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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World of Tomorrow!
This week, executives, developers, and community managers just couldn’t stop talking about games that are a very long ways away. For example:
- Id Software was rather forthcoming about why Doom 4 is taking so long.
- Namco Bandai assured us that Tekken X Street Fighter is still in development.
- Ubisoft discussed the end of the Assassin’s Creed franchise.
- Capcom confirmed that Street Fighter V is at least five years away.
- Deep Silver is sure that they’ll release Dead Island 3 someday.
- And finally, Microsoft’s Major Nelson “unboxed” an Xbox One system that is still several months away.
A little closer to the present, we talked with Dakko Dakko’s Dan Croucher and Scram Kitty and His Buddy On Rails, his company’s Wii U eShop-exclusive game.
More news from the World of Today can be found after the break.
The Week in Reviews…
- Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians: A Toe-Tappingly Fun Ride
The Week in New Games…
- This Week’s Releases: Pikmin 3, Dragon’s Crown, Tales of Xillia, and more.
- This Week’s PlayStation Network Update: Dragon’s Crown, Tales of Xillia, Ibb & Obb, and more.
- This Week’s XBLA Wednesday: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- This Week’s Nintendo Download: SteamWorld Dig, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, DuckTales Remastered, and more.
- Next Week’s Releases: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Payday 2, DuckTales Remastered, and more.
Amazing Paperboy Delivers…
- MLG’s Columbus event won’t include StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.
- The final Call of Duty: Black Ops II DLC pack, Apocalypse, will be added to the Xbox Live Marketplace on August 27.
- Zatanna has hocus pocused her way into Injustice: Gods Among Us as a downloadable character.
- Ubisoft and Hasbro have struck a deal to bring Monopoly and many other Habro board games to next-generation consoles.
And Finally…
Warp Zoned Editor Zackery Cote took a look at the World of Yesterday and found 5 Games That Failed Miserably Despite Themselves. It’ll take you FOREVER to guess which game he thinks failed the worst.
