A Gamer's Week: October 16

This week we delivered two full Softpedia reviews, one for Dead Island, a game that mixes paradise, zombies and foot kicks, and one for Sengoku, a Paradox Interactive made grand strategy that puts more emphasis on covert operations than on open warfare.

We also have a Quick Look for the demo of Football Manager 2012, from Sports Interactive and SEGA, and a series of Gamer Diaries for RAGE.

Our Weekend Reading piece is linked to the need for yearly launches for series like FIFA 12 and an EndWeekGame article talks about how I will spend my gaming time.

And, as always, there's a selection of the best news stories from the last seven days.

On Monday DICE revealed that the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3 will be delivered on three disks and will have a high resolution textures pack.

On the same day the people at IO Interactive working on Hitman Absolution talked about a hardcore stealth mode aimed at long term fans.

Tuesday Ninja Gaiden 3 was singled out as the video game that will squeeze all performance from the Nintendo Wii U while Saints Row: The Third was nominated as the video game that will break out of the sequel trap this fall.

Wednesday DICE was again in the news after talking about how multiplayer and cooperative play can expand the appeal of its first person shooter just as Sony and Naughty Dog gave Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception the gold status, saying that it will include a beta code for access to Starhawk.

Thursday Sony has confirmed that United States Vita customers will have to deal with a 20 MB file size restrictions for 3G powered download while Relic talked about the flaws in Space Marine, their Warhammer 40,000 shooter.

On Friday we found out that NPD Group sales results for September, with the Xbox 360 from Microsoft leading the home console space while Madden NFL 12 managed to beat Gears of War 3 when it comes to new releases.