This week the review department of Softpedia Games is delivering long-form evaluations of: The Red Solstice, an interesting take on the multiplayer cooperative shooter genre, Spectra and Traverser.

We also have two Editorials linked to the world of video games, one talking about the way stories will evolve in the coming years, using Sunless Sea and Dragon Age as a template, and another about the Star Wars: Battlefront alpha and the leaks that took place since it was launched.

The Gamer Diary series continues to take a more in-depth look at a variety of video games, with this week’s focus being on how Pro Cycling Manager 2015, the simulation from Cyanide, can portray the stages included in the 2015 edition of Le Tour de France.

Finally, the EndWeekGame piece talks about how I plan to spend my gaming time, and we also have a look at the most important pieces of news linked to the video game world during the past seven days.
From Monday to Friday

On Monday, a leak talked about the graphics setting for the coming Star Wars: Battlefront, which DICE has not confirmed, and From Software revealed that a new update for Bloodborne would arrive on July 13 with changes.

On Tuesday, Microsoft renamed Xbox Music and Video in order to integrate them into Windows 10 while Microsoft talked a little bit more about the backwards compatibility coming to the Xbox One in the following months.

On Wednesday, a firmware update arrived for the modern Microsoft home console, preparing it for future tweaks, and Rockstar delivered the Ill-Gotten Gains update for the Online mode of GTA V.

On Thursday, the same update for the open-world title apparently made some player cars disappear, and a leak talked about the Juggernog edition for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, which was later confirmed by Activision.

On Friday, the Shadows of Evil mode was confirmed for the Treyarch first-person shooter, and CD Projekt RED offered more details about the 1.07 patch for The Witcher 3.

On Saturday, Bungie talked about the tweaks coming to the quests for Destiny in The Taken King, and the minimum system requirements for FIFA 16 were revealed.