The Best of Big Download: November 9-15
We played Modern Warfare 2 for the PC and lived to tell about it! But that wasn't the only thing that happened in the PC gaming world last week. As we do every week, let's look at the last seven days on Joystiq's PC-centric sister site, Big Download.
Exclusive features
- Reviews: We give our final verdicts on Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age: Origins and League of Legends.
- Star Trek Online preview: We go hands-on with Cryptic's upcoming sci-fi MMO.
- Interviews: We have lots of interviews this week including chatting with the developers of Prometheus, the Archon remake and Dino D-Day.
- Minuteman feature: We find out about an upcoming sci-fi movie that will use a specially created game as part of the plot.
- Jace Hall feature: The former Monolith head talks about his new projects as a Hollywood producer including the new V TV show remake.
- Mac Monday: This week our look at Mac games checks out two titles: Spooky Runes and Boonka.
- Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out the original Diablo.
- All You Need To Know: We have the 411 on Blizzard's upcoming RTS sequel StarCraft II.
- Freeware Friday: Our weekly free PC game feature checks out the new Flash-based RPG Dragon Age: Journeys.
Downloads
- For The Glory Demo: Check out this demo of the recently released historical strategy game from Paradox Interactive.
- King's Bounty: Armored Princess demo: It's the demo to the upcoming next game in 1C Company's RPG series.
- Section 8 patch: Update Timegate's recent sci-fi shooter with this first patch.
- Grand Theft Auto IV patch: It's the latest patch for Rockstar Games' open world action game.
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Ultimate Sith Edition patch: Download the first patch to LucasArts' third person action game.
- Torchlight Editor: Download the editor to Runic Games' recent action-RPG.
- Dino D-Day Half-Life 2 mod: Try out this mix of Nazis and dinosaurs in this latest Half-Life 2 mod.
- Assasin's Creed Lineage movie: It's the full live action short based on Ubisoft's action game series.
News
- No StarCraft II multiplayer beta until 2010
- Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers coming to the PC
- Rumor: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost And The Damned coming to PC?
- Sega won't sell Aliens vs Predator in Germany
- Did Modern Warfare 2 PC sell over 375,000 copies in its first day?
- Command and Conquer 4 gets March 16 release date and pre-order bonuses
- Torchlight coming to the Mac in 2010
- EA: Over $1 million already earned with Dragon Age: Origins DLC
- Battlefield Bad Company 2 to support DirectX11