A batch of five new multiplayer maps for Propaganda Games' Turok (PS3, X360) are set for release tomorrow, publisher Touchstone announced today.

The Velociraptor Pack includes two new multiplayer maps, one new co-op map and two relit versions of popular maps already included with the game. The pack will be available on the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network tomorrow morning, priced at 400 Microsoft Points ($4.99).

Additionally, Touchstone announced that the PC version of Turok is scheduled for an April 22 release date at a $49.99 price point. The new downloadable content for the console versions will be made available on the PC shortly after the title's release.

The guys at Gaming Nexus have posted a Turok Q&A, asking Tim Lewinson of Propaganda Games about the newly released shooter.

There's a Turok Q&A on Gamasutra, where they got to ask Josh Holmes of Propaganda Games about his company's dinosaur shooter.

After previously being available in foreign territories, the Turok demo for the Xbox 360 can now be found on the Xbox Live Marketplace in North America. The 1.17gb download allows you to sample the game's singleplayer campaign.

A controversial achievement award earned by killing a teammate in online play will now be removed from Propaganda Games' upcoming action title Turok, according to Wired.

The "Grab Bag" achievement, which involves killing "at least 1 creature, 1 enemy, 1 teammate, and yourself in the same round of a public match," will now be changed to include only enemy targets and suicide by a mandatory release-day patch.

Gamers were shocked last November when the award was announced, with many protesting a mechanic that would have rewarded players for unsportsmanlike play. Propaganda eventually responded to the outcry, pledging to remove the achievement if it became a problem.

Turok will ship to stores February 5, on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with a PC port following later this year.

Update: The Turok demo is not currently available in North America, Xbox Live programming director Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has clarified. This restriction may be due to the demo's inclusion in the latest issue of Future Publishing's Official Xbox Magazine.

Original Story: Newly available on the Xbox Live Marketplace this morning is a demo for Turok, the dinosaur shooter from Propaganda Games. The single-player demo is a 1.17GB download.

The new Turok will arrive January 29 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with a PC release following later.

Armed with a knife, bow, and numerous explosives, I went hands-on with the eight-on-eight multiplayer in the Xbox 360 version of Propaganda's Turok (PC, PS3, X360) reimagining. Will the new title do Turok's multiplayer lineage justice? Read on to find out.

Manners told me the team had pretty defined goals in what they wanted to bring to the multiplayer with respect to the Turok games of yesteryear. "It's got to be fast. It's got to be destructive," the director said. "You've got to be able to kill people in multiple ways and get satisfaction out of it."

GameSpot has a new Turok preview posted, going hands-on with the game's multiplayer.

Remember when you were in kindergarten and dinosaurs were awesome? And then stuff like Jurassic Park and Turok came out, and T-rexes and raptors ruled again. Propaganda Games' upcoming reimagining of the Turok franchise aims to bring your dino fantasies flooding back, and I spoke with studio manager Josh Holmes to find out if they'll succeed. Read on if you like dinosaurs so much you want to stab them in the brain.

The things we really loved about it was, it was the first one to really take you out into what felt like a lush expansive outdoor world that was there for you to explore. It sort of deviated from that corridor crawler Doom clone that had been the standard for what a first person shooter was. Although, a lot of that, if you go back and look at it today, was through the use of fog planes and basically like a 6-foot draw distance.

A new Turok movie has been released, offering about a minute of gameplay footage showing how you can lure dinosaurs in the game.

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The Propaganda Games developed action game, which serves as a reboot for the franchise, is due out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next February.

If nothing else, Propaganda Games' reimagining of the Turok franchise will have a dinosauric load of Hollywood talent when it comes out next year, including acting/voice acting vets Ron Perlman--the "Hellboy" star who will be narrating Bethesda's upcoming Fallout 3--and Powers Boothe of HBO's "Deadwood" and "Sin City" fame. These two talents will be joined by 12 others announced by Touchstone today in voicing the game's coterie of characters.

The title role of Turok goes to Native American TV actor Gregory Norman Cruz, most recently in TNT's new fall series "Saving Grace." Joining Cruz as the rest of Whiskey Company--the dino hunter's squadmates--are Timothy Olyphant of the upcoming film adaptation of Io Interactive's Hitman franchise (as Cowboy), the aforementioned Perlman as Slade, Donnie Wahlberg as Shepard, William Fichtner as Logan, Mark Rolston as Cole, Chris Judge as Jericho, Lombardo Boyar as Gonzales, Gideon Emery as Reese, Josh Gomez as Parker, Jon Curry as Foster, Jason Harris as Carter, and Steve Van Wormer as Henderson.

On the villainy side of things, Boothe will voice war criminal Roland Kane, who was Turok's ex-mentor, with Sean Donnellan voicing henchman Grimes. Here's hoping the final product is able to match the quality of the voice casting when Turok ships to retail for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on February 5 next year.

A new Turok video has been released, showing about a minute of stealth kill footage. The Propaganda Games-developed action game, which serves as a reboot of the Turok franchise, is due out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next February.

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Over at Eurogamer you can find a Q&A on the new Turok, in development at Propaganda Games. Studio manager Josh Holmes and game director Joel Manners are asked about bringing back the franchise, gameplay style, the storyline, use of Unreal Engine 3 and multiplayer support.

Head over to IGN for a Turok preview, offering hands-on impressions of the Unreal Engine-powered dino shooter.