Warp Zoned Presents
Video Game Canon- Jordan Minor’s “Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Galaxy” is Now Available for Pre-Order
- Angry Birds, Dragon Quest, FIFA Soccer, and Silent Hill are the World Video Game Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
- 2025 GOTY Scoreboard: In Progress
- BAFTA Games Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- Clair Obscur Completes the Sweep by Winning “Best Game” at 2025-2026 BAFTA Games Awards
Warp Zoned Presents
- Video Game Research Library
- With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well – PC Gamer (2026)
- Vib-Ribbon: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- How a Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game – The New York Times (2026)
- Spore: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- Diablo IV PC Cooled With Real Human Blood Is Still Going Strong Two Years Later, Says Guy Who Won It – Aftermath (2026)
Author: John Scalzo
Darksiders II continues the apocalypse on August 14
THQ has used their quarterly financial report to give Darksiders II an August 14 release ate. Originally set for a June 26 release, the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 game was pushed back two months to allow for more polishing.
“We look forward to launching Darksiders [II] beginning on August 14 in North America,” CEO Brian Farrell told investors. Let’s hope he’s equally looking forward to the release of the Wii U version, which will be a launch title for Nintendo’s next system.
[Source: Joystiq]
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Darksiders II
Naughty Dog releases “The Truck Ambush,” a new trailer for The Last of Us
Naughty Dog has released a new trailer for The Last of Us. Titled “The Truck Ambush,” it features Joel and Ellie escaping from a band of outsiders after a truck ambush. Hmm.
As this trailer, The Last of Us continues to look amazing and will no doubt be a big hit on the PS3 when its released. Whenever that is.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged The Last of Us
Screw you guys… the South Park RPG is coming home in early 2013
THQ has announced that the Obsidian-developed South Park RPG (which may, or may not, be titled South Park: The Stick of Truth) has been delayed.
The PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 game, which was previously scheduled for a Fall launch, will now be released in early 2013. No reason was given for the delay, but it likely has something to do with THQ’s continuing money woes.
THQ plans to release the South Park RPG in a very crowded quarter for the company. Metro: Last Light and Company of Heroes 2 are both already scheduled for an early 2013 launch.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged South Park: The Stick of Truth
PSN Today: Sonic 4 Episode II, PixelJunk 4AM, a lot more
Sony has pushed out another massive week of updates for the PlayStation Store. So if you’re in the market for a new downloadable game, be sure to read on.
- There’s Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, Sega’s continuation of the blue hedgehog’s 2D rebirth.
- There’s PixelJunk 4AM, Q-Games’ music mixing game.
- There’s GoldenEye 007: Reloaded for all the “Bond, James Bond” fans out there.
- There’s Prototype 2, Activision’s new open-world game.
- There’s a pair of classics in Myst (PSone) and Red Faction II (PS2).
There’s also a few more titles after the break (along with more details on all of these games). And if you’re looking for a list of the new game add-ons that were added to the PlayStation Store today, check out the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
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Tagged GoldenEye 007: Reloaded, PixelJunk 4AM, PS3, PSP, Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, Vita
Another delay for Silent Hill: Book of Memories… this time to October
Konami’s Silent Hill: Book of Memories has gone through several different release dates this year. The Vita game was initially given a February release date alongside the handheld’s launch. When that date came and went, it was pushed back to March and then delayed a third time into May.
Now, with half the days of May gone by, it’s been delayed again.
Speaking to Game Informer, Konami has confirmed that Silent Hill: Book of Memories will now be released in October. So update your calendars accordingly.
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Tagged Silent Hill: Book of Memories, Vita
Diablo III launches with a growing list of errors
Perhaps Blizzard overreached with Diablo III. In development for over four years (and possibly as far back as 2001), the game is more ambitious than anything the series has seen before.
Naturally, that has lead to a variety of error messages plaguing players on the game’s launch day.
Blizzard currently lists five errors in the game’s official forum, with Error 3006 being the most serious. Joystiq describes it as a game-breaking bug that occurs if a player swaps an equipped item with a Templar. After the error occurs, players are unable to log back in to Battle.net, even if they restart the game.
Blizzard is looking into to these errors and will hopefully have a fix ready soon.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Diablo III
FIFA Soccer 13 will bring the innovation this Fall
EA Sports has officially announced that FIFA Soccer 13 will be available this Fall on the… deep breath… 3DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Vita, Wii, Xbox 360, and iPod Touch/iPhone/iPad.
The latest addition to EA’s footie franchise promises to take a few revolutionary steps forward with an improved Career Mode, improved online play, and more than 500 officially licensed teams (clubs in soccer-speak).
The publisher has also revealed that big changes are coming to the on-field action, which you can read more about after the break. (more…)
Video Game High School is like Glee… but with less singing and more shooting people
Welcome to “Video Game High School,” where instead of math and history and science, you learn important subjects like off-road drifting, the correct way to perform a hadoken, and how best to shoot your classmates in the face.
Needless to say, this new webseries from RocketJump would probably have been the subject of protests a decade ago. But if a bunch of teens can break into song for no reason on television in 2012, a different bunch of teens can jump onto a flagpole from a staircase for equally no reason.
The series features the coming-of-age antics of BrianD as he attempts to woo the girl and fend off his nemesis, a blond-haired Zack Morris wannabe known as “The Law.” Will he get the girl? Will he make the first person shooter team? Will he learn a valuable lesson?
Does Yoshi lay eggs?
“Video Game High School” will run for nine episodes with a new episode debuting every Thursday. You can check out the trailer above or view the full-length series premiere at RocketJump’s website.