The Best of Big Download: February 7 - 13

During this past week, the DICE Summit rolled into Las Vegas, a small part of Duke Nukem Forever was demoed to press in a strip bar, and Big Download gave out some beta keys for Darkspore (that were quickly claimed by our readers). In other words, it was a fairly typical past seven days.

Exclusive features

• Interviews: We chat with Arcen Games on A Valley Without Wind and with the producer of Magicka this week.
• Dungeons review: We give our final verdict on the fantasy strategy-RPG game. You can also check out a free demo of the game.
• The busy, busy month of May (for PC gaming): There's a ton of PC games due to be released in May, but why?

Downloads

• Two Worlds II Patch: Download the latest patch for the PC and Mac version of the recent fantasy RPG.
• Shogun 2 Cinematic Trailer: Check out this CGI intro for the upcoming historical RTS game.
• Guild Wars 2 Human Zone trailer: It's the latest glimpse into this long awaited upcoming MMO game.

News

• Report: Battlefield 3 PC to be lead platform; mod tools might not be released
  
• The Darkness II to use next version of Digital Extremes' Evolution Engine
• Fray announced
  
• StarCraft II sales approach 4.5 million units; still no release date for China
• Crasher gets 50 percent price cut to $14.99; previous buyers will be refunded
• Diablo III out by end of 2011? Blizzard president says, "That's our goal."
• Serious Sam 3 due in summer of 2011, says Croteam CEO
• Crysis 2 PC build leaked to pirate download sites
• Five Fingers of Death: The BioWare game we will never play