14 DAY TRIAL // This week the review department of Softpedia Games is delivering long-form evaluations for: The Crew, a new racing title from Ubisoft that offers a few interesting elements, Buzz Aldrin’s Space Program Manager, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and Company of Heroes 2 – Ardennes Assault.
We also have Editorials linked to the world of gaming, one of them talking about the way Game of Thrones will resist adaptation, another linked to the new expansion for Hearthstone and one dealing with the choices in Telltale Games.
The Weekend Reading piece takes a trip down nostalgia lane in order to talk about the old Dune games and the impressive potential that the universe has to support video games.
We also have Gamer Diaries that deal with Dragon Age: Inquisition, This War of Mine, and Football Manager 2015.
Finally, we deliver a look at our own free time in EndWeekGame and we have a selection of the most interesting stories that happened in the past seven days.
Seven days of gaming news
On Monday, The Witcher 3 was delayed once again so that the CD Projekt team could ensure the game was what fans were expecting and Street Fighter V got more details and a cool gameplay video.
At the same time, we heard more from FIFA 15 fans who were asking for gameplay changes, and the creators of Rust revealed a new title.
On Tuesday, more info on the new weapons in The Dark Below expansion for Destiny was offered and the team talked about character imports for a potential sequel.
We also learned that the Xbox One would try to compensate for the loss of Street Fighter V and that more content was currently being prepared for Battlefield 4.
On Wednesday, the second patch for Dragon Age: Inquisition was launched, solving some issues, and it immediately introduced a range of new bugs, mostly graphics based.
Microsoft was also busy announcing that a new version of Flight Simulator would be launched the next week and leaking details about a new Christmas-themed promotion with some solid deals.
On Thursday, info was offered on the eSports focus of the coming Halo 5: Guardians and Hello Games talked about the multiplayer aspect of No Man’s Sky.
At the same time, we learned about a live-action mini-series which would accompany the launch of Rise of the Tomb Raider and a new NES-related project showed up on Kickstarter.
On Friday, Valve introduced an auction system for its Steam holiday sale, which was quickly exploited, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare received a free play weekend on the same service and we saw a leak about a Remastered edition of Borderlands just as the Xbox One broke the long-term domination of the PlayStation 4 in North America.
Saturday, we found out Destiny bans were being issues for modified consoles, GTA V would get holiday-themed DLC on December 23, and that Redline was the first expansion for DriveClub.
