Delivering Gamers Diaries, reviews, columns and news

Jan 26, 2014 10:11 GMT  ·  By

The review department of Softpedia this week evaluates: Continue?987654321, an interesting meditation on video games and life, OlliOlli, a skateboarding title for the PlayStation 4, Blackguards, an old-school tactical RPG, Insuregency and Dementium II HD.

We also have the traditional Weekend Reading features: one about the Candy Crush Saga trademark issues and another about how fans must be informed about new games and their features.

The Incoming 2014 Games series continues to look at what we are looking forward to during the rest of the year and I have also delivered the final entry in an Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise series of Gamer Diaries.

The EndWeekGame piece offers more info on how we spend our free time and we also have a selection of the most important pieces of news from the past seven-day period.

On Monday, a strategy guide was made available for Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns, Respawn explained that an open beta test period for Titanfall was still possible in the future while a list of the perks for mechs included in the game was leaked.

Tuesday a launch date for Borderlands 2 on the PlayStation Vita was announced and retracted, PlayStation 4 users started reporting a new error affecting them and we found that launch games for many Xbox One titles will be shown at E3 2014.

Wednesday Kingdom Come started looking for support via Kickstater, a new artwork showed the weapon coming in the Onslaught DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts and Microsoft commented on the Xbox One YouTube promotion controversy.

Thursday the launch date for Strider was revealed for Japan, we found out the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition runs at 60 FPs on next-gen consoles and Rockstar delivered new jobs for gamers to try out in GTA Online.

On Friday, a trailer arrived for The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2, Microsoft revealed that it shipped through 3.9 million units of the Xbox One before the end of 2013 and Titanfall was revealed not to have microtransactions.

Saturday a Titanfall beta was once again teased and Ubisoft explained that Wii U Watch Dogs was not canceled.