The Best of Big Download: February 1-7

by John Callaham @ on Feb 8th 2010 1:00AM

Apparently there's some "foot ball" match or something on today, but, ya know, you're already sitting there in front of your screen -- why not check out some of this week's features and news from Joystiq's PC sister site Big Download? What's that? Because you're a heartless monster? No excuses! We accept doting, loyal readers and heartless monsters alike. As always, features are below and downloads/news are after the break. Get to it!

Exclusive features

Reviews: We give our final verdict to two BioWare games: Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age Origins: Return to Ostagar.
Star Trek Online Stories We Want To See: The newly launched MMO has a ton of fictional history that we would love to see expanded in the game.
The Top 10 PC Gaming News Stories of January 2010: We pick out the top news stories of the past month plus a couple of honorable mentions.
Sins of a Solar: Diplomacy interview: We chat with Stardock's Brad Wardell on the upcoming space strategy expansion.
Boot Disk: Our retro game feature checks out Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
All You Need to Know: We give you the 411 this week on Battlefield Bad Company 2.
Freeware Friday: Our weekly free PC game feature looks at the rogue-like game Desktop Dungeons.

Downloads

Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943 Demo: Try out this sample of the upcoming WWII RTS game from 1C Company.
Dungeon Defense UDK Demo: Check out this portion of the upcoming tower defense game made with the Unreal Development Kit.
Torchlight 1.15 patch/demo: Download the new patch for Runic Games' RPG that also serves as a two hour demo for the full game.
Borderlands 1.21 patch: Get the latest update to Gearbox's first person shooter.
World of Warcraft 3.3a to 3.3.2 patch: Download WoW's most recent patch and get your fetch questin' on.
Fallout: New Vegas trailer: It's the first trailer for the upcoming RPG from Obsidian and Bethesda Softworks -- try not to fall apart (or set the world on fiiiiire).
BioShock 2 Launch Trailer: Peep the GCI launch trailer for 2K Marin's first-person shooter title.