Delivering news, reviews, editorials and quick looks

Oct 10, 2015 22:17 GMT  ·  By

The review department at Softpedia Games is ready to deliver long-form evaluations for the following titles: Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection for the PlayStation 4, Kaiju Panic, NBA 2K16 and SubLevel Zero.

Our Editorial talks about the future of virtual reality and how the companies working on it need to make sure that they do not charge users too much for one.

We also offer a look at the current Star Wars: Battlefront beta, which gives gamers a chance to try out three modes and maps from the new DICE shooter.

An EndWeekGame piece talks about the video games that I plan to spend time with during the weekend and we also have a selection of the most important pieces of news from the past seven days.

From Monday to Friday

On Monday, Treyarch and Activision delivered a new video for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, designed to deliver more details about the narrative of the title, and 343 Industries talked about the internal tests for Halo 5: Guardians that will allow it to avoid problems that The Master Chief Collection had on launch.

Tuesday Bungie announced that it was adding microtransactions to Destiny on October 13 using the Eververse Trading Company while Ubisoft delivered a range of information about its coming Far Cry Primal.

Wednesday Microsoft talked about the improvements in speed and social elements that Windows 10 would add to the Xbox One and 343 Industries revealed that Halo 5: Guardians had gone gold.

Thursday Microsoft explained that Master Chief and Agent Locke will be present on two NASCAR cars in order to promote Halo 5: Guardians and Sony officially announced a price cut for the PlayStation 4 in North America.

On Friday, Bungie talked about update 2.01 for Destiny, designed to introduce a range of tweaks for weapons, while CD Projekt RED launched the major 1.10 update for The Witcher 3.

Saturday Valve launches a file for DOTA 2 which offered some details about the possible future of the Half-Life series and 343 Industries talked about how the coming The Fall of Reach animated series will benefit the coming Halo 5 story.