The Best of Big Download: August 10-16

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The Best of Big Download: August 10-16

Posted Aug 16th 2009 7:00PM by John Callaham
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Yes, QuakeCon 2009 was indeed a big deal but there were other events, news items and downloads of interest to the PC game community this week:
Exclusive features

QuakeCon 2009 coverage: We were all over id Software's free LAN event-game convention this week with features like our impressions of the first live Rage gameplay demo, a chat with the Rage team, coverage of John Carmack's and Todd Howard's speeches , a chat with Splash Damage's Paul Wedgewood on Brink and more. Oh, did we mention our picture galleries from Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 and our always popular BYOC case mod gallery?
Back and Forth: Time Travel in PC games: We examine how time travel and temporal powers have been featured in new, older and upcoming PC games.
Mac Monday: This week we look at the Mac beta for Warhammer Online.
Boot Disk: Our weekly retro game feature looks at the original Command and Conquer: Red Alert.
Big Ideas: Our weekly feature of game themes examines the growing trend of acquiring games via digital download.
Freeware Friday: Our look at free games for the PC this week examines the arcade action game GearToyGear.

Downloads

Darkest of Days demo: Try out a sample of this upcoming time traveling shooter from Phantom EFX
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood demo: Try out a sample of the recent Wild West shooter from Techland.
Championship Manager 2010 demo: Try out a sample of the upcoming soccer management sim
Rage trailer: It's the new trailer showing real gameplay from the upcoming id Software FPS.
Wolfenstein launch trailer: It's the final trailer for next week's release of the id-Raven FPS.