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…
While it still remains shrouded in mystery, the Nintendo NX got a big boost this week when the CEO of The Pokemon Company confirmed that a Pokemon game is in development for the Nintendo NX.
Elsewhere on Warp Zoned this week, we dove into No Man’s Sky with a complete review and took a look at Crashlands, another exploration game that was “Seen At PAX West 2016.”
Finally this week, Chris Cobb published Part Four in his look at the history of horror games… It’s In Your Blood: A History of Horror Games.
More news from the past seven days can be found after the break.
New Game Announcements
- From Software has three games in development including the next entry in the Armored Core franchise.
Pre-Launch Updates and Release Date Announcements
- Respawn revealed the system requirements for Titanfall 2.
- 2K Games revealed the Season Pass and other downloadable content they have planned for WWE 2K17.
- Gearbox delivered a handful of details on Duke Nukem 3D‘s new episode.
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi tried to explain Rez Infinite‘s “Area X.”
- Hideo Kojima said that Death Stranding will be released before 2019.
Other Game News
- Doom’s “Free Update 3” added Deathmatch, Private Matches, and Custom Matches to the game.
- The next Assassin’s Creed game will “revolutionize” the franchise
- Rocksteady officially “breaks up” with Batman to begin work on their dream game.
New Videos
- Dark Souls III – “Ashes of Ariandel Gameplay Trailer”
- Dead Rising 4 – “Return to the Mall”
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – “Cooking”
- Metal Gear Survive – “Tokyo Game Show 2016 Trailer”
- Forza Horizon 3 – “Launch Trailer”
- Gears of War 4 – “Launch Trailer”
- Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age – “Tokyo Game Show 2016 Trailer”
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: Destiny: The Collection, Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, more
- Nintendo Download: Severed, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, River City: Tokyo Rumble, more
- PlayStation Store: Destiny: Rise of Iron, Batman: The Telltale Series – Episode 2, Dear Esther, more
- Xbox Games Store (Wednesday): Firewatch, Destiny: Rise of Iron, Batman: The Telltale Series – Episode 2, more
- Xbox Games Store (Friday): Virginia, The Bunker, Eventide: Slavic Fable
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: Forza Horizon 3, FIFA 17, Yo-Kai Watch 2, more