The Best of Big Download: June 29-July 5
Unlike the previous week, the last seven days were actually fairly slow. But we still have some news and exclusive articles for the PC gaming crowd to check out:
Exclusive articles
- Microsoft Games For Windows Interview: We chat with the marketing manager of their PC gaming team to find out more about their future plans.
- The Top 10 Biggest PC Game News Stories of June 2009: We look back at a particularlly busy month for gaming news.
- Light of Altair review: We give our final verdict to the recent indie space strategy game.
- Mac Monday: Our weekly look at Mac games takes a gander at the space action title Escape Velocity Nova
- Boot Disk: Our retro PC game features looks back at 3DO's turn based strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic 2.
- Big Ideas: Our look at game themes wonders if games should move away from the typical fantasy setting.
- Freeware Friday: Our look at free PC games this week checks out the space shooter title Tyrian.
Downloads
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs demo: Check out the demo for the latest movie-to-game adaptation from Activision
- StarCraft II Multiplayer Trailer: It's seven minutes of footage from Blizzard's upcoming RTS sequel.
- Tales of Monkey Island gameplay trailer: Check out some footage from the upcoming adventure game revival from Telltale and LucasArts
News
- QuakeCon 2009 makes last minute venue change
- No LAN multiplayer in StarCraft II
- Dreamkiller announced
- Damnation dev team shut down
- Blizzard registers "Cataclysm" as new trademark
- Risen will rise (in stores) on October 2
- Alpha Protocol gets release date and new sub-title
- Phantom Entertainment in trouble . . . again
- More Left 4 Dead content by end of summer?
- Elemental beta coming (maybe) in 60 days
- Two Worlds: The Temptation turns into Two Worlds II
- LucasArts "old school" game announcement coming on Monday?