14 DAY TRIAL // This week we have full Softpedia reviews for: Ironclad Tactics, an interesting mix of card and strategy mechanics that suffers from too much randomness; Beyond: Two Souls, the PlayStation 3 exclusive that mixes video game and movie elements but fails to impress; The Raven: Episode 3; and NBA 2K14, the new basketball simulation that puts LeBron James front and center.
We also have the traditional Weekend Reading pieces: one about the way Grand Theft Auto V forces gamers to deal with evil and the reactions that the confrontation can create, and another about the Online mode and console updates.
A set of Gamer Diaries that offer more information on the characters and the mechanics of Beyond: Two Souls is also up on the site.
We also deliver an EndWeekGame piece that details how I plan to spend all my free time and we have also selected the most important pieces of news from the past seven days.
On Monday, EA Sports delivered a second patch for FIFA 14 that’s designed to balance the game mechanics and eliminate some of the crashes that the community is reporting while Guerrilla Games revealed that it rejected an initial touch sensitive DualShock 4 design for the PlayStation 4.
Tuesday a new Extinction cooperative survival mode was revealed as being part of Call of Duty: Ghosts, and Irrational Games delivered a video of the first five minutes of the Burial at Sea DLC for BioShock Infinite.
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that the Xbox One might get support for keyboard and mouse after launch, and Intel talked about the money that changed hands to make GTA V a console exclusive.
Tuesday Microsoft suggested that Xbox One might have cross play with Windows 8 PCs and GTA Online received a new title update from Rockstar.
On Friday, DICE talked about the Spectator Mode for Battlefield 4 while Blizzard mentioned that Reaper of Souls might cost 30 dollars or Euro.
Saturday Valve showed the first demo for its new controller and Sony revealed that the PS4 will not support older Bluetooth headsets.