14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the review department of Softpedia Games is delivering long-form evaluations for titles including Transistor, the new title from Supergiant Games, Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar, Tropico 5, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2, Full Mojo Rampage and Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends Complete Edition.
We also have a new Gamer Diary that offers a more in-depth look at some of the core elements of Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar and compares it with Total War: Rome II, the strategy experience from The Creative Assembly and SEGA.
At the same time, we have a number of editorials about big gaming events, one dealing with the weird mix between Call of Duty and House of Cards in the new Advanced Warfare, and another about the importance of 60 FPS and 1080p for future game launches.
The Weekend Reading piece talks about the way a trip to the real-world city of Berlin has managed to bring me back to Victoria II, where I am trying to make Prussia a very big continental power.
The EndWeekGame piece talks about how we plan to spend our free time this weekend and we also have a selection of the most important pieces of news that have appeared during the past seven days.
On Monday, we found out that NASCAR 14 would get access to a new DLC that delivers the Dogecoin-sponsored cars present in real life, a leak delivered more footage taken from the upcoming Watch Dogs and Microsoft talked about more big announcements for the Xbox One coming before E3 2014.
On Tuesday, a new World of Speed trailer was launched, showing powerful cars and San Francisco, a leak offered information on the narrative of the recently announced Far Cry 4 and Sony launched the beta of the PlayStation Now streaming tech on the PlayStation 4.
On Wednesday, Nintendo talked about the way Mario Kart 8 would boost sales of the Wii U and a new patch for Diablo 3 was detailed by the development team at Blizzard.
At the same time, Far Cry 4 was revealed to have a Season Pass that would cover plenty of DLC releases.
On Thursday, a leak offered a look at a potential Steam Summer Sale that would be launched in late June and a lawsuit was launched against the Oculus Rift by the companies id Software and ZeniMax Media.
On Friday, more information was offered about Monochroma and its Steam launch, the creator of Counterstrike talked about Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3, while a rumor talked about the next Battlefield title, which is expected to be called SWAT.
On Saturday, Respawn delivered a new Xbox 360 patch for Titanfall and re-enabled the Capture the Flag on the PC version.