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This is the EU playable demo for the rescue themed real-time strategy game, Emergency 2012. Players manage over emergency response workers during a series of cataclysmic natural disasters. The demo includes the tutorial and two missions. A hurricane destroys the Cologne Cathedral in the first mission and the second involves a devastating landslide on Mt. Matterhorn. Continue reading after the jump for system requirements.

"Riots in Paris after a severe storm, Blistering heat in Berlin, massive bush fires in Athens, a cold snap in Munich and London: The year is 2012 and the world as we know it seems to have spiraled out of control. As the head of rescue operations it's your job to ensure the safety of the population. Guide the Police force, fire brigade and specialist rescue crew. Take on natural disasters, terror attacks and more as you battle to regain order and bring the town back from the brink of destruction. The world is counting on you, can you handle the pressure?"

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nail'd is coming out in about a week, and the folk over at Techland really, really want you to play it. So do, apparently, the previews. This trailer gives us both a look at the nail'd gameplay (looking as arcade-like and fun as ever) as well as some of the kind words being said about the ATV racing game. We haven't gotten our hands on it quite yet, but if it's as good as this trailer and the mentioned previews say it is, it's going to be one of the best racing games in recent memory. If not, well, it'll be one major disappointment. Still, explosions!

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Risen was a huge sales success on Steam this past weekend thanks to a price cut to $14.99, so much so that many buyers of the fantasy RPG title from developer Piranha Bytes couldn't play the game due to the publisher running out of the required activation keys. Now the game's US publisher Southpeak Games has emailed Big Download stating that all of the people who bought Risen this weekend on Steam have received their keys and can now actually play the game.

So how many copies did Risen sell on Steam during the four-day sales period? While Southpeak Games would not give specific numbers it did say, " ... it sold more copies in four days in the Steam sale than it had since its launch in October 2009 ."

It's clear that a lot of people wait for weekend PC game download sales before making their move to purchase a game. Such is the case with Risen's weekend sales event on Steam. The 2009 released fantasy RPG from developer Piranha Bytes and publisher Deep Silver can currently be bought for just $14.99 until 1 pm Eastern time on Monday.

However it looks like the sale was too successful as many people who paid for the game on Steam cannot get the required activation key needed to play the single player only game. The reason? There are currently not enough keys to go around. A post on the Deep Silver message board admits that they did not expect the amount of orders from the sale to be so large. The rest of the activation keys are expected to be made available to Risen purchasers sometime on Monday.

[Via Destructoid]

The upcoming high-flying off-road racing game Nail'd is offering its US audience an nice extra when it's released on November 30. All copies of the Techland-developed game will get a code that will allow gamers to get some extra downloadable content to the title.

The DLC code will add four new tracks to the game along with a new gameplay mode called Detonator that has the racers passing around ticking bombs. The key is to not be holding one before it explodes. It will also add the Bomb Cup to the single player campaign with five new races. Finally the DLC code adds new parts for the bikes and ATVs and new driver suits.

It's a game that's pretty much threatening to go under the radar in this busy holiday season but developer Techland and publisher Deep Silver are still planning to release the off-road racing game with the odd title nail'd sometime in 2010. Today the game got a newly revamped web site with more info, videos and screenshots showing the game in all of its high flying off-road stunt action.

While the game was supposed to be out this month, our siste site Joystiq is reporting that nail'd won't be making that stunt work. Instead the game is due out in the US on November 30 with a price point of $39.99 for the PC version.

nail'd is pitching itself as a crazy and ridiculous alternative to more realistic off-road racing games. Judging by this trailer, that's not inaccurate. Despite a rather rocky start, the trailer proceeds to get into some of the races after a short while. In doing so, it shows off explosions, ragdoll effects, crashing into hot air balloons, and flying through hoops. In short, it's a trailer for thoroughly ridiculous game. We hope that the end product lives up to just how silly this trailer is, as there is always enough room for explosion-laden, crashfest racing games.

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There are tons of racing games, but there are only two franchises that really capture motorcycle racing: MotoGP and SBK. Both of these are developed by the same company, and their latest installment in the SBX series is upon us. This trailer showcases the fast-paced nature and competitive racing of SBK X, but doesn't really go into any detail. If you love seeing bike racers go around turns and fall off their bikes, this is a perfect trailer. Otherwise it'll leave you wanting some more concrete details on the gameplay contained within.

The team at development studio Egosoft seem to want to stretch out the support for its X franchise of space sim titles to its upper limit. This month the developer announced plans to releaseX Superbox (yep, that's its real name) a new retail collection of all of the games in the franchise.

And we mean all of them. The collection, to be published by Deep Silver in Europe on October 8, contains X: Beyond the Frontier, X-Tension, X2: The Threat, X3: Reunion, and X3: Terran Conflict. All of the games have been updated to their latest versions and also contain all of the expansion packs and official DLC releases. The collection also has a bonus DVD containing a bunch of third-party created content and mods for the games, an MP3 soundtrack, tutorials and walk-throughs for the games and more. And to top it all off the X Superbox collection has a 300 page encyclopedia describing all of the fictional backstory of the X-franchise. So far there's no word if this collection will be released in the US.

The new game announcements from Gamescom keep coming this week. Today it was revealed that a sequel to 2000's fantasy RPG Risen is in development. Risen 2 will once again be developed by Piranha Bytes and will be published by Deep Silver.

The news on Risen 2 comes from the World of Risen fan site who said the announcement of the sequel came at Gamescom during a Deep Silver press conference. No other info on the sequel, including a release date, was mentioned in the news post. The original game, set on a island filled with mythological style creatures, got mostly positive reviews for the PC version but the Xbox 360 port had some technical issues that kept its reviews scores on the low side.

[Via Blue's News]