p>It's an extended holiday weekend, which means you can catch basketball games and racing on television or at the movies, or read Big Download's highlights of the past 7 days. https://hackmd.io/@mapledesign03/By_5vXW-i You can read it right now.
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p>Exclusive Features
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p>Countdown to E3 2009 - We continue our gallery feature leading to next month's tradeshow with a look into the action games we want at E3.
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p>NASCAR iRacing Interview with the Co-Founder: We speak with the co-founder and CEO of iRacing about his plans to bring NASCAR licensing racing simulations back on the PC in 2010.
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p>Reviews: We have verdicts on the Killing Floor co-op shooter and the Thrustmaster T.16000M Joystick
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p>Mac Monday: Our Mac column reviews The Path, an odd adventure game.
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p>Boot Disk The regular retro games feature looks at the original Command and Conquer RTS game.
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p>Indie Showcase: Our Indie column this week looks at three games that are still in beta form: Aces Wild, Arc & Malice and Minecraft.
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p>Big Ideas Our column on game themes provides into consideration the reasons why games adaptation of movies don't usually work out as well.
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p>Big Iron: Our PC hardware column this week focuses on input devices and how they can harken back to the old technology.
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p>Freeware Friday In a bit of a twist this week's look at free PC games is also an old-fashioned feature on Grand Theft Auto 2.
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p>Downloads
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p>Demo of Sherlock Holmes Vs Jack The Ripper: Get a taste of this brand new adventure game developed by Frogwares.
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p>World of Warcraft 3.1.2 patch Download the most current patch for Blizzard's cult MMO game. https://txt.fyi/-/22257/b2da50dd/ </p>
p>Trailer for Team Fortress 2 "Meet The Spy" This is a hilarious trailer for Valve's multiplayer shooter.
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p>Blur Teaser Trailer - This is the first teaser trailer trailer for Bizarre Creations' new driving-action game.
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p>Aliens Vs. Trailer for Predator Teaser This is the first glimpse at the revival of the FPS series from Rebellion and Sega.
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p>Battlefield Bad Company 2 E3 2009 trailer It's the first gameplay footage of DICE's FPS sequel.
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p>NASCAR will return to the PC with iRacing online racing series in 2010
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p>3D Realms responds; says studio is not closed and will defend Take-Two's lawsuit
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p>Robot Chicken to work on free scenarios for Spore Galactic Adventures
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p>Two additional Fallout 3 DLC expansions have been announced
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p>Blur officially announced for the PC
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p>Zeno Clash 2 announced
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p>Terminator Salvation PC retail copies recalled
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p>Red Faction Guerrilla delays for PC
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p>Popcap game hint:
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p>Empire: Total War will receive new units free of charge
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p>New Diablo III screenshots show off The Fallen Ones
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