14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the review department of Softpedia Games delivers long-form evaluations for: Quest of Dungeons, Mercenary Kings, Cloudbuilt, Age of Wonders III and Castlevania - Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate.
The traditional editorials are also present: one talking about the way even crowd-funded titles need support from publishers, as shown by the deal between Obsidian and Paradox Interactive for Pillars of Eternity, and another about gaming, Blizzard and April Fools.
We also have a Weekend Reading piece that asks the industry to eliminate the terrible announcements that appear during April Fools in order to focus more on in-game events to celebrate the occasion.
The Gamer Diaries are linked to the Rajas of India expansion for Crusader Kings II, chronicling the adventures of some Indian and Khazar rulers, and the Hannibal at the Gates campaign for Total War: Rome II, offering info about the Second Punic War in its virtual form.
We also have a EndWeekGame piece about how we plan to spend our free time and a selection of the most important news that happened during the last seven days.
On Monday, Ubisoft announced that it still had long-term plans for the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and a retailer leaked the fact that The Last of Us was coming to the PlayStation 4 during the summer with all the content launched so far.
At the same time, Microsoft launched a video for the Xbox One that shows the indie teams working on the device.
On Tuesday, Valve announced that it would start selling tickets for The International DOTA 2 tournament on April 4 to all those interested, Riot Games announced a new game mode for its MOBA League of Legends that is inspired by April Fools and which would run for one week, while Nintendo delivered a new firmware version for the Wii U with some stability improvements.
On Wednesday, a full Achievement list was offered for the Devastation DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts and a list of potential new features for the PlayStation 4 was shown via a new survey.
At the same time, Bethesda talked about how it chose the subscription business model for the new The Elder Scrolls Online.
On Thursday, info about anti-gravity in Mario Kart 8 was detailed and information about single-player DLC was delivered for GTA V just as Rockstar also talked about the way it planned to update the Online mode with new Heists.
On Friday, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2 was delayed by one month, a Call of Duty: Ghosts update was delivered to the Xbox One and the 360 and Blizzard launched a 2.0.3 hotfix for the Reaper of Souls expansion for Diablo 3.
On Saturday, more info was offered on the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall and a hotfix was launched for the Seasons and Wonders update for Total War: Rome II.