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…
Are you following along with this weekend’s Evo tournament. The premier fighting game tournament in the world is in full swing and it gave us our first look at the Thunder God Raiden in Mortal Kombat X.
If fighting games aren’t really your thing, then check out this review of Anomaly Defenders from Troy Matsumiya and an editorial from Dan Hobbs, Ignorance Is Strength: Gaming’s Permanent War With Nazis, Terrorists, and PMCs, that examines the familiar faces that populate our favorite first person shooters.
Want more news from this past week? You can find it after the break.
New Game Announcements
- Skullgirls Encore is coming to the PS4 and Vita next year.
- NIS America plans to bring Criminal Girls: Invite Only to the US next year.
- Gearbox has announced Battleborn, a “MOBA-like” shooter for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
More News
- The Wii U version of Project CARS has been delayed into 2015.
- Project Spark will be released for the PC and Xbox One on October 7.
- If you pre-order Alien: Isolation, you’ll get to relive 1979’s Alien in two bonus missions.
- Deep Silver is asking for suggestions for the Dead Island 2 Collector’s Edition.
- The next TitanFall expansion will known as “Frontier’s Edge.”
- The British tabloids are going after video games and game writers are none too happy about it.
- The Destiny beta begins July 17 and Bungie has three special editions planned.
- Ken Levine opens up about the (probably) canceled BioShock Vita.
- GameStop is working with publishers to obtain “exclusive” content for games sold in their stores.
- Far Cry 4 will receive a special “Kyrat Edition.”
New Videos
- Hyrule Warriors – “Midna”
Rumor Has It
- Details on the next Assassin’s Creed for the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be revealed soon.
- A petition has been started to bring Destiny to the Wii U.
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: One Piece Unlimited World Red
- Nintendo Download: One Piece Unlimited World Red, Bases Loaded, and more
- PlayStation Store: The Wolf Among Us Episode 5, One Piece Unlimited World Red, and more
- XBL Store (Wednesday): The Wolf Among Us Episode 5
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: None