Weekly Warp-Up: New Year’s Eve Eve 2012 Edition

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…

2012 is coming to a close and we’ve begun our look back at the last year of video gaming. The second annual Golden Pixel Awards will be handed out next week, but first, you should definitely check out our Most Popular Articles of 2012. We’d really appreciate it.

It may have been the slowest news week of the year, but there’s still plenty of other articles after the break.

The Week in New Games…

Amazing Paperboy Delivers…

  • Retro City Rampage will rampage on the XBLA on January 2.
  • Farewell old friend… Sony has continued shipments of the PlayStation 2 in Japan.
  • Visceral has confirmed that Dead Space 3‘s Kinect support will include recognition of swear words and screams. **** yes!
  • We’re much less than 17 weeks away from Aliens: Colonial Marines and Sega has released a new story trailer to celebrate.
  • Ludicrous gibs! Yes, there’s a new Rise of the Triad trailer available.
  • EA plans to release a Dead Space 3 demo on January 22 (but Xbox 360 owners can get it a week early).
  • The zombie/ninja mashup Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has been confirmed as a PS3/Xbox 360 game.
  • Rockstar has given gamers the gift that keeps on giving: New Grand Theft Auto V screenshots.
  • Calvin Johnson has defied Madden Curse by setting the single-season receiving record.

It’s A Secret To Everybody…

  • Guerrilla Games is hoping that 2013 will be “[their] biggest year since the release of the original Killzone.”

And Finally…
Link’s Triumph” is the second greatest Zelda cartoon ever. You should definitely watch it.

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