The Best of Big Download: January 4-10

by John Callaham @ on Jan 11th 2010 1:00AM

In case you hadn't noticed, CES 2010 dominated the news this week. Heck, there were even a few interesting PC game items to report from the show -- a rarity in recent years! Let's look back at the highlights of the past seven days:

Exclusive Features

10 Games We Wish Were Coming in 2010: There are some upcoming games that have already been announced that won't be out this year. We pick 10 that we wish would arrive just a bit earlier. Pretty please?
Black Ops PC Games For 2010: There are plenty of games that are still being developed under a cloak of darkness/shroud of mystery/hood of deception. We pick candidates for our "black ops" PC game titles this year.
Tales of Monkey Island Review: How about our final verdict on the entire five part adventure series from Telltale Games and LucasArts? 'Cause here it is! Done!
Boot Disk: Our look at retro games checks out the original team based shooter -- Counter-Strike.
Freeware Friday: Our look at free PC games checks out the paroday game title Merry Gear Solid

Downloads

CSI: Deadly Intent demo: Play a sample of the recent TV based mystery game from Telltale and Ubisoft.
Borderlands 1.2 patch: Download the latest update to Geabox's first person shooter.
Dragon Age: Origins Awakening trailer: Check out the first footage from the upcoming BioWare RPG expansion.
Dark Void PhysX trailer: Check out the PC specific physics effect for the upcoming third person action game from Airtight.
Lego Universe trailer: It's the first cinematic trailer for the long awaited MMO from NetDevil! Hooray!