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…
Nintendo held their first Nintendo Direct presentation of the year yesterday and revealed a few nifty tidbits about their 2014 plans. First up, they confirmed that Mario Kart 8 will launch on May 30 and include all seven Koopalings as playable characters. In other roster addition news, the publisher added Little Mac to Super Smash Bros. 4 on the Wii U and 3DS.
In downloadable game news, Nintendo announced that Game Boy Advance games will be available on the Wii U’s Virtual Console beginning in April. They also revealed that Steel Diver: Sub Wars and Inazuma Eleven are both now available on the 3DS eShop and that Weapon Shop De Omasse, the final “Guild01” game, will be released next week.
Finally, Platinum Games has released a new trailer for Bayonetta 2.
In other Wii U news, we talked to Maximillian Kovtun of Space Enigma Studios about his company’s game, Space Pioneer. If you’re a space buff, it’s worth a read.
More news from the past week can be found after the break.
The Week in Reviews…
- Broken Age: A Point-And-Click Game For A New Era
- Beyond: Two Souls: Baby, I’m A Lost Cause
- Pokemon X/Y: Or, Why You Should Buy a 3DS
The Week in New Games…
- This Week’s Releases: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, 2K/Bethesda Compilations, and more.
- This Week’s PlayStation Network Update: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Far Cry Classic, and more.
- This Week’s XBL Store Update: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Far Cry Classic, World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition
- This Week’s Nintendo Download: Super C, AeternoBlade, Spot the Differences!
- Next Week’s Releases: Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Earth Defense Force 2025, NASCAR 14, and more.
Amazing Paperboy Delivers…
- The TitanFall beta is now open to all on the Xbox One.
- MLB 14: The Show will be available on the PS3 and Vita on April 1 with PS4 version coming home in May.
- The Evil Within will come out on August 26.
- Call of Duty: Ghosts was the best-selling game of January… just like it was in November and December.
- The nominees for the 2014 BAFTA Awards have been announced and The Last of Us and Grand Theft Auto V lead the way.
- Rovio will uncage a new bunch of Angry Birds in Angry Birds Stella this Fall.
- Worms: Battlegrounds is coming to PS4 and Xbox One this year.
- Ubisoft’s Child of Light will be released on April 30.
- 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil goes for the goal on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in April.
- Turtle Rock has released the first trailer for Evolve.
- The God of War Collection and The Sly Collection are coming to the Vita in May.
- The Vita version of Borderlands 2, the Vita Slim, and a Borderlands 2 Vita Slim bundle will launch this Spring.
- The Wii U version of Watch Dogs has been delayed, but it’ll be released for all other platforms in the Spring.
- Sonic the Hedgehog is coming back to the Wii U and 3DS in Sonic Boom, the first American-developed game in the long-running series.
It’s A Secret To Everybody…
- Randy Pitchford has announced that Borderlands 3 isn’t in development. Sure it isn’t, Randy.
- Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is likely coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360 this year.
- Square Enix has trademarked “Luminaries of the Legendary Line” in the US. Wonder what it means…
- Disney has begun work on Disney Infinity 2 after the first game sold incredibly well.
- Activision confirms that Skylanders 4 is in development for a 2014 release.
And Finally…
Keiji Inafune and his team at Comcept are working on a live-action adaptation of Mighty No. 9. So let me get this straight, the man is making the Mega Man game and the Mega Man movie that Capcom won’t. That’s just amazing.
