The Best of Big Download: September 1-7
by Joystiq Staff 
{ Sep 7th 2008 at 8:00AM }
Exclusive features
- Spore: It ships to stores today in the US so make sure you check out our coverage of Will Wright's magnum opus, including our five reasons we thing we will love this game, our first out of the box experience and some interesting Spore related advertisements.
- Champions Online: We get a hands-on look at the Snake Gulch zone for Cryptic Studios's upcoming super hero MMO title.
- Reviews: Our latest review takes a look at the next chapter for American McGee's Grimm, Godfather Death.
- Team Fortress 2 Comprehensive Achievement Guide: If you want to see detailed descriptions of every achievement in Valve's multiplayer shooter there's no better place to look.
- Big Ideas: Our latest column on game themes takes a look at being a hero in an MMO title.
- MacMonday: Our latest column on Mac gaming takes a look at the action horror game Larva Mortus.
- Alt-Tab: Our latest feature gallery column takes a hands-on look at Gas Powered's upcoming title Demigod.
- Freeware Friday: Our latest look at free games checks out the recent adventure game remake Quest for Glory 2.
Downloads
- Death Track demo: It's the first playable demo for the car combat game from 1C Company
- Spore prototype programs: We've added all of the small prototype programs released by EA to show the development of their alien evolution sim title
- Fallout 3 movies: Check out not one, not two but five new gameplay movies from Bethesda Softworks' upcoming RPG title.
- Deathspank trailers: It's the first three teaser trailers to Hothead Games' first original project from adventure game great Ron Gilbert.
- Mercenaries 2: We have the full "Oh No You Didn't" song from the recent TV commercial to Pandemic's action game.
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky patches: Its both the retail and the digital download patch to the recent FPS from GSC Game World.
- Battlefield Heroes trailer: We have the new trailer to the upcoming free-to-play shooter from DICE and EA.
- Activision Blizzard hopes Starcraft II shows up in 2009
- Penny Arcade Expo 2008: 58,500 attendees
- Unreal Engine 3 to be used for newly revealed Sky Gods
- GOG.com to open up for early access next week; free Interplay game offer
- First Spore reviews are predictably mixed
- Entire X-Com series now available on Steam
- Over 500,000 total Sins of a Solar Empire units sold
- Age of Conan now available via Steam
- Former Games for Windows magazine editor to work on The Sims
- EA could license Spore engine to third parties
- Far Cry 2 gets final release date and Collector's Edition
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
badbrain @ Sep 7th 2008 9:54AM
Seriously, whats the point in bigdownload? Anytime i have ever looked on it the articles have a max of 5 comments.
Haggard @ Sep 7th 2008 10:15AM
It's fairly new, and besides, I really like their podcast and articles.
j.howlett @ Sep 7th 2008 11:05AM
people don't have to comment on the articles to read them. i've only listened to 2 podcast but they were pretty good
Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Sep 7th 2008 11:06AM
They need more actual TF2 articles instead of rehashing the same Achievement Guide each week.
sicsided @ Sep 7th 2008 11:51AM
they have tons of content, every single day, offer downloads on non-crowded servers, and have interesting articles that aren't just 'announcements'. Great website, whether people post comments or not. Half the time the comments here are nonsense anyways.
Haggard @ Sep 7th 2008 5:45PM
The only problem I see is the video downloads. I love watching trailers but the thought of downloading every one that catches my interest at 100MB makes my hard drive want to go and hide in the corner. I prefer gametrailers.com for this, even if their editorial staff is made up of a bunch of whooping cretins.
Daxy Baby @ Sep 7th 2008 12:28PM
"Spore: It ships to stores today in the US so make sure you check out our coverage of Will Wright's magnum opus, including our five reasons we >>>thing
Hasney @ Sep 7th 2008 6:21PM
I've been to the site a couple of times and these "Best-Of" posts just feel like it might as well have a weekly post saying "Here's the best parts about having AIDS"
Hasney @ Sep 7th 2008 6:21PM
I've been to the site a couple of times and these "Best-Of" posts just feel like it might as well have a weekly post saying "Here's the best parts about having AIDS"