Halo Infinite recently received a big update in the form of Delta Arena, a playlist that features recreations of Halo 2’s most popular maps and a special third-person mode. The true highlight, though, is yet to come. And that’s through an entirely different Halo game: The Master Chief Collection. Soon enough, you’ll be able to play Halo 2’s lost E3 demo on it, thanks to some lovely modders.
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Typing Of The Dead meets Resident Evil with co-op in Blood Typers, which has a demo you can play now
Typing Of The Dead released in arcades 25 years ago remains a masterpiece – funny, absurd, tense, and novel. I am keen on any game that aims to follow in its footsteps, and there are a few. The latest is Blood Typers, a horror game where you tippity-tap on your keyboard to fight montsters in a spooky mansion, but this isn’t a rail shooter, so you’ll be typing to explore and navigate, too.
It’s now got a release of February 2025, and there’s a demo you can play now.
The demo for Streets Of Rogue 2 lets you roleplay as the world’s most violent chef
I punched a cultist in the face in Streets Of Rogue 2, just because. He started running away – something I would not allow. When another robed cultist spotted what was happening, he tried to intervene, and a kind of Benny Hill pursuit chain began. We ran across a beach, through public toilets, and into the surf. In the end I had to knock them both out. As they lay unconscious, I worried they might soon wake and tell someone what I had done. This can’t happen, I hate accountability. I punched their unawake bodies toward the sea in an effort to float the evidence away. But after a few punches the first man exploded into chunks of flesh. I am a murderer now. I was supposed to be a chef.
Streets Of Rogue 2 has a demo out for Steam Next Fest, and while a lot of features are locked up behind the word “UNAVAILABLE” in red font, there’s still quite a lot of mischief for you to get up to.
Geometry Wars and techno live on in Sektori’s demo, but you probably won’t for long
Sektori promises to “transport you into another state of consciousness”, but what the pulsing soundtrack initially did was transport me to Youtube so I could look up this scene from Spaced, where Michael Smiley raves out to a boiling kettle. By elegant coincidence, that video is about the length of my longest run so far in Sektori’s demo – a very busy 60 seconds or so.
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is a slick ski ’em up, if its demo is any indication
One of the most important lessons in skiing is, presumably, to look where you’re going. You wouldn’t want to ski with your eyes closed or while viewing yourself from a drone pointed back at the mountain from above. That’d be daft.
Or maybe not. Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is the frosty followup to the mountain biking original, Lonely Mountains: Downhill, and like its predecessor it’s about going fast while barely able to see what’s coming. Yet also like its predecessor, initial frustrations melted away until I was eagerly hitting the slopes in the Snow Riders demo for just one more quick go.