The Best of Big Download: January 17 - 23
There were a bunch of big PC game announcements this week, ranging from new game reveals to development studio shut downs to an actual concrete release date for Duke Nukem Forever. (Seriously!) Let's look back at the past seven days of PC game developments.
Exclusive features
- Independent Game Festival 2011 features: We begin a series of articles that look at the nominees for this year's Independent Game Festival awards. This week we look at the games nominated for Design Excellence and Technical Excellence.
- Marv Wolfman interview: We chat with the co-writer of the newly launched super hero MMO DC Universe Online.
Downloads
- Crash Time IV demo: Check out this demo of the action-racing game.
- Need For Speed Hot Pursuit PC Patch 2 – Update your copy of the recent EA racing game.
- Pixel Force Halo [Full Free Game] – Play a version of Bungie's first person shooter as if it were designed for an 8-bit console
- Duke Nukem Forever Reveal Trailer – It's coming, baby. Check out the trailer for the long awaited first person shooter.
News
- Portal 2 PC/Mac to feature cross-platform play with PS3 version
- IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover announced
- Why has EA bought the domain name CampaignforPCGaming.com?
- New Mount and Blade expansion, With Fire and Sword, announced
- Naval War Arctic Circle announced
- Duke Nukem Forever to be released on May 3 ... really!
- Frogwares officially announces Dracula Origin 2