The Best of Big Download: March 1-7

by John Callaham @ on Mar 7th 2010 11:30PM

It's been an incredibly busy and surprising week for PC games -- and GDC hasn't even started yet! Let's check out what's been happening in the last seven days, shall we:

Exclusive features

Star Trek Online review: We give our final verdict to Cryptic's latest MMO effort.
Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2.
All You Need To Know: We give you the big facts surrounding Command and Conquer 4.
Freeware Friday: This week's free PC game is the unusual indie title Rescue: The Beagles.
Contests: We still have a few beta keys to give away for Mytheon.

Downloads

Clover: A Curious Tale demo: Try out this sample of the PC port of the 2D political allegory game.
Rise of Prussia demo: Try out this free section of the historical strategy game from Paradox Interactive.
Flotilla demo: Check out this sample of the unusual space combat-adventure game.
Silent Hunter 5 1.1 patch: Update your Ubisoft WWII navel sim game with this first patch.
Assassin's Creed 2 1.01 patch: It's the first patch for the PC port of Ubisoft's open-world action game.
Just Cause 2 Nvidia features trailer: Check out the advanced PC graphical features for the upcoming open-world action game.