Short and sweet. Not words that gamers like to associate with demos, but to be fair, they can’t all be like Darksiders and Just Cause 2. However short as it is though, the Splinter Cell: Conviction demo, just released on Xbox Live, makes up for it by being sweeter than 12 sugar packets liberally sprinkled over a slab of milk chocolate. We’ve seen the videos...

Open world games are very good at instilling a general level of madness and carnage as it can feel as though everyone and their rabid dog is out to get you. GTA often sends wave after wave of suicidal policemen your way who appear to have no desire to experience their children growing up, and Far Cry 2 has an entire nation of people turn against you for no...

Square Enix London announced an astounding, action packed demo for the highly anticipated sandbox action game, Just Cause 2. The demo is set to free fall on March 4, 2010 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. If your unfamiliar with the newest iteration in this franchise, here’s a brief overview. You play as Rico Rodriquez, and you’re sent to the island of...

Feb 26, 2010

Has Dragon’s Lair come of age? That’s the question I ask myself when playing the Heavy Rain Demo. Now demos always send us mixed messages. With one voice they invite us to “try”, nay, “trial the game”. “See how it plays”. “See if you like it”. At the same time they issue a statement saying that “the demo is not reflective of the...

Apocalyptic horsey hack and slasher, Darksiders (with a CG review score of 8/10) is getting a very generous sounding 90 minute demo on Xbox Live and PSN later this month on February 25. The demo contains the entire first dungeon from the game, the Twilight Cathedral, complete with puzzles to solve, equipment to find and bosses to cut down in to chunks so tiny,...