The Best Of Big Download: July 26 - August 1

by John Callaham @ on Aug 1st 2010 11:30PM

So, last week was a pretty dull week in terms of PC gaming news, huh? Who're we kidding? It was HUGE. StarCraft 2 finally came to our hard drives and, well, its been our number one news story for the whole week. As we await some official sales figures from Blizzard on the sci-fi RTS sequel let's look at the past seven days at our site:

Exclusive features

StarCraft II: While we're still working on our own review of the game, we posted a retrospective on StarCraft's storyline, a look back at StarCraft the game, a timeline of real-world events between StarCraft 1 and 2, a top 10 list of excuses to stay home to play StarCraft 2, an unboxing of the game's Collector's Edition, and an interview with StarCraft: Heaven's Devils author William C Dietz. And we still have one contest running where one of you could win a Collector's Edition of StarCraft 2.

Downloads

Sam and Max: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls demo: Check out this slice of the fourth episode of Telltale Games' adventure game series.
Commander: Conquest of the Americas demo: It's a small piece of the just released historical strategy game.
Firearms Source Mod 1.0 release: It's the first public release of this new Source Engine-based shooter mod.
Alien Arena 2010 7.45 game: It's the latest version of the free-to-play sci-fi shooter game.
StarCraft 2 movies: Check out official Blizzard movies on the game's Battle.net features, an overview on the game's campaign and just what StarCraft 2 is anyway.
DC Universe Online CGI trailer: It's a cool five minute pre-rendered trailer promoting Sony Online's upcoming MMO.
Shogun 2: Total War In-game trailer: Check out the first in-game engine footage from The Creative Assembly's upcoming RTS game.