Weekly Warp-Up: No Candy For You! 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…

Ding dong! The witch is dead! Which old witch? The Bubble Witch! Look at that, it even scans correctly! King, the developer behind Candy Crush Saga has given up their crusade to trademark the word “Candy.” While I’d love to celebrate, the mobile game behemoth is still attempting to put a stranglehold on the word “Saga” (which is used in all of their other games such as Bubble Witch Saga and Pet Rescue Saga). Playing Tetris until you see the shapes in your dreams is worthy of the word “Saga,” matching three peppermints is not.

Also this week, UK Correspondent Andrew Rainnie has rooted out another group of crowdfunding projects that show some promise in the latest edition of Kickstart This! And Nicole Kline has reviewed the latest Borderlands tie-in novel, Borderlands: Gunsight. Spoiler alert, it stinks!

We’ve got more news from the week that was after the break.

New Game Announcements

More News

  • Microsoft and 343 Industries have make kind of Halo-related announcement at E3 2014.
  • The first expansion for Outlast, “The Whistleblower,” will be released in April.
  • Sony Santa Monica has laid off about 50 developers and canceled an unannounced game.
  • Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will include special DLC for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
  • Microsoft has added 65 new developers to their ID@Xbox program.
  • The Walking Dead Season 2: A House Divided will be released on March 4.
  • Trials Fusion will be released on April 16.
  • The Batman: Arkham Origins expnansion “Cold, Cold Heart” will be available on April 22.
  • Microsoft will add Twitch streaming to the Xbox One on March 11.
  • Dean Hall, the man behind DayZ, will leave Bohemia Interactive and form his own studio by the end of the year.
  • The six games that will be included in the PAX East 2014 Indie Showcase have been selected.
  • Due to a component shortage, Oculus VR will temporarily suspend production of their Oculus Rift headset.
  • Octodad: Dadliest Catch will be released for the PS4 in April and an Xbox One version might be in the works.
  • Someone is making a first person version of The Legend of Zelda for the Oculus Rift. Sure, why not?
  • 3D Realms sold the rights to the Duke Nukem franchise four years ago. So Gearbox (the current rights holder) isn’t happy that they teamed up with Interceptor to release Duke Nukem: Mass Destruction.
  • An Xbox One/TitanFall console bundle will be released on March 11.

New Videos

New Release Round-Up

Gaming Etc.

  • Warner Bros. is making a Minecraft movie. That’s neat, but how?
  • Sony is turning Console Wars, a book based on the Nintendo vs Sega battle, into a movie.
  • Cryptozoic will release Portal: The Board Game this Summer.
  • Harold Ramis died this week and, though he had only a slight connection to the game industry, we remember one of Hollywood’s greatest comic minds.
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