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Demos for the Demo God! – Space Marine Demo Soon

Andrew Bryant — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:38:40 +0000

THQ has announced that there will a demo for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. It will be available on Xbox 360, PS3 & PC. It will also be available on your format of choice on one of three dates.

Which one is for you? Who knows?!

Play The Secret of Monkey Island SE… RIGHT NOW!!!

Andrew Bryant — Sun, 02 May 2010 21:18:59 +0000

We kid you not… For the low, low price of absolutely nothing, you too can play the first 20 minutes* of The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition RIGHT NOW, in YOUR BROWSER of all places.

Seriously, we’re cutting our own throats! (oh, wait, wrong game).

The game requires InstantAction’s Java plugin, which, despite the cross-platform potential of such browserly goodness, only runs on Windows… and then only in Internet Explorer or Firefox… assuming it doesn’t crash constantly.

Still… 20 minutes of Monkey Island for zero pieces of eight!

Thanks RPS!
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D.E.M.O. for H.A.W.X.

Andrew Bryant — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:16:31 +0000

Tom Clancy’s High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron are getting a shakedown in the form of a Dynamic Example of Moderated interactiOn (see what I did there?).

Available for Xbox 360 & Playstation 3 via their respective networks and PC from one of your favourite download repositories, the 1.2GB demo features 2 missions, 2 game modes, co-op play and a good chance to get to grips with the air-to-air & air-to-ground combat in the game.… Read More...

Bench those Remnants – Square release Last Remnant Demo & Benchmark tools

Andrew Bryant — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:43:11 +0000

To celebrate the release of The Last Remnant on PC, Square Enix have given everyone the opportunity to see if they like it before having it locked to their Steam account for ever and a day (the game uses Steamworks for save games, possibly giving SteamCloud more too do that just store L4D & TF2 control sets) but putting out a demo that weighs in at approximately 1GB.

Alongside the demo comes a benchmarking utility to prove that the hyper-optimised Unreal 3 engine is, well, hyper-optimised. For the record, my aging Core 2 machine (going on 2 years old now) … Read More...

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin – Demo Impressions

Andrew Bryant — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:06:27 +0000

The more astute out there may have noticed that Monolith and WBIE have put out demos of F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin for all 3 launch formats.

The Xbox 360 & PS3 versions are available over their respective networks, whilst the PC demo is available at all good download repositories.

Impressions after the cut…

We were planning to have our first proper CNS discussion over this, but seeing as Barry is busy with nappies and other undesirables, it’s down to me.

When you first play the demo, it’s like F.E.A.R. never left – the demo again features a custom-built … Read More...

Resi 5 Demo to Finally Hit the West

Barry Hodgson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:26:54 +0000

Capcom sent word that the highly anticipated demo of Resident Evil 5 (which has been out on the Japanese Marketplace for god knows how long now) will finally hit XBL worldwide on January 26th.

It will be exclusive to the 360 for one Week at which point PS3 owners will be able to get in on the action too.

The demo contains two levels and is a fairly good representation of what to expect (Resi 4 in HD basically).

We’ll have more on Resident Evil 5 as we move closer to it’s March 13th (Friday the 13th) release date.… Read More...

F.E.A.R 2 Demo to hit 22nd Jan, PC System Requirements Released

Barry Hodgson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:23:24 +0000

Warner Bros have released the PC System Requirements for F.E.A.R 2:

Minimal specification:

- CPU: P4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz Vista)/Athlon 64 3000+ (3200+ Vista)
- GPU: Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 256MB (SM 2.0b). NVidia 6800 or ATI X700.
- Memory: 1GB (1.5GB Vista)
- HDD: 12GB
- OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista SP1
- DirectX: 9.0c
- Sound: DX9.0c compliant
- Optical drive: DVD (boxed only)
- Internet: Broadband

Recommended specification:

- CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz processor family/Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (required for MP host)
- GPU: Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 512MB (SM 3.0). NVidia 8600 GTS or ATI
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