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Jan 25, 2015 07:19 GMT  ·  By

This week the reviews department of Softpedia Games is ready to offer argument-driven evaluations of: Citizens of Earth, Warhammer Quest, NEO Scavenger and Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell.

As always, we also have a number of editorials about the gaming industry, tackling such subjects as Heroes of the Storm and its unique features and the PS Plus service for the PlayStation 4 and its price.

We also have a range of Gamer Diaries that talk about the titles we have spent time with in the last few weeks, with NEO Scavenger present features, with its very interesting survival focused mechanics and old-school feel.

The Incoming 2015 series explains which titles we are currently seeing as the best of the coming 12-month period.

The Weekend Reading piece talks about the importance of silent majorities, especially in an age where beta periods, like the one for Halo 5: Guardians, become more important than ever.

We also have an EndWeekGame article about the way we will spend our time this weekend and a selection of the most important pieces of news that surfaced during the previous week.

On Monday, Starships was revealed as the next video game from Sid Meier and Firaxis and DriveClub received a major update with new Japanese tracks.

GTA Online still has a bunch of deranked issues and Bloodborne received a new gameplay video with plenty of details about the control scheme.

On Tuesday, Bungie talked about the future of Destiny, info was offered on a new Dragon Age: Inquisition patch, a Handsome Collection was revealed for Borderlands and the framerate of Resident Evil HD was unveiled.

On Wednesday, yet another trailer for Exo Zombies for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare appeared, rumors about Dawn of War 3 were again live, Children of Morta headed to Kickstarter and Blizzard explained the creation process for a new Heroes of the Storm map.

Thursday saw Microsoft reveal how it planned to mix Xbox One and PC gaming and then explain that DirectX 12 required all-new graphics cards.

FIFA 15 also started to implement a number of winter transfers and a former Nintendo executive talked about the company’s evolution.

On Friday, Microsoft offered more info on the differences between DirectX 12 and 11, Destiny got a Doubles PvP mode, the PlayStation 4 Slim was leaked via an image and Dead or Alive 5 Last Round got a new gameplay video.

On Saturday, Microsoft talked about the improvements that DirectX 12 might bring, Borderlands 3 was talked about by the CEO of Gearbox and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare got an interesting live action trailer.

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