14 DAY TRIAL // This week the review team at Softpedia Games is ready to deliver long-form evaluation for titles like: Company of Heroes 2 – The Western Front Armies, which introduces the US and the OKW to the strategy title, Chompy Chopmp Chomp, The Fall, Project Temporality, Valiant Hearts: The Great War and GRID Autosport.
We also have a series of Gamer Diaries talking about the mechanics of the new Pro Cycling Manager 2014 from Cyanide and Focus Home Interactive, and another linked to the new The Western Front Armies expansion for Company of Heroes 2 from Relic and SEGA.
Our editorials this week talk about the shame gamers should feel if they do not actually play the video games that they buy and with another about the future of achievements.
We also deliver a Weekend Reading piece which expands on the issue of the Steam Summer Sale and why some gamers do not benefit from it despite the large price cuts that Valve delivers.
As always, we also have an EndWeekGame piece talking about how we plan to spend our free time and we deliver a selection of the most important pieces of news from the past week.
On Monday, Ubisoft talked about piracy and what it can do to limit its impact, a mod was launched for GTA V on the Xbox 360, which introduces a new first-person shooter mode and a rumor revealed that Batman: Arkham Knight might be launched on all platforms on February 24 of next year.
On Tuesday, a new firmware was launched by Sony for the PlayStation 4 and for the PS3, Arkham Knight delivered some details on the exclusives it will have on the PS4 and Stardock talked about the effects that DirectX 12 will have on the Xbox One.
Wednesday saw a rumor making the rounds about how the visual quality of The Division on the PC has been limited in order to match next gen consoles; Respawn Entertainment offered more details on the fourth full update for Titanfall and the director of Evolve talked about the single-player element of the game.
On Thursday, Microsoft defended the changes made to the Xbox One, a sharing plan for the device was also promised and the beta stage for Destiny was dated.
On Friday, Titanfall was in the news as sequels were suggested to include singleplayer, although that would be a step back for some developers, and Visceral talked about the coming Battlefield Hardline all platform beta.
Saturday had DICE talk about the coming updates for Battlefield 4 and EA Sports deliver another team of the matchday for the Ultimate Team mode in FIFA 14.