14 DAY TRIAL // The review section of the Games department has four long form evaluations this week: Deadpool, the superhero-powered comic-book action title from High Moon Studios and publisher Activision, Ride to Hell: Retribution, one of the weakest titles of this generation from Deep Silver, The 400 Days expansion for The Walking Dead and Rogue Legacy, an interested indie rogue-like with some nice twists on the formula.
At the same time, we also have a Quick Look for The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, a free-to-play game from Ubisoft that’s currently in beta stage.
Our Weekend Reading features come in pairs: one dealing with the move of Microsoft’s Don Mattrick from the Xbox One division to Zynga and another about the possible motives Mattrick had for leaving Microsoft.
The virtual Tour de France I am running using Pro Cycling Manager 2013 is also up to date, heading into the mountains for the first time.
Our EndWeekGame piece talks about our gaming plans for these two days of free time.
We also have a selection of the most interesting news from the past week.
On Monday, Notch launches a new patch for Minecraft that adds horses to the indie titles while a leak revealed all the Achievements for the coming Saints Row IV.
Tuesday, Rockstar offered more details on the three main characters for Grand Theft Auto V and Steve Ballmer thanked Don Mattrick for his service after the Xbox One leader moves to Zynga.
On Wednesday, new bundles popped up on Steam to suggest that the big summer sale is set to start on July 4 and Titanfall picked up the most E3 2013 critics awards.
On Thursday, Valve revealed more mysterious Trading Cards and Microsoft talked about anonymity on the Xbox One's Live service.
On Friday the team working on Minecraft on the Xbox 360 talked about update 12 while Konami explained the Heart system for Pro Evolution Soccer 2014.
On Saturday, we talked about the start of a new Gears of War trilogy and about new games for the WIi U.