The Best of Big Download: July 13-19

We may be in the summer doldrums in terms of new releases but there's a lot of new news and major files to talk about this week. Let's look at what happened in PC gaming in the past seven days:
Exclusive Features

• The Top 2009 PC Games (So Far): We look back at the first half of the year to give our picks for the best PC games released so far and also pick a couple of game that didn't meet our high expectations.
• Rebellion CEO reveals plans for new entries in former Vivendi Universal games: We got Rebellion's head man Jason Kingsley to give us the heads-up on plans for new games for Empire Earth, Ground Control and other game series.
• Street Fighter IV PC review: We give our final verdict on the PC port for Capcom's hit fighting game.
• Time Gentlemen, Please! review: We let you know what we think about this new indie retro-style adventure game from Zombie Cow
• Mac Monday: Our regular look at Mac games goes old school with a review of the Mac version of te classic RTS game Warzone 2100.
• Boot Disk: Our retro games column takes a look at Relic's debut title, the 3D RTS game Homeworld.
• Big Ideas: SEX SEX SEX! Now that we have your attention, our weekly look at game themes deals with sex in games.
• Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free PC games takes a look at the recent free release of the classic RPG Daggerfall.

Downloads

• Resident Evil 5 3D Demo Benchmark: If you have the right hardware you can check out this 3D supported demo-benchmark for Capcom's upcoming PC port of the survival horror game.
• Call of Duty: World at War 1.5 patch: Download this new patch for Activision's WWII shooter with three new multiplayer maps and a new zombie map. You can also download new mod tools for the game.
• Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising Armoury video: Check out some new gameplay from the upcoming Codemasters military shooter.
• Mafia II Walkthrough video: Check out 15 minutes of gameplay from 2K Games' upcoming open world crime game.
• Wolfenstein Animated Video 2: Check out the second in a series of animated shorts based on the upcoming Activision shooter.

News

• BioShock 2 delayed; Take Two Interactive cuts financial forecast
• New Duke Nukem Forever screenshots appearing on Facebook?
• Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta gets release date and first screenshots
• Gearbox Software revealed as developed of Duke Begins
• Full nude content coming to new version of The Witcher
• League of Legends to become a free-to-play game
• Bill Gates: Project Natal tech coming to the PC, too
• Rumor: New Heroes of Might and Magic game in the works?
• GameStop sponsors Indie Game Challenge
• Remedy: Alan Wake's PC fate is up to Microsoft
• Westwood Studios founder now CEO of InstantAction
• Stardock hints at upcoming games
• Resident Evil 5 comes to the PC September 15 – in 3D!
• Alien Breed Evolution confirmed for PC but not for a while
• Report: PC game download sales worth over $1 billion in 2009
• Sony Online lays off five percent of workforce
• Battleforge to get new card expansion in August