

Big Ideas: Our weekly look at game themes looks at villains in games.Mac Monday: Our weekly Mac game column looks at two more games: Heileen and Burgertime Deluxe.

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Quick Hit Football: We chat with the head of a PC game developer planning to launch a web browser based pro foootball game with current and former NFL players and coaches.Other PC Games Due In Fall 2009: We look at a lot of upcoming downloadable PC game titles due out in fall 2009.Steam's new hardware survey before Windows 7: What does Steam's hardware survey show we have in our rigs before next month's launch of Microsoft's next OS? We have the info.The Top 10 PC Game News Stories for August 2009: We look back at the big PC game news events for last month.Hearts of Iron 3 Review: We let you know what we think of Paradox's latest historical strategy game.F.E.A.R 2 Reborn Review: We give our final word on this week's new single player expansion to Monolith's first person shooter.Plus hands-on and eyes-on PAX 2009 impressions of games like Star Trek Online, Left 4 Dead 2, James Cameron's Avatar The Game, Serious Sam HD The First Encounter, InstantAction Tribes, Split/Second, Torchlight, Divinity 2 and Deathspank. Check out our primer for the show, a chat with show organizer Mike Fehlauer, pictures from the show floor and pictures of the cosplayers and booth models. PAX 2009: We've been all over this year's Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle.Let's look at the past seven days before things calm down. First QuakeCon, then BlizzCon and now PAX 2009 - It's been a packed month for Big Download.
