The Best of Big Download: November 23-29
by Joystiq Staff 
{ Nov 30th 2009 at 12:30AM }
Exclusive features
- Left 4 Dead 2 Game Guide: If you want to be fully briefed on Valve's zombie co-op shooter sequel, then you've come to the right place. We started our Left 4 Dead 2 Game Guide with the first chapters on Identifying New Threats, Knowing Your Arsenal and our first campaign guides Hit 'Em Dead Center, Hosting a Dark Carnival and Catching Swamp Fever. Look for the other entries next week!
- Holiday Gift Guides: Black Friday may be over but the holiday shopping season has begun. Take a look at our PC gamer gift guide for non-game present ideas as well as our picks for some single player title gift suggestions. And if you want to do some download shopping for your gamer we have evaluated the major PC game download services.
- Interviews: We chat with the creators of the just released indie strategy game Solium Infernum and the upcoming action game Zombie Driver.
- Gyromancer review: We give our final verdict to this Square Enix-Popcap puzzle-RPG collaboration.
- The State of Mac Gaming: In this first part of a multi-part series, we look at the current state of gaming on the Macintosh platform.
- Big Ideas: In our latest entry in our look at gaming themes we look at if single player gaming is truly becoming extinct.
Downloads
- Solium Infernum demo: We have the demo for the latest turn based strategy game from Cryptic Comet.
- Call of Duty: World at War 1.7 patch: It's the latest PC patch for Treyarch's WWII shooter. We also have the 1.7 version of its dedicated server.
- Crysis "Back to the Future" DeLorean mod: Go up to 88 MPH and truly do some in-game time traveling in this unique Crysis mod.
- Aion "Vision" Trailer: Check out this massive video showing off what might be some graphical improvements coming to NCsoft's recent MMO game.
- World of Warcraft Mr T "Mohawk Grenade" TV Commercial 2: It's the second TV commercial featuring our favorite World of Warcraft player.
- Aliens Vs Predator Multiplayer Trailer: Check out some multiplayer footage from Rebellion's upcoming FPS.
- Sorry PC gamers: No world on Resident Evil 5 DLC for us
- Final two Star Wars: The Old Republic player classes revealed
- New Demigod patch finally adds one new demigod
- Blizzard removes skill trees from Diablo 3
- Alienware to pre-load Portal and Steam on new PCs
- Section 8 PC gets downloadable map pack
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC beta delayed until early 2010
- Puzzle Quest 2 revealed; details coming soon
- Warmachine PC game in the works
- Infinity Ward targets PC Modern Warfare 2 cheaters
- Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising gets March 11, 2010 release date
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
RKN (Steam ID: nerdydesi) @ Nov 30th 2009 12:45AM
Mac gaming to PC gaming is like console gaming to PC gaming. The former is much more popular than the latter, the latter is absolutely niche compared to the former. Let's work on PC gaming before Mac gaming anyways. With BootCamp on Macs, I'd wager they just buy PC games instead of waiting for a Mac port, don't waste time with Mac ports.
Einhanderkiller @ Nov 30th 2009 12:56AM
That analogy doesn't really work. The market for Mac gaming is very small everywhere while, worldwide, PC gaming is actually larger than console gaming as everybody has a PC. It's just that in the industry we focus on, console gaming is larger. There are multiplayer games in Asia larger than Modern Warfare 2.
Einhanderkiller @ Nov 30th 2009 12:58AM
That analogy doesn't really work. The market for Mac gaming is very small everywhere while, worldwide, PC gaming is actually larger than console gaming as everybody has a PC. It's just that in the industry we focus on, console gaming is larger. There are multiplayer games in Asia larger than Modern Warfare 2.
The Baron @ Nov 30th 2009 6:16AM
Macs are more popular than PCs? I didn't realise that pretentious people are worth ten times more in surveys.
That Guy @ Nov 30th 2009 6:49AM
Mac gaming to PC gaming is like Unicorns to Horses.
The latter exists, the former does not.
RKN (Steam ID: nerdydesi) @ Nov 30th 2009 11:41AM
Sorry, had that analogy mixed up. : 0
Spartan [Planeteer | Power of Sunshine & Lollipops] @ Nov 30th 2009 3:02AM
Lmao -
L4D2 guide - how to spot a zombie.
That Burning Sensation @ Nov 30th 2009 9:36AM
"In our latest entry in our look at gaming themes we look at if single player gaming is truly becoming extinct."
You guys can't be serious. A large number of gamers STILL don't play online multi-player games. To the average hc gamer that may seem unlikely, but you guys are suppose to be more knowledgeable then this. This shouldn't even be a question.