The Best of Big Download: October 20-27
What a week. We started with the long awaited BioWare Star Wars MMO announcement, then had the official word on E3 2009 getting big again and ended the week with friggin' NAZI ZOMBIES!. You can't get much better than that.
Exclusive features
Previews: We got an invite to the big Star Wars: The Old Republic press event and have a full report on what may be the next big MMO game.
Reviews: We have the final verdict on the PC version of Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway.
Interviews: We have interviews with the dev teams behind Call of Duty: World at War, Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir, Battlefield Heroes and Wanted: Weapons of Fate, plus a chat with MMO dev Turbine on their future expansion plans.
E3 Booth Model Retrospective: We look back at over 10 years of E3 booth models in this gallery feature
Celebs take over Red Alert 3: So what famous actors and MMA fighters are in the cut scenes in the upcoming RTS game? This gallery feature has the answer.
Mac Monday: Our look at Mac games takes a look at the special edition of Hollow Ground.
MODMonday: This week our mod column takes a look at the Doomsday Engine which puts some new features in old Doom engine games.
Indie Showcase: Our indie games column this week takes a look at four game titles you may want to check out.
Boot Disk: Our look at classic PC games is for a true classic title, Doom
Big Ideas: Our weekly column about game industry themes looks at the coming of the mature gamer.
Freeware Friday: Our look at free games is all about the online multiplayer shooter Continuum
Virtual Bargain Bin: Want a cheap game to play? This week our column picks the action-RPG Sacred Gold.
BigCast: It's our regular weekly podcast on all things PC gaming.
Contests: You like free games? We have three copies of Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 we are giving away to some lucky readers.
Downloads
Dark Horizon demo: Check out this sample of the recently released space combat game from Paradox Interactive
Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy demo: Try out a portion of the latest adventure game from Her Interactive
Multiwinia demo: This updated demo for the Introversion Software strategy game finally adds real online multiplayer
Far Cry 2 ATI hotfix: If you have an ATI Radeon card in your PC you want this hotfix for Vista and XP to improve your performance in Far Cry 2.
Alan Wake trailer: It's the first footage in a long time for Remedy's long-in-development action-thriller
BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams trailer: It's the first tease of the upcoming sequel to 2K Games' first person action game franchise
Empire: Total War trailer: Check out part of the campaign for the upcoming RTS title from The Creative Assembly and Sega
Grand Theft Auto IV PC trailer: Rockstar's open world action game is due out soon for the PC; check out the trailer for the PC version.
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