’t have one, because the platform could be so much more viable for shooters of all sorts — twin-stick shooters like this, third-person games like Syphon Filter, or first-person shooters like insert-FPS-of-choice-here.

We’ve got a ton of media on Viva Pinata’s first venture outside of Microsoft consoles. Fine new videos, counting the one above, and more than a few screenshots should give you a good look at what the game’s interface is like and how the graphics look. It’s clearly not a great example of eye candy, but it remains as colorful and friendly as the original Xbox 360 game.

You can check out the screenshots here, or hit up any of the following links for the various videos of the game in action:

Encylopedia
Romance
Sours
Tools

The concept of a mini, episodic-esque game based on a major franchise is really a brilliant idea. Quest for Booty is basically a mini Ratchet & Clank game that will cost only $15, but still packs the punch of a full Ratchet & Clank game — albeit a shorter one.

Insomniac’s Brian Allgeier explains the concept for Quest for Booty in the video above, which should provide you with a solid grasp of what they’re doing with the game. FileFront is also home to a few screenshots for the game, which looks like it’ll be recycling a lot of assets from Ratchet & Clank Future. That’s not a knock on the game by any means, but it seems worth mentioning.

I can understand the worry some people might have that a developer might in the future leave out content from a game so that they can release an episodic version like this after the game’s release. Even with that fear in mind, I’m really loving the idea for this, and I really hope we see more in the future across all platforms.

It has been one crazy week, and the craziest thing happening at home base while Jonathan and Shawn were in LA was the amount of assets we received in our inboxes on a daily basis. I have decided to post the lonely screens and trailers that did not get their very own post into one large post full of links. There’s just is not enough time to post them all, so this is the best way I know how.

While this is not a comprehensive list of what was not covered, it is close. There are more screens floating around out there that we have yet to get, but if or when we do, we will do our best to wow you with them.

Below you will find a list of games from A-N and a link to the trailer or screens for it. Be sure to look over the list carefully, because something you are interested in may be included. I have highlighted ones that may be of special interest.

Games O – Z are posted after the jump

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand Screens
Active Life Outdoor Challenge Trailer
Afro Samurai Screens
Age of Booty Screens
Age of Booty Trailer
AWAY Shuffle Dragon Screens
Babysitting Mania Screens
Bangai-O Spirits Screens
Bangai-O-Spirits Trailer
Battlestations Pacific Screens
Bionic Commando Screens
Bionic Commando Trailer
BioShock PS3 Screens
Borderlands Presentation Trailer
Borderlands Screens
BUZZ! Master Quiz Trailer
Champions Online B-Roll Trailer
Champions Online Screens
Chrono Trigger DS Screens
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Trailer
Cooking Mama World Kitchen Screens
Dark Void Screens
Dark Void Trailer
Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon Trailer
Digimon Championship Trailer
Digimon World Championship Screens
Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen Screens
Dungeon Hero Screens
Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero Screens
Empire: Total War Screens
Eternal Sonata PS3 Screens
Eternal Sonata PS3 Trailer
Final Fantasy IV DS Screens
Flock! Screens
Flock! Trailer
Gran Turismo 5: Prolouge Trailer
Heavy Duty Screens
I Am Alive Trailer (This looks rather interesting)
I Heart Geeks Screens
Infinite Space Screens
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Enc. 2 Screens
Kill Zone 2 Trailer
King’s Bounty: The Legend Trailer
LEGO Batman: The Video Game B-Footage Trailer
LEGO Batman: The Videogame Screens
Little King’s Story Screens
Luminous Arc 2 Teaser Trailer
Marker Man Adventures Screens
Marvel Ultimate Alliance II: Fusion Trailer
Mega Man 9 Screens
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Trailer
Metal Gear Online Screens
Monster Lab Screens
Monster Madness: Grave Danger Screens
MySims Kingdom Screens
N+ Screens
N+ Trailer
Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 Screens
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja STORM Screens
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja STORM Trailer
National Geographic Panda Screens
Neopets Puzzle Adventure Screens
NHL SK9 Screens

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It’d be nice if we got an all-gameplay trailer for NBA 2K9, because that’s really all that matters. But the marketing folks have had their way and have masked the few seconds of gameplay in the trailer above with nothing short of an “OMG Kevin Garnett!” setup that just irritates me as a Lakers fan.

We’ve also got some screenshots up of the game, and they look absolutely incredible. I’m really excited to try the game out as the type of gamer that plays the previous year’s NBA 2K game until the new one is released. I could start nitpicking at things (like an identical fan sitting in the front row of the screen with Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant), but I’ll wait until the game comes out to really do that.

Jonathan and I will preach to you the amazingness that is Puzzle Quest all day long, but I don’t think either of us would ever try to convince you that it’s a good looking game. From what we’ve seen of Galactrix up until now, I still wouldn’t dare try to claim that it’s a good looking game, but some of the new screens from E3 this week have changed my tune.

You can check out a bunch of new screenshots here, including some beauties like the one above, which make me wonder if I’m playing Puzzle Quest or EVE Online.