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The Best of Big Download: February 1-7
by John Callaham 
{ 2 days ago }
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.
The Best of Big Download: January 25 - 31
by John Callaham { 9 days ago }
Exclusive Features
- Independent Games Festival 2010: We look at all of the nominees entered into the annual celebration of indie games. Check out part one, part two, part three, part four and part five of the series.
- Interviews: We chat with the co-founder of CD Project on GoG.com and more and with Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor on Supreme Commander 2.
- Opinion: Apple's iPad - threat or help to PC gaming? - We give our opinion on if the new Apple device will affect PC gaming.
- Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out the original Tropico.
- Freeware Friday: Our weekly feature on free PC games checks out the rogue-like Tiny Crawl.
The Best of Big Download: January 18-24
by John Callaham { 16 days ago }
Exclusive Features
- Dark Void Review: We give our final verdict to the third person action game from Airtight Games and Capcom.
- Boot Disk: Our retro game feature takes a look at the 1998 railroad sim Railroad Tycoon 2.
- All You Need To Know: Our 411 game column gives you the info you need on Star Wars: The Old Republic.
- Freeware Friday: Our look at free PC games checks out the classic shooter Tribes 2.
The best of WoW.com: January 14th-20th
by Alex Ziebart { 19 days ago }
For all of this and much more, keep reading to see the best of WoW.com from the last week.
The Best of Big Download: January 11-17
by John Callaham { 23 days ago }
Exclusive Features
- PC Gaming at CES 2010: We examine what PC gaming related items were revealed at this month's Consumer Electronics Show -- everything from Sixsense's PC motion controller to word that Dark Void Zero is heading to PC as well. How about that?!
- King Arthur Review: We give our final verdict to the recent RTS-RPG game from Neocore Games (spoilers: "Meh.")
- Boot Disk: Our retro games feature examines the classic WWII war game Panzer General.
- All You Need To Know: Our 411 game feature gives you the info you need on BioShock 2.
- Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free PC games checks out The King, The Queen and The Jester.
The Best of Big Download: January 4-10
by John Callaham { 1 month ago }
Exclusive Features
- 10 Games We Wish Were Coming in 2010: There are some upcoming games that have already been announced that won't be out this year. We pick 10 that we wish would arrive just a bit earlier. Pretty please?
- Black Ops PC Games For 2010: There are plenty of games that are still being developed under a cloak of darkness/shroud of mystery/hood of deception. We pick candidates for our "black ops" PC game titles this year.
- Tales of Monkey Island Review: How about our final verdict on the entire five part adventure series from Telltale Games and LucasArts? 'Cause here it is! Done!
- Boot Disk: Our look at retro games checks out the original team based shooter -- Counter-Strike.
- Freeware Friday: Our look at free PC games checks out the paroday game title Merry Gear Solid
The Best of Big Download: December 28-January 3
by Joystiq Staff { 1 month ago }
Exclusive features
- 2010 Previews: We conclude our look ahead at the next year in PC games with a RPG-MMO preview and an RTS-other games preview. Plus we pick our top 10 most anticipated PC games of 2010, give our predictions for the next year, pick some 2010 console games that should be PC games and offer up some 2010 wishes for the PC game industry.
- Top 10 PC Gaming Related Failures Of The Decade (2000-2009): Sometimes things just don't go off as planned. We examine some of the biggest failures of the past decade in the PC game industry.
- Team Fortress 2 Demoman-Soldier Achievements. We conclude our look at the new additions to Team Fortress 2 with part six and part seven of the Demoman achievements and part six and part seven of the Soldier achievements.
- All You Need To Know: Our 411 column checks out the upcoming BioWare RPG Mass Effect 2.
The best of WoW.com: December 22-29, 2009
by Adam Holisky { 1 month ago }
Of course, there's other things going on in the WoW universe as well, and after the cut we'll take a look at the top stories of the week.
The Best Of Big Download: December 21-27
by Joystiq Staff { 1 month ago }
Original features
- 2009 In Review: We give our picks for the best PC games of 2009 in our annual Big Download Awards. We also pick our 10 favorite PC game demos of 2009 and point out some PC games and related products that turned into vaporware this year. And finally, we give our picks for the best indie games and which indie games would be great holiday gifts.
- The Top 10 Most Disappointing Games of the Decade (2000-2009): As a follow up to last week's feature of the best PC games of the decade, we give our picks for those PC itles that didn't live up to their hype.
- 2010 PC Game Preview: We begin our look at the next 12 months in gaming with part one and part two of what action and first-person shooter games are expected in 2010.
- Team Fortress 2 Soldier-Demoman Achievement Guides: Want to learn more about the two newly updated Team Fortress 2 classes? Then check out part one, part two, part three, part four and part five of our guide review and part one, part two, part three, part four and part five of our Demoman guide.
- Gratuitous Space Battles Review: We give our final verdict for the recent space strategy games by Positech.
- Kung Foo! Interview: We chat with comic book author Devin Grayson on her work adapting the upcoming satirical MMO game.
- Mac Monday: Our regular Mac games column returns with looks at two games: Osmos and Guns of Icarus.
- All You Need To Know: Our 411 column returns with a info dump on Star Trek Online.
- Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free PC games checks out the title Varia.
The Best of Big Download: December 14-20
by Joystiq Staff { 1 month ago }
Exclusive Features
- The Best PC Games of the Decade (2000-2009): We celebrate the last 10 years by looking back on the PC titles we think were the tops in the 2000s.
- The Top 10 PC Game News Stories in 2009: What events shaped the PC game industry in the past 12 months? We have our picks for the news stories that changed the industry last year.
- Dirt 2 PC review: We give our final verdict to Codemasters' rally racing game.
- Interviews: We chat with the folks behind the upcoming Stargate Resistance and get a post-release update on Torchlight.
- The State of Mac Gaming: Part 4: We conclude our look at the current and future state on gaming on the Mac.
- Boot Disk: This week our retro game column checks out id Software's original Quake.
- Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes examines whether PC games have had a "golden age" of development.
The Best of Big Download: December 7 - 13
by Joystiq Staff { 1 month ago }
Exclusives
- Big Versus: In our latest Big Versus, we pit Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare against Modern Warfare 2.
- Interviews: We chat with the people behind the upcoming shooter The Scourge Project and also with the head of Smoking Gun Interactive.
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed PC review: We give our final verdict to the PC port of LucasArts's action game.
- The State of Mac Gaming: Part 3: It's the third part of our four part series that examines Mac gaming.
- Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out X-Com Apocalypse.
- Freeware Friday: Our free PC game column checks out the unusually titled Magic Planet Snack.
The Best of Big Download: November 30 - December 6
by Joystiq Staff { 2 months ago }
Exclusive Features
- PC Game Multiplayer Holiday Gift Guide: Check out some gift ideas from Big Download from the current year and also some budget titles from past years that are still available.
- Left 4 Dead 2 Game Guide: Check out the last two campaign guides for Valve's zombie shooter (Flood of Hard Rain and Flee The Parish). Plus go back and check earlier entries in the series.
- R.U.S.E muliplayer hands-on: We check out the multiplayer beta test for the upcoming and different WWII RTS game from Eugen and Ubisoft.
- Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena: 10 Years Later: We look back at the release of two of the most influential multiplayer shooters of all time.
- The Wake of Guybrush Threepwood: Is the hero of the Monkey Island series really dead? We try to find out in this preview of the fifth and final chapter of Telltale's downloadable adventure series.
- Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Review: We give our final verdict to Croteam's FPS graphical remake.
- The Top 10 PC Game News Stories For November 2009: We give our picks for the biggest PC game news stories for last month.
- The State of Mac Gaming - Part 2: We continue our look at the current stats of games on the Mac platform in this second part of a four part series.
- Big Ideas: Our regular look at game thmese continues with an examination of death in games and possible alternatives.
- All You Need To Know: We give you the 411 on Ubisoft's upcoming stealth action game Splinter Cell Conviction.
- Freeware Friday: Our look at free PC games checks out the indie game title Probability O.
- Contests: You still have time to enter our Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter giveaway and check with Big Download next week for even more giveaway contests.
The Best of Big Download: November 23-29
by Joystiq Staff { 2 months ago }
Exclusive features
- Left 4 Dead 2 Game Guide: If you want to be fully briefed on Valve's zombie co-op shooter sequel, then you've come to the right place. We started our Left 4 Dead 2 Game Guide with the first chapters on Identifying New Threats, Knowing Your Arsenal and our first campaign guides Hit 'Em Dead Center, Hosting a Dark Carnival and Catching Swamp Fever. Look for the other entries next week!
- Holiday Gift Guides: Black Friday may be over but the holiday shopping season has begun. Take a look at our PC gamer gift guide for non-game present ideas as well as our picks for some single player title gift suggestions. And if you want to do some download shopping for your gamer we have evaluated the major PC game download services.
- Interviews: We chat with the creators of the just released indie strategy game Solium Infernum and the upcoming action game Zombie Driver.
- Gyromancer review: We give our final verdict to this Square Enix-Popcap puzzle-RPG collaboration.
- The State of Mac Gaming: In this first part of a multi-part series, we look at the current state of gaming on the Macintosh platform.
- Big Ideas: In our latest entry in our look at gaming themes we look at if single player gaming is truly becoming extinct.
The Best of Big Download: November 16-22
by Joystiq Staff { 2 months ago }
Exclusive Features
- Left 4 Dead 2: Check out our review of the PC version of Valve's shooter. Plus you still have time to win one of five Steam download codes for the full game.
- Interviews: This week we chatted with the creator of the upcoming 8-bit version of Left 4 Dead along with the COO of Reality Gap about the new free-to-play title Battleswarm.
- Mac Monday: This week we focus on two Mac games: Drawn: The Painted Tower and New Star Soccer 2010.
- Boot Disk: This week our retro games feature looks at Interplay's Fallout 2.
- Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes examines what, if anything, could be considered taboo in games.
- All You Need To Know: Our weekly 411 on a game titles gives you the info you need on Assassin's Creed 2.
- Freeware Friday: Our popular look at free PC games checks out the browser-based Captain Forever.
The Best of Big Download: November 9-15
by Joystiq Staff { 2 months ago }
Exclusive features
- Reviews: We give our final verdicts on Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age: Origins and League of Legends.
- Star Trek Online preview: We go hands-on with Cryptic's upcoming sci-fi MMO.
- Interviews: We have lots of interviews this week including chatting with the developers of Prometheus, the Archon remake and Dino D-Day.
- Minuteman feature: We find out about an upcoming sci-fi movie that will use a specially created game as part of the plot.
- Jace Hall feature: The former Monolith head talks about his new projects as a Hollywood producer including the new V TV show remake.
- Mac Monday: This week our look at Mac games checks out two titles: Spooky Runes and Boonka.
- Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out the original Diablo.
- All You Need To Know: We have the 411 on Blizzard's upcoming RTS sequel StarCraft II.
- Freeware Friday: Our weekly free PC game feature checks out the new Flash-based RPG Dragon Age: Journeys.
