The Best of Big Download: May 18-24

It's a long weekend for the holidays which means watching basketball games and racing on television, going to the movies, or for some of you reading Big Download's highlights from the past 7 days (and you're sad in that case). Take a look now.

Exclusive Features

Countdown to E3 2009: We continue our gallery of features leading up to next month's trade show , with a look at the action games we'd like to play at E3.

NASCAR iRacing Interview with the Co-Founder: We talk to the co-founder and CEO of iRacing about his plans to bring NASCAR licensing racing sims back to the PC in 2010.

Reviews: We have our verdicts on the co-op shooter Killing Floor and the Thrustmaster T.16000M Joystick

Mac Monday: Our Mac column reviews The Path, an odd adventure game.

Boot Disk The regular retro games feature looks at the original Command and Conquer RTS game.

Indie Showcase: Our indie game column this week looks at three games still in beta form: Aces Wild, Arc & Malice and Minecraft.

Big Ideas Our column on game themes provides an in-depth look at the reasons why game adaptations of movies rarely turn out well.

Big Iron The column this week on PC hardware is focused on input devices and how they are like old-fashioned technology.

Freeware Friday In a slight twist this week's feature on free PC games also includes an old-fashioned feature on Grand Theft Auto 2.

Downloads

Demo of Sherlock Holmes Vs Jack The Ripper You can try a taste of this exciting new adventure game developed by Frogwares.

World of Warcraft 3.1.2 patch: Download the latest patch for Blizzard's cult MMO game.

Trailer for Team Fortress 2 "Meet The Spy" This is a hilarious trailer for Valve's multiplayer shooter.

Blur Teaser Trailer The trailer is the first teaser for Bizarre Creations' upcoming driving-action game.

Aliens Vs. Trailer for Predator Teaser: This is the first glimpse of the return of the FPS series developed by Rebellion and Sega.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 E3 trailer 2009 - It's the first footage from Battlefield Bad Company 2's FPS sequel.

NASCAR will be returning to the PC in 2010 with the iRacing online racing series

3D Realms replies; says studio isn't closed and will fight Take-Two lawsuit

Robot Chicken will work on Spore Galactic Adventures scenarios for free

Two more Fallout 3 DLC expansions have been announced

Blur officially announced for the PC

Zeno Clash 2 announced

Terminator Salvation PC retail copies recalled

Red Faction Guerrilla delayed for PC

Popcap game hint:

Empire: Total War will receive new units free of charge

New Diablo III screenshots show off The Fallen Ones