14 DAY TRIAL // This week was about old franchises coming back to life and companies talking about how quality is very important when it comes to sales. We've got the usual Weekend Reading piece, related to Electronic Arts and its Medal of Honor, and an EndWeekGame article, but here are the stories you should care about for last week.
On Monday, we talked about the social experience that would be Command & Conquer 4, the last game in the series and one that would really focus on cooperative play between players of different classes, and also took an initial look at another promising role playing game, Divinity 2: Ego Draconis, which has the potential to replace Dragon Age: Origins in the hearts of some players.
On Tuesday, we took a day off from gaming news and focused on gaming at home. On Wednesday, we bounced back by talking about the speed with which Left 4 Dead 2 is selling, moving more than 2 million units until now, and we also took a quick first look at King Arthur – The Role Playing Wargame, an interesting strategy title set in the fantasy world of Merlin and Excalibur.
On Thursday, Electronic Arts broke the news that it is bringing Medal of Honor back to life with a title set for 2010 and in a war-torn Afghanistan. The game will be created by EALA, for the single player segment, and DICE, for the multiplayer component, and Electronic Arts is probably hoping to reach the level of sales posted by Modern Warfare 2, which is set to get one of its most prominent glitches, the Javelin one, disappear.
Friday was the day when Sony and Polyphony Digital announced that what seemed to be a demo, including a Time Trial, of Gran Turismo 5 should be released world wide on December 17, with players finally able to see how the newest installment in the venerated series plays like, and Take Two confirmed that it would again delay Max Payne 3.