The Best of Big Download: July 13-19

It's E3 week and we were there getting some hands-on time and some eyes-on time with some of the biggest PC game releases in the next several months. Here are the highlights from Big Download for the past week.

Exclusive Features

• E3 2008 articles: Check out our impressions of a number of PC games at the show this week (with more to come next week) for games like Spore, Dragon Age: Origins, Far Cry 2, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Empire: Total War, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II, Wanted, Left 4 Dead, Crysis Warhead and more.

• Spore Creature Creator Contest Grand Prize Winners: We reveal the winners in our extremely popular contest

• BigCast 004: It's the fourth installment of Big Download's weekly podcast.

News

• Demigod beta schedule revealed

• Crytek acquires Black Sea Studios

• Fallout 3 to have downloadable content for PC and Xbox 360

• Pivotal Games closes

• Activision reveals new titles including new Raven game Singularity

• Wanted movie game confirmed

• Flagship Studios still operating but without most of its employees

• City of Heroes and City of Villains officially merged

• Could there be a Serenity game?

• 1C Company acquires Buka

• EA confirms Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic MMO

• Wrath of the Lich King goes beta

• Rebellion acquires Razerworks