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Who knew that combining little plastic blocks with blockbuster movie trilogies could prove so charming? LucasArts and Traveller’s Tales captured lighting in a bottle with the Lego Star Wars series of games, with the lighthearted take on some of the most icon characters and stories in science fiction history capturing the hearts of fans both young and old alike. So charmed were both gamers and the gaming press that they almost - almost forgave Lucas for Jar Jar.

Now the two companies have teamed up again to give the classic Indiana Jones trilogy the tiny toy treatment in the hopes of recapturing the magic and wonder of the first two outings. Have they unearthed yet another treasure, or are they up to their waist in a pit full of snakes? Throw me the whip, and I’ll throw you the review roundup.
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PC gamers eager to get an early taste of Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures now have their chance! LucasArts has released the playable demo for the title, which spans Indy’s first three movie adventures and features what seems like more characters than actually appeared in all three films combined.

The demo is now available on the Games For Windows website, weighing in at a modest 464 megs, which means that at my current crappy internet speeds I shall be able to tell you how it is sometime next week. Switching to cable was such a brilliant idea.

Lego Indiana Jones Demo {Games For Windows]

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IGN has uploaded a nice variety of trailers for LEGO Indiana Jones. The trailers show off different aspects of the gameplay, including using Indy’s famous whip to navigate through environments. Aside from that, we also get to look at the game’s retelling of a very famous scene from one of the films, as well as other game footage. After giving the videos a watch, we’re convinced that we want to get our hands on this.

Head on past the break for the other videos. After that, read IGN’s hands-on writeup of the game.

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It’s hard to know what exactly we did to deserve this fine month of May. First we get the Iron Man movie. A new Indiana Jones comes out later this month. Then there’s all this Ninja Gaiden II coverage (not to mention the demo coming out sometime this month). GameTrailers has just unleashed a veritable flood of Ninja Gaiden II videos. Seriously, there are six of them. Seasoned Ninja Gaiden players will likely feel the urge to yell at whomever is behind the control though (he never jumps!!!11!!). Still, it’s new footage and we’re not about to complain. To be fair, we’ve actually featured one of the videos already, but we’re throwing it in again anyway because the GameTrailers player is much, much better than GameSpy’s. Check ‘em all out after the break.

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