There are a plethora of playable demos for gamers to try out this week including Trine, New Star Soccer 4, The Battle for Westnoth, Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships, ArmA 2, P.U.R.E., Alien Arena 2009, Crazy Cooking and Hell Throne Lepteria as well as the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince demo featured earlier this week. There’s also a  demo out for the Axis and Allies World at War mod WW2Total.

Mac users can download The Battle for Westnoth and Warzone 2100 for Mac OS X. Linux fans haven’t been left out of the line up. You can snag the Alien Arena 2009 Linux demo.

Links and details on all demos follow the jump.

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Return to Mysterious Island 2, Anno 1404 Dawn of Discovery, All Aspect Warfare, Circuit Defenders and Superstars V8 Racing all have demos out for you to try in your summer free time. Find a comfortable spot get ready to exercise your right to try before you buy.

Return to Mysterious Island 2 puts a modern day spin on Jules Verne’s classic novel “Mysterious Island.”  Following in the footsteps of Captain Memo you’ll switch between Mina and her monkey pal Jep as you race to save all life on the island from an ecological threat. Catch the adventure in the Return to Mysterious Island 2 Playable Demo.

In case you missed the goods on the Anno 1404 Dawn of Discovery Playable Demo earlier this week, this gorgeous real time strategy demo is available tailored for the US and the UK as well as in German, and French.

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After a renewed start we had an interruption these last few weeks but rest assured Filefront is still hosting and promoting all the great user created and hosted content contributed to us. We return with a double length post highlighting some great mods and files for quite a few outstanding games including usual suspects like Half-Life 2, the Battlefield games and of course one of my favorite series “that I am really no good at yet still enjoy” – Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War

Highlights from this week’s column include mods for:

• Doom III – Wrathchild Act I (not ROE compatible), Revised Alphalabs
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – A Provost of the Nine Divines, More Nord Beards
• Battlefield 2 – Operation Peacekeeper, Allies Intent Extended
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R – Ballistics Mod
• Far Cry 2 – new maps: MP_Surf & Gold Rush

There are also links to other maps, mods and patches for many of your favorite PC modifiable games. Be sure to check it all out after the jump.

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Its been a few weeks since we had an Open File installment but things are still happening on the many Filefront affiliated websites so without further delay we jump into this weeks edition. The files listed in this feature are selected by the Filefront Hosted Site admins and each week we highlight the most exciting add ons, maps or mods for some of the hottest games in the PC gaming universe. Before linking to the various files and maps for your favorite games its time for a little news.

First, we have a change coming to one of the file sites – namely FarCryFiles. With the announcement and upcoming release of Far Cry 2, the site is taking its first steps to adopt a new name – FarCryFiles will soon become FarCry2Files. This change will combine the current content for Far Cry with the files aimed at its upcoming sequel.

Second, for those who missed it, Stargateworlds.filefront.com has news about the upcoming Stargate MMO on their news page including the release data announcement. Anyone interested in this in-development game should follow the link to find out how SG-1 and the universe of Stargate will become a Massively Multiplayer Game.

Now On to the Files for this week where we feature:

Links and descriptions follow after the break.

(I did not write these descriptions BTW so the typos are maintained from the original submissions but I have made some edits to make them more readable.)

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Another week, another visit to The Open File, our weekly highlight of Filefront.com’s hosted content. Each week we look at a few mods, maps or movies submitted as best in show by our dedicated hosted file team leaders. This week we have:

• Two maps from LivingDeadJedi for Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
• A new faction of Jedi masters enter KotoR with The Brotherhood of Shadow
• An add on for Doom3-Resurrection of Evil that brings Doom3 Base compatibility to the expansion
• A return trip to Command & Conquer Red Alert with a distinctly different view, thanks to the A Path Beyond mod

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Here at Gaming Today, we always welcome the opinions of our readers. After all, we possess a very opinionated staff. And as far as news sites go these days, equally opinionated in content. I feel if you’re going to give some love, why not accept some love in return? So you can imagine our pleasure when one of our companion sites joins in on the fray.

Fear Files‘ Death Dream has given a most excellent break down of the new Project Origin Trailer. I covered news of the trailer earlier, but in all honesty, I simply jotted down the first few things that came in my mind within my first couple of viewings. The F.E.A.R. storyline is somewhat vague and confusing, even for me. In fact, the only events I can properly recall in the F.E.A.R. expansion Extraction Point were meeting a seemingly resurrected Paxton Fattel in a church, blowing up a bunch of pillars in a subway, being freaked out in a maternity ward, and having an anti-climatic battle on the rooftop. Perhaps I need to have a second go?

Death Dream, however, has taken it to the next level (and perhaps more) by dissecting the near minute of gameplay footage given in the Project Origin Trailer. Here is an excerpt taken from Death Dream’s critique:

For the time being let’s say that it is someone from the past and the guy on the bench is the main character you play. The only reason I say this is that both the arms of this guy on the bench and the arms holding the gun in the first person view look the same. Then half way into the trailer we see the guy kick over a bench and you see his knees, again these are the same knees as the guy on the bench. This is a real long shot since there are many white guys in the game but it is worth throwing the idea out there. Then this leaves open the question who is the guy watching over the surgery and Alma as this goes on? It shouldn’t be Fettel because the younger version of Alma seemed to be against him in the Extraction Point expansion. This doesn’t leave many options open and could be a new character watching over the whole situation. With that out of the way let’s say the main character you play is now the guy watching the surgery, this really leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Why are they working on that guy? Who is he? What importance does he serve to Alma? There are just to many questions to try to answer with what little information we currently have. So for the rest of my review I will go from the view point that the guy on the bench is the main character.

Quite a perceptive observation there. I certainly took the trailer more at face value. I think I’ve been inspired to have a second go at F.E.A.R. & expansion.

So if you are F.E.A.R. fan, definitely check out Death Dream’s compendium to the Project Origin Trailer (link below).

Project Origin Trailer and Tear Down @ Fear Files

The Open file returns this week. This feature highlights some of the great files hosted on the various Filefront user communities. The files are selected by the site admins and each week we highlight the most exciting add ons, maps or mods for some of the hottest games in the PC gaming universe.

This week we have:

Excruciating detail on each of these files follows after the jump.

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The Open File returns after a short break with some interesting new mods.

This week we explore revisit the Great Bird of the Galaxy’s playground with a mod for Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, then we take a side trip into a galaxy far, far away with two files for Jedi Academy (one of which introduces a very peculiar sort of beer guzzling bending robot to the game) and last but certainly not least we visit the thug infested streets of San Andreas with a mod that promises to make the streets less safe.

The Open File is our chance to highlight some of the outstanding content submitted by the community to our game oriented “files” sites. The suggestions for each week’s picks are submitted by the administration teams of the various sites and chosen by the Gaming Today staff. If you have a mod, map or other interesting game related file you’d like to see mentioned here you can submit it to gamintoday@filefront.com – but be sure to include “The Open File” in the subject name of your submission.

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The Open File returns this week with a spotlight on 4 new files from the FileFront network sites. These choice maps and mods are recommended to FileFront and Gaming Today readers by the folks who run the various Files sites in the FileFront family.

This week we have:

• A new beta mod for Battlefield 2142 that promises some wildly different future warfare
• A modification for Battlefield 1942 that throws reality out the window for a little added fun
• A mod for Warhammer 40K Dawn of War: Dark Crusade that reestablishes the balance in the Gothic future.
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