I did not do my normal Saturday post last week because covering E3 assets and the like basically beat me down to a bruised and battered version of my former self. Therefore, I was completely a.w.o.l. last Saturday ans was dog tired with good reason. So, today, I have decided to combine the past two weeks into one post, and instead of covering all the demos and patches for each week, I will instead just post the ones with the highest amount of downloads – which basically means the most popular ones. Honestly, during E3 week we did not get many in anyway, so the list should be relatively short as usual.

Demos:

• Lights of Dreams V2.25: This is the demo version V2.25 of Lights of Dreams : The Angelical Blade.It is free to play. Play as Xylvan to find a way to save the future Earth of 3800. Walk, Run, Jump Fly in 50(3 available in the demo) flowers and grass vasts inspirationnal worlds to find 10 Spheres, 11 Parchements and 10 uniques Elements and more than 20 unique items to accomplish your mission. This version provides more lifelike effects… including potion, magic, regeneration and mass attack.

• Full Metal Soccer v1.0 (Windows): The game is set inside a futuristic arena in the distant future. Each player controls his own tank from first-person-perspective and tries to achieve the primary target of every soccer game: shoot more goals than the opposing team.

• Pro Cycling Manager – Tour de France 2008 : Cyanide Studio and Focus Home Interactive are pleased to offer you the playable demo for Pro Cycling Manager 2008. This 760 MB demo, integrating the latest 1.0.1.4 patch, puts players at the head of the Euskaltel team as they race to win today’s stage of the real Tour de France 2008, the 16th stage: Cuneo – Jausiers. In the demo, your team is beginning its last week of competition before the grand final on the Champs-Élysées, but you still haven’t won any stages yet, and your sponsors are beginning to put some pressure on you to see their colours on the podium. Through this 157.4 km mountain stage, you’ll need to display all your talents as a Director of Sports to finally get the victory you need. Surrounded by the col de la Lombarde and the col la Bonette, the highest saddle point in Europe, this 16th stage will be the perfect field for the best climbers of the Tour, while the breathtaking downhills at the end of the cols ensure a spectacular end-of-stage. So it’s up to you to find the best strategy that perfectly combines the skills of your mountain specialists and prevents breakaways that could ruin your chances of victory. This Pro Cycling Manager 2008 demo will also offer players, for the first time ever, the opportunity to participate in track cycling events with a Keirin race. Face six awesome riders racing at nearly 50 kph for three laps of the most nerve-wracking and intense races during which the victory might be measured by only a wheel’s difference! Lastly, this demo also offers a tutorial mode that will help you get the best of your team during the race!

• I-Fluid: I-Fluid is an original platform game in which you control a drop of water facing various and surprising situations. Just imagine having to cross a messy schoolboy working desk while avoiding falling pens and adhesives, to get out of a generous breakfast or Mexican lunch, to cross vegetables cooking in a burning pan or to face thirsty cockroaches while being a fragile drop of water!

• X Motor Racing v1.08: An updated demo version of X Motor Racing has been released. It includes one track (highway) and one car with some physics profiles.

Here are the patches that hit FileFront within the past two weeks, other than the WoW and LotRO patches that were already covered:

• Supreme Ruler 2020 v5.2.1
• AVENCAST: Rise of the Mage v1.04
• Shadow of Legend v0.8.7.0 to v0.8.10.0
• PCM: Tour De France 2008 v1.0.1.4
• SC 2 Patton Drives East Expansion (v1.01)
• C&C 3: Kane`s Wrath SecuROM Fix
• Lost Empire: Immortals v1.03 to v1.05
• Frontlines: Fuel of War v1.1.1 (US/Euro)
• Sword of the Stars: Born of Blood v1.5.3

As always, for the full list of demos and patches, click here and here. See you next week.

Another week has passed and that means I get to give you the regular list of wonderful demos and patches. Today, I cannot go much into the ins and outs of the week because I have to take my dog to his training class. Lately, he has not been minding very well and is chasing the cows and horses. Normally the fence would block the annoyance, but I would rather him learn to mind me than get kicked in the head. Plus, all he does is look at me like I am stark raving mad when I scold him. Damn dog.

Anyway, here is what hit FileFront in the way of demos this week, the most popular of which was the GRID demo with the one for LEGO Indiana Jones coming in second and Mount and Blade third.

• Heresy War- Bear in mind that this is a product in development and what you are seeing is not final product quality.What is Heresy War? Heresy War is a combat space simulator set in a future where the humanity has reborn from the ashes after a catastrophic world war. The game puts the player in the cockpit of the most technologically advanced fighters in the human military fleet (The Core) as he witnesses the start of a civil war. Gameplay features for the final version: Mission-based , story-driven gameplay, Branching non-linear campaign based on player’s actions, Intuitive interface and controls, Complete freedom across all axes, Squadron command, Sequential capital ship destruction, Self-adjusting difficulty level, Arcade and simulation control

• Battleship Chess - Combine the classic naval stategy game of Battleship with the thoughtful turn-based moves of Chess and you get Battleship Chess. Move your naval fleet of battleships, battlecruisers, destroyers and submarines in search of the enemy. Once spotted, let them have it with your guns, torpedoes and depth charges. Play this turn-based naval strategy game against computer or human opponents, online or at the same PC.

• Larva Mortus – For both Windows and Mac. Rake in Grass has released a new demo for Lava Mortus, a top down shooter, offering fast and entertaining monster-hunting gameplay.

• Supernova 2: Spacewar - For both Windows and Mac. Sci-fi strategy game featuring a main part mainly based on the macromanagement of your space empire, and a classical turn based wargame part when a fight occurs.

• Virtual Villagers: Chapter 3 – For both Windows and Mac. Embark on a new journey with a group of villagers in search of a new part of the island to populate. Land on the hidden shores of the northern side of Isola and explore what was once a secret city.

Here are the patches that hit this week, and unless you were residing in a cave in the arctic someplace, you would know that the most popular with gamers was the new WoW patch. Other patches include: Mount and Blade, GH: III for Windows and Mac, Tarr Chronicles, and Lost Empire: Immortals amongst others.

As always, for the full list of demos click here, and for patches click here. See you next week.

The release of GTA IV is just around the corner, and if you are holding out on purchasing any games because you are saving your money for Rockstar’s latest hit, then maybe a few free demos will keep you occupied in the meantime.This week, we only received seven demos and since there are so few of them, I decided to list all of them instead of just randomly picking the ones you may or may not be interested in, and you can view all of them after the break.

Patches on the other hand, ranged from WoW to The Sims 2: Free Time, and many more:

• Space Force: Rogue Universe
• Frontlines: Fuel of War
• Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
• Lost Empire: Immortals

As always for the full list of patches, click here, and be sure and read on after the break for the list of demos.

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Spring was in the air this week, I could not only feel it, but also taste it upon my winter weary lips. Despite the week starting out full of snow and traffic accidents, the sun came out and melted all the pain away. Birds were chirping, bunnies were hopping through the yard trying desperately to escape the knowing glances of my dogs, a couple of horses across the road gave birth to lovely furry babies with knees too big for their legs, and the thoughts of running away with a Clive Owen look-alike sped through my brain like a corvette drifting across an empty parking lot. Such are the stirrings that the imminent Spring weather brings to both humans and beasts alike, or maybe just mentally bored and unstable women who write about video games for a living.

Unfortunately, I am stuck inside working and there is no Clive Owen look alike within a 100,000 mile radius of me so I must instead be content to give you a rundown of the demos and patches that hit FileFront this week; although my fantasy-land, in which my doctor prescribed medication to combat, sounds much more appealing right now.

If you happened to visit the site at all this week, you would have noticed that the latest demos to arrive were Sam & Max: Chariot of the Dogs, and Lost Empire Immortals. We also received Gem Quest, Light of Dreams: The Angelic Blade, and Galactic Command: Echo Sqaud

Patches were: The Witcher, Galactic Command: Echo Squad, Lost Empire: Immortals, Larry Bonds’ Harpoon, AO: Shadowlands, S.TA.L.K.E.R., and Sins of a Solar Empire.

As always, for the full list of demos and patches click here and here.

Lost Empires: Immortals is currently shipping to stores in North America as we speak, or if you prefer you can get the game via GamersGate instead. To celebrate, Paradox Interactive ad Pollux Labs, have released a demo for their 4x strategy title, and you can get it by clicking on the badge at the end of the post.

Explore, expand, exploit and exterminate through through Lost Empire’s vast universe of galaxies and civilizations with a colossal galactic map, customizable ship construction, 3D rendered dual warfare system, multiplayer action, and a multi-nodal research tree.

For more information on Lost Empire: Immortals, check out our previous posts and be sure and check out the demo below where you will play as the Humans against the Megalanians and Horde factions. You will get to explore and colonize a single galaxy for 350 turns; but the limits to the demo include being able to construct destroyers only, and the multiplayer custom options and main game storyline are currently disabled within the demo. It should give you an idea of what to expect though, and if you decide to play the demo, let us know what you thought of it.

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Paradox Interactive confirmed today that its 4x strategy title Lost Empires: Immortals will be shipping to stores on March 11 and across European stores March 14. To mark the occasion, Paradox sent us a variety of space-borne combat and gorgeous star-system map screens for the highly anticipated successor to Pollux Gamelabs’ original game, and they look fabulous.

The huge galactic map in Lost Empire: Immortals contains over 5,000 stars of varying configurations and something new to the game is the ability to research technologies from a multilevel tree and use the leaders of your empire as archeologists, diplomats, space engineers and more.

Key features:

• Colossal Galactic Map – Explore the vastness of a fully populated macrocosm, teeming with up to 5,000 stars of varying configurations. Encounter the interstellar communities of six playable empires and twenty-eight uniquely evolved minor civilizations
• Vast Scientific Multi-nodal Research Tree – Conduct research across eleven scientific categories, branching out into 150 individual advances.
• Customize Ship Construction – Spaceship models consist of eight classes that conform to a mission type: exploration, reconnaissance, defensive patrolling, fleet interdiction and planetary invasion.
• 3D Rendered Dual Warfare System – View massive 3D rendered space battles between turns, through an action camera and adjust your strategy based on the outcomes of the space battles.
• Multiplayer Action – Invite up to ten players to play in any one game.Create attributes to ensure that no two sides play with identical races.

For more information, check out the official website and for more screenshots click here. A general description of the game is has been provided for you after the jump.

Via: Press Release 

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The newest trailer for Lost Empire: Immortals from Paradox Interactive and Pollux Gamelabs gives gamers a glimpse of not only the races you will expect to go up against in this turn-based strategy game set in space; but also the advanced ship building simulator. While the music in this trailer sounds nothing short of what you would hear in a very bad 80’s porn movie (not that I have ever watched one), it is also more of a teaser because it just shows you menu options, quick pics of the six different races (Humans, Horde, Alkiths, Tritons, Megalanians, and Crystal Spirits), and not much else really. If you are into this sort of game, you may be intrigued by the video, for those who are into something completely different, you will want to skip it. However, this 4x space strategy title is scheduled for a worldwide release in March 2008, and one thing that does interest me is the fact that it has a huge galactic map with over 5,000 stars of varying configurations. You will also be able to research technologies from a multilevel tree and use the leaders of your empire as archeologists, diplomats, space engineers and more.