The Best of Big Download: July 27-August 2

The past seven days were busy ones for new files, including a few new game demos. However that's not all that happened in the past week:
Exclusive features

• The Top 10 PC Game Stories For July 2009: It was a fairly slow month but there were still some interesting news for PC gamers that popped up in the past 31 days

• FUEL Review: We give our verdict on the Codemasters off-road racing game

• Mac Monday: Our weekly Macintosh gaming column takes a look at two games: Archibald's Adventures and Blockland

• Boot Disk: Our retro PC game column takes a look back at the anime-inspired FPS Shogo.

• Big Ideas: Our weekly game column examines how a player can be a hero in an MMO when everyone else in the game is trying to do the same

• Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free PC games takes a gander at the odd looking title Within a Deep Forest

• Contest: There's still a little time to enter our League of Legends beta code contest

Downloads

• Demigod Demo: A few months after the main game was released, Gas Powered Games and Stardock finally release a multiplayer demo for their RTS-RPG hybrid game.

• East India Company demo: Try out a sample of the just release historical strategy game from Nitro Games and Paradox Interactive.

• Death to Spies: Moment of Truth demo: Check out this demo for the upcoming WWII action game from 1C Company

• Ashes Cricket 2009 demo: Play the old English sport in this demo for the Codemasters game.

• The Witcher Director's Cut patch: This latest US patch for CD Projekt's hit RPG adds more nudity to the game.

• The Sims 3 patch: Update to this latest version of EA's best selling people sim game.

• Command and Conquer 4 teaser trailer: Check out this live action cut scene that sets up the story for EA's latest RTS game.

• Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Trailer: Download the first multiplayer footage from Infinity Ward's upcoming FPS.

• F.E.A.R. 2 Reborn trailer: Check out footage from the upcoming single player DLC for Monolith's FPS.

• Call of Duty World at War Der Riese trailer: It's footage from the latest zombie map coming in the next map pack for Activision's WWII shooter

News

• Theater of War expansion pack announced

• Tons of Ubisoft games to be added to GameTap

• Sudden Attack launches open beta test

• Left 4 Dead 2 and . . . Depeche Mode?

• Ubisoft working on new PC anti-piacy tool

• Possible StarCraft II delay affecting Activision Blzzard stock price

• Brace yourself: The Bachelor and Bachelorette games are coming

• Sorry PC players: No Hardened Edition of Modern Warfare 2 for you either

• Combat Arms adds new Quarantine (i.e. Zombie) Mode

• Pong creator designing new sci-fi RTS-FPS title

• Is the lack of game digital download sale info hurting the industry?

• CrimeCraft enters open beta