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by Richard on December 26, 2007
Nausea brought on by the slightly fisheyed field of view in Dark Messiah: Might and Magic: Elements kept me from completing the demo but those with greater intestinal fortitude than I might have fun...
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by Richard on December 16, 2007
There's fresh demos on Xbox Live for both those who like to run-and-shoot and those who like to, uh, drive. First you get to exchange some blood for oil in the near-future FPS Frontlines: Fuel of...
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by Richard on December 09, 2007
Do you long for that age past where men were men and disputes were settled by walking clockwise around a grid, placing monsters like hotels in Monopoly for your opponents to land on and be forced...
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by Richard on November 24, 2007
The first Blacksite demo was about six minutes long, so you'd hope they'd wise up and give us something a little meatier for the second take, right? Not so. The Blacksite Demo 2 only appears...
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by Richard on November 23, 2007
There's a new demo up on the Live Marketplace today for one of The Orange Box's tasty gaming morsels, Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Now, I know what you're thinking - The Orange Box? That's...
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by Richard on October 29, 2007
Just in case you wanted to know how boring the upcoming Scene It: Lights, Camera, Action was going to be without actually buying the game you can now download a demo of the title on the Xbox Live...
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by Richard on September 27, 2007
Imagine my disappointment when I fired up the new Jericho demo and discovered that it wasn't based on the CBS cult-hit apocalypse-drama Jericho but instead was a generic sci-fi/horror shooter,...
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by Richard on September 25, 2007
The demo for Crash Bandicoot's big comeback game - Crash of the Titans - is available for download now on Xbox Live:Content: Crash of the Titans Demo Price: Free Availability: Not available in...
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by Richard on September 18, 2007
The demo for the latest installment in Sega's Rally series is available now on the Live Marketplace. I'm terrible at racing games but I gave this demo The Old College Try and managed to...
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by Richard on August 31, 2007
In Timeshift, a new shooter from Vivendi due this Fall, you play as Sam Beckett, a man who travels through time putting right things gone wrong. Wait, no, that's Quantum Leap. In Timeshift you...
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by Richard on July 12, 2007
The exciting news that there's a Blue Dragon demo up now on the Live Marketplace was hampered for me by the fact that my suffering Xbox can't stay on long enough to play through the entire...
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by Richard on June 20, 2007
There just aren't as many full-range space shooters as there used to be in the DOS/Windows 3.1 era so I was excited to see that Project Sylpheed was going to be taking the genre into the...
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by Richard on June 08, 2007
It's not easy to impress me with a first-person shooter. For the most part I think the genre is stagnant -- I've only got so much patience for running in circles holding down the...
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by Richard on May 29, 2007
Like the recent Forza demo this is a "realistic" driving game -- that means no power-ups or heat-seeking turtle shells -- and like the Forza demo I just can't get into it. I think I gave...
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by Richard on May 13, 2007
A couple new demos hit Xbox Live this week and I've braved the excruciatingly long downloads to give you my first-hand impressions. It's a thankless job, really. First up is Forza Motorsport 2...
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by Richard on April 25, 2007
I don't know how I missed it, but the demo for Command & Conquer 3 hit Xbox Live for Gold members last Friday. I've been a fan of the series since the Red Alert era but I haven't...
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by Richard on April 11, 2007
The wait for the Halo 3 online beta is almost over -- qualified players will be able to download the game on May 16. Fresh from the Gamerscore blog:Microsoft Game Studios and Bungie Studios today...
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by Richard on January 24, 2007
360 Fanboy points us to Flickr user total_scoobyness who has posted some surreal screens of the Crackdown demo glitching up: What happened here, exactly? Is there an agent superpower so strong that it...
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by Richard on January 23, 2007
I guess everyone missed the memo that you have to buy a retail copy of Crackdown to get into that Halo 3 beta, not just download the demo. My Xbox has been downloading for the last hour and I'm...
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by Richard on January 20, 2007
Last Tuesday's missing Crackdown demo will be available for download this Tuesday. Major Nelson says:I don't usually like to talk about specific dates for content, but my sources indicate that...
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by Richard on January 20, 2007
I've played a few games of Battlestations: Midway since the multiplayer demo hit Xbox Live yesterday, and I'm still not sure whether or not I'm having fun. Actually, I'm still not sure...
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by Richard on January 17, 2007
The demo version of the upcoming Halo 3 Beta pack-in game Crackdown has been delayed a few days -- it was supposed to be available for download tomorrow but someone forgot to get certification from...
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