No, that’s not a typo. Welcome to the Weekly Warp-Up, your weekly wrap-up of the biggest and the best articles posted at Warp Zoned this week…
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August is here and that means one thing… we’ve entered the dog days of Summer the Warp Zoned staff took a long look at The Games of August 2011.
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The Week in Reviews…
- Catherine: Do Cheaters Dream of Neurotic Sheep?
- F.E.A.R. 3: Being Scared Was Never This Fun
- Shadows of the Damned: An Overshadowed Gem… Packed to the Rim with Dirty Jokes
- Naughty Bear: Gold Edition: Because Playtime Is Far From Over
The Week in New Games…
- This Week’s Releases: Bleach: Soul Resurreccion and more
- This Week’s PlayStation Network Update: Dragon Age: Origins, Galaga Legions DX, Warhammer 40000: Kill Team and more.
- This Week’s XBLA Wednesday: Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
- This Week’s Nintendo Download: Mario’s Picross and more
- Next Week’s Releases: None
Amazing Paperboy Delivers…
- Activision has revealed a ton of Call of Duty news: The Resurrection Map Pack will be released August 23, Modern Warfare 3 will be released on the Wii, and Call of Duty XP attendees will receive MW3 for free.
- Borderlands 2 was announced and it’ll be playable at this year’s PAX Prime and Gamescom.
- Sony revealed the PlayStation Vita is on track for a 2011 release… in Japan. US/European gamers won’t see the new handheld until 2012.
- And speaking of Sony delays, Twisted Metal has been pushed back to 2012 as well.
- Square Enix has acquired True Crime: Hong Kong from Activision.
- And Sony acquired Sucker Punch Productions to be their latest internal studio.
- WB Games has climbed to the top of the pyramid to publish Suda 51’s Lollipop Chainsaw.
- The Witcher 2 gets hit with a delay on the Xbox 360, but DLC was announced for the PC version.
- Reef Entertainment has announced a “AAA” Rambo game for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
- With the Summer of Arcade in full swing, Sony announces their own Summer promotion: PSN Play.
It’s a Secret to Everybody…
- Sony is saying the PlayStation Vita could be used as a controller for PS3 games.
- Nintendo has no plans to announce the Wii U release date or price until 2012.
- Blizzard trademarks Mists of Pandaria.
And Finally…
Ice-T and the reformed Body Count have unleashed the music video for the Gears of War 3-inspired “Gears of War (Five Against All).”
