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…
There’s still one more week left in Heart Machine’s pre-release beta for Hyper Light Drifter. The overhead action-adventure game will be released in early 2015, but the beta is available now to all who pre-order it and our Nicole Kline is enjoying it quite a bit. This year has been a bit lacking when it comes to groundbreaking new releases, but if Hyper Light Drifter is any indication, 2015 will more than make up for it.
In other unreleased games news, Andrew Rainnie has filed the latest entry in his Kickstart This! column examining some of the best Kickstarter campaigns to launch in the last few weeks. If you’ve got some extra coin and are looking to support an independent developer or two, do check them out.
Finally this week, Nintendo continued to prime the gaming populace for the November 21 launch of Super Smash Bros. For Wii U. In a brand new “50-Fact Extravaganza” video, the publisher has revealed that the multiplayer fighter will support 8-player brawls and confirmed that downloadable characters will be available beginning next year. And just think, there are 48 more facts where those came from!
Looking for more news? Then I suggest you look for it after the break.
New Game Announcements
- Red Barrels announced they’ve begun production on Outlast 2.
- An HD re-release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be available on the Xbox 360 today.
- Crazy Monkey has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Guns, Gore & Cannoli.
- Koei Tecmo will bring Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea to the US in 2015.
More News
- Koei Tecmo will release Dead or Alive 5: Last Round in February 2015.
- The first Alien: Isolation add-on, “Corporate Lockdown,” will be available on October 28.
- Courtesy of Gearbox, here’s a complete timeline of everything that’s happened in the Borderlands franchise so far.
New Videos
- Sunset Overdrive – “Launch Trailer”
- Mario Kart 8 – “Yoshi Circuit”
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – “Launch Trailer”
- Evolve – “Savage Goliath”
Gaming Etc.
- Warner Bros. plans to create a tie-in web series for Mortal Kombat X.
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: Bayonetta 2, Civilization: Beyond Earth, Just Dance 2015, more.
- Nintendo Download: Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta, Just Dance 2015, Fantasy Life, more.
- PlayStation Store: The Legend of Korra, Just Dance 2015, Samurai Warriors 4, more.
- Xbox Games Store (Wednesday): Fantasia: Music Evolved, The Legend of Korra, Just Dance 2015, more.
- Xbox Games Store (Friday): Shadow Warrior, Voice Commander.
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: Sunset Overdrive, WWE 2K15, Lords of the Fallen, more.
