The Best of Big Download: February 23-March 1

We leave the short month of February behind and embrace the long month of March. Big Download had a lot to report in the last week so let's get to it:
Exclusive features

• Quake Live open beta launch: We give our impressions of the beta launch and chat with id Software's Marty Stratton on the issues they encounted in the first hours of its release.
• The top PC game news events of February 2009: We pick our top 10 biggest PC games news happenings in the past month.
• Money Matters – Finances and PC games: In these bad economic times, can playing a PC game teach you about how to handle your money?
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II review: We give the final verdict on this long awaited sci-fi RTS game from Relic and THQ.
• Mac Monday: We check out this Wizard of Oz-themed adventure game Emerald City Confidential.
• Indie Showcase: This week's indie games column checks out a number of new titles.
• Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes takes another look at storytelling in games.
• Big Iron: Our regular PC hardware column talks about what to do with your hardware when it has reached the end of its useful life.
• Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free games takes a look at the puzzle-platformer Jed.

Downloads

• The Last Remnant demo: Try out a sampler of the upcoming PC version of Square Enix's fantasy RPG
• Monsters Vs. Aliens demo: It's a short free sample of the upcoming game based on the Dreamworks Animation movie.
• League of Legends trailer: Check out this first gameplay trailer from the forthcoming Riot Games developed multiplayer RTS-RPG.
• Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood trailer: It's the first glimpse of this Wild West shooter from Techland and Ubisoft.
• World of Warcraft Ulduar trailer: Check out this teaser footage showing off the new content coming in the next World of Warcraft patch.
• Singularity trailer: More debut gameplay footage, this time of the upcoming temporal themed game from Raven and Activision
• Dante's Inferno trailer: It's the first cinematic to EA's upcoming action game.
• City of Heroes Captain Dynamic trailer Part 1: No gameplay footage here; just some funny comedy that promotes the upcoming mission editors for NCsoft's super hero MMO.

News

• If you have Mass Effect 1 save games, save them for Mass Effect 2
• Will Windows 7 be truly great for PC games
• The Last Remnant PC to be released March 24 in stores; April 7 on Steam
• InstantAction.com says most PC games can run via their browser service
• Team Fortress 2 Scout class update released
• Ex Obsidian team member seems to confirm Aliens RPG cancelation
• Hearts of Iron III programmer: "PC games still sell insane amounts"
• Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment launches
• Bohemia Interactive slams Codemasters over marketing of Operation Flashpoint 2
• GoG.com adds Duke Nukem 3D and other Apogee games to lineup
• City of Heroes to finally release Mission Architech in March
• Blizzard posts up some new monster info and screenshots from Diablo III
• Anno 1404 now titled Day of Discovery for US release
• PC Street Fighter IV coming this summer . . . maybe