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NASCAR racer Joey Logano has been driving the number 20 car in the Nationwide series with GameStop as its main sponsor for some time. Each week the car gets a new paint job promoting an upcoming or recent game release (we especially enjoyed the BioShock 2 design). Tonight Logano races in the Dollar General 300 in Chicago with his latest GameStop car design.'

This week its promoting Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, the most recent of the Lego games from developer Traveller's Tales. Somehow we don't think that when J.K. Rowling created Harry, Hogwarts or the rest of that universe she would have imagined a Lego video game based on her books, much less seeing it plastered all over an American race car.

The OnLive streaming PC game service has only been available to the public for 10 days now but the company has given some more info about the launch on its official blog site. According to the statement from its CEO Steve Perlman the OnLive servers have been "running 24/7 since launch, with games being played every day, around the clock, from every corner of the 48 States, despite the fact we've accommodated far more members at this stage than ever anticipated." Perlman did not state how many people have subscribed and Big Download was also unable to get a specific number from their PR rep late last week.

Perlman has also said the service has encountered some small bugs since the launch although he was not more specific than that. He also states, " ... while we have been installing data center capacity as quickly as we can, it looks like it will be about a week until we've balanced capacity across all US Internet regions"

Perlman also said that OnLive has scored its first day-and-date game release with Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4. The full version of the game will be made available for purchase on the OnLive service at 12:01 am PST tonight (that's 3:01 am Eastern time). A contest has also been announced that will net the first person who completes the full game on the OnLive service an iPad.

The last week of June sees quite a few PC games heading to store shelves this week including a game that was first announced way back in 2005. After this week is over there's a pretty major dry spell in terms of major new PC game releases until mid August with the big exception of StarCraft II which is due on July 27.

All Points Bulletin (APB): First announced five years ago, developer Realtime Worlds finally ships this first person shooter MMO this week, combing a persistant urban action game with lots of customization options for your character, car and even music.

This is the playable demo for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, giving players an early look at the game before it release in North America on June 29th. Continue after the jump for system requirements.

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Developer Traveller's Tales' latest Lego game is about to be released and today publisher Warner Bros. Interactive announced that a demo for Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 is in the works as well. The demo, based on the hugely successful fantasy novels and movies, will be released for the PC sometime late in June. In addition to being able to learn how to cast spells in the game the demo will let players explore one of the game's locations, the Forbidden Forest.

The full game, which takes place in the time period of the first four Harry Potter movies and books, is scheduled for release on June 29 in the US.

Fans of Traveller's Tales' various Lego-based games are going to have to wait just a little longer to get their hands on their latest effort. Shacknews is reporting that Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 won't make it's planned May release date. The title, based on the first four books and movies in the fantasy franchise, will now be released sometime in June.

Lego Harry Potter is just the latest Lego-based game Traveller's Tales hav worked on. They started with Lego Star Wars and expanded into other pop culture areas like Batman and Indiana Jones. Besides Harry Potter, the team is working on a new Lego game built around the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series.

Once again in the "Not a shock" catagory, Warner Bros. Interactive announced plans to release a Lego game version of Warner Bros.' Harry Potter movies. Developed by Lego game masters Traveller's Tales, Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 will be based on the first four movies and book in the massively popular fantasy series created by J.K.Rowling.

Yes you can play as Lego versions of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Grange and experience playing in Hogwarts and other locations found in the series and book. The game is still a ways off; it won't be released until sometime in 2010. Traveller's Tales already has a number of other Lego game projects in the works.