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Criterion Games's first foray into PC games was released earlier this month with Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box. At the time, Criterion announced that they were planning to add even more content to the game via paid add-ons. However it looks like PC owners will have to wait while console owners get first crack at the content.

Xbox 360 and PS3 owners will be able to download and purchase the Legendary Cars pack on Thursday. The pack comes with four new vehicles that look more than vaguely like certain famous movie and TV cars. However, Criterion has posted up a note on their site that says, "We'll be back with PC release information soon, but expect the Legendary Cars to be available to you guys in about a month." Oh well.

PC owners who have been waiting for their port of Burnout Paradise can now rest easy, Electronic Arts has announced that the PC version of Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box will be released to stores in the US on Feb. 5. Previous plans to release the game as a retail product for the Xbox 360 and PS3 in the US have now changed; only the new Party gameplay mode will be released as a premimum download for previous console owners (the console versions will still be released to retail stores in Europe).

As we have mentioned before the PC port of Burnout Paradise, developed by Criterion Games, will contain all of the content of the original 2008 open world racing game along with all of the previous downloadable content and the new Party multiplayer gameplay mode. It's supposed to have PC-specific features such as "multiple monitor displays support, ultra high resolution graphics, motion blur, soft shadow effects and more."

It's currently unknown if PC owners will be able to download the planned future content for the game that its console owners have been promised. Also the previously promised free full trial of the PC version was not mentioned in today's press release.

In the past week we have been going over the many PC games that are due out in 2009. Today we end our preview feature with a look at a number of other games due out next year. These include adventure titles, racing games, sim titles and downloadable games and extra content. We've also added a couple of games that we should have placed in previous installments of this feature. One of the games on this list, The Sims 3, is likely to be one of the biggest selling games, console or PC, in 2009.

If you haven't yet seen our previous installments you can check out the links below. Just a reminder: many of the articles have exclusive new screenshots from many of 2009's upcoming PC game titles:

Action-FPS Titles Part 1
Action-FPS Titles Part 2
Strategy-RTS Games
RPG-MMO Games

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The folks at Criterion Games have been working on their first ever PC port of one of their Burnout racing games and this week on their official web site they revealed a very interesting plan for the PC version of Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box. Simply put, PC owners will be able to play the full game..for free.

Yep, Criterion Games will allow anyone to play the full version of Burnout Paradise for free "...for a limited period." There's no word on how much time will be allocated for the free trial but Criterion and publisher Electronic Arts plans to distribute the free trial both online and via disk in February. Once the limited trial period ends, people can upgrade to the full paid version via an in-game store. Criterion has also release new screenshots from the PC version including an image of their in-game store interface.

There hasn't been a lot of news about Burnout: Paradise for the PC lately but today its developer Criterion Games made the announcement that the PC port of their arcade racing game would finally be heading to stores in February 2009. Not only that, but the PC port would also be renamed as Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box.

This version of the racing game will contain not just the full game all of the downloadable updates that have previously been made available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. These updates include new challenges, gameplay modes and the new motorcycle additions. The Ultimate Box will also contain an upcoming update called Burnout Paradise Party where up to eight people share a controller and take part in mini-challenges offline.