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Egosoft shows off X²: The Threat

Rollin' rollin' rollin'.

According to our admittedly rusty memories, we haven't seen a rolling demo since the Amiga days. Nevertheless, Egosoft has seen fit to release a rolling game-engine demo of its forthcoming space combat title, X²: The Threat. The demo runs for about seven minutes at will cost you 41MB of precious hard drive space. At least it's a bit more of an interesting promotion method than fuzzy QuickTimes.