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 ready for Christmas? Is your tree up? Is your shopping done? Have you told someone how much you hate Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”?
Now that you’re in the proper holiday mood, feel free to look back at some of the articles we posted this week including my review of Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions and Andrew Rainnie’s latest Kickstart This! column, which includes Aviary Attorney, Curse of the Darkness, and Spectrum.
NIS America dropped a pretty nice batch of presents down our chimney this week as well with the announcement that the publisher will release will release The Awakened Fate Ultimatum (PS3) on March 17, Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy (Vita) in Spring 2015, and Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (PS4) in Fall 2015.
More news from the last seven days can be found after the break.
New Game Announcements
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection owners will receive Halo 3: ODST for Xbox One for free.
- Telltale and Mojang will work together to produce Minecraft: Story Mode.
- Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker will be released for 3DS in early 2015.
- The popular visual novel SteinsGate will be released on the PS3 and Vita in 2015.
- According to developer Deck 13, development has begun on Lords of the Fallen 2.
- CI Games revealed that Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 will be released in 2016.
- Capcom announced plans to remaster DMC: Devil May Cry and Devil May Cry 4 for the PS4 and Xbox One.
More News
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s Exo Zombies mode will star John Malkovich, Bill Paxton, Rose McGowan, and Jon Bernthal.
- Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that Mario Maker will include online level sharing.
- Evolve‘s final monster, The Wraith, and details on the beta test have been released by Turtle Rock.
- Yacht Club Games will release Shovel Knight on PlayStation platforms in early 2015.
- Merry Christmas! Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse will be released for the Wii U on December 25.
- The first episode of Life Is Strange will debut on January 30.
- Square Enix announced a pretty packed Collector’s Edition for Final Fantasy Type-0 HD.
- The Ascension: Deckbuilding Game is now available through Steam.
- Trine: Enchanted Edition will be released for the PS4 next week.
- Rockstar will add “Heists” to Grand Theft Auto V‘s Grand Theft Auto Online mode early next year.
- Microsoft added Riptor (and a lot of Christmas-themed costumes) to Killer Instinct this week.
New Videos
- Halo 5: Guardians – “Beta Preview”
- Cosmic Star Heroine – “PlayStation Experience Gameplay Video”
- Final Fantasy XV – “TGS 2014 English Translation”
- Until Dawn – “PlayStation Experience Full Demo”
- Street Fighter V – “Capcom Cup Live Match”
- Evolve – “The Evolution of Evolve Part 4”
- Evolve – “The Evolution of Evolve Part 5”
Rumor Has It
- Creative Assembly has started thinking about Alien: Isolation 2.
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Divinity: Original Sin
- Nintendo Download: Mega Man Zero, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, more
- PlayStation Store: Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Tetris Ultimate, Super Mega Baseball, more
- Xbox Games Store (Wednesday): Tetris Ultimate, Kalimba, Risk
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: None