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If the grimy life of a space marine excites you, you’ll be very pleased to hear that the PSP demo for Warhammer 40k: Squad Command came out over the weekend. For those who want it, the tiny 6MB demo is available here.

via Kotaku

Get ready to see your computer as the obsolete rust-bucket it truly is - the Crysis demo is out. The hefty demo weighs in at 1.77GB, and for those of you who have forgotten, these are the woe-inducing system requirements. The brave and the recently-upgraded can click the link below to download.

Crysis Demo [nZone]

Racing fans will be pleased to hear that the Need for Speed ProStreet demo has hit Xbox Live. The 654MB demo is available now worldwide, to whet your appetite for the real thing when it hits on November 14th.

via Major Nelson

Didn’t get Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, and don’t have a blank CD lying around? Fortunately for you, there’s now another way to get the demo for Guitar Hero III - it’s just been released on Xbox Live. The demo is the same one available elsewhere, and features the following tracks:

• Even Flow (by Pearl Jam)
• Lay Down (by Priestess)
• The Metal (by Tenacious D)
• Hit Me with your Best Shot (as made famous by Pat Benatar)
• Rock You like a Hurricane (as made famous by Scorpions)

Guitar Hero III will be released in North America on October 28, Australia on November 7 and finally in Europe on November 23.

The Japanese seem to get everything before the rest of us, don’t they? Until November 11th, a demo version of Prologue will be available on the Japanese PSN. There’s no online play in this demo, with single player allowing you to race against 15 opponents. It will feature one playable track and seven cars:

And from October 23rd to the 25th, new cars will be unveiled in the game, coinciding with those in the Tokyo Motor Show running that week.

via PS3 Fanboy

Sony has revealed that a free download of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue demo will be available to the public on October 24th. This tantalizing news is good for the rest of the world, as unlike Japan they will not be able to grab the retail release until a few weeks after the 24th. Europe is set to get the game on the 13th of November while the US release date is still unknown.

via Gaming Today

Nintendo must have caught wind of Sony’s recent PSP announcements, as they’ve started work on a similar download service for the DS. Called “Everyone’s Nintendo Channel” the service will turn the Wii into a download station for the DS, offering both demos and videos. Currently there is no word on when the service will be available.

via Engadget

PlayStation Thursday is here with some new goodies, for those of you in the US.

Games:
Go! Sports Ski (2.99 US)

Demos:
The Simpsons demo
Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War demo

Tutorials:
NBA 08 key control play calling tutorial video
Eye of Judgment tutorial video

Other video:
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune BTS
Haze Dev interview
Tekkonkinkreet video
Surf’s Up BD trailer

via PlayStation.Blog

A demo for Clive Barker’s Jericho will be released this Thursday, and in a rare, but much appreciated move, Codemasters have managed to organize a simultaneous release for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC users.

Unless you’re a PlayStation 3 user in Europe, that is - in which case you’ll be waiting until next week…or setting yourself up a US-based PlayStation Network account.

If Major Nelson wasn’t paying so much attention to updating his blog on the way to the Tokyo Game Show, he might not have lost his passport…but then we wouldn’t have heard about the Sega Rally demo being released on Xbox Live so quickly.

The demo is available in every region except Japan, weighs a measly 691 MB, and features two cars racing around two deformable tracks. If this game ends up even half as good as the original Sega Rally was on the Dreamcast, I can see plenty of unhealthily late nights ahead.