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.

News

• Now we're talking: Mata Hari game to include "seduction" mode
• Unreal Tournament 3 expansion pack revealed
• New Alan Wake screenshots are finally up
• It's (finally) official: Star Wars:The Old Republic revealed
• NBA 2K9 PC ships without a CD key
• Obama Girl switches parties for Red Alert 3's Ackerman
• Amazon.com buys game developer Reflexive
• ESA officially releases details on E3 2009
• GOG.com open beta begins: new games added
• Hellgate London online servers to shut down Jan. 31
• Stardock to create copyright protection solution
• Call of Duty: World at War will have NAZI ZOMBIES!