The Best of Big Download: August 11-17

by Joystiq Staff { Aug 17th 2008 at 6:30PM }

We have had a busy week at the PC centric Big Download site. As we approach two big gaming events (next week's Games Convention and Labor Day weekend's Penny Arcade Expo) we should have even more to write about in the coming days. In the meantime let's look back at the week that was:

Exclusive Features

Reviews: We review a number of games this week including Space Siege, the latest American McGee's Grimm episode and the first chapter of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
Big Ideas: Our latest look at game themes takes a look at gender roles in games.
Freeware Friday: This week our free game is the strategy title Battle for Wesnoth.
BigCast: It's our seventh edition of the Big Download podcast.

Downloads

Unreal Tournament 3 patch: Grab the 1.3 patch for Epic Games' latest shooter title.
Strong Bad Episode 1 demo: Check out the free portion of Telltale Games' latest episodic title
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Xi demo: Try out a portion of Koei's PC port of their strategy game
Star Trek Online trailer: Check out the first gameplay trailer from Cryptic Studios' MMO
Empire: Total War trailer: Check out some naval battle action from the upcoming historical RTS game.
Aion trailer: Check out this trailer for NCsoft's upcoming MMO