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…
Every January, baseball fans slap their foreheads in amazement at the absolutely terrible job that the Baseball Writers Association of America does in selecting the annual crop of Hall of Fame inductees. This June, video game fans will get to experience this same frustration firsthand when the first inductees to the World Video Game Hall of Fame are announced.
But June is a long time away, instead we should sit back and read Nicole Kline’s account of her IndieCade East 2015 trip in Nicole’s IndieCade East 2015 Diary. And if you’re a fan of indie games, Andrew Rainnie has published his Kickstart This! column.
You can find more news from this week after the break.
New Game Announcements
- Darksiders II: Definitive Edition is in development for the PS4 (and probably the Xbox One).
- Level-5’s Yo-Kai Watch is officially coming to America.
More News
- Project CARS has been delayed again… this time into April.
- Bethesda announced they will release “The Assignment,” The Evil Within‘s first downloadable expansion, in March.
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 Record Breaker will be released on May 5.
- Microsoft has announced their plans for PAX East 2015.
- We Are Doomed will be released for the PS4 and Xbox One in April.
- Eiji Aonuma talked about the size of The Legend of Zelda Wii U‘s open world this week.
- The Behemoth will bring a playable demo of “Game 4” to PAX East 2015.
- Mass Effect 4‘s Senior Development Director says that the game’s single-player campaign is “MASSIVE” (his caps, not mine).
New Videos
- Bloodborne – “Story Trailer”
Rumor Has It
- Harmonix might be working on Rock Band 4 for the PS4 and Xbox One.
- Nintendo may release Amiibo figures based on Tom Nook and the Pikmin.
- The Predator might be added to Mortal Kombat X as a downloadable character.
- Sony has abandoned the trademark for The Last Guardian. Is trouble brewing? Maybe…
- Bandai Namco has filed a trademark for “Soldiers’ Souls.” Is it the next Souls game? Maybe…
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: The Order: 1886, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Total War: Attila, more
- Nintendo Download: Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Pokemon Shuffle, more
- PlayStation Store: The Order: 1886, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, Hand of Fate, more
- Xbox Games Store (Wednesday): Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, Hand of Fate, Blue Estate, more
- Xbox Games Store (Friday): Roundabout, IHF Handball Challenge 14
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires, Homeworld Remastered Collection, more
