The Best of Big Download: August 25-31
Exclusive Features
- Big Download's Most Anticipated Fall 2008 PC Games: Check out our picks for the games we want to play the most in the busy fall/holiday season.
- Big Download's Penny Arcade Expo 2008 gallery: Check out our own gallery of images from PAX 2008
- Guide to Team Fortress 2 Heavy Achievements: It's an extensive look at all of the new achievements you can get while playing the Heavy class in Valve's multiplayer shooter. Check out part one, part two, part three, part four and part five.
- Reviews: Take a look at reviews of Tank Universal and the latest American McGee's Grimm installment. Plus a look at some new PC accessories from Razer.
- Independent Minds: This new column on indie game development takes a look at how devs should take criticism of their work
- Big Iron: Our latest hardware column takes a look at PC cooling systems.
- Big Ideas: Our gaming themes column takes a look at whether classic games should be revamped.
- MacMonday: Our look at Macintosh gaming takes a gander at the classic Maelstrom.
- Alt-Tab: This week's feature gallery column concerns Valve's ideas about games.
- Five reasons we think we will love Mercenaries 2: The title says it all in this new gallery feature.
- Freeware Friday: It's our latest free game; the sandbox title Survival Crisis Z
- BigCast: We have our regular weekly podcast plus extra ones from PAX 2008 with team members from Warhammer Online and one with AOL Game Daily's Robin Yang.
Downloads
- Spore Creature Creator Patches: Patch up both the full and trial versions of the stand alone creature editor.
- Tank Universal demo: Check out this free look at this Tron-like arcade action game
- Space Siege DVD patch: Patch up the DVD issue for Gas Powered's latest action-RPG
- Project Origin GC08 trailer: It's the latest footage from the Monolith shooter sequel.
- X3: Terran Conflict trailer: Check out the latest footage from Egosoft's space sim
- Mercenaries 2 launch trailer: It's the final gameplay trailer before the release of Pandemic's open world action game
- Far Cry 2 trailer: It's an "immersive" look at Ubisoft's upcoming shooter.
- Tiny delay for Left 4 Dead
- Most major game publishers bypassing E For All Expo 2008
- Warhammer Online goes gold
- Will Wright not offended by Spore porn
- Comcast to limit Internet downloads on October 1
- iRacing officially launches
- Stardock unveils its PC "Gamer's Bill of Rights"
- Multiple Sins of a Solar Empire expansions announced
- Don't expect a Gears of War 2 PC port
- Shipping screw up causes slight S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky delay
- Defense Grid announced
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tiptup300 @ Aug 31st 2008 11:49AM
I wish the COD4 demo would come to steam. :(