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Our latest sources are telling us that a demo for the upcoming mud spattered driving-fest 'DiRT' is due to hit Xbox Live Marketplace this Thursday May 24th! DiRT is the first Codemasters title developed with their own in-house 'Neon' game engine and early previews suggest this could be the Xbox 360's answer to the PS3 hit 'Motorstorm'.  DiRT will offer over 40 licensed cars to throw around the tracks and crash through the hedgerows! The demo will have a Super Stage crossover rally with Colin as your opponent, it’s got buggy racing against 9 opponents which will be absolute carnage and really shows off the car models, and then there's a hill climb with some fantastic scenery and a Travis Pastrana time to beat!

Just in case you're not yet convinced about Shadowrun's potential you'll be able to grab a demo on the Marketplace just one week after it's launch and try out one of the online game modes on offer as well as the game' training levels.

Training: Chapters 1, 2, and 3
Solo Match and Public Match (so both bot play and multiplayer)
One map: Power Station (which means only one game type: Raid)
Two races: Elf and Human
Magic: Tree of Life, Resurrect, Gust, and Teleport
Tech: Glider, Enhanced Vision, and Smartlink
Weapons: Pistol, SMG, Rifle, Shotgun, Katana, and Sniper Rifle

A bunch of naughty modders have been hard at work hacking through the Halo 3 Beta code everyone is busy playing at the moment on Xbox Live and have come up with some interesting new details about the next installment of the game courtesy of some nuggets they found inside the dissected code.

In 1931 Winston Churchill survived being struck by a taxi while crossing the street in New York. What if Churchill had died and wasn’t alive to voice the battle cry that inspired the Allied troops to confront the Nazi war machine? What if England had surrendered to Hitler? What if there was no D-Day, and Pearl Harbor never happened? What if the United States never entered WWII until WWII came knocking at its front door?