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Sep 21, 2014 08:03 GMT  ·  By

The review department of Softpedia Games is this week delivering long-term evaluations for: Destiny, the long-awaited first-person shooter from Bungie, Total War: Rome II – Emperor Edition and its new Imperator Augustus campaign, Battle Academy 2, Qbeh-1.

The editorials for this week talk about the acquisition of Minecraft and Mojang by publisher and platform holder Microsoft and the effect it can have on the game industry.

A Gamer Diary follows my adventures in Total War: Rome II – Imperator Augustus campaign, taking a look at the core mechanics and the best strategies to use as some of the included factions.

We also have a Weekend Reading piece which talks about the way constant updates and the new Emperor Edition were able to make Total War: Rome II important to fans of the series once again.

The EndWeekGame piece explains how we are aiming to spend our free time, and we also have a look at the most important gaming info that popped up during the past seven day period.

On Monday, the sale of Minecraft and Mojang to Microsoft became official, and the leader of the indie game company talked about the reasons for the move and the future of the game while a live-action trailer was launched for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor.

On Tuesday, Bungie opened up the special Vault of Glass raid for Destiny and explained some of its core mechanics, more information was offered on the Skyhold included in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and the full soundtrack of FIFA 15 was revealed by EA Sports.

On Wednesday, a rumor claimed that a special DRM system would be introduced for the Xbox One launch in China, and Microsoft revealed that the Xbox One controller would be launched for the Windows-powered PC while EA Sports talked about the log verification which would be added to the FIFA 15 Ultimate Team Web App.

On Thursday, Bungie announced that it was planning to introduce weekly battles between its developers and members of the Destiny community, a launch date of February 6 for Bloodborne was announced for North America, and a new trailer was offered for Final Fantasy XV at the Tokyo Games Show 2014.

On Friday, EA Sports finally launched the Web App for the FIFA 15 Ultimate Team mode but some gamers still have trouble accessing it, and Bungie delivered more info on the events which are being introduced to Destiny.

On Saturday FIFA 15 revealed new skill moves in a Eden Hazard video while BioWare talked about the judgments added to the new Dragon Age: Inquisition.