Atari have released a playable singleplayer PC demo for Codename Panzers: Cold War, the forthcoming real-time strategy title in the works at European developers StormRegion and InnoGlow.

During the Cold War conflict, the status quo between the occupying Allied and Soviet forces rests on a knife edge, when an aircraft accident over Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Blockade threatens to tip the scales towards full-blown conflict. The tragic collision of an American cargo plane with a Russian fighter costs not only the lives of both crews, but proves to be all the encouragement Stalin and his Red Army needs to wage bloody war against the NATO forces.

You can now download the 900MB demo locally from AusGamers. Look for Codename Panzers: Cold War on Australian shelves, exclusively for PC on March 19 2009.