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…
Our PAX East 2014 coverage continues with an analysis of Bethesda’s demo presentation of The Evil Within. We’ve also filed our first “Seen At PAX East 2014” entry with a quick look at the excellent twin-stick shooter We Are Doomed.
The Warp Zoned staff even got together to discuss PAX East 2014 in Continue Countdown #2. Our chat began with The Evil Within and quickly drifted into a discussion about Beyond Good & Evil 2, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Disney Infinity 2.0, The Last of Us Remastered, Super Mario Bros. 20, Super Smash Bros. 4, and The Behemoth’s Game 4. Finally this week, Mike Ryan dusted off Ubisoft’s next-gen upgrade of Rayman Legends and gave it a review.
That’s it for the big stores, but more news from the week that was can be found after the break.
New Game Announcements
- Activision has officially announced Skylanders: Trap Team, the fourth Skylanders game.
- Nintendo and Tecmo Koei have teamed up to develop Fatal Frame 5… but they’re only going to release it in Japan.
More News
- Avalanche’s game adaptation of Mad Max will now be released in 2015.
- Naughty Dog has announced that the final expansion for The Last of Us, the Grounded Bundle, will launch on May 6.
- Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 now supports the PS4 and Xbox One.
- Slightly Mad Studios will release Project CARS in November.
- Bandai Namco plans to release Tales of Xillia 2 in the US in August.
- Do you remember hearing that Sledgehammer revealed the first image from Call of Duty 2014 at GDC 2014? Now the public can see it.
- EA will release Dragon Age: Inquisition on October 7.
- Hyper Light Drifter‘s launch date will “probably” be delayed into 2015.
Rumor Has It
- Microsoft and Sony have trademarked a variety of titles for possible future game projects.
- Capcom will likely reveal Resident Evil 7 during this year’s E3 Expo.
- Ubisoft is likely developing a side-scrolling Prince of Persia.
New Videos
- Evolve – “Interactive Trailer”
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: Dark Souls II for PC, Lego The Hobbit for Wii U, Trials Fusion for PC, and more
- Nintendo Download: NES Remix 2, Child of Light, Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3, and more
- PlayStation Store: The Walking Dead Season 2 on Vita, Octodad: Dadliest Catch, Soul Calibur: Lost Swords, and more
- XBL Store (Wednesday): Warface, Defense Technica
- XBL Store (Friday): Dustforce
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Mario Golf: World Tour, and more
Gaming Etc.
- Lucasfilm has wiped out the existing Star Wars Expanded Universe and will start over with a new set of books and games leading up to Episode VII.
- Ubisoft and New Regency will try to turn Watch Dogs into a movie.
- And finally, Microsoft’s “looking for Atari cartridges in a landfill” movie has hit paydirt. They find E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial! That’s cool and all, but didn’t we know this already?
