Denis Dyack’s Norse epic trilogy vaporware has finally been made corporeal with the demo that was released today on Xbox Live. The demo clocks in at a little over 1 Gb and is available to everyone but the Japanese.

What are you waiting for, quit reading blogs and go play some video games!

Everybody loves contests, and here at MEGATONik, we totally get that. That’s why we’re committed to giving as much as humanly possible to our readers.

Today, the guys at EA were nice enough to provide us with a batch of demo codes for Battlefield: Bad Company that let you play the demo before it’s officially released onto XBL and PSN on June 5th.

So, what I’m going to do is, until I run out, pick one or two people who comment on this post every so often over the next day and hook them up with these codes. Just make sure your comment says whether you want it for 360 or PS3.

Easy enough, right?

WINNERS:

SEGA announced today that a demo of their newest Marvel-based game, Iron Man, will be releasing tomorrow on the Xbox Live Marketplace. SEGA has also said that a demo for the PS3 will be coming “soon” to the PlayStation Store. Alongside the announcement, SEGA also released a new trailer for the game (extremely bad music included).

I’m pretty excited to see the release of Iron Man, being a big fan of the comic books and the superhero himself. Of course, the video game will be based on the highly anticipated movie starring Robert Downey Jr., who is also providing the voice of Iron Man in the game.

The game will be releasing on every console that’s currently accepted in today’s society, including the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS, PC, and mobile, on May 2nd.

Word of a very pretty tech demo on the PS3 hit the internet a few days ago and a bit of buzz started swarming around it. Of course, pretty and PS3 go hand in hand as we’ve seen with plenty of games coming out for it. Good, complete, non-glitchy and best version are all totally debatable descriptions of games on the system, but pretty is something that the PS3 has down pat. Still, this tech demo was rumored to be truly impressive as all the graphics were gorgeous and totally in game. Today we get some video of it, which you can see above, courtesy of Youtube and Gametrailers, and a name to go along with it: Linger in Shadows.

As a tech demo the thing is pretty impressive. Graphically it looks strikingly good and the physics are spot on. The dog looks a bit funny but it still seems really interesting. But rumor now has it that this is more then just a tech demo and is actually a game itself. If that is the case…What!? I don’t even know what could possibly be going on here to make a game. My best guess is you’d play as one of the characters shown in the beginning of the video and that the dog and the cat were just there to show off how well the system can handle hair (a true sign of any great game). Otherwise would you be battling shadows the entire time, or just robots who can’t seem to stop bumping into things? I guess it doesn’t really matter, tech demos are set up to show stuff off not make sense and the reliability of the source for this being an actual game is a bit in question. Nothing wrong with watching a very interesting tech demo though and hoping it turns out to be a truly interesting game.

When lawl first clued me into the fact that a new Battlefield beta would be arriving on the 360, I was immediately skeptical. I had never before played a Battlefield game, and from what I had heard, there was nothing special about the series. Regardless, I applied for a beta and was accepted. How does the Battlefield: Bad Company compare to other war shooter games out there? Hit the jump to find out!

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It seems that everyone and their mother (a statement usually reserved for the Wii) is rushing to download the demo for Devil May Cry 4 off of XBox Live. It has now been downloaded over 1 million times and doesn’t show signs of slowing down according to a press release we received from Capcom. This makes the demo one of the fastest to reach that number in the history of LIVE with an average of 25,000 downloads a day since it went live on Jan. 24. That be a lot of downloading.

In case you’re worried all these people downloading the demo aren’t buying the game, Capcom also informs us that the game is selling like some sort of cake that is hot,  with plenty of retailers calling in reorders within days of the game’s release. It looks like Dante’s still got ‘it’ or maybe it’s that dreamy new guy, Nero. Well because, you know, they look so different and all.

Every week, MEGATONik will being providing our loyal readers the weekly Thursday update of the Playstation Store on the Playstation Network. Unfortunately for all of you Playstation 3 owners out there, we’re not starting on a good week. We’re not even starting on a marginal week. This week’s store update is so poor that I think I’d rather watch every season of The OC on repeat until my eyes and ears bled. Ah well, I guess that’s it for me. Hit the jump for this week’s *cough*tastic update.

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From all that I’ve heard about this game, I would have thought that it was the second coming of Christ … or, more appropriately, something like Geometry Wars, a simple Xbox Live Arcade game that took Microsoft’s online community by storm. However, after playing through the demo a number of times I have realized that this is not the case. Rez HD, unfortunate as it may seem, is nothing special, and is not worthy of your $10 investment.

… and here’s why.

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I’m not exaggerating when I say 2008 has a good Q1 lineup, and I mean a pretty damn good lineup. So in order to catch my eye, an upcoming game had better be looking like a quality investment. That said, I am really looking forward to Devil May Cry 4. I was a big fan of the originals, and DMC4 is definitely on my most anticipated games for ‘08. I’ve been waiting for the demo that is supposed to hit XBL and PSN for some time now, and that wait just got shorter. According to the Capcom website, the demo has been moved up from Jan. 31 to Jan. 24. Yup, in a land of delays, something is actually coming out sooner than expected. So, this Thursday, download the Devil May Cry 4 demo on your 360/PS3 respectively, check it out, and see if you are nabbing the full game when it is released Feb 5.

The Turok franchise has stumbled over the past few years. A series that showed so much promise on the Nintendo 64 seemed to have squandered it with lackluster showings on the consoles of the previous generation. Electronic Gaming Monthly even names their Worst of the Year Awards in memoriam of Tobias Bruckner, the racist, half-cyborg U.S Cavalry Captain from Turok: Evolution.

Despite Turok’s missteps, developer Propaganda Games is taking a new look at the dinosaur-focused series with its first installment on the newest generation of systems. Simply titled Turok, it implies a return to the franchise’s roots. Acquiring the demo took a five dollar preorder investment at Best Buy, but the preorder came with a beanie, so that’s what justifies the purchase.

Is the game solid? Does the hat fit snugly? You’ll have to hit the jump to find out.
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Last week we brought news that the Burnout Paradise demo would be coming soon for Xbox Live and Playstation Network. Today is that day! Racing fans rejoice; the next game in the action-racing series Burnout is only mere weeks away! For now, download the demo on Xbox Live or Playstation Network and get a peek of one of the most fun racing games ever made.

Earlier today, Capcom shot us a quick email highlighting the fact that Devil May Cry 4, a possible killer-app coming next year for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, will be getting an Xbox Live and Playstation Network demo earlier in the year. While the demo is not explicitly dated as of now, you can expect it to hit XBL and PSN in late January or early February, as the game is loosely slated for a February 2008 release. The demo promises to offer players a taste of the full game, like all demos should, including the different gothic locales that the game takes place in as well as the fighting style of the new protagonist, Nero.

Intrigued? You know I am. Hit the jump for the full release.

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The next addition to everyone’s favorite unrealistic racing game, Burnout Paradise, is getting a demo on Xbox Live and Playstation Network in a little more than a week. According to Criterion’s site, the demo will drop in a little more than seven days and nine hours on the 13th of December.

I can honestly say that the Burnout series is possibly one of my favorite series ever, and most certainly my favorite racing genre series ever. There is just nothing like taking down your opponents only a couple hundred feet from the checkered flag and watching them tumble through the air before exploding into a thousand pieces. The first real jump for Burnout into the next generation with Paradise will truly be a welcome addition to my, and many other fans’, gaming collections.

[Via Joystiq]

On Saturday, I took a trip to Best Buy to pick up The Orange Box. While waiting for the clerk to fetch a copy from the back, I noticed something awesome: the Rock Band demo station. So I walked over, and a very short journey began….
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Greetings, Megatonians. I’ll be your tour guide to the absurd.

And what better way to start my tour than with the newest entry in the Scene It series, Lights, Camera, Action? In a world where board games are taking their time to die, Scene It’s neo-board-game approach is a shining, largely-packaged bastion of hope. You can play it on the tube, kids. It’s hip. It’s rock and roll. The truth is, it’s just another money-draining gimmick, complete with poor movie taste. Now with a nifty controller.

Hit the jump like a disloyal spouse for my impressions of the recently-dropped demo on Xbox Live.

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