14 DAY TRIAL // For this end of the week round up we have a Weekend Reading feature that deals with the way the future of gaming might look if all games become, at the same time, platforms for the sale of more content and a EndWeekGame piece that tells the world what we are planning to engage with during our extended weekend.
We also have a review of For the Motherland expansion for Hearts of Iron III.
And, as always, here's the news that captured our attention this week.
On Monday publisher Electronic Arts tried to explain exactly why Batltefield 3 will not be launched on the Steam service from Valve and how it plans to deal with the situation in the future while Bungie announced that it was ready to go dark for a while before announcing its next project.
Tuesday was the day when the full contents of the Collector's Edition for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim were revealed, including a big statue of a Dragon god, while Ken Levine, the leader of Irrational Games, has talked about how the aesthetics of BioShock Infinite has evolved over time.
Wednesday BioWare announced that the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic was not region locked in any way, which is good news for those who cannot get a physical copy of the game, and the company also talked about more DLC for Dragon Age II and about how it will address the problems that Origin fans had with it.
On Thursday analyst Michael Pachter talked about the possible future of Grand Theft Auto V and said that the Rockstar game might reach sales of 24 million units while Ubisoft talked about the way the multiplayer beta for Assassin's Creed: Revelations would only be launched on the PlayStation 3.
Friday the NPD Group offered its figures for the month of July, with the Xbox 360 home console and NCAA Football 12 being the winners for the month, while Steam confirmed a new Counter-Strike video game.