The Best of Big Download: March 8-14

GDC 2010 is history and, as predicted, there was quite a bit of news from the world's largest annual gathering of game creators. Let's review the past week and see what we can find:

Exclusive features

• Supreme Commander 2 review: We give our final verdict to Gas Powered Games' sci-fi RTS sequel.
• Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out the original version of Serious Sam: The First Encounter.
• Command and Conquer Canon Retrospective: Ahead of this coming week's release of C&C4, we look back at the fictional history of the RTS game series.
• All You Need To Know: This week, our 411 column gives you the info on R.U.S.E.
• Freeware Friday: Our column on free PC games this week checks out CastlevaniaRL: Serenade of Chaos.

Downloads

• Just Cause 2 demo: If you have a PC with Windows Vista/7 and a DirectX 10 graphics card, you can check out this portion of the upcoming open-world action game.
• Order of War: Challenge demo: Check out this portion of the new standalone WWII RTS expansion pack from Wargaming.net
• Dragon Age: Origins 1.03 patch: Update your copy of the BioWare RPG to its latest version.
• Dirt 2 1.1 patch: It's the first patch to Codemasters' racing game since it was released last December.
• Command and Conquer Motion Comic Part 1: Check out this story told in animation form based on EA's RTS series
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution Teaser Trailer: It's the first CGI teaser for the next game in the cyberpunk RPG series.

News

• Valve to release Mac versions of its games and Steam in April
• EA to publish Big Huge Games-38 Studios "Project Mercury" RPG
  
• Battlestar Galactica Online announced
  
• StarCraft II to get Day 1 patch at launch
• Report: PC gaming revenues were $13.1 billion worldwide in 2009
• OnLive to launch June 17 for $14.95 a month for PC and Mac
• The Secret of Monkey Island 2 remake officially announced
• Unreal Engine 3 adds native Steamworks support
• Gaikai streaming PC game service to be free
• Sam and Max Season 3 launches April 15 for PC and Mac
• More Portal 2 viral fun; next chapter at E3?
  
• More hints of Fable 3 coming to PC?
  
• StarCraft II beta map client, map editor and content update coming in Apr