The Best of Big Download: February 15 - 21

by John Callaham @ on Feb 21st 2010 11:59PM

A ton of huge PC game news surfaced this past week, such as the launch of StarCraft 2's beta test and the announcement of Civilization V. Who says PC games are dead? No, seriously, who? We want names. Let's take a gander at what's happened during the past seven days on our site.

Exclusive features

StarCraft 2 beta impressions: We take a few hours to play through the multiplayer beta of Blizzard's sci-fi RTS sequel and give you our thoughts.
Playing PC games with Alienware's Aurora ALX: Alienware's tricked out Aurora ALX is expensive but very fast. We take it on a test drive.
Bioshock 2 review: We give our final word on the first person shooter sequel that takes us back to Rapture
Sins of a Solar Empire Diplomacy/Trinity review: We play and review the second and final micro-expansion to the space strategy game
Kings and Castles Interview: We are the first web site to chat with Gas Powered's Chris Taylor about their newly announced fantasy RTS game.
Opinion: "Always On" should be turned off: We offer our humble opinion on Ubisoft's new PC game DRM policy.
Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out Team 17's classic turn based strategy game Worms Armageddon.
All You Need To Know: We give you the 411 on the upcoming open world action game sequel Just Cause 2.

Downloads

Achtung Panzer: Kharkov 1943 Demo: Try out a sample version of this WWII strategy game from Paradox Interactive
Puzzle Chronicles Demo: Its a brief portion of the latest puzzle game from Infinite Interactive.
StarCraft II Beta Client: If you have a beta invite, you can download the client for the multiplayer beta to Blizzard's upcoming sci-fi RTS game.
The Haunted Mod for Unreal Tournament 3: Try out the grand prize winner of the latest Make Something Unreal mod contest.
Star Trek Online Cosplay World Record Video: Check out what some people are doing in London to break a world record while promoting the recent MMO game.