Demo News

If you got a Kinect for Crimbo, you may well be looking for more games to lean and wave in, especially games for growed-ups wot got blood and guts and stuff. You'll certainly find innards in Sega's Rise of Nightmares, which received a demo today.

Gears of War 3 has been out for a while and Christmas is behind us, so those who'd buy it sight unseen have probably already done so. Enter a demo, to court those weird weirdoes who prefer to actually "play" a video game before coughing up $60.

Have you forgotten about id's latest shooter, Rage? If you haven't given it a chance yet, you'll be able to sample some mega-texture fun with a free downloadable demo on Xbox Live.

Any RTS player worth their salt knows that time is a valuable resource, but rarely as literally as in Achron. Developer Hazardous Software has now released a demo of the time-travelling RTS and cut its price.

After a whistlestop tour of the past, city-building strategy series Anno (aka Dawn of Discovery) is preparing to blast off into the future with Anno 2070. Ubisoft is giving a taste of that gleaming future today in a demo out now.

With The Lord of the Rings: War in the North now in stores, you may be wondering where the demo is. Turns out, the only one is on OnLive.

Demos, downloadable content, and a web-based storefront are coming to the Nintendo 3DS eShop, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed during his latest financial results briefing.

If you've got chills, they're multiplying, and you suspect you may be losing control, do not panic. You see, the power the Grease Dance demo for Xbox 360 Kinect is supplying today is, quite simply, electrifying.

You'll be able to get an early look of Mass Effect 3 via a pre-release downloadable demo this January. To secure early access to the demo, you'll want to buy Battlefield 3.

A second demo for Sonic Generations is coming very soon, and this time, you'll be able to play as the taller, cooler, lock-on-ier Modern Sonic.

A three-level PC demo has arrived for Robot Entertainment's action-y tower defense game Orcs Must Die! ahead of its release on XBLA tomorrow and PC next week.

The downloadable demo of Need for Speed: The Run hits Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on October 18.

As promised, the Forza 4 demo launched today, letting Xbox Live Gold members take a spin on the new Bernese Alps track in five cars and three events.

Paradox Interactive has released a demo for its grand strategy game set in feudal Japan, letting you lead a samurai clan following the collapse of the Ashikaga Shoguns. The full game launches tomorrow.

Developer Flying Wild Hog released a demo for Hard Reset, its cyberpunk shooter due out next week. We've got the standalone file for download or it can be had on Steam.