14 DAY TRIAL // The review department of Softpedia Games is delivering long form evaluations of three games this week: Divinity – Dragon Commander , the impressive strategy game from Larian Studios that features a jetpack, fire breathing creature, Papers, Please, an interesting indie title, Beatbuddy: Tales of the Guardians and Citadels, a strategy that fails to impress.
We also have a new Gamer Diary series that talks about the various mechanics of Divinity: Dragon Commander.
The Weekend Reading feature talks about how the desire to see a new game launch sometimes can lead to a long term abandon of the title, in the context of Europa Universalis IV.
We also have Quick Looks for two titles: Democracy 3, which delivers a deep simulation of modern political systems, and Memoria, an interesting new adventure from Daedalic.
The EndWeekGame piece offers more information about how I will spend my time and we also have an assortment of the most important news of the past seven days.
On Monday DICE revealed the new Chinese vehicles that players will be able to use in Battlefield 4 while a short clip from Infinity Ward suggests that the new cooperative mode for Call of Duty: Ghosts will be called Squads.
Tuesday Volition delivered the Inauguration Station for Saints Row 4, allowing players to create the characters they will use in the coming open world game, and DICE talked about the Battlescreen for Battlefield 4.
Wednesday BioWare offered more details on the story and mechanics of Dragon Age: Inquisition and FIFA 14 received a new trailer focused on the shot physics.
Thursday Shigeru Miyamoto offered players of Pikmin 3 access to secret content for the game and Rockstar deployed Avatars and Gamerpics linked to GTA V on the Xbox Live and the PSN.
On Friday the final DLC for Black Ops 2 was revealed in the form of Apocalypse and Amazon was rumored to be working on a core home console.
Saturday the focus was on Call of Duty with new trailers delivered for both Black Ops 2 - Apocalypse and Ghosts.