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You like Guitar Hero? Sure you do. The entire northern hemisphere does (and Australia, too). If you’ve been gnawing at the bit to get your hands on Guitar Hero III, but simply can NOT wait for Activision to release the demo, you’re not entirely out of luck.

Activision has announced that a demo of Guitar Hero III will be packaged in with Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground. This means, ladies and dudes, that you could get your Guitar Hero III fix as early as October 9th! But wait! What songs will be included, you ask?

• Priestess - “Lay Down”
• Pearl Jam - “Even Flow”
• Tenacious D - “The Metal”
• “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” as made famous by Pat Benatar
• “Rock You Like a Hurricane” as made famous by Scorpions

• You can read the full press release after the break if you want, but then you’ll be losing out on valuable practice time to prepare for GHIII. So get at it!

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No one can deny that the first demo for BlackSite: Area 51 was short. Damn short. I blew through it in less than ten minutes. However, shortly after my eighth or ninth run through the demo an employee working on BlackSite posted on an IGN blog that Midway intended to release a second, longer demo closer to the game’s launch.

Michael Jones, producer of BlackSite: Area 51, confirmed that the next demo for the upcoming FPS will include Multiplayer, and could even possibly have cooperative play.

“The previous demo was a short one, it was just a teaser. The demo next month may have co-op and there will be multiplayer components to the demo.”

When asked about a possible release date for the demo, Jones said we could expect the demo “next month”. Now, if you don’t mind me, I’m going to go cash a $5 in for quarters and play the original Arcade classic.

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CharlieOscarDelta.com has opened up the first wave of availablity to get into playing the COD4 Beta via their forums. The above screenshot was taken by me last night, which was just a sign that they were making sure their servers were set to handle the amount of traffic the site was going to get for all you players going to sign up for the Beta. Well, I was right, and it is up, they require answering some questions and sending off an email. Here is their official rules:

Copy and paste the text below into an email to , fill in the answers and send it in. Make sure you copy and paste the text below EXACTLY otherwise your email may be lost. Now here’s the email:

Gamertag:

Location (city, state, country):

CharlieOscarDelta username (if you have one):

Rank on CharlieOscarDelta:

What is the current level cap for the beta:

What button do you press to activate your streak rewards (radar, airstrike, etc):

What button do you press to use your weapon attachments or explosives (m203, c4, etc):

What’s your all time favorite multi-player game (for reals):

Want the answers, here you go:

Level cap = 11

Streak rewards = Right on d-pad

Weapon Attachments = left on d-pad

If you aren’t registered on CharlieOscarDelta.com, go there now so you can answer what your rank and user name there is. Then keep an eye on this page for more ways to get in when or if they see fit.

Mid-September. That is the date Sega has given as a release date for their demo to their upcoming uber-sexy Sega Rally Revo.

This news is taken from a video on YouTube, curtesy of the British Gaming Blog, that you can see after the break. However, I am going to warn you here and now that the way the video is edited, it is very easy to get confused and think that they’re referring to another of their upcoming games, The Club.

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Skate., the next apparent rival to Tony Hawk’s skateboarding juggernaut, now has a demo on Xbox LIVE. So, if you can pull yourself away from BioShock long enough to download it, give it a twirl and tell us what you think.

…who the hell am I kidding. No one is even reading this. You’re all on BioShock, aren’t you?!

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EA has announced today that their demo for the next installment in the Medal of Honor franchise, Medal of Honor: Airborne, will be released onto the Xbox LIVE Marketplace on Thursday, August 23rd 2007.

The demo will be the mission entitled “Operation Husky”, where you will play through a mission as a member of the 82nd Airborne on their first combat jump. After taking out four anti-aircraft gund, you are sent out to rendezvous with a group of Airborne troopers at the edge of a nearby villiage. After that, some Nazis come strolling around, blah, blah.

I would go into further detail, but alas we all realize that no one is going to download this simply because of the 1-2 punch of the BioShock demo, and Madden.

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As I wait for the greatest game ever to grace us with its precense on Xbox Live, of course I speak of Hexic 2 coming tomorrow (not “some cell phone game” as another writer would leave you to believe!), I am now presented with the great news that I bring to you right away, Beautiful Katamari demo is now available for your gaming pleasure. If you haven’t played this on PS2 (I can embarrassingly say I haven’t), then now is your chance to see what all the craze is about with this very quirky title. Coming in at a very nice 432mb, you too can be enjoying this in about 5-10 minutes from now, so, get to downloading so you can roll everything up in a ball!

You know that “rumor” regarding the ever-dreamy Geoff Keighley and Bioshock? Well, we now know what the super-secret info Mr. Keighley was holding onto was: the demo for Bioshock is now available for download on Xbox LIVE.

Oh, and there was this spiffy trailer.

So there you go, people — now, get off your computer and download the damn thing!

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The servers are melting. Paco spilled his cola on the keyboard. JW’s out back trying to wrangle the horses. In short, we’re all kinds of FUBAR, so we may not be able to update as much as we’d like today.

Sorry, peeps. We’ll be back soon.

Major Nelson announced today on his blog that the absolutely MASSIVE Stranglehold Demo is now available for mass consumption on Xbox LIVE. If you haven’t heard of Stranglehold, I’ll sum it all up for you right now: It’s a sequel to the insane action film “Hard Boiled” starring Chow Yun Fat as Inspector Tequila.

The Demo will allow you, as Tequila, to run-and-gun to your heart’s delight through a fully destructable Hong Kong marketplace, raining death upon all those who dare to cross you.

One bit of warning, however. If you haven’t upgraded to the 120GB Hard Drive, this one is going to hurt you a bit, as the Stranglehold Demo weighs in at a rather stout 1.28GB. So you may want to make sure you’ve deleted some crap you don’t need anymore, like that Call of Juarez saved game you’re just never going to finish.

[Major Nelson]

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Back in May I had once gave you vital information on how to get this game off of the Japanese Live Marketplace (Thanks to Nick Chester of DESTRUCTOID), now, there is no need for that. Major Nelson has announced the availability of this game for the U.S. and Canada! So go ahead and check your emails and your Myspace and etc etc later, get on your 360 now and enjoy. Here is my short review of the demo from May, I am now off myself to redownload this and see if my opinion has changed from when I had played it last.

(Note: Also, for the non U.S. audience, a demo of Vampire Rain has also been made available… but c’mon.. who cares.. Trusty Bell awaits!)

There has been a lot of controversy regarding a recently posted rumor regarding SEGA’s possible Tokyo Game Show line-up. Now, I was originally very defensive of this piece because of who sent it in. He, a long-time go-to guy named Rob, has sent me exclusive tips for four years, and until this most recent one, they were ALL accurate.

Regardless, after the link had been posted by reader “Cedge”, I immediately contacted Rob via GoogleIM.

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Skate, due for release on September 12th, will be releasing a demo of the game on the 15th of this month. I am somewhat excited. I love the Tony Hawk series for its complete unrealism, Skate is the game wanting to go the opposite direction, and I will admit I am curious to see how it will play. Plus, competition in genres is a very good thing to ensure that the games themselves can evolve (I am still waiting for someone to compete with Tiger Woods, to either out-do it, or help motivate EA to do something to that franchise to spice it up). Included on the Skate demo will be the video editing feature, where you can record and share footage from the game of you skating (something other companies actually charge for!).

For Call of Duty 4, the demo is going to be done in a semi-private beta form. Though open to the public, it will be a first come first serve basis if you can answer some trivia question at their site, Charlie Oscar Delta .com. The beta will include three maps and a lot of other features that I could make a whole post about just in itself. So check out their site, make it your start page for your browser, as they haven’t announced a specific date when this will all start, but it is “Coming Soon.” (Need a reminder on why you need to get in this beta, click this)

[Skate = DESTRUCTOID | Call of Duty 4 = Xbox360Fanboy]

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With both titles seeing a release this month (just pretend its already August, okay!), it has been announced by Midway that Stranglehold will be getting a demo. However, on the Bioshock side of things, it is more Internet Matlockery that has produced the information that the German USK board (basically their ESRB) shows an age rating of 18 for a demo of the game that is “due for imminent release.” Keep in mind that not all games get their demo’s out before the actual release, two recent examples were The Darkness and Shadowrun, and I really don’t think that Bioshock is a game that needs to have a demo to get people excited about it.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Major Nelson would like you to know that the demo for NASCAR 08 is now available for download on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

For those of you who have yet to play a NASCAR title, let me boil things down for you: You pick one of four car types (Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Ford Fusion, Dodge Charger, Toyota Camry), and drive around in circles of various sizes. While the formula usually has you turning left, every once in a while you’ll get to turn right, which is surely the most exciting aspect of any NASCAR game.

…what I’m trying to say is, don’t waste your time or hard drive space. If you’re a NASCAR fan, you’ll just buy the game. If you’re not a NASCAR fan, you’ll find this to be the most redundant racer EVER.

[Major Nelson]

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