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…
Nintendo has not had a good week. After operating at a loss for the third straight and watching the Wii U get passed by the PS4, the publisher angered the greater gaming community due to their exclusion of same-sex relationships in Tomodachi Life. If they want to turn things around, they might interested in my advice about Why Nintendo Should Get Into the Movie Business. And even more discussion of Nintendo’s uncertain future was had among the Warp Zoned staff in Episode #3 of “Continue Countdown.” We also chat about Microsoft’s forays into the film business and Kevin Spacey’s starring role in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, among other things.
But if you’re sick of reading about how Nintendo is DOOMED (because I know I am), then you should check out Nicole Kline’s report on the 2014 East Coast Game Conference. And when you’re done with that, there’s even more news from the week that was after the break.
New Game Announcements
- The next Need For Speed game will be released in 2015.
- EA Sports will release NBA Live 15 by the end of the year with PGA Tour Golf 15 teeing off in early 2015.
- Nintendo is remaking Pokemon Sapphire and Pokemon Ruby.
- Harmonix is trying to fund an Amplitude reboot through Kickstarter.
- EA Sports will bring NHL 15 to next-gen (and current-gen) consoles this Fall.
More News
- Wolfenstein: The New Order will have branching storylines and take 20 hours to complete.
- The Walking Dead Season 2: In Harm’s Way will be released next week.
- EA Sports has launched the Cover Vote for Madden NFL 15.
- The PS4 and Xbox One editions of The Elder Scrolls Online have been delayed until the end of the year.
- Hyrule Warriors will be released in Japan this Summer and in US by year’s end.
- TitanFall sells 925,000 copies as EA signs deal with Respawn for more games in the series.
- Some kind of Halo/Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition crossover is in the works.
- Electronic Arts has at least six games line up for E3 2014.
- Activision will release Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark on June 24.
- Telltale Games has released the first screenshots from Tales From the Borderlands.
- Microsoft’s Phil Spencer held court on Twitter to talk about the company’s E3 2014 plans.
Rumor Has It
- An Attack on Titan game for the 3DS might be released in North America.
- Ed Boon is teasing something that may or may not be related to Mortal Kombat 10 and may or may not be revealed on June 2.
New Videos
- Sunset Overdrive – “Gameplay Trailer”
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: Borderlands 2 Vita Bundle, Bound By Flame, MLB 14: The Show on PS4, and more
- Nintendo Download: Mega Man II (Game Boy), Mega Man III (Game Boy), Wario Land 4, and more
- PlayStation Store: Sportsfriends, God of War Collection, MLB 14: The Show for PS4, and more
- XBL Store (Wednesday): Peggle 2 (Xbox 360)
- XBL Store (Friday): Nutjitsu, Bound By Flame
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: Borderlands 2 for Vita Bundle, Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition