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Sep 22, 2013 09:26 GMT  ·  By

The review department of Softpedia Games has long form evaluations for: Castle of Illusion featuring Mickey Mouse, Foul Play, an interesting brawler, GTA V, the new open-world game from Rockstar, Card Hunter, a browser-based RPG and card mix, Legend of Dungeon, a rogue-like with a distinctive art style, and Pro Evolution Soccer 2014.

We also have the last few installments in the Gamer Diary, offering information on Total War: Rome II, dealing with the main changes that I would make to the game.

We also have the customary Weekend Reading features: one dealing with the core failures of The Bureau and the hope linked to XCOM: Enemy Within and another about GTA V and its potential PC move.

As always, an EndWeekGame piece talks about how we plan to spend our free time during the weekend and we also have a selection of the most important news from the week that was.

On Monday, Rockstar advised GTA V players on the Xbox 360 to avoid installing the content of the play disk while an analyst estimated that the PlayStation 4 from Sony would outsell the Xbox One from Microsoft by 2018.

Tuesday Naughty Dog announced that it had 140 developer kits for the PlayStation 4 to work with and Blizzard revealed that it was closing down the Auction House for the Diablo 3 on March 18, 2014.

Wednesday Rockstar said it was working on Social Club and app issues for GTA V and Andrew Wilson was announced as the new CEO of Electronic Arts.

On Thursday, a leak revealed the launch date of GTA V on the PC and the EA Sports team has delivered an official list of all the stadiums included in the coming FIFA 14.

On Friday Electronic Arts talked about how Battlefield 4 can beat Call of Duty: Ghosts for the first-person shooter number one while Valve teased a Steam universe expansion.

Saturday Sony talked about hand gesture detection on the PS4 and Rockstar explained its focus on GTA V.