Delivering news, E3 hands-ons, reviews and columns

Jun 23, 2013 09:31 GMT  ·  By

It’s the week after E3 2013 and we are still dealing with some fallout from the show, including a huge announcement coming from Microsoft regarding the Xbox One and its DRM measures.

The review section this week consists of: The Last of Us, the Naughty Dog created title that deals with the end of mankind and human relations, and for Knight of Pen and Paper +1 Edition, an interesting smaller release that has some interesting innovation for the role playing genre.

We also deliver a full round-up of all the information that has come out of E3, including a number of hands-on features.

As always we also have the two Weekend Reading features: both of them dealing with the Xbox One DRM drop and its aftermath.

The EndWeekGame piece talks about how we plan to spend our free time and we also have a selection of the most important news of the past seven days.

On Monday reports talked about Fallout 4 being shown at E3 2013, set to launch on next generation consoles, while a retailer suggested that the PlayStation 4 would be out on November 13 and Xbox One on November 21.

Tuesday Ubisoft talked about its new The Division title while Microsoft explained that the price of the Xbox One is based on its overall value.

Wednesday Microsoft offered veiled criticism of the PlayStation 4 and the Vengeance DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was confirmed with new maps.

Thursday Microsoft confirmed that it was dropping all DRM measures for the Xbox One and detailed a few other capability changes for the console.

On Friday Microsoft announced that Xbox Live Gold members would get free games until 2014 and EA Sports talked about the rivalry between NBA Live 14 and NBA 2K14.

Saturday an analyst predicted the Xbox One will lose to the PS4 on European markets and DICE talked about Battlefield 4's Commander Mode.