14 DAY TRIAL // This week, the team at the review department of Softpedia Games is delivering long-form evaluations for games including Hatoful Boyfriend, Fading Hearts, Detective Grimoire, Velocity 2X.
We also have editorials about the gaming world, exploring such issues as the way Twitch will remain irrelevant to most gamers regardless of its current appeal, the decision Microsoft makes to buy Mojang, and the interface of the new launch Destiny.
The new Gamer Diary is linked to Hatoful Boyfriend, a pigeon dating simulation that has a deeper meaning and has some interesting choices even if its core mechanics are not that appealing to most players.
A Weekend Reading piece talks about Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and the impact of the Day Zero edition of the title, which allows those who pre-order it to get access to the multiplayer one day before the November 4 launch and gain double experience for the period.
The EndWeekGame article talks about the plans that we have for our playing time and we also have a selection of the most important news from the past week.
The evolution of the gaming world
On Monday, the Microsoft-made Destiny fragrance promotional website was removed after Sony complained about the advertising, the Heroic Strikes that gamers can undertake in the Bungie shooter received more attention, and gamers were able to get some more info about the core modes of NHL 15.
On Tuesday, Warner Bros. and Rocksteady announced that Batman: Arkham Knight would be out on June 2 of next year, the 1.0.1 patch was launched for Destiny as soon as the game went live on servers, and Microsoft said that it planned to replace all Xbox One consoles that were making a weird unidentifiable noise.
On Wednesday, The Last Stand downloadable content was finally officially announced for Battlefield 4, taking gamers to the Russian Arctic, a rumor talked about the possibility of Microsoft acquiring Mojang for a huge sum of money, and Sony pledged to solve issues affecting special DLC for Destiny on the PS4 and the PS3.
The next day, on Thursday, Activision delivered more details about the Limited Edition Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for the Xbox One, the developers of League of Legends announced an entirely new Ascension mode, and Dead Island 2 was revealed to have expanded coop because of the power of the Xbox One.
On Friday, the NPD Group announced that the PlayStation 4 had managed to sell better than the Xbox One in the United States during August, Blizzard announced that it had plans to nerf two of the most powerful cards included in Hearthstone, and some information about Grand Theft Auto V leaked out of the GameStop expo.
Finally, on Saturday, we saw a new map for coming Titanfall DLC and got more info about the maps of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.