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Jun 1, 2014 08:13 GMT  ·  By

Summer is now officially upon us, which probably means that soon the number of new games to play will go down considerably, so please enjoy the long-form evaluations of recent releases coming from Softpedia Games: Watch Dogs, the much awaited title from Ubisoft, Monochroma, the newest episode of The Wolf Among Us, War, the Game, and Men of War: Assault Squad 2.

There are also editorials about the gaming world, one dealing with the way Unreal Tournament and the new engine from Epic Games can transform gaming and another about Linux and gaming.

As always, we also deliver two Gamers Diaries, one about the adventures Aiden is experiencing in Watch Dogs, and another about Tropico 5, the dictator simulation from Haemimont Games.

The Weekend Reading piece talks about the difference between playing to experience a story and playing to simply create one.

The EndWeekGame piece offers some details about how we plan to spend our free time, and we also have a selection of the most important pieces of news from the week that passed us by.

On Monday, a live-action series was launched for the Street Fighter franchise, and a comparison video was delivered for Watch Dogs in order to show the differences between the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.

At the same time, Dragon Age: Inquisition got more info about the Halamshiral area and its unique nature.

Tuesday, the creator of Wasteland 2 talked about the potential of Kickstarter, and plenty of errors and problems were associated with Watch Dogs on launch while more leaked info appeared about a new SWAT themed Battlefield title.

On Wednesday, the Battlefield Hardline game become official and got a seven-minute-long trailer, a first concept image was linked to the new Hitman title, and a rumor talked about remastered GTA V launching on the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.

Thursday, a new World of Speed video showed the McLaren MP4 12C in action, and the development team at Sledgehammer Games talked about the potential for sequels of the new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

At the same time, a new poster suggests that an official announcement for a new Mortal Kombat will be delivered soon.

Friday, a new mode was added by Riot Games to League of Legends, the new Project Beast created by From Software got a leaked gameplay video, and the developers talked about the third DLC for Call of Duty: Ghosts, called Invasion.

On Saturday, design documents for Prey 2 were leaked, showing major changes, and the World Cup content for Ultimate Team was finally launched for FIFA 14.