A day later than expected, due to some last minute problems, Vivendi has released the multiplayer demo for Irrational's 'Tribes Vengeance.' The multi-player demo contains four maps (Cavern, Emerald, Isle, and Winterlake) and offers five different gameplay types. Read more for download links ...

"An incorrect version of the Tribes:Vengeance demo was seeded to several file hosts on the Internet. While attempts have been made to contact everyone who received the file, we are concerned that the demo will be made available anyway. Thus we are taking the added step of sending out a consumer alert to make sure that nobody downloads the Tribes:Vengeance demo on Tuesday, September 28th. The team at Irrational Games and Vivendi Universal Games are working diligently to prepare a new version of the demo and anticipate it being ready very shortly."

Ubisoft today announced that Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory will include the innovative co-operative multiplayer gameplay showcased at E3 2004, as well as the critically-acclaimed, wildly successful adversarial style of gameplay (known as 'versus mode') introduced by Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow.

Sony announced at the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) that Polyphony Digital's eagerly awaited racing game Gran Turismo 4 will be available in Japanese stores on December 3rd, while it is expected in the USA and Europe the week of December 14th. One surprising turn of events though, Gran Turismo 4 will not feature any online/multiplayer mode as this seems to have been dropped in order to meet the holiday/Christmas rush. However it was revealed that an all new GT title is scheduled for late 2005, supposedly "with" online play, although no further information was provided.

Ubisoft today announced that its upcoming flight sim combat Pacific Fighters will launch with a multiplayer mode that will allow up to 128 players to participate in live online aerial dogfights. In addition, cooperative play and dynamic online campaigns are also available for up to 32 players.

Codemasters has released the Colin McRae Rally 2005 multiplayer demo featuring the Peugeot 206, a Swedish and German stage with varying weather condtions. Read more for download links...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl brings to life the actual Chernobyl terrain in the year 2012 - six years after a mysterious second explosion rocks the landscape. As a "stalker" exploring the vast "Exclusion Zone" to procure artifacts for the black market, players must survive mutant creatures, dangerous anomalous areas, competing "stalkers" and a military charged with quarantining the 30 square kilometer area.

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 ...

Techland's Xpand Rally demo features two cars (each with two different paintings) and three different tracks. Players will have two game modes to choose: Simulation and Arcade. The Xpand Rally MP Demo enables you to adjust main components of the car. Due to this feature the player is not only able to have the car match the road conditions, but also to his individual preferences. The Demo lets you to host an Internet or a LAN game.

Quazal and Sammy Studios today announced their partnership to bring online multiplayer to Sammy Studios' highly-anticipated cinematic first-person western shooter, “Darkwatch.” Read more for details ...

Techland announced today that Xpand Rally MP Demo will be postponed until August 26, 2004. “Although it's just a demo version, we want to give players as good product as possible, so we have decided to delay the release of the Xpand Rally MP demo a bit. This additional time will allow us to polish the demo to the stage we originally wanted”, says Pawel Marchewka - Xpand Rally Executive Producer.

Arena Wars is a completely new kind of 3D Real Time Strategy game, combining the gameplay principles and interface from RTS games with the fast pace of action-based shooters. Ascaron has released the English SP/MP demo's for exDream Entertainment's sci-fi 3D RTS game Arena Wars. Read more for download links ...

Dreamcatcher has released a new demo for People Can Fly's FPS Painkiller. This multiplayer demo has the latest v1.3 code, features 2 maps (DM_ cursed & DM_Sacred) and 2 gameplay modes (Free For All and The Light Bearer). Read more for download links ...

Interplay today reported operating results for the first quarter of 2004. Interplay Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Herve Caen also announced the company's strategic decision to enter Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) with Interplay's wholly owned intellectual properties, namely Fallout (thanks Blues). Read more for details ...

Ubisoft announces a PlayStation 2 multiplayer tournament to celebrate the launch of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow for the PlayStation 2.

Launching for PC on July 2nd, Soldiers allows you to handpick your troops from your real-life mates and team up with three buddies as a crack squad and play through any of the tactical action missions in the campaign. Complementing the strong single-player game, co-operative multiplayer affords all-new gameplay possibilities, vastly increasing the tactical options available to the players. Read more for details & screens...

Vivendi has released the Ground Control II: Operation Exodus multiplayer demo featuring two tutorial missions, three online multiplayer maps and one single player map from the previously released single player demo. The demo also provides an introduction to Massgate, Massive Entertainments proprietary gaming lobby, where gamers can host games, join on current games and chat with other Ground Control II gamers from across the globe. Read more for download links ...

KumaWar, the revolutionary new online game service that allows players to experience re-creations of real world military events weeks after they occur via advanced gaming technology, has launched a pack of three tactical exercises designed for multiplayer and created by Kuma military advisor Staff Sergeant Dan Snyder and a team of award winning multiplayer map designers. Read more for info & screens...

Codemasters has released a multiplayer demo for K-D Lab's Perimeter, a real-time strategy game built on the concept of territory seizure using detailed terraforming and on the subsequent encircling of these zones with a special protective perimeter. The multiplayer demo includes a tutorial and two maps for four-player tactical battles over LAN or online play. Read more for download links ...

Codename: PANZERS will not only with thrill you with its 30 exciting singleplayer missions, but also with a multiplayer mode that'll knock your socks off!! Along with the familiar modes like Assault, Skirmish and Deathmatch, two other modes (2 player Coop & Domination mode) will put PANZERS players to the test. Read more for details ...

Dreamcatcher has announced that the anticipated Painkiller multiplayer demo will be released May 3rd and the demo will allow players to blow each other to bits in two modes: the self-explanatory Deathmatch and Voosh, a Deathmatch variation where players are given random weapons--but unlimited ammo--for a limited time. It will also feature two maps: DM-Sacred and DM-Cursed and will include all the updates and optimizations from the upcoming 1.1 patch (thanks Gamespot ). The Painkiller 1.1 patch will support the new NVIDIA 6800 cards with Pixel Shader 3.0 effects as well as improve the netcode, but has been delayed a few days as it seems (was expected today).

Pterodon has released another new multiplayer beta map for their tactical shooter Vietcong. This 'Prophet' map supports the ATG, CTF (including bot support), DM and TDM game modes. Read more for screens & download links ...

Novalogic has released the first patch for their Joint Operations multplayer demo addressing server stability, game fixes and weapon balancing. Read more for detailed fix list and download links ...

Codemasters has released a new demo for their racing title Colin McRae Rally 04. This demo is the same as the previous version, featuring the Citroen Xsara and the USA, Japan, Finland tracks, but now also has multiplayer capabilities enabled for up to 8 players. Read more for download links ..