The Best of Big Download: July 6-12

Wow! We had a slow news period the week before, but this past week had a ton of major new PC game news items show up, including announcements of some new entries in classic PC game franchises. Let's look back at the past seven days together.
Exclusive Features

• The Top 10 Best LucasArts PC Games: To celebrate LucasArts' PC titles appearing on Steam we pick the the 10 best games the publisher has released over the years
• Tales Of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal Review: We give the final word on this first episode in Telltale Games' revival of LucasArts' classic adventure series
• Trine Review: We give our final verdict on this downloadable puzzle-action game from Frozenbyte
• Mac Monday: Our weekly look at Mac games has two titles on the docket: Burdaloo and Swarm
• Boot Disk: Our weekly retro games feature takes a look at the original Master of Magic game
• Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes ask if Blizzard's hit MMO World of Warcraft will ever be toppled
• Freeware Friday: Our weekly look at free PC games takes a look at the sci-fi RPG Notrium

Downloads

• Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal Demo: Download this sample of the just released adventure game revival from Telltale and Lucasarts
• Fuel Demo: Try out this free portion of the recent off-road racing game from Codemasters
• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Full Game): Download the full free version of Bethesda Softworks' classic RPG title.
• Peggle: World of Warcraft Edition (Full Game): Download this free version of PopCap's casual game with World of Warcraft artwork
• The Witcher 1.5 patch: This latest patch for CD Projekt's RPG removes the DRM set up and adds some new features and content.
• Splinter Cell Conviction Dev Diary Trailer 1: Go behind the scenes with this upcoming stealth action game from Ubisoft
• Wolfenstein Animated Trailer 1: Check out this animated video showing the back story for Activision's upcoming FPS
• Mechwarrior Reveal Trailer: It's the full in-game engine reveal of the new game in the Mechwarrior franchise.

News

• DiRT 2 PC delayed to December; first game announced for DirectX11
• LucasArts to offer downloadable games via Steam
• S2 Games sneaks out info on upcoming game Heroes of Newerth
• Blame Singularity for no Modern Warfare 2 in 2009
• New MechWarrior game officially announced
• EA makes Command and Conquer 4 official
• Team 17 announces Alien Breed Evolution
• MechWarrior 4 to be released for free soon
• Another analyst predicts no StarCraft II in 2009