Left 4 Dead Demo Confirmed, Coming Next Month?

Valve’s mastermind Gabe Newell has confirmed a playable demo of Left 4 Dead for both PC and Xbox360 platforms. The demo will contain the first part of one of four campaign movies. The demo will showcase both co-operative play and single player. Mr Newell couldn’t a tell solid release date for the demo, however, given the game’s November 21st launch, we’d reckon we should be seeing it sometime in October.

No Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway PC Demo?

It appears that Gearsoft themselves realise the mediocrity of Hell’s Highway as Randy Pitchford is uncertain whether PCs will see a demo:

We are 100 per cent certain there will be a demo for Xbox 360, 99 per cent certain there will be a demo for PS3, and about 50 per cent certain there will be a demo for PC

Devil May Cry 4 PC Demo & Benchmark Tool Released

Capcom has released the PC demo of Devil May Cry 4; The latest in Devil May Cry franchise. Alongside the demo, Capcom has also released Devil May Cry 4 Benchmark tool that allows one to stress their system with DirectX9 and DirectX10 graphics.

The demo is 10 minutes long, looks visually solid and includes a boss fight!

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Race Driver: GRID PC Demo Released

After the one day delay, Codemasters have released the playable PC demo for Race Driver: GRID.

Offering 3 events to compete in. The eBay Motors Muscle Cup sees you taking the wheel of a Ford Mustang GT-R and the streets of San Francisco, the Advan International Trophy hands you a Nissan S15 Silvia and your playground is Yokohama Docks, and the Euro Touring Car Series provides some old-school tin-top thrills with a BMW 320si touring car and the sweeping curves and hairpins of Jaram.

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Race Driver: GRID PC Demo Delayed

A demo of Codemaster’s Race Driver: GRID was due this week, however, the PC version of the demo has been pushed back. No clarifications regarding the delay have been made.

UEFA Euro 2008 Demo

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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Postmortem: Infinity Ward

The latest issue of Game Developer magazine features a cover story on the making of Call of Duty 4. Infinity Ward discusses why they switched to a modern setting as well as the bombing failure of the PC demo. Here’s a snip provided by Gamasutra:

“Call of Duty 4 was Infinity Ward’s third Call of Duty game, and as such we approached it knowing we needed to do something fresh. We don’t want to pigeonhole ourselves any more than we have to, and many members of the team came off Call of Duty 2 promising never to work on another WWII game.

We tried several different directions, many of which were failures, but the ultimate result was the best game any of us have ever worked on. As a game development experience, it seemed to go so smoothly that it was difficult to come up with five things that went wrong…

Coming off Call of Duty 2, we knew we wanted to do something different for our next game. We don’t agree with some critics who say that WWII as a genre is dead, but we couldn’t muster the same passion for the subject that we had in our first three WWII games (Call of Duty 1 and 2 and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault).

We had a few ideas that we wanted to do and eventually settled on two. One was Modern Warfare, and the other was a new project.”

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