14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the review department of Softpedia offers long form evaluations of: Darkout, an interesting indie project that focuses on both survival and on crafting, and for Halo: Spartan Assault, the Xbox One release of the most recent title in the long-running franchise.
We also have the traditional Weekend Reading features: one of them focused on the way the opponent is just as important as the game mechanics in strategy experiences and another about end of the year sales.
It’s the final Gamer’s Week article of the year, and as we are getting ready to step into 2014, it’s a good moment to take a look at the most interesting titles that we played during the year that passed us by.
A Game of the Year series is currently running on Softpedia, showing which were the best experiences that we enjoyed during 2013, broken down by platform and by genre.
The EndWeekGame piece talks about our plans for the coming free time, and we also have a selection of the most important news that appeared during the last week.
On Monday, the development team working on Dead Rising 3 found a solution to the update problems that gamers were having on the Xbox One.
At the same time, NBA 2K14 received another patch on the Microsoft next-gen console and on the PlayStation 4, with more promised in the near future.
We were off for the three days after that in order to celebrate Christmas, but we kept ourselves busy by constantly checking the Steam Winter sales.
Friday, a listing from Amazon suggested that a PC version of Grand Theft Auto V was set to launch in March, presumably with a number of platform-specific tweaks.
At the same time, Markus Persson squashed a rumor that his indie hit Minecraft was actively being developed on the Wii U and set to launch in summer 2014.
On Saturday Battlefield 4 was banned in China because it represents a national security threat, and a new exploit was found for Ryse: Son of Rome.