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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If you’re looking for something to get you through hump day,  Anno 1404 has a playable demo up for Anno 1404 Dawn of Discovery. The full version of Ubisoft’s real-time strategy set in the Orient includes a fully modifiable sandbox mode. As you can see from the screen above it’s a beautifully detailed game with lots to build with.

You can find the Anno 1404 Dawn of Discovery playable demo featured on File Front  for the US and the UK as well as in German, and French.

Those rascally rabbids are preparing for an exodus as Rabbids Go Home. This sequel to the Wii game that had players dancing with rabbids and practicing their cow flinging has the rabbids climbing back home to the moon as they build their own precarious Tower of Babel. There are two trailers out from E3 for this fresh storyline.

First up is the Rabbids Go Home E3 2009 Trailer which gives gamers a closer look into a lunatic world overrun with rabbids.

I love that the devs wasted no time in getting the US president to contribute to the rabbids’ march to the moon.

The RGH Inside the Wii Remote Trailer features gameplay elements as rabbids invade your Wiimote, unwittingly putting themselves at you mercy. This is one of the funnier more memorable moments from E3. It reminds me of JoeCartoon’s gerbil. Torturing and customizing your own rabbid to use inside the game? Definitely a win. Catch it after the break.

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Nintendo is rolling out its E3 2009 line at noon today. Yes videogames have come up in the world of entertainment, dominating movie and music. Nintendo promises a new leap forward in game control and several new Mario adventures to go with. The Nintendo team is adding more hard core game s to it’s line-up including some developed in house. Keep up with all latest here.
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Today Ubisoft announced a publishing agreement to release the special edition of Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars for both the Wii and Nintendo DS. Game titled Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – The Director’s Cut willbe building on the original game with a new narrative added to the first story along with new puzzles, and animated facial expressions drawn by Dave Gibbons–the artist behind the comic book and upcoming movie, Watchmen.

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – The Director’s Cut starts with the player in control of a Parisian photo-journalist Nicole Collard, who witnesses the murder of one of Paris’s richest and most influential statesmen. During her investigations, which feature exclusive new locations, Nico meets an American named George Stobbart, who is involved in the theft of an ancient manuscript. Together, they are drawn into a conspiracy rooted in a long-forgotten medieval legend.

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – The Director’s Cut is scheduled for release on Wii and Nintendo DS in March 2009.

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The November NPD numbers are in for PC titles for the month, and it should come as no surprise that World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is on top–as a matter of fact it takes the top two spots out of the Top 20. If you look through the whole chart though, you will notice that World of Warcraft took five spots which is an indication that its popularity shows no wane in sight.

Call of Duty: World at War for the PC came in third, with Spore still pulling in the gamers and resting at number four, and Left 4 Dead took the number 8 spot which is a decent slot considering the PC powerhouses that are present on the chart.

1. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
2. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector’s Edition
3. Call of Duty: World At War
4. Spore
5. Fallout 3
6. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
7. The Sims 2 Deluxe
8. Left 4 Dead
9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
10. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
11. World of Warcraft
12. The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff Expansion
13. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy
14. EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey
15. Far Cry 2
16. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
17. BioShock
18. Spore Creepty & Cute Parts Pack
19. IGT Slots: Little Green Men
20. Assassin’s Creed

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Ubisoft has listened to PC gamers over the past year and figured out that they hate DRM. So the company is releasing the retail version of Prince of Persia with no DRM. The Steam digital download of PoP will still be locked into Steam’s authentication system. It sounds really good on paper, but is Ubisoft really doing this for the PC gamers’ benefit?

The community manager of the Ubisoft Prince of Persia site has told ars technica that the move to publish DRM free is a challenge to those PC pirates who claim they would buy the title if it weren’t for the DRM. He says has no faith that these gamers will put their money where their mouth is and expects to see figures on piracy of PoP to come in higher than ever.

It’s a pretty good strategy on Ubisoft’s part. If gamers buy the PC DRM version of PoP, then Ubisoft makes money. If they don’t then Ubisoft can say I told you so and justify putting DRM on future titles. Read the full article, PC Prince of Persia contains no DRM. It’s a trap!, on ars technica for all the sordid details.

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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A new article on ExtremeTech pits antivirus software against some of the most demanding PC games around. AVG Free, BitDefender (GameDefender edition), Kaspersky and Norton (Gaming Edition) each face off against Crysis, Company of Heroes, Far Cry 2, Supreme Commander and World in Conflict.

ExtremeTech compared the performance of each game on a control system with and without each of the antivirus programs running. Between performance and price points you can get a fairly good idea of which of these software options are best for your gaming PC. Check out the final results from Gaming Performance Versus Antivirus Software on ExtremeTech.

There’s a new video podcast with an objective look at Ubisoft’s Shaun White Snowboarding up on ChannelFlip.

Comedian Eddie Izzard says in his Dressed to Kill tour, “…there’s only two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool; the second is DEAD!” For gamers who want to get into some extreme winter sports without losing life and limb or freezing bits off, this looks like it could be a good compromise. Get an idea of how the videogame measures up to the great expectations set by Shaun White’s reputation as podcast host Katharine Fletcher reviews Shaun White Snowboarding on the Xbox 360.