The Best of Big Download: August 18-24

by Joystiq Staff @joystiq on Aug 24th 2008 5:00PM

Games Convention generated a ton of new HD trailers for upcoming PC games and we have them ready to download, along with a ton of original content and news stories. Indeed, there were a lot of new PC games announcements this week (more than at E3). Take a look at all of them on our site:

Exclusive Features

Reviews: Check out our reviews of the PC version of Bionic Commando Rearmed and the latest chapter of American McGee's Grimm.
Hands-on previews: Check out our hands-on impressions of Aion, Battleforge and Battlefield Heroes
BigVersus: Our latest game comparison column takes a look at the PC and Xbox 360 versions of Bionic Commando Rearmed.
Big Iron: Our latest PC hardware column takes a look at power . . . power supplies for your rig that is.
Big Ideas: Our latest column on themes in gaming takes a look at the so called "new games journalism."
Alt-Tab: Our newest column takes a look at RTS gameplay conventions and how Relic could change them with Dawn of War II.
Freeware Friday: Our latest look at free PC games is the classic Nethack.
BigCast: It's our regular podcast with team members chatting about all things PC gaming.

HD Trailer Downloads

The Godfather II teaser trailer: It's the first tease for EA's upcoming movie based action-strategy title.
Team Fortress 2: Meet the Sandvich movie: Valve's latest humor movie takes a look at the Heavy's new "weapon"
Red Alert 3 "Talent Reveal" Trailer: Check out the full live action cast for EA's upcoming RTS game.
Rage In-Game Teaser Trailer: Take a look at the latest footage for id Software's upcoming action game.
Crysis Warhead Cinematic Trailer: Check out the latest footage for Crytek's first person shooter.
Wrath of the Lich King Cinematic Trailer: Blizzard's latest CGI movie for the upcoming expansion pack to their MMO.
Warhammer Online Cinematic Trailer: Mythic has its own CGI movie to promote their upcoming MMO
Mirror's Edge trailer: Check out the latest footage for Digital Illusions' upcoming action game.
Mercenaries 2 Co-op trailer: It takes two in this co-op gameplay trailer for Pandemic's action game.
Tomb Raider Underworld trailer: Eidos presents the latest gameplay trailer for their action-adventure title
Left 4 Dead Gameplay Video: Shoot zombies in this latest look at Valve's upcoming FPS.
Dragon Age Origins Trailer: It's the latest gameplay footage from BioWare's upcoming RPG.