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 continues to plod along with little excitement coming out of the game industry and even fewer new games. But this week we took a hands-on look at the upcoming Driver: San Francisco as well as posted Episode 17 of the Warp Zoned Podcast. The staff discussed a very important topic: Borderlands! What they love, what they hate, and most importantly, how to catch a riiiiiiiiiiiiiiide. We also talked a bit about the new 3DS Ambassador program Nintendo unveiled and we rounded it out with whether or not games are too expensive, what’s too much to pay for a game, and why some developers can be real hypocrites about it.
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The Week in New Games…
- This Week’s Releases: None
- This Week’s PlayStation Network Update: Far Cry 2 and more.
- This Week’s XBLA Wednesday: Fruit Ninja Kinect
- This Week’s Nintendo Download: Avenging Spirit, Super Adventure Island II and more
- Next Week’s Releases: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, No More Heroes Heroes’ Paradise, Age of Empires Online and more
Amazing Paperboy Delivers…
- Valve is bringing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to the PC, PSN and Xbox 360 next year.
- Game Informer has dumped the first details of Borderlands 2 in our laps.
- Activision has deployed a new trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3‘s Spec Ops Mode.
- David Jaffe explains the Twisted Metal delay. And for good measure mentions that $60 is a “s*** ton” to pay for a game.
- NCAA Football 12 leads the July NPD report.
- The NBA 2K12 soundtrack is full of big names.
- NetherRealm explains how Freddy Krueger fits into Mortal Kombat with this story trailer.
- The latest Saints Row: The Third trailer, “Freefalling,” is pretty awesome.
- GameFly is adding PC/Mac games this holiday season.
- Nintendo is bringing out the first new color for the 3DS: Flame Red.
- Google+ adds games to their social networking service.
It’s a Secret to Everybody…
- An announcement concerning Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II is coming “very soon.”
- While nothing has been announced yet, Nintendo of America is watching Xenoblade‘s reception in Europe very closely.
And Finally…
There was all sorts of movie adaptation news this week: Mortal Kombat: Legacy will be coming to Blu-ray this November; Ridley Scott is working on a Call of Duty-themed short for Call of Duty Elite; and Saved by the Bell has been turned into an interactive YouTube game.
