The Best of Big Download: November 3-9

by Joystiq Staff @joystiq on Nov 9th 2008 10:30PM

Are you already decorating for Christmas? If so take a break from the tree and check out our highlights at Big Download for the past week:

Exclusive Features

Reviews: We review Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 and American McGee's Grimm: The Singing Bone plus the Dead Space Downfall animated DVD. We also have some impressions of the Left 4 Dead PC demo.
Interviews: We chat with the dev teams behind Demigod, Theatre of War II and Death Track: Resurrection.
PC Game Character for President: We have a new person in the White House, but what would it be like if some of of the most famous PC characters ran for President of the US?
Beyond Left 4 Dead: Zombies in PC Games: We take a look at a ton of undead characters in our favorite PC game titles.
Mac Monday: Our weekly look at Mac games takes a gander at the kid title Majestic Forest
MODmonday: Our mod feature this week looks at the graphical revamp King's Quest VGA.
Independent Minds: Our weekly look at the indie game industry takes a look at overly-ambitious game designs
Big Ideas: Our weekly column on themes in the industry looks at how the PC game audience could be bigger than it is.
Freeware Friday: Our weekly free games column is about the recently released ad-supported free version of The Suffering.
Virtual Bargain Bin: Our weekly cheap game column takes a look at the Valve Complete Pack collection on Steam.
BigCast: It's the latest installment of the best PC game podcast out there (well, we think so anyway).

Downloads

Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009 Demo: We have not one but two versions of this demo for the soccer management sim, both for the PC and Mac
X3: Terran Conflict Rolling Benchmark Demo: It's not playable but this rolling demo for Egosoft's recent space sim can test out your PC rig.
World of Warcraft 3.0.3. patch: We have all the manual patches for the most recent version of Blizzard's MMO game.
Crysis Wars 1.1. patch: This patch updates the recent Crytek multiplayer shooter.
Far Cry 2. 1.01 patch: Get the latest patch for the Ubisoft open world shooter
Fallout 3 1.0.0.15 patch: It's the first patch for the Bethesda Softworks RPG title
Soccer game patches: Grab the latest patches for the PC versions of FIFA 09 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2009.
Call of Duty: World at War launch trailer: It's the final trailer before the Activision WWII shooter launches
Red Alert 3 Hoffmercial Trailer: David Hasselhoff himself tries to sell you on buying a copy of the recent RTS game.
F.E.A.R. 2 Alma Returns trailer: Check out the latest trailer for the upcoming horror shooter sequel from Monolith