pc-game-awards-2008 posts

We hope all of you got a lot of gifts, ate a lot of turkey and ham and watched a lot of football this week. Big Download's schedule was slower this week than usual but we still had some great new original features posted. Let's look at the highlights from Christmas week:

Exclusive features

• Big Download's 2008 PC Game Awards: We give out our first annual awards to games in a number of catagories.
• 2009 PC Game Preview: We begin our multi-part look at the next 12 months in games with part 1 and part 2 in the action-FPS game category.
• All They Want For Christmas: What do your favorite PC game characters want for Christmas?
• Grand Theft Auto IV PC review: We give our final verdict on the PC port of Rockstar's open world action game.
• FusionFall preview: We go hands-on with the upcoming Cartoon Network-based MMO game.
• Mac Monday: We look at two free Mac-based holiday games this week.
• MODmonday: Our weekly look at game mods looks at the highly successful Source engine based Garry's Mod.
• Big Ideas: Is life like a single player game or an MMO? Our weekly look at game themes attempts to answer this question.
• Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free games takes a look at the beta version of the old-school adventure game Spelunky.

We at Big Download know that you have your choice of web sites but as they say one the plane just after it lands and before it heads to the gate we appreciate you flying...er, reading with us. However we are not blind to what other media outlets are saying are the best PC games of 2008 and while we picked Left 4 Dead as our choice they certainly had different opinions.

So keeping that in mind we offer what others thought were the best PC game titles in the past 12 months:

• IGN: Sins of a Solar Empire: "Thanks to its wildly original and fresh take on RTS and its compelling gameplay that kept us up late at nights, this is our PC game of the year."
• Gamespy - Fallout 3: "Fallout 3 ended up not only being the best game of the year, but one of the finest titles of this generation."
• Gamespot - Fallout 3: "Bethesda Softworks should be credited for making Fallout 3 accessible to shooter fans and RPG diehards alike."
• Gamasutra - Fallout 3: "Creating a vast world that is a convincing representation of a dismal, post-nuclear wasteland while also being consistently compelling is no mean feat, but here it is."