Deer Drive is a stage-based 3D action hunting game, tailored for casual players, but with elements appealing to hardcore gamers. Play the full game for 60 minutes after which you can purchase a registration key to unclock the full game.

StarShift is a turn-based online strategy game which takes place in a fictional universe. StarShift is a twisted game where you can back-stab your allies, corrupt your enemies and mess with everybody else! Codeco has released a demo allowing you to try out a tutorial and LAN multiplayer.

Meridian4 today announced an online distribution deal for its upcoming action game Shadowgrounds via Steam, Valve’s online platform for digital content distribution and management.

Barrow Hill is a horror/thriller adventure game; told from the point of view of the player using a first person perspective. Set in mysterious Cornwall, the players will unravel many mysteries, after being stranded on the lonely road to the 'barrow'. This demo features part of the game and lets you explore The Owl Barn.

Maximum-Football allows the players to select and change nearly every option of play, play or coach your team to victory in a fully customizable league system, draft free agents, and create the ultimate football team. This v1.139 patch adds a quick simulation option for a single game or an entire week, an accelerated clock, more adjustable data constants, additional camera viewpoints and some play design logic and localization improvements.

Dungeons & Dragons Online provides you with the definitive online D&D experience, complete with dramatic dungeon crawling, terrifying monster combat and challenging puzzles, character advancement and guild-based power struggles. Turbine announced that the Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach free 7-day trial is now available for download.

Jowood has released the first patch for thePhenomic's RTS/RPG hybrid. This update brings your European game to v1.01 and improves AI, fixes lip synch and animations glitches, balances difficulty, gfx card problems, various other tweaks, crash and bug fixes.

With LFS S2 important features have been added, dynamic camber (improved simulation of suspension and different suspension types), highly detailed tyre physics and a damage model have been introduced. The LFS team has released a new update for the LfS S2 alpha demo adding the BMW Sauber, tyre and aero physics improvements, and many other updates.

Join the famous CSI team in Las Vegas and investigate five all-new cases using the latest forensic science. This updated demo allows you to try out a training level and one complete case, First Person Shooter, but no details as to what is updated are available at this point.

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a detailed real-time strategy game that lets players completely command one of the four mightiest empires of the ancient world: Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia. This demo allows you to control Cleopatra and the Egyptians as you take on the Romans.

Icculus has released an updated dedicated Linux server files for Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 2. This v1.2c version addresses mods with localized strings and resolves a crash issue.

War on Terror is a modern combat RTS game, set against the background of today's greatest threat to world peace – terrorism! Forces clash in believable scenarios, set within real locations across the globe. This patch brings your German retail game to v1.03, addresses a few multiplayer issues, and makes a few other tweaks.

Activision has released the map/mod toolkit for Infinity Ward's WWII based FPS Call of Duty 2. The industrial strength MOD tools feature Radiant, as well as Maya plug-ins that will enable fans to create new single player missions and multiplayer maps. Read more for download links ...

Command & Conquer The First Decade celebrates the 10th anniversary of this innovative franchise and includes a dozen of your favorite C&C games spanning over the last ten years. EA has released a new patch addressing missing music from Covert Operations and the Red Alert expansion packs, and fixes the InstallPath registry entry.

id Software has released a new patch for Raven's FPS Quake 4. This update brings your retail game to v1.2 and addresses issues and adds gameplay elements throughout single and multiplayer, voice chat in multiplayer, a forcemodel option, fixed pure server auto-downloading, HTT support, smooth stairjumping and 4 new multiplayer maps. This update also fixes the widescreen issue that plagued the v1.1 patch.

Frogster has released the first patch for Load's miniature racing game Mad Tracks, bringing your German retail game to v1.2 and adds match making to facilitate multiplayer gaming.

In Emergency 4 you can either play the 20 mission campaign or choose to try the randomly generated missions. Emergency 4 will feature realistic physics (walls collapsing, fire spreading), simplified controls, as well as a multiplayer mode. This patch will bring your French/German retail game to v1.1 and addresses a multiplayer issue.

Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood features a new single-player narrative, new multiplayer missions, an all-new cooperative-style game mode, and new weapons and vehicles. Ubisoft has released a new patch for Gearbox's WWII based FPS bringing your retail game to v1.03 and basically adds 3 new skirmish maps to the game. Whether or not this patch also fixes any bugs or crashes is not known at this point.

Matrix Games and 2 by 3 Games have released a new patch for their strategy game War In The Pacific. The update brings your retail game to v1.80 and resolves a host of issues and makes several improvements to the game.

In preparation of the upcoming v1.2 retail patch, id Software has released the v1.2 Win32/Linux SDK tools allowing the mod community to make their own content for Raven's FPS Quake 4.

In Crashday your task is to scrap your vehicle with breathtaking stunts or to wreck cars in aggressive street races, showing your opponents that they made a fatal mistake in choosing you as their enemy. Atari has released the SDK, allowing the mod community to make their own tracks and vehicles.

The latest chapter in the Baseball Mogul series allows gamers to participate in the ultimate managerial experience and build the ball club of their dreams.

NASCAR SimRacing is the perfect combination of realism, true racing ‘feel’, depth, and advanced EA SPORTS presentation. This beta patch disables disqualification and provides more time for players to react to yellow flags and the associated rules. Read more for details and downoad links...

Join the famous CSI team in Las Vegas and investigate five all-new cases using the latest forensic science. This updated demo allows you to try out a training level and one complete case, First Person Shooter, but no details as to what is updated are available at this point.

Valve announced that it is frantically trying to put the finishing touches on Episode One for preloading to begin May 1st. "The past couple of days have been spent with the team adding commentary tracks. Hopefully it will be interesting for people to gain some insight into our development processes. It's pretty hectic around the office, but it is always a lot of fun to be so close to shipping."