On this week’s BitCast you can listen to me verbally SPOOGE all over this demo or you can go back and read how I can verbosely SPOOGE all up in it. Now you can see for yourself what I’m so hot and bothered over since you can now download the demo on both the PC and the 360. DO IT NOW and meet me on Steam or on Live and we’ll blow the heads off some friggin’ zombies together.

One of the biggest gambles to kick off E3 this year was Microsoft’s decision to put a playable demo of Too Human up on Live. Were the critics at E307 right? Was the constant stalling of release date and the recent attack dog face on Silicon Knights founder Denis Dyack indicative of a knowingly botched product? Or did Dyack and crew pull it together when it came time to put up or shut up? Hit the jump for impressions from Jim and Kevin: Continue Reading »

Don’t feel like waiting until next week to get your Indy fix in theatres? Good news! The PC demo for LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is out now, available exclusively through GamesForWindows.com. Regular readers know I haven’t really been a fan of this whole LEGO thing (the Star Wars games controlled like a rutterless asshole imo) — but still, the trailers have me uber-excited about living in Indy’s world. Whip > lightsaber. ‘Nuff said.

Looks like this’ll run on both Vista and XP, thank god. I’m downloading it now. If you’re any kind of a man you should be too. Full presser after the jump;

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Just a reminder for those of you that were too lazy to set up a Japanese PSN account last month and get your hands on the import demo (Dan, I’m looking in your direction), the Echochrome demo is hitting the PlayStation store today.

Want to know our impressions? Check out Ryan’s review of last months Japanese demo here. Already played it? Check out these new screens over at Kotaku that show how blisteringly difficult this game is going to get.

ShackNews says that Free Radical’s new shooter Haze will have a demo released to the PlayStation Network on May 23. I was gratified to see that said demo will contain both a single-player section as well as a 4-player co-op mode. That particular mode has been unique to Halo 3 thus far in the console world.

Haze has had a bit of a rocky history in the press, with various mutations of the title’s PS3-only status fluctuating over time. As it stands now, it looks like it will remain an exclusive (although with UbiSoft you never know. Maybe they’ll release a fucked-up, DRM-riddled mockery of the game like they did with Assassin’s Creed for Windows).

Free Radical has also delayed the game at least twice, which had many wondering about the game’s polish. It hasn’t always been received so well at the various press events, often being described as a lukewarm Halo-wannabe. At the same time, I do believe in the developer’s pedigree. TimeSplitters was great.

I’m still really curious about this game. I like what I hear about the asymmetrical combat between the rebels and the Mantel troopers. A demo could go a long way to redeeming it for a skeptical audience, if it delivers the goods.