14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the review team at Softpedia Games is delivering evaluations for the following titles: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, the most recent installment in the long-running Japanese role-playing game series, Dead Man’s Draw, Banished, Soul Sacrifice, Strider and Rymdkapsel.
We also have the traditional Weekend Reading features: one dealing with the recently announced demise of Irrational Games and the future of BioShock and another about Titanfall, Counter-Strike, Call of Duty and personalization.
The Incoming 2014 Games continues to highlight the most important titles that are set to be launched in the coming months and we also have a set of Gamer Diaries linked to Europa Universalis IV – Conquest of Paradise.
The EndWeekGame piece talks about our gaming habits for our free time, and we also deliver a look at the most important news of the past seven-day period.
On Monday, the Titanfall beta files were mined for data, revealing 15 total maps and 6 full game modes and the development team working on DayZ announced that it might bring the game to the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.
On Tuesday, Rockstar announced how much the microtransactions for GTA V Online generated, Deep Down received two new gameplay-focused videos and Sony launched the 1.61 firmware for the PlayStation 4 to improve stability.
On Wednesday, a new comparison video was launched for Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes, Blizzard offered a level 90 boost for characters in World of Warcraft and a new Starbound patch was delivered, with just one more wipe promised.
On Thursday, SEGA might have lost the Shenmue trademark, a new big Call of Duty: Ghosts was delivered and the team working on Titanfall explained why it was designed to be inclusive.
On Friday, Blizzard revealed that the 2.0.0 patch for Diablo 3 was set to arrive in two weeks, the Xbox One March firmware update was delivered as a preview for a limited number of gamers and Shroud of the Avatar was set to get access to multiplayer.
On Saturday, a report said that Halo 5 was coming this year for the Xbox One and Diablo 3 was set to receive changes to the Paragon system.