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The dinosaur-slaying comic character Turok made his debut in video games in 1997 with the release of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, a Nintendo 64 and PC game. This January, the series returned on PS3 and Xbox 360 and has already gone platinum.

Turok’s publisher Touchstone announced that the game has sold 1 million copies since its release. The publisher also announced a new map pack called Velociraptor that will include…

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A new, free demo of Touchstone’s Turok is available on Xbox Live. It is a substantial download at 1.17 GB, and gives players a taste of what the single player mode of the new shooter/action game. Of course the most important thing is that it is free, so it may be worth a quick try.

Turok stars Joseph Turok, who’s a member of a secret squad called Whiskey Company and is assigned to capture his criminal mentor, Roland Kane. As is, that should have been a fairly interesting plot devise. However Turok is set in the future, where nothing is too ludicrous. Also Kane is smart enough to retreat with his Mendel-Gruman army to a planet populated by dinosaurs and big bugs. So essentially Joseph Turok’s just a glorified exterminator.

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Among the announcements of DGamer and a slew of casual games aimed for younger gamers, Disney Interactive announced the release date for next-gen FPS Turok at the company’s E3 2007 presentation. The Propaganda Games development is set to hit the PS3 and Xbox 360 February 5, 2008.

Turok is something of a re-imagining of the famous N64 FPS. The game stars Joseph Turok, a black ops commando who has been sent to a strange dinosaur-infested planet to find his mentor Roland Kane. Story has never been a particularly strong suit in the Turok series ...

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