Sorry about posting it so late. but anyway:

Focus Home Interactive and Frogwares are pleased to announce the English playable demo of Sherlock Holmes versus Arsène Lupin, aka Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis versus in North America and UK, the latest episode in the critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes adventure/detective franchise for PC.
This new demo contains several hours of gameplay and lets you play as the great detective Sherlock Holmes, hot on the trail of Arsène Lupin, the famous French thief, who plans to steal a precious painting at the National Gallery in London. You will have to gather clues, investigate crime scenes, interview witnesses and display all your reasoning skills to solve the puzzles left by the gentleman burglar and keep him from stealing the painting and embarrassing Scotland Yard.

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Earlier PC demo of UEFA Euro 2008 was corrupted, the proper version has been released.

The demo features a match between England and Germany

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Stardock has released a playable demo for their acclaimed RTS: Sins of a Solar Empire.

This demo gives you four tutorials, two small maps with up to two AI players, one randomly generated medium map with up to 3 AI players, and 90 minutes of playing time (single-player only).

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Ubisoft Montreal’s upcoming PC port of Assassin’s Creed has been pushed back to April 8th from the original March 28th. From the official site:

New release date information has been released for Assassin’s Creed on PC! The game will be on store shelves beginning April 8, 2008. PC gamers, mark your calendars!

No info regarding the delay has been released by Ubisoft.

With everyone throwing their two cents about piracy nowadays, it was just a matter before Stardock said it’s fair share too. One of Stardock employees made a post regarding Piracy and their recent RTS Sins of a Solar Empire:

Recently there has been a lot of talk about how piracy affects PC gaming. And if you listen to game developers, it apparently is a foregone conclusion - if a high quality PC game doesn’t sell as many copies as it should, it must be because of piracy.

Now, I don’t like piracy at all. It really bugs me when I see my game up on some torrent site just on the principle of the matter. And piracy certainly does cost sales. But arguing that piracy is the primary factor in lower sales of well made games? I don’t think so.

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Paradox Interactive, the swedish publisher, has released a playable demo of Pollux Gamelab’s upcoming 4x RTS title, Lost Empire: Immortals. The year is 4620. The Great War left the surviving civilizations close to extinction, but one hope remains. Out there among unknown solar systems lies a source of salvation: The hidden paths to the mad Goddess Enais. All civilizations, from the gigantic and fearsome beasts of the Chi Lung Dragons to the secretive and mystical cult of the Alkiths, are desperate to find the path. Planets are invaded, gigantic fleets are built, and epic space battles are fought. In this galaxy-wide conflict, you must be the strongest, you must find the path which leads to salvation, and you must regain your Lost Empire. Download links after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

As we reported earlier, Ubisoft’s upcoming PC port of (produced & pimped by Jade Raymond) Assassin’s Creed was leaked to Internet a FULL month earlier from it’s original release date. However, it seems that both releases have been nuked and the “early adopters” are unable to progress beyond level 1. Apparently, the game is missing some critical level files that cannot be fixed by a cracked exe.

serves them right, we say.