The Best of Big Download: September 21-27
by Joystiq Staff 
{ Sep 27th 2009 at 11:30PM } 
Exclusive features
- Reviews: As the fall season hits, we give our final verdicts to a ton of new PC games, including Batman: Arkham Asylum, Majesty 2, Resident Evil 5, Red Faction Guerrilla and Section 8.
- Alienware's new look and features: We go over the four new desktops and the new laptop from Alienware that was announced this week.
- Mac Monday: Our weekly Mac gaming column looks at two games this time, BOH and Cuba Letra
- Boot Disk: Our weekly retro game feature has two entries this week as we look at the Planet Moon Studios action game Giants: Citizen Kabuto and the original Red Faction.
- Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes and ideas examines if playing games is actually good for you.
- All You Need To Know: Our regular look at upcoming games gives you an idea of what to expect from Borderlands.
- Playing For Free: Our weekly look at free-to-play online games checks out Nexon's first person shooter Combat Arms.
- Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free PC games checks out the sandbox-themed game Clonk Endeavour
Downloads
- Zuma's Revenge demo: Try out this sample of Popcap Games' latest puzzle sequel.
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Demo: Try out a little of the just released movie-based family game.
- Call of Juarez: Born in Blood 1.1 patch: Update your copy of Techland's latest Western shooter. Also check out the game's newly released mod tools.
- World of Warcraft 3.2.2 patch: Download this update to Blizzard's hit MMO.
- Need For Speed Shift 1.1 patch: It's an update to EA's latest racing game that adds LAN multiplayer support
- Heroes Over Europe 1.01 patch: It's the first update to Ubisoft's WWII flying action game.
- Darkest of Days 1.04 patch: Download this update to Phantom EFX's recent shooter.
- The Settlers VII trailer: Check out this unusual trailer to Ubisoft's upcoming strategy-sim game
- Borderlands Claptrap Video 2: It's the second look "behind-the-scenes" for Gearbox's upcoming FPS.
- Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising announced
- Blur delayed to sometime in 2010
- Empire: Total War - The Warpath Campaign mini-expansion announced
- Should Valve spin off its Steam service into its own company?
- The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom announced
- Left 4 Dead 2 demo coming October 27
- Left 4 Dead Crash Course campaign coming on September 29
- Even more DirectX11-supported games revealed
- Borderlands gets slightly delayed for PC release
- Splinter Cell: Conviction gets February 23 release date
- BioShock finally coming to the Mac in October
- Assassin's Creed 2 PC delayed to first quarter of 2010
- Rumor: Alpha Protocol delayed until summer 2010?
- Rumor: Sony Online planning a PlanetSide sequel?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Einhanderkiller @ Sep 27th 2009 11:43PM
lol, Alienware.
Radical Dylan @ Sep 28th 2009 12:40AM
loved the article... I usually pass right over the big download section due to the fact that it is all for PCs and I'm not a PC gamer, but the article caught my eye...
It was very enlightening...
arkweld @ Sep 28th 2009 3:14AM
Red Faction "relatively bug-free"
so I guess that's another reviewer who doesn't use 5.1 surround (broken), SLI (doesn't work), Windows 7, ATI cards or any of the other many borked things that need to be fixed in the patch.
Which still isn't out yet.