14 DAY TRIAL // This week the review team at Softpedia Games is delivering long-form evaluation for: Dragon Age: Inquisition, the impressive role-playing game with open-world elements from BioWare and Electronic Arts, Assassin’s Creed Unity, the big new open-world title from Ubisoft set in the French Revolution period, Assassin’s Creed Rogue, Pro Evolution Soccer 2015, which introduces an interesting challenge to FIFA 15, Dungeon of the Endless, the new Gabriel Knight and Valkyria Chronicles.
We also have a set of Gamer Diaries, exploring my choices and my battles in Dragon Age: Inquisition and offering some more details about the new mechanics of the Charlemagne expansion for Crusader Kings II.
The gaming-focused editorials talk about the Steam digital distribution service and its move towards monopoly and about the delay that Assassin's Creed Unity required.
We also have a Weekend Reading piece about delays and the way they can affect a player community.
The EndWeekGame pieces are also present to show what we are planning to engage with during our free time and we also have a selection of the most important news of the past seven days.
On Monday, Sledgehammer Games announced that it was delivering a major patch for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, designed to eliminate connectivity issues and fix the way Prestige works, and we also had a Quick Look for Clandestine, complete with details about gameplay.
On Tuesday, Assassin’s Creed Unity was launched and gamers on both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 talked about issues they were having with the title while Ubisoft failed to react and we got a closer look at the events taking place at Game Connection Europe 2014.
On Wednesday, Microsoft and 343 Industries have promised that they will deliver a massive fix for the matchmaking issues affecting multiplayer in the new Halo and Avalanche Studios finally confirmed that it was working on Just Cause 3.
On Thursday, a leaked video showed the first-person mode included in the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 versions of Grand Theft Auto V, and we learned more about the kind of fixes that Ubisoft would introduce for Assassin’s Creed Unity in the coming weeks.
On Friday, the NPD Group announced that the PlayStation 4 had sold more units than the Xbox One in the United States during October and Rockstar talked about the Heists update, which would be offered for GTA V as soon as it launched on the new home console from Sony and Microsoft.
On Saturday, a new set of matchmaking fixes was deployed for Halo: The Master Chief Collection and a major patch was also deployed for Assassin's Creed: Unity.
