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…
The PS4 is now available in stores, so today marks the start of the five day countdown to the launch of the Xbox One. But first, Sony dumped a ton of PS4 announcements on us including Uncharted 4, TowerFall Ascension, and a release date for InFamous: Second Son.
Microsoft countered by confirming that, beginning next year, free Xbox One games will be included as part of the Xbox Live Games With Gold promotion.
More news from the week that was can be found after the break.
The Week in Reviews…
- Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus: One Last No Frills Ride
The Week in New Games…
- This Week’s Releases: PS4, XCOM: Enemy Within, Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, and more.
- This Week’s PlayStation Network Update: XCOM: Enemy Within, Injustice: Gods Among Us – Ultimate Edition, Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus, and more.
- This Week’s XBL Store Update: The Bridge, Cartoon Network Punchtime Explosion XL, Pro Evolution Soccer 2014
- This Week’s Nintendo Download: Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW, and more.
- Next Week’s Releases: Xbox One, Super Mario 3D World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and more.
Amazing Paperboy Delivers…
- The Spike TV Video Game Awards are now known as the VGX Awards. The show will be broadcast on Spike TV on December 7.
- Ultra Street Fighter IV will beat up consoles in May or June next year.
- The Last of Us: Left Behind, the game’s first single-player expansion, will let you play as Ellie.
- Grand Theft Auto V was October 2013′s best-selling game.
- Nintendo will release Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy in America on February 28.
- Switchblade Monkeys has announced that Secret Ponchos will be released in April.
- Attention Lord of the Rings fans, WB Games has announced Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
- PS4 Trophies will be classified by rarity. That’s… kind of awesome.
It’s A Secret To Everybody…
- Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime has confirmed that a sixth World of Warcraft expansion is already in development.
And Finally…
The “next generation” is already exhausting. In fact, it’s so exhausting that we created a list of 5 Buzzwords We’re Already Bored Of. Read all about it in… “The Cloud!”