Delivering news, reviews, Diaries and columns

Feb 22, 2015 00:53 GMT  ·  By

This week the development team at Softpedia Games is delivering long-form evaluations for: Grow Home, Hand of Fate, IDARB and Randal's Monday.

We also have Editorials about the world of gaming, dealing with issues including the Xbox One's future, the relationship between DRM and piracy, and the DOTA 2 New Bloom event.

The Gamer Diaries are also present and they talk about our most recent game experiences, including both Sunless Sea and Evolve.

The Weekend Reading deals with the way DLC should come packed with more variety, and we also deliver an EndWeekGame piece about the way we spent our free time during the weekend.

The week in review

As always, we also take a look at the most important stories that have emerged over the past week.

On Monday, EA Sports delivered 134 updated players for FIFA 15 Ultimate Team and we talked about how a player can win in the new DOTA 2 New Bloom 2015 Year Beast Brawl without using real-world money.

The CEO of Ready at Dawn also discussed the length of The Order: 1886.

On Tuesday, a rumor hinted at a free app ecosystem coming to the Xbox One in November and the PlayStation 4 received a new important firmware version, while Sony said that despite, trademark concerns, The Last Guardian was still in development.

On Wednesday, a new offer for the Xbox One was revealed by Microsoft and we got to see more information about the gameplay of Bloodborne.

A team was also banned from League of Legends for the fact that they played with an un-updated game client.

On Thursday, a firm talked about the PlayStation 4 in 2019 and its long-term prospects against the Xbox One, but we also got more details about the coming update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

At the same time, a second chance campaign was launched for Shadowrun: Hong Kong.

On Friday, Bungie announced that strikes would get matchmaking in Destiny patch 1.1.1 and a new update was delivered for DOTA 2 with a big new treasure for gamers to pick up.

On Saturday, Visceral Games clarified that no major changes would be coming to Battlefield Hardline after the open beta and FIFA 15 received some skill upgrades from EA Sports.

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