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…
Sometimes, you just have to throw up your hands and say, “Why not?” This week, Nintendo fans created a petition to get Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime added to Super Smash Bros. 4 as a playable character. Fils-Aime, thanks to his everpresent sense of humor, responded, “If he’ll have me, my body is ready.” Masahiro Sakurai, the Director of Smash Bros. 4, has yet to respond. I say, “Why not?”
Speaking of Nintendo, the publisher has filed a new trademark application for Eternal Darkness. And Rockstar followed suit a few days later with a new trademark application for Bully. Do both of these games deserve sequels? I say, “Why not?”
Also this week, the site AllGamesBeta dug up a collection of 20 proposed logos from a series of canceled Star Wars games. Should Disney resurrect some of these concepts (including a Darth Vader game, a Han Solo game, and something referred to as “Scum and Villainy”)? I say, “Why not?”
Finally, the staff of Warp Zoned looked back on What We Played in July 2013 and what we’re looking forward to from The Games of August 2013. Should you read these articles? I say, “Why not?”
And should you read on for more news from the week that was? Again, “Why not?”
The Week in Reviews…
- Dragon’s Crown: Not Your Dad’s Beat ‘Em Up
The Week in New Games…
- This Week’s Releases: Terraria: Collector’s Edition
- This Week’s PlayStation Network Update: Cloudberry Kingdom, Narco Terror, and more.
- This Week’s XBLA Wednesday: Cloudberry Kingdom, Narco Terror
- This Week’s Nintendo Download: Cloudberry Kingdom, Pikmin 3, Planes, and more.
- Next Week’s Releases: Pikmin 3, Dragon’s Crown, Tales of Xillia, and more.
Amazing Paperboy Delivers…
- Ubisoft reveals new details about Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s modern day setting.
- Capcom has released a new teaser for Deep Down, possibly positioning it as a horror title.
- Bethesda delays Wolfenstein: The New Order into 2014.
- Ubisoft plans to bring a brand new next-gen IP to this year’s Gamescom expo.
- Ace Combat: Infinity is Free-To-Play and will be available this year.
- The beta version of the roguelike-like Legend of Dungeon is now available.
- The multiplayer mode in Batman: Arkham Origins will pit Batman versus Bane versus The Joker.
- Irrational has revealed their plans for BioShock Infinite‘s downloadable content.
- Madden NFL 25 will include the All-25 Team, the best players of the last 25 years.
- Phil Fish quits game development and cancels Fez II. I didn’t see that one coming.
- Media Molecule’s Tearaway will now be released in November.
It’s A Secret To Everybody…
- Square Enix has confirmed that a Tomb Raider sequel is in the works. They’ve also apologized for all of their other recent failures.
- Electronic Arts is currently planning to release Star Wars: Battlefront in 2015.
And Finally…
The Wii U had a really bad Spring. Nintendo only managed to sell 160,000 next-generation consoles in the last three months across the entire world.
