14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the team at Softpedia Games working on reviews delivers long-form evaluations for: Chronology, the new episode of The Walking Dead – Season 2, Panzer Tactics HD, 1849 and The Last Tinker: City of Colors.
We also have the traditional Gamer Diaries for those who want to explore a title in depth, focused on The Last Federation from Arcen Games and on Wargame Red Dragon from Eugen Systems.
The editorials of the week talk about Microsoft’s decision to drop the Kinect from the Xbox One next-gen consoles and reduce its price, about controls for Dark Souls 2 on the PC, and about the mistakes of forcing Kinect on game developers.
We also have a Weekend Reading piece that talks about the way game series tend to make us remember mechanics, using the example of Wargame Red Dragon.
The EndWeekGame piece offers more details about the titles that fill our free time, and we also have a selection of the most important pieces of news from the week that has been.
On Monday, Blizzard announced that it was delivering the Ultimate Evil Edition of Diablo 3 for consoles on August 19, the Dragon’s Teeth DLC for Battlefield 4 got a leaked set of names for its maps, and the full cast for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was revealed, including its composer.
On Tuesday, a new champion was revealed for League of Legends, further expanding the options of the MOBA players, and the High Life update for GTA Online was launched on the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360.
Finally, Microsoft announced that it was dropping the Kinect motion-tracking system from the Xbox One and reducing the price of the console.
On Wednesday, Among the Sleep was revealed as potentially using Project Morpheus on the PS4, a full changelog was delivered for patch 1.13 for GTA V, and Microsoft offered details on more changes for the Xbox One, that will be delivered in June.
Thursday, Nintendo explained its thinking about new home console hardware and the Wii U, Microsoft explained that the quality of the 360 limits sales of the Xbox One at the moment and Wolfenstein received a pretty unique launch trailer.
On Friday, the NPD Group revealed that the PlayStation 4 was selling better than the Xbox One in the US, Microsoft and 343 Industries showed off Halo 5: Guardians, and Dark Souls 2 was revealed as selling well on the PC.
Saturday, rumors talked about a full Xbox One bound game collection for Halo, and Wealth of Nations for Europa Universalis IV got more details about policies and ideas.