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New Blacksite Live demo

Not long until release.

There's a new demo of Blacksite on Xbox Live Marketplace ahead of the Xbox 360 and PC versions' end-of-November launches.

The new demo weighs in at 988MB and sees you battling aliens in small-town America. We would give you more details, but we forgot to bring our Xbox 360 to the office this morning. It's heavy, all right.

This isn't the first demo, of course, with Live users already able to download a small taster that sees players blasting their way through alien scum in a petrol station before admiring a fancy old beast ripping its way through some buildings.

The full game's due out on 30th November for 360 and PC, with a PS3 version to follow, and you can read more about it in our first impressions and interview with Midway's Harvey Smith.