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…
It wasn’t a great week for The Legend of Zelda franchise. First, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata came out and said that the Wall Street Journal on a Legend of Zelda Netflix series was incorrect. However, Iwata only said that the original rumor was wrong, not that a Legend of Zelda Netflix series wasn’t happening at all. So we can all hold on to that slim bit of hope as we slowly realize that a Legend of Zelda Netflix series isn’t actually in the works. Also this week, the next Zelda game, The Legend of Zelda Wii U, was postponed by Producer Eiji Aonuma. He and his team want to make “the ultimate Zelda game” and they will not be constrained by your pesky previously-announced release date. It should be released in 2016, but we don’t know for sure.
On the other hand, it was a good week for NetherRealm Studios. The developer once again flooded the newswire with new Mortal Kombat X information and we reported on all of it. A line of MKK action figures, bobbleheads, and plushes is planned, a “Shaolin” trailer gsave us our first look at Zombie Liu Kang, it’s television spot riffs on 1993’s “Mortal Monday” commercial, and a new Kombat Kast introduced gunslinger Erron Black as a playable character.
Also this week, the Warp Zoned staff filed a preview of PAX East-favorite 20XX, interviewed 20XX developer Chris King of Batterystaple Games, and asked a bunch of developers which games they’d like to see enshrined in the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
More news from the week that was can be found after the break.
Release Date Updates
- Do you find it hard to keep up with all the latest release dates? So do we. That’s why we’re going to regularly publish a digest of newly announced and newly changed release dates. Video Game Release Calendar Changelog #3 is now available for your perusal.
New Game Announcements
- MotoGP 15 will be available this Spring for the PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.
- F1 2015 will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One in June.
- Halo Online is a free-to-play shooter from 343 Industries… that will only be available in Russia.
- SteamWorld Dig will be released for the Xbox One in May.
More News
- Hisako, the Japanese ghost girl, is now available to download in Killer Instinct.
- The ToeJam and Earl: Back in the Groove Kickstarter campaign is fully funded.
- RBI Baseball 15 will stride to home plate (that’s the PS4 and Xbox One) on March 31.
- Broken Age: Act 2 will be released for the PC on April 28… the same day as the full game on the PS4 and Vita.
- The Rosetta Stone Discover Languages app is now available for the Xbox One.
- The Minecraft: Mass Effect Mash-Up Pack was finally released for the PS4, PS3, and Vita.
- The first Dragon Age: Inquisition expansion, Jaws of Hakkon, is now available for the PC and Xbox One.
- The Evil Within: The Consequence will be available on April 21.
- The University of Southern California is the #1 school in The Princeton Review’s 2015 overview of game design programs.
- He wasn’t prepared… WB Games hits Batman: Arkham Knight with a three-week delay.
- Microsoft is producing a Serial-like podcast to promote Halo 5: Guardians.
New Videos
- Pillars of Eternity – “Launch Trailer”
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare – “Ascendance Pack”
- Borderlands: The Handsome Collection – “Launch Trailer”
Rumor Has It
- Raven Software is hinting at a Singularity 2 announcement.
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: Bloodborne, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, Pillars of Eternity, more
- Nintendo Download: Dot Arcade, Namco Museum, Lego Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin, more
- PlayStation Store: Bloodborne, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, Metal Slug 3, more
- Xbox Games Store (Wednesday): Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, Life Is Strange: Out of Time, Game of Thrones: The Sword in the Darkness, more
- Xbox Games Store (Friday): Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee – New ‘N’ Tasty
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: MLB 15: The Show, Story of Seasons, Toukiden: Kiwami, more
