The Best of Big Download: December 7 - 13

The Spike TV Video Game Awards were the source of a lot of new game announcements and reveals last night, but they weren't the only source of major news items in PC gaming this week. Let's look back at the past seven days at Big Download:
Exclusives

• Big Versus: In our latest Big Versus, we pit Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare against Modern Warfare 2.
• Interviews: We chat with the people behind the upcoming shooter The Scourge Project and also with the head of Smoking Gun Interactive.
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PC review: We give our final verdict to the PC port of LucasArts's action game.
• The State of Mac Gaming: Part 3: It's the third part of our four part series that examines Mac gaming.
• Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out X-Com Apocalypse.
• Freeware Friday: Our free PC game column checks out the unusually titled Magic Planet Snack.

Downloads

• Europa Universalis 3: Heir to the Throne Demo: Try out this sample of the upcoming strategy expansion from Paradox Interactive
• World of Warcraft 3.3 patch: Download this latest free content update to Blizzard's MMO
• Warcraft III patch: Grab the latest update to Blizzard's last RTS game.
• Dragon Age Origins 1.02 patch: It's the latest version of BioWare's RPG
• Borderlands 1.1 patch: It's the latest update to Gearbox first person shooter.
• James Cameron's Avatar The Game 1.01 patch: Update to the latest version of Ubisoft's new movie-based action game
• Mass Effect 2 Voice Cast movie: Check out the all-star voice cast talking about working on BioWare's upcoming sci-fi Rhttp://blogsmith.aol.com/content/posts/create/PG

News

• Dead Space 2 officially announced for the PC
• Portal co-creator heads to Airtight Games
• Intel: Project Offset info update coming in 2010
• Telltale teases new Sam and Max "season" in 2010
• Stargate Resistance multiplayer shooter in 2010; Stargate Worlds still coming
• Large layoffs reported at Aspyr Media
• Activision's next Transformers game heads to the PC in 2010
• Second Borderlands DLC announced as we head to Mad Moxxi's
• Next Team Fortress 2 update: The Soldier – Demoman War
• Batman: Arkham Asylum sequel revealed
• Spec Ops: The Line revealed