14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the review team at the games department of Softpedia is delivering long-form evaluations for: DriveClub, the long-delayed racing game which is offered on the PlayStation 4, Chariot, Styx: Master of Shadows, and Sleeping Dogs for current-gen consoles.
We also have editorials about the gaming world, one concerned with the domination of the PlayStation 4 and how long it can continue for, one about the issue of framerate in video games, and another about Ubisoft's policies.
We also have two running Gamer Diaries, one dealing with the way FIFA 15 has improved the football sim genre and another offering some details about the design of Wasteland 2.
The Weekend Reading piece talks about the way EA Sports has made incremental changes very important to fans of the series and managed to introduce enough new elements in FIFA 15 to keep gamers satisfied.
The EndWeekGame piece talks about the way we plan to spend out free time, and we also have a selection of the most important pieces of gaming news that were delivered during the previous seven-day period.
The most important news of the week
On Monday, the best rookie for the coming NBA Live 15 was revealed to be Jabari Parker, Capcom talked about the design decisions that power the new Revelations 2 and why it is not Resident Evil 7, and Crytek talked about the way graphics are no longer impressive to modern gamers.
On Tuesday, BioWare announced that a Revan-focused expansion would be launched for Star Wars: The Old Republic in December, Destiny got a new patch and players experienced some downtime, and a source revealed that Xbox One sales in China were supposed to be over 100,000 units.
On Wednesday, Sports Interactive revealed that it would launch Football Manager 2015 on November 7 and explained a series of new features, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare offered a free upgrade from the last-gen to the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, and a major patch was launched for the console version of Diablo 3.
On Thursday, the size for the digital download of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for the Xbox One was revealed, the servers for DriveClub continued to be under pressure after launch, and EA Sports released the first title update for the PC version of FIFA 15.
On Friday Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare got a first open eSports tournament in Columbus, The Wolf Among Us received release dates for the Xbox One and the PS4, and Ubisoft talked more about the resolution and the framerate of Assassin’s Creed Unity.
Finally, on Saturday, Bungie talked about the Iron Banner event in Destiny and BioWare revealed the system requirements for Dragon Age: Inquisition.