The Best of Big Download; June 29-July 5, 2008

by John Callaham @ on Jul 5th 2008 12:00PM

This may have been a holiday week but we were extremely busy anyway with tons of original content and features along with some great new downloads. Here's a look at the highlights.

Exclusive Features

Hands-On Space Siege: We get to play with a late build of the sci-fi action-RPG from Gas Powered Games and Sega
Hands-On Bionic Commando: We swing to new heights with this preview of the third person action game revival from GRIN and Capcom
Hands-On Civilization IV Colonization: We check out this (sort of) remake of Sid Meier's classic strategy game from Firaxis and 2K Games
Hands-On American McGee's Grimm: We play through the first portions of this episodic action game that's coming from Gametap.
Preview: Call of Duty World at War: We check out a live demo of the upcoming WWII shooter from Treyarch and Activision.
Interview: Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People: We chat with members of Telltale Games to find out more about their upcoming episodic adventure game.
Alone in the Dark: We compare the PC version of the Atari survival horror game to its Xbox 360 counterpart in our latest Big Versus article and go more in-depth with the game as well.
Guide to TF2 Pyro Achievements Part 6: We have the final part of our series of articles looking at the new achievements for the Pyro class in Team Fortress 2.
Big Ideas: Our new weekly column on gaming's major themes takes a look at story in games.
Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free games talks about the scrolling shooter rRootage
Big Iron: Our hardware column takes a look at the new 4800 series of Radeon graphics chips from AMD/ATI
Mac Monday: Our regular look at Mac gaming takes a look at the Mac exclusive arcade game Neon Tango
BigCast: Members of Big Download chat about the week of PC games in our latest podcast.

Downloads

Diablo II demo: Check out both the PC and Mac demos for the classic Blizzard action-RPG
STALKER Clear Sky Atmosphere Trailer: Check out the impressive graphics for GSC Game World's upcoming prequel shooter.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2: We have the new patch and map pack for Ubisoft's tactical shooter.
Warcraft III patch: We have tons of patch versions for the Blizzard RTS game and its expansion The Frozen Throne.
World in Conflict patch: We have the latest patch for Massive Development's RTS game