S.T.A.L.K.E.R. provides players with dynamic gameplay of fast and tough combats, where you face intelligent enemies, wield a diversity of weapons, control machinery, in a team based story-driven single player game, and multiplayer with numerous modes. In case you can't wait a few more days for the retail game, you can enjoy yourself this weekend with the Russian multiplayer beta demo (thanks JD).

UPDATE: We added a little fix that changes the menu from Russian to English.

A clever mix of strategy and action, Great Invasions plunges you back into Europe of the Dark Ages, a time in history where hundreds of nations and barbarian tribes rush to assault the civilized world. This v1.07 patch adds missing titles, fixes bugs, improves performance, and makes tweaks.

Maelstrom is a strategy action epic which takes place on a devastated future Earth. In the wake of an apocalyptic ecological disaster, the planet is threatened by an alien invasion, thus becoming the battleground as a divided human race fights for survival. This new patch adds a new mp map, fixes the usual bugs and crashes, and improves multiplayer.

Maelstrom is a strategy action epic which takes place on a devastated future Earth. In the wake of an apocalyptic ecological disaster, the planet is threatened by an alien invasion, thus becoming the battleground as a divided human race fights for survival. The demo contains 2 maps, parts of two of the factions, and is playable single or multiplayer across the net or a LAN.

Air Conflicts is an arcade simulator set during the second World War conflict and featuring many action missions with a historically accurate timeline, authentic planes, units. This demo features the Battle of Britain mission from the RAF campaign (thanks Patches).

Neverwinter Nights 2 is an RPG taking the player from the tiniest of villages into a sweeping tale of danger and war. Bioware has released a beta version of its upcoming v1.05 patch, only for the English edition of the game and requires you to have v1.04, and includes bug fixes, improvements and even some new features.

Since Troika is no longer amongst the living this patch is not official, so use at your own discretion. This update brings Activision's Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines retail game to v3.5 (requires v1.2 patch installed) and addresses a number of known issues, gameplay tweaks, bug fixes and so forth.

Silverfall is a fantasy-style 3D action RPG that casts players into a world torn between science and nature. Monte Cristo has released the first patch bringing your retail game to v1.16 and adds mod support, several balance tweaks, fixes bugs and crashes, optimizes the user interface and various sound effects.

Microsoft has released the first patch for Ensemble Studios' AoE III: The WarChiefs, bringing your retail game to v1.03 which mainly addresses balance issues and a few exploits...

Ensemble has released the Age of Empires III v1.11 patch mainly focuses on adding balance changes to the game, but also adds a new map. Read more for details and download links ...

Galactic Dream: Rage of War it's a 3D strategy game in real time in which you gather resources, build facilities in space and train star-ships with the final purpose of decimating your enemies.

Lighthouse has released a new patch for Kerberos' 4x space strategy game bringing your English, German, French and Spanish retail game to v1.2.2 and tweaks AI, improves multiplayer, and a slew of fixes, and adjustments.

Weigh anchor, sail the seven seas, explore new continents and foreign cultures. Demonstrate your strategic skills, business acumen and diplomatic finesse. Revel in the jubilant cheers of your people – but don't disappoint them. This v1.01 patch is for the US version and while it fixes the same issues as the original patch, it also addresses an uninstall issue.

World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions takes a story-based approach as it puts players on the Circuit as a newly turned poker pro and under the wing of Chris “Jesus” Ferguson as his protégé. Activision has released the first patch, addressing various gameplay issues, bugs and crashes.

Climb the ranks of the Fairy Godmother’s operation in this unique, easy-to-play game featuring cheeky new takes on fairytale favorites. This demo lets you play for 60 minutes ...

Shady O' Grady's Rising Star is an RPG game, but unlike the familiar dungeon crawlers, this game is set in the real world of music. Players create their dream band and attempt to coast their way to the top of the music world before the next young hot act comes along. This first patch addresses some gfx card issue.

Simon The Sorcerer 4 mainly focusses around logical and challenging puzzles, with barely any action parts, the controls will be similar to other point & click adventures like the more recent The Westerner and Ankh.

WinSPWW2 features true combined arms warfare from 1930 through 1946, an era that saw the theories of J.F.C. Fuller and Giulio Douhet put to the test as the world burned. This v2.0 patch provides several fixes, tweaks, and enhancements, but also new scenarios, maps, and various upgrades.

The President of the United States has lost it. Federally mandated group hugs, a pudding embargo... what's next, gun control? Sam & Max are off to Washington to take care of this bozo, but the political climate will only get stormier... and a new power will rise…

Frontline: Fields of Thunder is a new RTS series where players are taken to the frontline, where the gameplay is going back to its RTS roots - inspired by games like Blitzkrieg. Check out this demo, allowing you to play 2 missions.

Championship Manager 2007 is a totally new iteration of Eidos' best-selling football management simulation. Beautiful Game Studios has released the first patch, fixing various bugs and crashes, as well as tweaking several areas of the game.

Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 will capture all the thrills and intensity of world-class international cricket, now also online. This demo, also available on Xbox Live, gives you the chance to play in a one-day warm up match of three overs between England and Australia, taken from the ICC Champions Trophy 2006 in India.

Penumbra: Overture is an innovative first person horror game utilizing physics for interaction and puzzles. The game is set in an underground facility on Greenland where the protagonist searches for information regarding his late father.

X Motor Racing is an arcade racing game with next generation physics model, including all classes of cars from old RWD to modern sports cars, physics, and various graphical features. This demo includes one track (highway and cross-country) and one car with some physics profiles.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved combines retro-arcade Asteroids-like gameplay with up to date graphics and has players navigating their geometric ship through a retro grid world, facing off against waves of deadly spinners, snakes and repulsars.