14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the review department of Softpedia Games is delivering long-term evaluations for: That Trivia Game, an interesting social experience for the PlayStation 4, Sniper Elite 3, the new long-range shooter from Rebellion, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, Deadpool Pinball, and Chernobyl Commando.
We also have a set of Diary entries that are talking about my experience with The Western Front Armies expansion for Company of Heroes 2.
A long-running feature will also offer stage by stage simulations of the real-world Tour de France using the mechanics of Pro Cycling Manager 2014 from Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive.
Our editorials this week talk about the potential of Battlefield Hardline to become a Point Break-like experience for video games and about DOTA 2 and its very successful Compendium.
We also have a Weekend Reading piece about Wargame Red Dragon and the importance of the meta-game in competitive strategy experiences.
The EndWeekGame piece offers some details on how we are planning to spend our free time, and we also have a selection of the most important news from the past seven days, which features the 4th of July celebration.
On Monday, an analyst predicted that the Bungie created Destiny had the long-term potential to become the best-selling title of the year, performing better than even Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and at the same time, the rumors about a crossover between Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter were proved to be wrong.
On Tuesday, Microsoft’s Xbox One was shown to be performing well on the Japanese market, GTA Online received a free update which added content related to the US Independence Day, and leaked data from the fourth update for Titanfall revealed potential coming game modes.
The next day, a customization mini-game talked about different skin colors for Assassin’s Creed: Unity, a new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare video talked about performance capture, and Counter-Strike Global Offensive received a new Operation Breakout content drop.
On Thursday, BioWare re-introduced Leliana as a follower for the next Dragon Age, Rockstar revealed a number of new events for GTA Online to celebrate Independence Day, and Firaxis revealed that Civilization: Beyond Earth would arrive on October 24.
Meanwhile, on Friday, DICE said that the launch date for the Dragon’s Teeth DLC for Battlefield 4 would arrive on July 15 and then pulled the statement, Destiny was revealed to lack an NDA for the testing phase, and a new Ultimate Kyrat Edition was unveiled for Far Cry 4.
Finally, on Saturday, Cullen was introduced for Dragon Age: Inquisition and Far Cry 4 received more details from the development team.