The Best of Big Download: November 23-29

by Joystiq Staff @joystiq on Nov 30th 2009 12:30AM

How was Thanksgiving weekend for you? Eat a lot of turkey and then took a long afternoon nap? Watch a lot of football? Put up your holiday decorations? Raid stores for deals on Black Friday? Man, you must be tired. Just sit back and check out what Big Download posted up during the last seven days.
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.