Enigma: Rising Tide is an exciting, massively-multiplayer game featuring fast-paced ship-to-ship battles with very high player densities. Enigma: Rising Tide will unfold a detailed backstory in which three Great Power "Empires" wage war against each other using submarines, destroyers, destroyer escorts, corvettes, tankers, merchantmen, and aircraft. The game is designed to be action-filled and easy-to-learn while providing depth of strategy and cinematic cat-and-mouse suspense. Eventually, player actions and decisions will steer the direction of the alternate history story and the evolution of the online war. A new updated demo is now available, read more for links and details.

NASCAR Thunder 2003 surrounds you with the emotion, sound, fury, and risks of the high-speed, high-drama career of a NASCAR star. Feel the adrenaline rush, intensity, and passion of being a NASCAR driver on a quest to become a NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion. Take on various real-life scenarios, complete with dramatic pileups, walls of smoke, and constant door-to-door, three-wide racing, to test your nerve and improve your racing skills. Build a racing legacy over the course of 20 drama-filled seasons. This demo contains the Talladega Superspeedway track and is 82MB to download. (We previously posted some screens here). Read more for download links and details ...

Sierra has just released the 1.2 Update for No One Lives Forever 2, adding multiplayer deathmatch mode, dedicated server support and a host of other updates. This version is required for online play. Sierra simultaniously released the first map pack which includes a set of new maps not included with the No One Lives Forever 2 CD-ROM. Map Pack #1 requires installation of the 1.2 Update. Read more for details and links where to grab the goods ...

Total Immersion Racing is a driving game with an emphasis on the highest quality driving technology linked to compelling and immersive gameplay. Empire Interactive has just released a playable demo of Total Immersion Racing, giving you the opportunity to try out this modern racing simulation. The Total Immersion Racin lets you race two different cars in Single-Lap and Time Trial modes on the Monza and Talheimring tracks. Read more for links where to grab the goods ...

Barking Dog has just released a playable demo for Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon, allowing you to try out this 3D action real-time strategy game based on Disney's new animated motion picture. Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon is a 3D action, real-time strategy PC game in which players command "solar sail" powered space ships that resemble old-world vessels. Using their wits and courage, players must defend the queen and empire from marauding space pirates and a mysterious new enemy with virtually indestructible "Ironclad" ships. Read more for links where to grab it ...

Termite Games and Project3 Int. have just released the first patch for their just released team-based first-person shooter, New World Order. This upgrade brings your retail game to v1.1 and addresses a bunch of bug fixes and adds some gameplay tweaks and multiplayer improvements. Read more for detailed fix list and links where to grab the goods ...

Highland Warriors is the epic story of bloody feuds, Scottish patriotism and English Invaders begins with the original founding of Scotland around 850 AD and peaks with the fight for independence during the 13th / 14th century. Play as one of three Scottish clans or risk your life for the British Crown in 35 historically founded missions. Highland Warriors also supports up to eight players through the Internet or LAN. The demo contains level 2 from the English single-player campaign, accessible on the normal and hard difficulty levels. Read more for links where to grab the demo ...

Polish developers Mirage have just released a new update patch for their recently released first-person shooter "Sniper: Path of Vengeance" This upgrade brings your retail game to v2.01. Being a whopping 40mb in size it brings quite a few changes to the table such as upgrading to the latest build of the LithTech engine, fixes and tweaks for various crashes and bugs. Read more detailed fix list and links where to grab the goods ...

Microsoft has just released a demo for their recently released "Zoo Tycoon Expansion Pack", it contains four tutorials (one from Dinosaur Digs and three from Marine Mania), and one Marine Mania map. The dinosaurs and animals featured in the trial version include the likes of the velociraptor, allosaurus, polar bear, manta ray and pacific walrus. This demo also includes an orca, a show animal that can perform a series of tricks (thanks evilavatar). Read more for links where to grab the goodies ...

Microsoft has release a demo of the recent PC version of Digital Illusions' racing game RalliSport Challenge. The demo contains two drivable Pro class cars, four tracks and two game modes from the full version of the game, and is a whopping 221 mb big! (thanks Homelan). Read more for links where to grab the demo ...

A few days ago Ensemble Studios issued the first patch for their 3D real-time strategy, Age of Mythology, but was only available through the in-game updater. Today you can now also download it manually and upgrade your retail game to v1.01. This patch fixes several networking problems and has a couple of client fixes. Read more for detailed fix list links where to grab the patch...

WizardWorks and Infogrames just released the first update patch for their recently released World War II shooter Deadly Dozen: Pacific Theater. This upgrade brings your retail game to v2.35 patch and fixes "many" multiplayer crashes, optimizes bandwidth usage, offers small map tweaks, sound fixes, and more (thanks Bluesnews). Read more for detailed fix list and links where to get it ...

S2 Games reveals the story behind its ground breaking real time strategy shooter, Savage, with part one of a four-part comic book series. To discover the origins of the Savage war between humans and beasts, read more ...

Strategy First just let us know that they have just released the first patch for their recently released 3D space-based RTS, OffWorld Resource Base (O.R.B.). This update patch fixes a few bugs and mainly adds some scenario issues. Read more for detailed fix list and links where to get it ...

Strategy First and Spellbound announced earlier today that they have released a small patch for their game, Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood. “We recognize that there is a lag problem while running on Windows 98 or ME and this patch will rectify any and all of the issues the consumer might encounter,” says Adam Phillips, Executive Producer of Third Party Development. Read more for details and links ...

Simon & Schuster just let us know that they have released the first patch for their recently released tactical strategy game, Soldiers Of Anarchy. This patch addresses the ability for turn based play, some AI tweaks and a few other minors things... Read more for links where to grab this puppy and a full fix list ...

Atari has shipped Superman: The Man of Steel, a third person action/adventure game featuring the World's Greatest Super Hero, to retail stores this week, exclusively for the Xbox video game system from Microsoft. Based on a story co-written by DC Comics, Superman: The Man of Steel challenges players to protect Metropolis from super-villains Brainiac 13 and Lex Luthor, as well as a legion of malevolent robots intent on taking over the world.

Rainbow Six: Raven Shield is the sequel to the immensely popular Rainbow Six : Rogue Spear, awarded "2000 Action Game Of The Year", and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, 1999 Action Game Of The Year*. It will be the third game in the Rainbow Six line, which has sold more than seven million copies worldwide. The final game will feature 15 new single-player missions that include the discovery of a cache of biological weapons and stopping an armed gang from terrorizing a London bank. Final release is scheduled for February 2003. Read more for links where to grab this 155MB multi-player demo! UPDATE : Since there is a new updated demo available, the files have been replaced with the new version...

As expected and announced, the multiplayer demo for MoH Allied Assault : SpearHead has arrived. You now get the change to try out the expansion pack for the hit title MoH Allied Assault, which should be in stores next week. "This demo features the multiplayer level Malta, a level exclusive to the demo and not included in the full version of the game. Also included will be the Tug-of-War map Druckkammern. The Tug-of-War mode will allow players to compete in team-based combat to seize a set number of control points. The demo will also include four new skins for British, Russian, American and German troops as well as unveiling a new exclusive axis weapon." Read more for links where to grab the goods!

Publisher and game site iGames” and developer S2 Games” just send us 10 new captivating screenshots from their upcoming multiplayer First Person Strategy Shooter (FPSS) game for the PC, Savage. Set in a barbaric fantasy world torn between the races of Man and Beast, Savage effectively redefines the first-person shooter (FPS) and real-time strategy (RTS) genres by seamlessly combining elements of both into one cohesive package. Check them out, looks GOOD!

MonteCristo has just let us know they have released the European demo so the moment has come for you to try out Platoon for yourself. Take command of more than a dozen soldiers throughout an entire mission from the game. It will be up to you to secure a road for a passing convoy. You'll have to run a sweep-op to clear any mines laid on the road as well as confront any Vietnamese troops lying in wait to ambush you! Read more for links where to grab the demo ...

Vivendi Universal just released a new patch for their horror action title, The Thing. This patch upgrades your version to v1.2 (you need to have v1.1 applied already). This patch for the US PC version of The Thing adds a mouse-look option to the game. To use the mouse look option, enter the Options menu, then Advanced Controls, and turn the Mouse-Look option ON. Read more for links where to grab it ...

Noticed at Blues that the Firaxis Games Files Page is offering a new v1.04f patch for the brand-new Play the World expansion for Civilization III. The patch is just under 7 MB and adds autopatching and a pillage function along with several fixes addressing things such as multiplayer stability, a memory leak with adviser screens, a bug in play-by-email mode, and more. There is also a new patch for Iron Storm available updating 4X Studios' alternate-history World War I shooter to v1.02. Here's what the patch addresses: "The game will crash to desktop while attempting to rebind keys. This problem primarily occurs when the user has a USB keyboard or USB Mouse or both." Read more for links where to get all of these goodies ...

Epic has just released a new patch for their recently released FPS, Unreal Tournament 2003. The upgrades brings your retail copy to v2136 and has a massive slew of fixes, tweaks and upgrades. Read more for a detailed fix list links where to grab it...

"Age of Mythology " transports players to a time when heroes battled with monsters of legend and gods intervened in the affairs of mortal men. Players create armies, develop their civilizations through the ages and manage economics through resource gathering and trade. Ensemble Studios' new 3-D engine adds a deep richness of graphical detail to create an innovative new title based on the ancient history of the Greek, Norse and Egyptian mythologies. The demo allows you to play as the Zeus civilization through two maps, five scenarios, and three Ages of time and its a massive 337mb large! Read more for features and links where to grab the demo...