The Best of Big Download: March 8-14

Posted Mar 14th 2010 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Meta BD

GDC 2010 is history and as predicted there was quite a bit of news from the annual gathering of game creators. Let's check out the past week and see what we can find:
Exclusive features

Supreme Commander 2 review: We give our final verdict to Gas Powered Games' sci-fi RTS sequel
Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out the original version of Serious Sam: The First Encounter.
Command and Conquer Canon Retrospective: Ahead of this coming week's release of C&C 4, we look back at the fictional history of the RTS game series.
All You Need To Know: This week, our 411 column gives you the info on R.U.S.E.
Freeware Friday: Our column on free PC games this week checks out CastlevaniaRL: Serenade of Chaos.

Downloads

Just Cause 2 demo: If you have a PC with Windows Vista/7 and a DirectX 10 graphics card, you can check out this portion of the upcoming open world action game.
Order of War: Challenge demo: Check out this portion of the new stand along WWII RTS expansion pack from Wargaming.net
Dragon Age: Origins 1.03 patch: Update your copy of the BioWare RPG to its latest version.
Dirt 2 1.1 patch: It's the first patch to Codemasters' racing game since it was released last December.
Command and Conquer Motion Comic Part 1: Check out this story told in animation form based on EA's RTS series
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Teaser Trailer: It's the first CGI teaser for the next game in the cyberpunk RPG series.