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Jul 27, 2014 07:55 GMT  ·  By

This week, the review section of Softpedia Games is delivering long-form evaluations of titles including: the 2015 version of Magic the Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers, Deadstone, the fourth episode of The Walking Dead Season 2, and OlliOlli.

The final entries of the Tour de France 2014 diary are also up on the site, detailing the two stages that take place during the weekend as simulated using Pro Cycling Manager 2014, the game created by Cyanide and published by Focus Home Interactive.

An editorial talks about The International, the major DOTA 2 tournament that has just taken place and the mainstream nature of eSports and how that tends to increase their long-term audience.

The Weekend Reading piece talks about the limited number of releases that take place during summer and how that presents the perfect moment to catch up on some old classic titles.

On Monday, the development team at Sledgehammer Games offered more information about Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and about the way the New Game mode would focus on the exoskeleton and on improving its capabilities, while Naughty Dog talked about the way the soon-to-launch Remastered version of The Last of Us would help with the creation of Uncharted 4 on the PlayStation 4.

Tuesday, the first full 1080p resolution footage for Destiny running on the Xbox One was revealed, showing the graphics of the title, and a new cinematic video was delivered for the League of Legends MOBA by the team at Riot Games.

Wednesday, Phil Spencer, the leading executive at Microsoft in charge of the Xbox One, talked about the update plans that his team had for the next-gen console, and publisher Ubisoft launched a new promotional video for the coming Assassin's Creed, focused on parkour.

Thursday, the developers of No Man's Sky talked about the vast universe they were creating and about the way bots were used to explore it, and Sony talked about the 1.75 firmware update for the PlayStation 4 and about the improvements that it was set to introduce.

On Friday, Microsoft detailed some of the changes that would be made to the boot screen of the Xbox One in the coming August firmware update, and BioWare delivered a weird trailer for a coming title with a horror theme.

Saturday, Naughty Dog delivered more information on the Photo Mode that would be part of the 1.01 patch for The Last of Us Remastered, and Maisie Williams, the current Arya Stark, was rumored to be one of the actresses that could play Ellie in the movie version of the title.