NovaLogic has released a new patch for their multiplayer shooter Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. This update brings your retail game to v1.4.2.7 and adds further NILE support, new ingame updater, network code optimizations, co-op bug fix and some graphics setting features. Read more for a detailed fix list or download links..

Mirage has released a demo for its WW2 based FPS Mortyr 2: For Ever. This demo features an intro and one mission in Poland where you commence your mission from behind enemy lines. Read more for download links...

Activision has released a demo for its just released WW2 based FPS 'Call of Duty: United Offensive'. The single player demo shows off the intro level for Call of Duty: United Offensive. The demo is stand-alone so you won't need Call of Duty installed to play it. Read more for download links ...

After several beta rounds, Ascaron has released a new patch for the UK edition of its RPG Sacred. This patch brings your retail game to v1.7 and addresses various game balancing issues, game crashes, and several other tweaks. Read more for download links ...

Cenega has released a demo for Black Element Software's 3rd person action/adventure game Shade: Wrath Of Angels. No details as to what the contains, but be aware that it installs StarForce3 protection driver, so you will need to reboot before you can play the demo (thanks Tiscali). Read more for download links ...

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Fight Club - Trailer #3
• Medal Of Honor: Pacific Assault - Trailer
• Medieval Lords - Trailer

Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004 is more than driving trains -- it is a total railroad experience. TRS2004 lets players operate their choice of locomotives, from the golden age of steam through to modern high-speed electrics, under a variety of challenging conditions in real world scenarios. Auran has released a demo featuring the Banks Heath scenario with passenger support (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for download links..

Microsoft Game Studios today announced that Fable, the highly anticipated Xbox roleplaying adventure game, has has been spotted on store shelves in North America for an estimated retail price of $49.95 (U.S.). Fable will be available in Europe in October.

SCi has released a demo for its latest action game Conflict: Vietnam, allowing you to try out the second mission from the full game titled 'Rumble in the Jungle.' (thanks Tiscali) Read more for download links ...

Ubisoft today released v1.1 of the CryENGINE SDK, which fixes Polybump plugins and includes a few extra plugins, documents, and more. Read more for details and download links ...

DreamCatcher Games today announced the official single player demo, which offers desktop dictators a 90 minute timed Russian scenario where they can attack other countries, perform covert actions or stir things up abroad with war declarations. They’ll witness the cause and effect consequences of their actions from an atlas mode view. This also marks the launch of the official game website, www.SuperPower2Game.com. Read more for download links ...

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Terrorist Takedown - Trailer

Atari today announced that the highly anticipated Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, an action game set in the popular Dungeons & Dragons world created by Wizards of the Coast, is now available at retail outlets nationwide. Demon Stone for the PlayStation2 is retailing for an estimated price of $49.95 and is rated "T" for Teen. Demon Stone is expected to become available for the Xbox and PC.

Dreamcatcher has released a patch for People Can Fly's FPS, Painkiller. This update brings your retail game to v1.3.5 and updates all scripts and engines for full compatibility with 1.35 Editor and Tools. The patch also addresses a few minor security fixes and changes. Read more for download links and details ...

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Evil Genius - Trailer
• Knights Of Honor - Intro Movie
• Crashday - Trailer
• Call Of Duty: United Offensive - Trailer (2)
• Children Of The Nile - Trailer #6
• Still Life - Trailer #2

Epic has released a new patch for its sci-fi FPS Unreal Tournament 2004. This patch brings your retail game to v3323 and adds once again bug fixes, fixes game crashes, balancing, tweaks for the Onslaught mode, demo recording, engine, mod support and plenty more. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Enlight has released a new patch for their animal style management/sim title, Zoo Empire. This update brings your retail game to v1.2, but so far no details are available as to what. Read more for download links...

Another day, another batch of game trailers were released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for :

• Knights Of Honor - Intro Movie
• Crashday - Trailer
• Half-Life 2 - 'Coast' Trailer
• The Sims 2 - Press Event Trailer
• Scrapland - Trailer
• Project Freedom - Trailer

The Hostile Intent team has released a new version for their Half-Life mod, bringing it to v1.3.5 (requires v1.3) and has a slew of bug fixes and game tweaks. Read more for details and download links ...

Scrapland is a third person action game where you control D-Tritus when he goes on foot and his gunship when he pilots on Chimera streets. The player, by hacking into the GDB, can transform himself into 15 different characters, acquiring then the special ability of every one of them. Demo was mistakingly released by Enlight over the weekend, and has now been removed.

Ascaron has released an updated v1.7 demo for exDream Entertainment's sci-fi 3D RTS game Arena Wars. This demo combines SP and MP (unlike the previous 2 seperate demo's) and features two SP tournaments with 3 missions each, four MP maps (Cyclus, Lost Temple, Simple Life and Incubus), as well as four tutorials and the .NET installer. Read more for download links ...

As promised yesterday, Vivendi has released a singleplayer demo for Irrational's Tribes: Vengeance. This demo features one singleplayer mission set somewhere in the middle of the game. You assume the role of Daniel and must complete a combat trial as you are aided by two AI companions fending off waves of enemies charginginto the arena (thanks GameSpot). Read more for download links ...

Digital Jesters has released the English demo for their city builder game Medieval Lords featuring one of the senarios from the main game, giving you a huge taste of what it's all about. Read more for download links ...

Jowood has released a new patch for its RTS/RPG game SpellForce bringing your retail game to v1.38 (for Order Of Dawn, as well as the Breath Of Winter expansion pack) and fixes crashes with buffer size errors, savegames from earlier versions can be used without problems. Problems with DVI technology on TFT screens were also solved, and several minor bugs fixed. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

EA has released a playable demo for FIFA 2005 giving you the chance to play a match of 6 minutes between Arsenal vs. AC Milan in the "Highbury" stadium. FIFA Soccer 2005 uses an all-new fluid player kinetic system, and an all-new animation system reacts to every button press with authentic responsiveness, directly translating to the speed and vision of the world's greatest players. Read more for download links ...