The Best of Big Download: December 7 - 13

by Joystiq Staff @joystiq on Dec 13th 2009 11:59PM

The Spike TV Video Game Awards were the source of a lot of new game announcements and reveals last night, but they weren't the only source of major news items in PC gaming this week. Let's look back at the past seven days at Big Download:
Exclusives

Big Versus: In our latest Big Versus, we pit Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare against Modern Warfare 2.
Interviews: We chat with the people behind the upcoming shooter The Scourge Project and also with the head of Smoking Gun Interactive.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PC review: We give our final verdict to the PC port of LucasArts's action game.
The State of Mac Gaming: Part 3: It's the third part of our four part series that examines Mac gaming.
Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out X-Com Apocalypse.
Freeware Friday: Our free PC game column checks out the unusually titled Magic Planet Snack.

Downloads

Europa Universalis 3: Heir to the Throne Demo: Try out this sample of the upcoming strategy expansion from Paradox Interactive
World of Warcraft 3.3 patch: Download this latest free content update to Blizzard's MMO
Warcraft III patch: Grab the latest update to Blizzard's last RTS game.
Dragon Age Origins 1.02 patch: It's the latest version of BioWare's RPG
Borderlands 1.1 patch: It's the latest update to Gearbox first person shooter.
James Cameron's Avatar The Game 1.01 patch: Update to the latest version of Ubisoft's new movie-based action game
Mass Effect 2 Voice Cast movie: Check out the all-star voice cast talking about working on BioWare's upcoming sci-fi Rhttp://blogsmith.aol.com/content/posts/create/PG