14 DAY TRIAL // This week Dragon Age 2, the role-playing and action mix between BioWare and Electronic Arts, was still the main game being played here at Softpedia, but Total War: Shogun 2, from SEGA and The Creative Assembly, also made an appearance and will get more heavy play this weekend.
We have a full review of Dragon Age 2 for everyone to read and a set of Game Diaries that focus more on smaller aspects of the story, those that impressed or annoyed us.
We also have a Quick Look for the Legends Dragon Age spin off on Facebook.
We also have a Weekend Reading feature that talks about how the approach to story that Dragon Age 2 takes might influence other BioWare games and an EndWeekGame piece that talks about our gaming habits.
We also selected the most important bits of news from the past week.
On Monday, the developers of mobile and social hit Angry Birds have talked about how the business model for traditional console gaming is dying and needs to be replaced while the developers at Rocksteady have offered more information about the bad guys players will be facing in Batman: Arkham City and about the launch date.
On Tuesday, BioWare offered the first official image for the next Mass Effect 2 DLC package, which should be called The Arrival and will push the story forward towards the third game in the series, while DICE says that the console version of Battlefield 3 will be scaled down but without sacrificing the graphics quality.
On Wednesday, Electronic Arts revealed that the launch date for Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO created by BioWare, will be set after July 1 of this year, just as the publisher also teased the existence of a Wii 2 console coming from Nintendo.
On Thursday, the developers of Need for Speed: Shift 2 talked about how their game evolves the concepts of the series while a Bethesda executive talked about the importance of graphics in selling a game to the players.
On Friday, Call of Duty got yet another patch while Valve talked about the ad creation for the upcoming Portal 2.