14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the review crew working at Softpedia Games is ready to deliver long-form evaluations for: Forza Motorsport 2, a solid new racing experience exclusive to the Xbox One, Ancient Space, an interesting but limited space strategy, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, a solid open-world title, and InFamous: First Light.
We also have editorials dealing with the biggest issues in modern gaming, one linked to the Microsoft purchase of Minecraft and Mojang, another about Shadow of Mordor and its core mechanics.
Gamer Diaries offer more information about Wasteland 2 and the way it uses classic party-based role-playing mechanics and about FIFA 15 and the way it manages to make modern football an engaging virtual experience.
The Weekend Reading piece talks about the association between Destiny and the PlayStation 4 and how the Xbox One was shut out.
We also have an EndWeekGame piece that offers details about our plans for the free days and we also deliver a selection of the most important pieces of news that appeared during the past seven days.
On Monday, EA Sports eliminated some new players from FIFA 15 in order to make the search function of the game work well, a report talked about the way the story and the gameplay of Destiny were changed during 2013, and sales of the Xbox One were reported to overtake those of the PlayStation 4 in the UK for the previous week.
On Tuesday, BioWare revealed the character creation for Dragon Age: Inquisition and the new Deep Roads area, Nintendo launched a new firmware version for the Wii U home console, and Battlefield 4 finally received the much-awaited fall update.
On Wednesday, pre-orders for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare were shown to be lower than those expected by Activision, new artwork was revealed for Uncharted 4, and Ubisoft offered some information on the changes it will make to the core gameplay of Watch Dogs 2.
On Thursday, GTA V received the 1.17 update, including some big content changes, Bungie delivered its own major patch for Destiny in order to fix Engrams, and Mortal Kombat X got a new trailer which shows that Quan Chi is a playable character.
On Friday, Obsidian announced that it would be delaying Pillars of Eternity to implement more changes based on player feedback, Microsoft delivered a Forza Horizon 2-related update to Xbox One beta firmware, and more info was offered on the core mechanics of The Division.
On Saturday, Bungie offered no comment on Destiny story rumors, and 343 Industries talked about Halo 3 and 4 in the coming Master Chief Collection.