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This Week In PC Games: August 30-September 5

This week, leading up to both PAX Prime and the Labor Day weekend, represents a bit of a lull in new PC game releases. However starting next week we should have lots of new titles coming out every week until sometime in late November-early December as the traditional fall/holiday flood of games begins. In the meantime we get two adventure games, both of which were made by former team members from LucasArts.

Sam and Max: The City That Dares Not Sleep: The fifth and final chapter of the third season (also known as The Devil's Playhouse) of adventure games from developer Telltale Games is due to be released via download later today. Will there be lots of wackiness? We sure hope so.

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The Best of Big Download: August 23-29

It's been a relatively slow news week compared to the past couple of weeks but the next seven days should see some interesting PC game related news coming just before and during PAX Prime. In the meantime let's check out what the last week gave us, shall we?
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The Best of Big Download: August 16-22

Last week, Gamescom hit and a ton of new PC exclusive game announcements came with it. We were so busy we couldn't do our usual weekly game features; they will return next week. In the meantime let's check out just some of the many news stories and downloads we posted last week:
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The Best of Big Download: August 9-15

The last week, particularly the last few days, has been full of new PC game release dates and announcements. What will next week, which also happens to be Gamescom week, bring us? We will be following what's revealed next week. In the meantime, check out what the last seven days brought us.
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The Best of Big Download: August 2-8

This week we had a number of game announcements but in the next couple of weeks you can expect a boatload of news to come down the pike thanks to QuakeCon 2010, Gamescom and more. While you are bracing yourself, check out this "slow" past week of news:
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The Best Of Big Download: July 26-August 1

So last week was a pretty dull week in terms of PC gaming news ... oh, who are we kidding? It was HUGE. StarCraft II finally came to our hard drives this week and, well, its been our number one news story for the whole week. As we await some official sales figures from Blizzard on the sci-fi RTS sequel let's look at the past seven days at our site:
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Big Download main site downtime update

Today some of you might have gone to the main Big Download site and not have been able to reach the site or download any files from us. We are very much aware of this issue and we apologize for those of you who have not been able to resolve the main site or download files today.

We are currently working to fix the issues and will have things returned to normal at Big Download shortly. We also will be adding more data capacity to the main site as well. We thank you in advance for your patience as we work to resolve the situation.

This Week in PC Games: July 26-August 1

This week the PC game community gets its biggest PC exclusive game release since perhaps World of Warcraft's launch way back in November 2004. Believe it or not there are also other PC games due out this week including the free public launch of the racing MMO game Need For Speed World which launched for paying customers last week.

StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty: Blizzard's ground breaking 1998 sci-fi RTS game finally gets a sequel as the Terrans, Protoss and Zerg factions fight it out again. Expect a long single player campaign focusing on the Terrans along with multiplayer via Battle.net and an impressive mission editor.

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The Best of Big Download: July 19-25

We are just one more day away from StarCraft II's launch. it also means you can expect to see a ton of StarCraft related features and contests planned for Big Download starting on Monday. In the meantime check out what we have been writing about for the past seven days.
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  • Team Fortress 2 Engineer Achievements: Check out part five, part six and part seven of our series looking at the new achievements for the Engineer class in TF2.
  • Freeware Friday: Our look at free PC games checks out the new Valve top down shooter Alien Swarm.
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This Week In PC Games: July 19-25

Once again the summer doldrums continue to hit the PC game release calendar. A new driving themed MMO game gets its official launch this week. Also a surprise free game is due for its release later today from one of the biggest PC game developers.

Need For Speed World: Electronic Arts makes its second attempt to make a driving themed MMO game world (remember Motor City Online?) with this title. Players can race online using an array of super fast licenced sports cars. While the game is free to play up to a point, players will have to pay for a $19.99 starter pack to be able to race through all of the game's tracks and levels. Buying the starter pack gets you in the game starting on July 20. Everybody else gets to play on July 27.

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The Best of Big Download: July 12-18

For some reason, the San Diego Comic Con has become a hotbed of game announcements and events. We will be keeping an eye out on the announcements planned for the show (38 Studios' first title, the Spore action-RPG) next week. In the meantime here's what Big Download has been reporting on for the past seven days.
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Joystiq launches new (and free) iPhone/iPod Touch app

Last month, our sister site Joystiq launched a total revamp of its site design. However that's not all that our mothership has been working on. This weekend Joystiq also launched its first app for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch (it also works on the iPad but it's not designed specifically for that device). The app is free to download right now from Apple's app store and has tons of features to check out.

That includes not just easy access to all of Joystiq's news stories (some of which use Big Download as its source) but also access to screenshot galleries, videos and Joystiq and Xbox 360 Fancast podcasts. You can even comment or send a news tip to Joystiq directly from the app. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch its a must download.

This Week In PC Games: July 12-18

After having a bunch of downloadable games released last week, this coming week is pretty barren for PC gamers with just one retail release and no announced plans for downloadable games. If any other downloadable games are announced and released this week we will update you via a regular news post.

Disciples III: Renaissance: Developer Akella releases this latest game in its fantasy themed turn based strategy-RPG series via publisher Kalypso Media. The title has three playable races to choose from (The Empire, the Legions of the Damned and the Elven Alliance) along with a customizable hero system and more.

The Best of Big Download: July 5-11

Summer is in full swing and that means the PC game releases are few and far between. How many of you are just waiting patiently until StarCraft II comes out on July 27? In the meantime there are still some stuff to write about in the PC game world.
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The Best of Big Download: June 28-July 4

Wow. We are halfway through 2010 already. Time flies when there's lots to write about in PC gaming. This week we though would be fairly slow but instead it turned out to be pretty busy. Let's take a look at the past seven days at Big Download, shall we? Actually, we shall.

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