Neowin News Feed for: Demos

Steam Next Fest has over 700 demos from upcoming indie games to try

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 18:56:01 +0000

Another demo festival has arrived to Steam, this time touting gameplay slices from over 700 upcoming games. The indie games-focused event will run for a week, lasting through June 22. Read more...

Steam Game Festival is back with over 500 demos of upcoming indie games

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 18:14:01 +0000

Valve has kicked off the Steam Game Festival February 2021 Edition, offering hundreds of new demos of upcoming indie titles. The latest event runs for a week just like the previous ones. Read more...

Steam Game Festival Autumn Edition comes heralding hundreds of more demos

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:26:01 +0000

Valve is hosting another Steam Game Festival, offering everyone access to hundreds of new demos of upcoming indie titles. This Autumn edition of the festival comes to an end next week. Read more...

Xbox Summer Game Fest demo event to take place July 21 - 27

Florin Bodnarescu — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it will be holding a six-day demo event for the Xbox One between July 21 - 27, as part of the Summer Game Fest initiative. No date yet on the first-party event. Read more...

Steam Game Festival returns with scores of demos from upcoming games

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:20:01 +0000

Today, Valve kicked off the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition. The event returns with a whole host of demos showcasing upcoming games, developer livestreams, interviews, and more. Read more...

Gaikai launches streaming PC game demos on Facebook

John Callaham — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:28:14 +0000

Gaikai has launched its Facebook app which allows PC, Mac and Linux web-based users to stream free PC game demos directly from Facebook. The app will work in North America and Europe. Read more...

Microsoft demos Internet Explorer 9

Tom Warren — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:31:32 +0000

Microsoft today demonstrated an early, three week old, build of Internet Explorer 9 at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009. IE 9 will take advantage of the power of the GPU for all page rendering and... Read more...

Spotify demos Android app currently in development

Tom Warren — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:44:08 +0000

Spotify, a music streaming service very popular in Europe and the UK, has released a demonstration of an Android app the company is currently developing. For those who haven't heard of Spotify, it is... Read more...

Microsoft demos Facebook using Silverlight and WPF

Tom Warren — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:42:36 +0000

Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb, Silverlight Team, demonstrated a jaw dropping implementation of Facebook's recently announced API changes. Goldfarb was presenting at a Facebook Demo day, Cnet news attended and recorded the session (see below). The applications... Read more...

Direct 2D and DirectWrite Demos

Tom Warren — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:06:24 +0000

Kam Vedbrat, formerely a Windows UX guy, just demonstrated some great new features in Direct 2D and DirectWrite for smoothing fonts. Kam also demonstrated the new Gabriola font included in Windows 7. DirectWrite: ... Read more...

Windows 7 Demos

Tom Warren — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:06:36 +0000

Picked up on some nice demos of Windows 7 this morning at PDC. Firstly there is a touch screen application demonstrating the touch features and ability for multi touch during air hockey. It was a... Read more...

Microsoft Demos DigiDesk workstation of the future

Tom Warren — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:10:04 +0000

A desk has never been so fascinating before, but not a lot of desks comes with a touchable surface and heads-up display. It's safe to say, Russ Burtner's desk kicks the crap out of every... Read more...

Splinter Cell: Double Agent PC Single & Multiplayer Demos

Todd Tanner — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:35:17 +0000

Ubisoft out of the kindness of their hearts has released not one, but two demos for Sam Fisher's next romp out in the cruel terrorist-infested world - Splinter Cell: Double Agent. Note of major importance... Read more...

Nokia Demos Mobile Call Using IPv6

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:35:42 +0000

Nokia has developed a prototype handset that supports Mobile Internet Protocol version 6, a version of the protocol that will help to improve the quality of voice over IP, streaming video, and other applications delivered... Read more...

Two Tribes: Vengeance demos due next month

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:58:40 +0000

Irrational Games plans to ship two demo versions of Tribes: Vengeance next month, in the form of an open beta multiplayer test and a separate single-player demo, producer Chris Mahnken has revealed in an interview... Read more...

NEC demos first next-gen DVD drive with one red, blue head

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:33:50 +0000

NEC has built the first optical storage drive to support not only today's DVDs but tomorrow's High Definition blue-laser technology-based discs, the company said today. The machine uses a single optical head that contains one... Read more...

Open letter on exclusive demos

Marcel Klum — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:49:53 +0000

Several gaming sites joined an alliance protesting against exclusive demo releases and seeking to promote the broadest available means of giving consumers access to samples of games before they make a purchase:In the gaming industry,... Read more...

ID Software Demos Invasion

Marcel Klum — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:30:08 +0000

This week was Doom's 10th birthday. To celebrate this, Gamer's Hell brings you the ID Software Ultimate Demos Collection, which includes all the popular titles developed (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake...) and produced (Heretic) by ID.... Read more...

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World demos

Marcel Klum — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:45:36 +0000

Activision has released not one but two playable demos for Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, allowing you to try out the upcoming 3D real-time strategy game by Stainless Steel Studios. The first demo is... Read more...

ATI RADEON™ 9700 Real-Time Demos & Screensavers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:07:56 +0000

ATI have released RADEON™ 9700 Real-Time Demos & Screensavers. These demos all require Microsoft DirectX9.0 and CATALYST 3.0 Display Drivers in order to run. Demos: Animusic A real-time version of "Pipe Dream"... Read more...

AMD demos 64-bit Unreal Tournament

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 09:52:33 +0000

CHIP FIRM AMD appears to be making blizzards of announcements this Comdex. The latest today is that it demonstrated a 64-bit version of Unreal Tournament 2003 on its Athlon 64 (Clawhammer) processor.As AMD says, the... Read more...

ATI Release DirectX 9.0 Beta Drivers & Demos

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:17:11 +0000

ATI Technologies Inc. today continued its commitment to deliver the most advanced, high-quality graphics solutions with the release of a new beta software driver supporting Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Release Candidate 0 (RC0) application program interface... Read more...

Intel demos 4.7-GHz Pentium processor at IDF

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:21:39 +0000

Spotted this on Slashdot. Providing a sneak preview of its future developments, Intel Corp. here today demonstrated its fastest microprocessors to date--a 4.7-GHz chip for high-end desktop PCs. Paul Otellini, Intel's president and... Read more...

Leaked Demos, Good or Bad?

Marcel Klum — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:07:48 +0000

Dr Foxy enjoys getting an early look at a game still being made, but CitizenC questions the damage they can do, and asks everyone to think of the children. "Dr Foxy: So... Read more...

AMD demos Slegehammer running Windows.net

Thu, 16 May 2002 19:28:04 +0000

Here in sunny Monaco, where space is so tight, if they really want to whack up a new building they have to stick it on the roof of one already here, AMD has been wooing... Read more...

Visual Studio .NET Automated Demos

Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:53:04 +0000

Get a more complete understanding of Visual Studio .NET, the visionary yet practical, development tool for creating the next generation of applications. Much like Microsoft Visual Basic® first did ten years ago, Visual Studio .NET... Read more...