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…
Ubisoft’s neon-drenched Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. It doesn’t require the original Far Cry 3 to play and doesn’t include any callbacks to its parent game beyond using the same engine. So why does it include the Far Cry 3 name? The world may never know, but the wave of 80s cliches has already turned this into a must-have game in May.
This week we also chatted with TJ Lutz of Pwnee Studios about Cloudberry Kingdom and how development is going (specifically on the Wii U) as well as his feelings on how hard a platformer should be. Finally this week, we took a look at Supergiant’s Transistor in our continuing coverage of PAX East 2013.
For more new news, hit the jump.
The Week in Reviews…
- Halo 4: Castle Map Pack: Getcha Motor Runnin’
- Gears of War: Judgment: The Verdict is Fun
- BioShock Infinite: Not Even the Sky Can Limit it
The Week in New Games…
- This Week’s Releases: None
- This Week’s PlayStation Network Update: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Anarchy Reigns, Guacamelee!, and more.
- This Week’s XBLA Wednesday: Motocross Madness
- This Week’s Nintendo Download: Injustice: Gods Among Us, Kirby’s Adventure, and more
- Next Week’s Releases: Injustice: Gods Among Us, Pandora’s Tower, and more.
Amazing Paperboy Delivers…
- The free-to-play Ridge Racer: Driftopia will be coming to PC and PS3 this year.
- Tearaway will be released for the Vita on October 22.
- Go behind-the-scenes of Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s “Mob of the Dead” mode in a newly released trailer.
- Ubisoft has officially confirmed a Wii U release for Tom Clancy’s: Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
- Lost Planet 3 has been delayed. It’ll now be released in August.
- The Dark Knight returns this October in Batman: Arkham Origins.
It’s A Secret To Everybody…
- The New Game from thatgamecompany might “change the industry in a positive way.”
- The Xbox 720/Durango may come in two flavors: A $300 “subscription” model and a $500 standalone model.
- Blizzard has confirmed that StarCraft: Ghost is still officially “in development.” No… really!
And Finally…
The Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist webseries is now on Kickstarter. Be sure to pledge if you’re interested.