14 DAY TRIAL // This week the review department of Softpedia delivers evaluations for: The Banner Saga, a great tactics and atmosphere driven title, SpellForce 2: Demons of the Past, KickBeat, an interesting rhythm driven title, Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise, a grand strategy experience from Paradox, Assassin's Creed III: Liberation HD and The Cat Lady.
We also have the traditional Weekend Reading articles, one of the focused on the way Game of Thrones Ascent has taught me to be a team player and another about the relevance of last gen.
Our Incoming 2014 Games series continues to offer information on the biggest releases of the year and we also deliver a Gamer Diary about EU IV: Conquest of Paradise.
The EndWeekGame article talks about our free time and we also have a selection of the most interesting article from the past seven days.
On Monday a new NASCAR game was announced for February 18, new Call of Duty: Ghosts DLC was confirmed and Maxis announced that SimCity was supporting mods and getting an offline mode.
Tuesday a Magic the Gathering movie was revealed, GTA V received a leak showing PC based gameplay and FIFA 14 received a Team of the Year from EA Sports.
Wednesday a new trailer was launched for Dark Souls II, League of Legends got a 4.1 patch with major changes and Broken Age announced it was coming to Steam with a Season Pass.
Thursday a new Harvest Moon was revealed, a scam linked to Titanfall made the rounds and Left Behind for The Last of Us was confirmed as coming on February 14 to the PSN.
On Friday a new mount was revealed for World of Warcraft, the Iron Skyreaver while Cortana from Halo is rumored to be the voice of a Siri rival from Microsoft.
At the same time the NPD Group revealed that the Xbox One defeated the PlayStation 4 in sales in the United States in December.
Saturday footage was shown from the Titanfall alpha test and Microsoft talked about the future of the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.