The Best of Big Download: March 8-15

by Joystiq Staff @joystiq on Mar 15th 2009 11:30PM

Another week has flown by here at Big Download but now it's time to look back and see what happened to PC gaming in the last seven days. Join us, won't you?:
Exclusive features

PC games on the slow boat: Some PC games seem to take forever to complete. We look back at some titles that did indeed take a long time to develop before they were finally released.
First Look: Eve Online Apocrypha: Get some impressions and developer comments on CCP's space -based MMO expansion that launched this week.
Review: Sins of a Solar Empire Entrenchment: We have the final verdict on the first of three expansions for Ironclad Games' space strategy game.
Team Fortress 2 Scout Achievements: Check out the six and final part of our look at the new Scout achievements in Valve's multiplayer game, plus a round-up of all six parts.
Independent Minds: In our latest column on indie games we look at how developers should support a game after release.
Big Ideas: In this installment of our column about big game ideas, we look at some current and possible future game controllers.
Big Iron: This week's PC game hardware column reviews the recently released 7 inch touch-screen PC monitor the Mimo UM-719
Freeware Friday: This week's look at free games is all about the strategy-typing (yes, typing) game Typomagia.

Downloads

Major League Baseball 2K9 Demo: Play a sample of the new pro baseball game from 2K Games
Age of Booty demo: Get this free look at the (finally) PC version of Certain Affinity's pirate strategy game
Red Alert 3 1.08 patch: Update to get the latest version of EA's RTS game.
World in Conflict patch: Get the latest version of Massive Entertainment's RTS game
Split/Second teaser trailer: Get the first glimpse at the new racing game from Black Rock Studios
City of Heroes Captain Dynamic Episode 3: It's the third and final part of Rooster Teeth's comedy series that promotes NCsoft's super hero MMO.