The Best of Big Download: August 3-9

by Joystiq Staff @joystiq on Aug 9th 2009 10:30PM

The dog days of August are hitting us hard, but Big Download has been quite busy with lots of features, news and a number of new demos and other downloads. Check out what we have been writing about in the last seven days:
Exclusive features

10 Upcoming Mac Games: The Macintosh gamer has a lot to look forward to in the next several months. We take a look at 10 PC games that are slated to be ported to the Mac.
Delayed to 2010: The Upcoming PC Game Backlog: A ton of major games are slated to come out in the first half of 2010. We take a look at these delayed titles and speculate if they will be successful.
Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta Review: We give our final verdict for the last official DLC for Bethesda Softworks's RPG
Mac Monday: Our weekly look at Mac games looks at two titles: Star Defender 4 and Bionic Heart
Boot Disk: Our retro games feature looks at Blue Bytes' classic strategy game The Settlers 2.
Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes examines how real voices will affect players while playing MMOs.
Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free games checks out an older title, the RTS game Warzone 2100.

Downloads

Batman: Arkham Asylum demo: Try out a portion of the upcoming super-hero action game from Eidos
Hearts of Iron III demo: Play a free sample of the WWII strategy game from Paradox Interactive
Order of War demo: It's a portion of the upcoming RTS game from Wargaming.net and Square Enix
Angle of Attack demo: Try out this portion of the upcoming action-flying game from 3000AD
World of Warcraft 3.2 patch: Blizzard's hit MMO games gets some new content in this latest major free update