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 clock is ticking ever so slowly away from Winter, but things sped up last night as we’ve sprung forward thanks to Daylights Savings Time. Even though time has skipped a beat, or an hour, you can still skip backwards and check out What We Played in February. When we weren’t playing, we managed to put together our very first Monthly Recap video as well. Hopefully, this is the first of a lot more video content to come from the Warp Zoned stuff. Oh, and for all you forward-thinkers out there, we also put together a look at The Games of March.
Speaking of lost time, Dan Hobbs recently reviewed Eidos Montreal’s Thief reboot and he wants the developers to return all the time they took from him. Finally, I dug into a few beloved puzzle games (including Threes, Dr. Mario, and Tetris) and asked why they’re so beloved. The secret is A Playing Card With Fangs or “How Puzzle Games Use Characters to Get in Our Heads.”
More news from the week that was can be found after the break.
New Game Announcements
- The Behemoth has confirmed that BattleBlock Theater will be available for the PC (via Steam) very soon.
- Tumblestone is a multiplayer puzzler from the creators of The Bridge.
- Batman: Arkham Knight, developed by Rocksteady, has been announced for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
- Peggle 2 will be released for the Xbox 360 on May 7.
More News
- Telltale and Gearbox have revealed the first details of Tales From the Borderlands.
- The PC edition of Dark Souls II will released on April 25.
- Microsoft will begin bundling Xbox One consoles with Forza Motorsport 5 next week.
- The Call of Duty: Ghosts Devastation Map Pack will be available for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 on April 3.
- Ubisoft will finally release Watch Dogs on May 27.
- Amy Hennig, the Creative Director behind Uncharted 4, has left Naughty Dog.
- The game adaptation of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will be available on April 29.
- Sony has sold six million PlayStation 4 consoles since the system launched in November.
- Luftrausers will be released for the PC, PS3, and Vita on March 18.
- Interceptor Entertainment has purchased 3D Realms… even though Gearbox is suing 3D Realms over Interceptor purported Duke Nukem game. Businessmen be weird.
Rumor Has It
- An ESPN writer states that R.B.I. Baseball 14 will be released on April 10. Sure it will.
- BioWare has had internal discussions about bringing the Mass Effect Trilogy to the PS4 and Xbox One.
- Retro Studios has confirmed that they’re working on an ultra-secret Wii U project.
New Videos
- TitanFall – “Life Is Better With A Titan”
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: South Park: The Stick of Truth
- Nintendo Download: NES Open Tournament Golf, Blok Drop U, and more
- PlayStation Store: The Walking Dead Season 2: A House Divided, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition, and more
- XBL Store (Wednesday): The Walking Dead Season 2: A House Divided, South Park: The Stick of Truth, NASCAR 14
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: TitanFall, Dark Souls II, Yoshi’s New Island, and more
Gaming Etc.
- Sony is turning The Last of Us into a movie. Ellen Page had no comment.
- The Transistor soundtrack is done! But what does that mean for the game?
