Not only are you playing your heart's content off a freely distributed game, but you're also getting the support you didn't ask for - or rather, the support you were going to ask for anyways. Nadeo, together with Focus Home Interactive, have released an update to freely available TrackMania Nations Forever, which corrects a few hiccups you might have experienced in your extended play sessions. The patch log follows at the full story.

Strap on a helmet and get ready to take on one of the most grueling races in the world as the Tour de France gets its latest cycling sim from Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive with Pro Cycling Manager - Tour de France 2008 (PlayStation Portable and PC). In our full article you can view several new screenshots from the game as well as some interesting details regarding the upcoming title.

Virtual cyclists can once again take on the challenge of braving all 3,000 miles of this year's iteration of Cyanide's premier cycling sim in Pro Cycling Manager - Tour de France 2008. The new game will feature all the familiar aspects of last year's version, as well as a couple of new events sure to entice cycling buffs who enjoy this highly competitive sport. More details on the upcoming game are cycling in at full article.

Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis is now ready for your entertainment, at least via a playable demo. In this installation of the adventure/detective franchise, you will be going toe to toe with a cunning French thief. To know more what awaits you, read up by following the full article.

Ever played slot car racing as a kid? Good ol' days, huh? Now since Hot Wheels and Tamiya sets haven't grown old today, it's become a time-proven concept of entertainment. Apparently, Nadeo and Focus Home Interactive brought that type of racing experience to a single game, captivating audiences from around the world with TrackMania United. Read our review at the full story.

cdv Software Entertainment USA and Focus Home Interactive have announced that a new demo for their upcoming PC title Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is now out and about and ready for your downloading pleasure.

The demo contains roughly an hour's worth of gameplay and weighs in at around 495MB. It'll give players a firsthand look at how Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened will go as they investigate crime scenes, interview witnesses and search for and examine various clues.

The full game will, of course, offer deeper and more complex mysteries that those found in the demo. If you're looking for this sort of puzzling and mind-chilling adventure, be sure to check out the game when it hits retail outlets in the U.S. on September 4. For a list of download sites, click on the read link below.

   

Check out these tantalizing images for the upcoming point-and-click adventure game Dracula: Origin from Frogwares Studios, developer of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. Once again dealing with dark mythos - such as Cthulhu in Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened - Frogware Studio and Focus Home Interactive's latest thriller puts you in Van Helsing's shoes to hunt down Count Dracula, the young man driven into murderous insanity by his wife's demise.

Players will use traditional point-and-click gameplay to plow through the story, and will be buffeted to various exotic locations such as London, Egypt, Austria, and Transylvania, Dracula's famed hometown. Adding to the overall game experience is the beautifully rich, highly-detail graphics that were also present in Frogwares' past Sherlock Holmes game.

Not much information is available about this video game, but do sink your teeth into these delicious screenshots to get an idea of the dark gothic atmosphere the game will have.

The game's afoot and who better to solve the mystery than the great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes himself? Frogwares Studios' third Sherlock Holmes video game will also be distributed by CDV Software Entertainment along with Focus Home Interactive.

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened will center on the detective tackling a mystery surrounding supernatural events concerning the Old Gods. It has mixed the elements of the Cthulhu mythos and the classic mystery solving of Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective. Reportedly, the game will be on a first person perspective (which will certainly bring the sense of being immersed in the game) but will still have the point and click elements of the previous adventure games.

This PC game will be stalking to the shelves in North America come September. We'll be shelling out more information on this once the clues become available. So put on your deerstalker caps and stay tuned for Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened.

Literary fans have argued endlessly which brand of mythology is the best ever told in man's history. There's never been a clear answer to that, but Focus Home Interactive is giving you a game called Loki to help you decide. Offering four mythical backgrounds, the game gives you the chance to run through four distinct realms: Egyptian, Aztec (American Indian), Greek and Norse.

Even the way you run through the game will be determined by your taste. You will choose to play as one of four character types. You can be a brazen Norse warrior, an Aztec Shaman, an Egyptian sorcerer and a Greek fighter. This trailer highlights the power-play style of the Norse Warrior, and it looks like those giant spiders and mystic wolves will get one vicious clobbering when the group's resident brute gets his hand on them.

Like other PC RPGs of its kind, the game will sport a barrage of items that will aid you in your quest. Mummies, skeletons and harpies can be a pain in the neck, and bosses like Medusa and Fafnir can be downright deadly if you don't have the right gear. Fortunately, Thor's Hammer and Achilles' Armor along with other legendary trinkets will be there. Hands down, Loki is one of those PC releases that you can't afford to miss.

To those of you who have been following Tour de France, be informed that it's just a matter of weeks before the 94th outing officially begins. And to those who are following the video game title based on this event, know that the official website of Pro Cycling Manager/Tour de France 2007 has just been updated.

The game itself sports two major elements: management and racing. You're given the option to manage official teams like handling contracts, training camps, transfers, and equipment, and that even includes dealing with the media. In addition to all that, you will also race through the circuit with the knowledge of your team's strengths and tactics.

The game is being developed by Cyanide Studio and will be published by Focus Home Interactive. Take note that Pro Cycling Manager/Tour de France is a long-running franchise, but this is actually the first time that it will be appearing on a handheld system: the PSP.

This is the very reason why the two companies have been telling everyone that the PlayStation Portable version is not a port of the PC one. Tour de France 2007 PSP will feature 20 official teams and their star racers, not to mention several features like five season-long careers and modes such as time trials, sprint phases, and shorter races.