Over at FileShack you can now grab a demo of TrackMania Sunrise Extreme, allowing you to try out this free expansion pack for the arcade racer TrackMania Sunrise. The single & multiplayer demo includes a Bay area track and contains 2 race challenges, 2 stunt challenges, 2 platforme challenges and 2 puzzle challenges. Also included is the track editor.

Well, you guys seemed to like the new release schedule last week, but I realized it's kind of redundant with the ShackReviews database update, so I've combined them. Hopefully this works for you. I'm keeping the same visual format, and just linking to the newly released games that have been added to the database. PC is now included as well, and I've also appended a list of games that have been added to the database but are not new releases. You know how those games get in there? You request them!

EDIT: WordPad, of all things, just crashed and I lost this whole update and had to redo it all. I did not have it saved because I am an idiot. Learn from my mistakes: save your work every two seconds.

EDIT 2: Woooo, I've got the only update for Sunday! Eat that, Steve and Maarten!

Other Database Updates:

• Colony Wars (Psygnosis, PS1) / Colony Wars: Vengeance (Psygnosis, PS1) / Colony Wars: Red Sun (Psygnosis, PS1)

Featured ShackReviews:

• Frequent contributor Vermouth noted several significant problems with EA LA's Medal of Honor Pacific Assault (PC).
• Gbronzer, who only reviews TrackMania games, has a brief defense of the lack of collision detection in Nadeo's TrackMania Sunrise (PC).

I didn't have time for too many video games last week, but I did manage to sneak in some four-player Mario Power Tennis (GCN), and holy crap is it fun. I also went back to Ico (PS2) because, really, you can't really play that game enough. Mainly I'm just trying to keep my head from exploding in anticipation of Advance Wars: Dual Strike (DS). It's almost here!