The Best of Big Download: November 16-22

by Joystiq Staff @joystiq on Nov 23rd 2009 2:00AM

Was the past week good for you? It certainly was good for us. As usual Big Download had a bunch of exclusive feautures, news items and downloads for any PC gaming fan. Let's take a look back at the last seven days:
Exclusive Features

Left 4 Dead 2: Check out our review of the PC version of Valve's shooter. Plus you still have time to win one of five Steam download codes for the full game.
Interviews: This week we chatted with the creator of the upcoming 8-bit version of Left 4 Dead along with the COO of Reality Gap about the new free-to-play title Battleswarm.
Mac Monday: This week we focus on two Mac games: Drawn: The Painted Tower and New Star Soccer 2010.
Boot Disk: This week our retro games feature looks at Interplay's Fallout 2.
Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes examines what, if anything, could be considered taboo in games.
All You Need To Know: Our weekly 411 on a game titles gives you the info you need on Assassin's Creed 2.
Freeware Friday: Our popular look at free PC games checks out the browser-based Captain Forever.

Downloads

James Cameron's Avatar: The Game demo: Check out this sample of Ubisoft's upcoming movie-based action game
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising demo: Check out this demo from Codemasters's recent military shooter
King's Bounty: Armored Princess demo: It's a playable slice for 1C Company's new fantasy turn-based strategy game.
Men of War: Red Tide demo: Download this free sample of 1C Company's recent WWII RTS game.
STALKER: Call of Pripyat Benchmark Tool: Download this tool based on the upcoming first person shooter to see if the game will run on your PC.
Borderlands 1.01 patch: Download this patch to update Gearbox Software's recent first person shooter.
The Sims 3 1.7.9 patch: Grab this latest update to EA's people sim game.
Blood Bowl Dark Elves Add-On Patch: If you have the full version of Cyanide's sports-fantasy game, you can grab this download to add the Dark Elves faction to the game.
World of Warcraft Mr. T 'Mohawk Grenade' Commercial: Check out the latest TV commercial for Blizzard's hit MMO with Mr. T, fool.
The Sims 3 'Twilight: New Moon' Parody Trailer: Check out this Sims 3 version of the massive hit movie