TrackMania is a new type of racing game, in which players create their own ludicrously dizzying courses quickly and easily using a bank of over 300 different construction blocks. These courses – which can be built in one of three breathtaking themes – form the basis for races the likes of which you will have never seen before. This demo offers you the chance to to play all aspects of the final game, 'Track Building', 'Solo' mode, 'Hot Seat' and all of this on multiple PCs, LAN or Internet. A dedicated Internet server will offer users the chance to compete against other beta testers, using tracks designed by the TrackMania community. Read more for download links ...

Empire Interactive has issued a demo for Deep Red Games' freshly released 3D business/management strategy game Vega$: Make It Big! The demo offers two levels from the full game, called Welcome to the Strip (tutorial level) and King of the Hill (2nd level). Read more for download links ...

Plastic Reality/Cenega have released an updated version of yesterdays demo for their squad-based Korean War game Korea: Forgotten Conflict. The demo features a tutorial level and one mission in Seoul, where you have to rescue medic and few allied soldiers and then leave by train. No specific details as to what is exactly "updated". Read more for download links ...

In Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer, players experience an all-out adrenaline rush as they drop down huge wave faces, pull into barreling tube rides and pull off hundreds of massive trick combinations and signature pro moves. Players choose their own path as they interact with famous surfers, sponsors, magazines and photographers. Exotic real world locations and events including full beach environments with real landmarks and hazards lend authenticity to the game. No demo details available at this point ... Read more for download links ...

Plastic Reality/Cenega have released a demo for their squad-based Korean War game Korea: Forgotten Conflict. The demo features a tutorial level and one mission in Seoul, where you have to rescue medic and few allied soldiers and then leave by train (thanks Tiscali). Read more for download links ...

Novalogic has released a new patch for their teambased FPS Delta Force: Black Hawk Down. This upgdate brings your retail game to v1.3.0.37 and brings in several of new additions, improvements and bug fixes (thanks Homelanfed). Read more for details and download links ...

Zuxxez has released a voicemod for Reality Pump Studios' recently released RTS/RPG KnightShift (aka Once Upon A Knight). This MOD installs the complete English voiceovers and dialogs (Campaigns and RPG) and also update the retail v1.00 to v1.01, supporting a new audio compression. Read more for download links ...

Article removed by request of Activision, patch was released ahead of completion. Patch is still in QA and will be coming up later...

Metropolis Software has released a demo for their upcoming tactical shooter Gorky Zero (to be published by Jowood). The demo is in Polish, but since its a shooter non-polski people should manage just fine, features a virtual training level and one full mission (thanks gamers.nl). Read more for download links ...

Ubisoft has released the eagerly expected demo for their modern combat flight simulation Lock On. This demo features a Quick Start missions letting you fly the 'A-10A Warthog' and the 'MiG-29A Fulcrum'. Lock On: Modern Air Combat lets players fly a variety of combat aircraft in the most graphically rich, audio-intense game environment ever created for a combat flight simulation. Filled with action-packed missions, realistic flight modeling and flexible game options (thanks Fragland). Read more for download links ...

Buka has now released the official demo (after the previously leaked E3 demo) for their upcoming helicopter game Fair Strike. This demo contains three missions (Invasion, Seasonable Aid, and River Convoy) from the first two campaigns, and lets you fly the Ka-50 Hokum and AH-64a Apache. It also sports a 4 player (LAN only) deathmatch multiplayer map 'DM Carribean fourth'. Read more for download links ...

Reality Pump Studios and Atari have now released an English language version of their wacky cow-themed real-time strategy game, Once Upon A Knight. The rather huge demo includes first part of The Long Path to the Throne campaign, and one role-playing quick mission, entitled The Call. Read more for download links ...

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is a dynamic single and multiplayer action experience featuring an all-new epic story. Raven Software has released an v1.01 updated dedicated linux server for Jedi Academy which adresses mMinor update to fix faulty rand() calls. Read more for details and download links ...

After yesterday Judge Dredd demo, we have another magazine cover disc upload. Directly off the latest North American PC Gamer is a demo for EA's upcoming action-adventure game Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. This demo features a mission where "The Citizens of Minas Tirith must be saved! Get 200 Gondorian women through the exit, up to the next level of Minas Tirith. The invading horde will try to stop you at this task, and dispatching them quickly will allow you accomplish your goal at a faster pace! The survival of Gondor rests in your hands, Gandalf the White!" (thanks PCGamer). Read more for download links ....

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is a dynamic single and multiplayer action experience featuring an all-new epic story. Raven Software has released the Windows/Linux files for dedicated servers. Read more for details and download links ...

EA has released the eagerly anticipated multiplayer demo of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Breakthrough. This demo sports 2 maps (Anzio and Palermo) featuring the new Liberation mode. Read more for download links ...

Shifting Suns Studios has released a playable demo for their Bard's Tale inspired first-person fantasy role-playing game Devil Whiskey. The demo features the beginning of the main plot with one sub-quest and most of the full game's character classes (thanks GenGamers). Read more for download links ...

Raven Software released the demo for their sci-fi 3D action game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. The demo offers two single-player missions: "Mercenary Activity" set on Tatooine, and "Cult Sighting" on Chandrila. Read more for download links ...

Gotham Games has released a playable demo for their upcoming arcade racing/shooting game Starsky and Hutch. The demo features the intro movie and the Fast Cars episode from the game's Story Mode. Read more for download links ...

Eidos has released a new patch for their third-person action adventure title Tomb Raider: the Angel of Darkness. This upgrade brings your retail game to v49 and brings a slew of game improvements and much needed bug fixes thanks 3DGamers. Read more for details and download links ...

Strategy First and Empire Interactive are pleased to announce that they have released the demo for their upcoming RTS game, Warrior Kings: Battles for the North American market. The demo features a complete tutorial with 4 missions and it lets you try out the skirmish mode. Read more for details and download links ...

Ritual send out notice that they have just finished the game development kit for Star Trek Elite Force II. The GDK contains UberRadiant (Ritual's customized level editor), plug-ins for 3D Studio MAX, example map and model files, extensive documentation andseveral other tools to assist in the creation of modifications and assets for the game. Read more for download links ...

Ubi Soft has released the first patch for 1C Maddox's WW II flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik: the Forgotten Battles .This upgrade brings your retail game to 1.1b and has quite an impressive amount bug fixes, game improvements, graphics changes, networking & AI tweaking and tons more. Read more for a detailed fix list and download links ...

DivoGames has released a new patch for their helicopter shooter AirStrike 3D: Operation W.A.T. This update patch brings your retail game to v1.4 and adds mouse control (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links.

A series of grisly murders brings Lara into conflict with a sinister alchemist from the past, and a secret alliance of powerful individuals shrouded in mystery. At the centre of this conflict are five 14th century paintings - the Obscura Paintings, which the alchemist is desperate to repossess. Barely out in stores, Eidos has already released the first patch for Tomb Raider: the Angel of Darkness. This upgrade brings your retail game to v42 and adresses several game crashes and freezes, adds a shotgun, fixes the FMV player and EAX logos etc. Read more for details & download links ...