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…
Most of Warp Zoned’s staff is currently wandering up and down the aisles of the 2015 PAX East expo. We’ll have plenty to report after the show is over, but for now, you can keep tabs on all our coverage at the PAX East 2015 Hub.
So what else was going on in the game industry this week? Well, Valve opened GDC (yes, GDC also happened this week) by revealing their virtual reality headset, the Vive. Sony countered with a new look at their updated and improved Project Morpheus headset. In other GDC news, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor took home Game of the Year at the GDC Awards and Outer Wilds won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at this year’s Independent Games Festival.
Outside of GDC, the biggest news has to be that Avalanche’s Mad Max and Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will share September 1 as a release date. It’s rare to see two huge games launching on the same day like this and its even rarer for the announcements to share the same day.
Finally, before leaving on a jet plane for Boston, the Warp Zoned staff sat down and discussed What We Played in February and The Games of March. Also, Andrew Rainnie has filed his Kickstart This! report from across the Atlantic.
You can find the rest of this week’s news after the break.
New Game Announcements
- Shovel Knight is coming to the Xbox One as well the PlayStation platforms.
- Harmonix officially announced Rock Band 4.
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a standalone prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order and it’ll be out this May.
- WB Games will release Batman: Arkham Underworld, DC Comics Legends, and Game of Thrones on mobile devices this year.
- Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power was announced by Frozenbyte for a 2015 release.
- The ClayFighter franchise will get rebooted and remastered in 2016.
- A mobile version of Mortal Kombat X will be released next month.
More News
- Windows 10 users will soon be able to play a wide variety of ID@Xbox games.
- Sony announced that they’ve sold more 20.2 million PS4 consoles.
- The Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows add-on will be available this Spring.
- Xbox 360 owners can now claim Xbox One Games With Gold titles directly from their consoles.
- The PS4 version of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster will launch on May 12.
New Videos
- Amplitude – “First Gameplay Trailer”
- Batman: Arkham Knight – “Gotham Is Mine”
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: ScreamRide
- Nintendo Download: Mario vs Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars, OlliOlli, more
- PlayStation Store: Helldivers, Resident Evil Revelations 2: Episode 2, Zombie Army Trilogy, more
- Xbox Games Store (Wednesday): SceamRide, Resident Evil Revelations 2: Episode 2, Shiftlings
- Xbox Games Store (Friday): White Night, Zombie Army Trilogy, OlliOlli
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: DMC: Devil May Cry – Definitive Edition, Code Name: STEAM, Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea, more
