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…
Ladies and gentlemen, true competitors make the world a more interesting place. And this week saw one of the greatest performances that I have ever witnessed. The World Cup is fun and all (USA! USA! USA!), but someone set an absolutely astonishing new world record for Super Mario Bros. this week. Someone known only as “Blubbler” managed to beat the game in 4 minutes and 57 seconds. Watch the video and be amazed. And if you catch yourself thinking, “I could do that,” stop yourself. Because no, no you can’t.
Also this week, the Warp Zoned staff published new reviews of two of this Spring’s most interesting games. Dan Hobbs weighs in on Watch Dogs while Mike Ryan goes bang, zoom, straight to the Moon Chronicles Episode 1: One Small Step.
More news from the week that was can be found after the break.
New Game Announcements
- Platinum Games and Activision have joined forces to develop a video game based on The Legend of Korra.
- 2K Games will release Civilization Revolution 2 for iOS devices next week.
More News
- Sony will make InFamous: First Light available for download on August 26.
- Evolve was nominated for a ton of awards from this year’s Best of E3 2014 Game Critics Awards.
- Insomniac wants everyone to know that Sunset Overdrive will include playable female characters.
- Deep Silver will release Metro Redux on August 26.
- The Mercedes GLA DLC will make its way to Mario Kart 8 in the US as well.
- We don’t yet know if Richard Sherman will fall victim to the Madden Curse, but let’s hope a silly Madden NFL 15 cover shot is the worst thing to happen to him this year.
Rumor Has It
- Square Enix has filed a US trademark for Final Fantasy Explorers.
- Crytek is reportedly having financial troubles and may have canceled multiple games over the last few months.
New Videos
- Tetropolis – “Alpha Trailer”
- The Order: 1886 – “Lycans”
- Hyrule Warriors – “Impa” and “Zelda”
- Shovel Knight – “Launch Trailer”
New Release Round-Up
- Retail Releases: Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, Grid: Autosport, Xblaze: Code Embryo, and more
- Nintendo Download: Shovel Knight, Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, and more
- PlayStation Store: Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Grid: Autosport, and more
- XBL Store (Wednesday): Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Grid: Autosport, and more
- Next Week’s Retail Releases: Sniper Elite III