14 DAY TRIAL // The review department of Softpedia Games is ready to offer its evaluations of: LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, a hilarious and action packed take on the comic book universe, XCOM: Enemy Within, the best expansion of the year so far, Sons of Abraham for Crusader Kings II, which introduces more religion to the grand strategy experience, and Contrast.
We also deliver the traditional Weekend Reading features: one dealing with the pleasure of being actually surprised by a video game experience and another about the early issues of the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.
The Gamer Diaries of the week are all about the way the Enemy Within expansion manages to make all of XCOM: Enemy Unknown feel like an entirely new title.
We also have a piece about our free gaming time in EndWeekGame and we have a selection of the most important news of the past week to run through.
On Monday, Sony explained that the price of the PlayStation 4 would not be cut anytime soon, while Blizzard explained that procedural expansions might be launched for the World of Warcraft MMO.
Tuesday Rockstar delivered the update 1.06 and the Beach Bum DLC for GTA V and Andrew House, the leader of Sony, said that the PS4 would not run out of stock during the holiday shopping season.
Wednesday saw the PlayStation 4 receive the 1.51 update and Sony reveal that all units affected by hardware failure would immediately be replaced.
On Thursday, Microsoft delivered the first firmware update for the Xbox One just ahead of its launch and Activision revealed that the coming DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts would be called Onslaught, Devastation, Invasion and Nemesis.
On Friday, failures with the Blu-ray drive were reported on the new Xbox One consoles and a rumor revealed that a Game of Thrones title was being created by Telltale Games.
Saturday DICE announced a double XP period for Battlefield 4 during Thanksgiving and a green screen of death issue was reported for the Xbox One.