The Best of Big Download: December 22-28

by Joystiq Staff @joystiq on Dec 28th 2008 12:00PM

We hope all of you got a lot of gifts, ate a lot of turkey and ham and watched a lot of football this week. Big Download's schedule was slower this week than usual but we still had some great new original features posted. Let's look at the highlights from Christmas week:

Exclusive features

Big Download's 2008 PC Game Awards: We give out our first annual awards to games in a number of catagories.
2009 PC Game Preview: We begin our multi-part look at the next 12 months in games with part 1 and part 2 in the action-FPS game category.
All They Want For Christmas: What do your favorite PC game characters want for Christmas?
Grand Theft Auto IV PC review: We give our final verdict on the PC port of Rockstar's open world action game.
FusionFall preview: We go hands-on with the upcoming Cartoon Network-based MMO game.
Mac Monday: We look at two free Mac-based holiday games this week.
MODmonday: Our weekly look at game mods looks at the highly successful Source engine based Garry's Mod.
Big Ideas: Is life like a single player game or an MMO? Our weekly look at game themes attempts to answer this question.
Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free games takes a look at the beta version of the old-school adventure game Spelunky.

Downloads

Dragon Age: Origins dev diary: Take a look at the making of the Grey Wardens in this trailer for BioWare's upcoming RPG title
Battlestations: Pacific trailer: Take a look at gameplay and commentary from Eidos's upcoming action-strategy title.
The Witcher hotfix patch: Update your copy of CD Projekt's recent RPG.

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