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The Best of Big Download: July 13-19

July 19th, 2008

Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta (about Joystiq)

It's E3 week and we were there getting some hands-on time and some eyes-on time with some of the biggest PC game releases in the next several months. Here are the highlights from Big Download for the past week.

Exclusive Features

• E3 2008 articles: Check out our impressions of a number of PC games at the show this week (with more to come next week) for games like Spore, Dragon Age: Origins, Far Cry 2, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Empire: Total War, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II, Wanted, Left 4 Dead, Crysis Warhead and more.
• Spore Creature Creator Contest Grand Prize Winners: We reveal the winners in our extremely popular contest
• BigCast 004: It's the fourth installment of Big Download's weekly podcast.

News

• Demigod beta schedule revealed
• Crytek acquires Black Sea Studios
• Fallout 3 to have downloadable content for PC and Xbox 360
• Pivotal Games closes
• Activision reveals new titles including new Raven game Singularity
• Wanted movie game confirmed
• Flagship Studios still operating but without most of its employees
• City of Heroes and City of Villains officially merged
• Could there be a Serenity game?
• 1C Company acquires Buka
• EA confirms Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic MMO
• Wrath of the Lich King goes beta
• Rebellion acquires Razerworks

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