14 DAY TRIAL // The week that passed us by continues to be dominated by the ongoing problems with the PlayStation Network, but our attention here at Softpedia was focused on the next Call of Duty and on a recent release, The First Templar, for which we have a full review.
We also reviewed MotorStorm Apocalypse, the quake delayed disaster arcade racer from Evolution Studios and Sony.
My Weekend Reading piece talks about the Microsoft acquisition of Skype and how it could lead to the company dominating PC gaming in the far future and we also deliver an EndWeekGame article about the games we are enjoying during our free time.
And, as always, here's a list of the news that were the highlights of the week.
On Monday, Sony announced that it plans to offer both free video games and access to the PlayStation Plus service in order to make up for the issues with PSN, while an analyst estimated that Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO has probably cost about 80 million dollars.
Tuesday was Blizzard dominated as the company announced that Diablo III was set to enter beta at some point during the year, while it also revealed that it planned to deliver more frequent updates for the World of Warcraft MMO to make sure that it kept long-term players occupied with new content.
On Wednesday, Bungie was confirmed as trademarking Aerospace Corporation, a new company which is working on something called Crimson, while a leak revealed a number of new details linked to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
On Thursday, a cover and logo combo for Modern Warfare 3 popped up, with no official confirmation coming from Activision Blizzard or Treyarch, while Firaxis and Sid Meier confirmed that the Facebook-based Civilization World was prepared for launch during the summer season.
On Friday, the NPD released its April figures, with the Xbox 360 topping the hardware space while Mortal Kombat lead out Portal 2 in the video game sales chart while Ubisoft talked a little about the Wii 2.