Turok is one of those game franchises that can either be remembered with nostalgic glee (at least in terms of the first two games for the Nintendo 64) or relative indifference (that covers pretty much everything up until the re-envisioned continuation of the franchise for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC). When the last game more »

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…

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.

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 …