Warp Zoned Presents
Video Game Canon- 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
- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Wins “Game of the Year” at 2025-2026 GDC Awards
Warp Zoned Presents
- Video Game Research Library
- We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) – Yarn Spinner (2026)
- The History Of The Word “Metroidvania” And How It Spread – A Critical Hit (2025)
- Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment – Bloomberg (2025)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Author: John Scalzo
Spike TV VGAs: Alan Wake does his best Stephen King in American Nightmare
While the first game featured multiple allusions and callbacks to the horror master’s oeuvre, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare cranks up the Stephen King quotient with an evil doppleganger named Mr. Scratch and the same Americana theme that King loves to explore.
While not technically “Alan Wake 2,” the game will continue on from the first game’s ending as a standalone Xbox Live Arcade release. Alan Wake’s American Nightmare doesn’t have an official release date yet, but it’ll be available sometime in 2012.
You can view the full trailer after the break. (more…)
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Spike TV VGAs: Transformers Fall of Cybertron trailer will make you cry
Activision has stolen a page from the Gears of War franchise with the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron trailer that debuted at last night’s Spike TV Video Game Awards. Combining a melancholic song with heartbreaking images of Cybertronian war, you’ll cry like a baby at the death of a bunch of robots all over again.
That’s right, again. If you’re between the ages of 30 and 35, you certainly sobbed over Optimus Prime’s death in Transformers: The Movie. It’s OK. You can admit it. We all cried. But we also cheered when Grimlock kicked ass and this trailer gives us a dose of that too.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will roll out on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in Fall 2012.
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Tagged Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Spike TV VGAs: Diablo III opening cinematic is on fire
I had a wonderful girlfriend Linda. Together we drove to a small cabin in the mountains. It seems an archeologist had come to this remote place to translate and study his latest find: Necronomiconexmortis. The Book of the Dead. Bound in human flesh and inked in blood, this ancient Samarian text contained bizarre burial rights, funeral incantations, and demon resurrection passages, it was never meant for the world of the living. The book awoke something dark in the woods, something evil.
Sorry, that’s a different book of unspeakable horrors written in human blood. But the sentiment is the same and Diablo III‘s opening cinematic, revealed last night at the Spike TV Video Game Awards, will definitely stir up your demon-killing bloodlust. The battle against the legions of Hell begins sometime in early 2012. I can’t wait, can you?
Hit the jump to view the trailer. (more…)
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Tagged Diablo III
Spike TV VGAs: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater returns in HD
If you’re Activision, what do you do after thoroughly running a beloved franchise into the ground? You remake the original of course? Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD is being developed by Robomodo (the team also did Tony Hawk: Ride and Tony Hawk: Shred) and that’s really all we know at this point.
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Spike TV VGAs: The Amazing Spider-Man battles Spider Slayers in an open world NYC
The movie tie-in game may be slowly dying, but don’t blame it on The Amazing Spider-Man. Your friendly, neighborhood wallcrawler will star in a rebooted movie franchise next July and Activision’s tie-in game will open after the events of the Andrew Garfield/Emma Stone-starring film. It seems that Norman Osborn and the mad scientists at Oscorp have unleashed the Spider Slayers on Manhattan to stop “biological attacks” (read: mutated heroes like Spider-Man and villains like The Lizard). The Slayers promptly go bonkers and Peter Parker has to pick a fight and punch out some robots.
The Amazing Spider-Man will be available in Summer 2012 for the 3DS, DS, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Hit the jump to view the full trailer. (more…)
Spike TV VGAs: Epic does cute zombies with Fortnite
Are you sensing a theme? The dead continued to walk during this year’s Spike TV Video Game Awards as Epic Games debuted their latest project, Fortnite. Like Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, it too features a story about surviving the zombie menace.
But instead of the ultra-realism that Naughty Dog is going for, Epic chose to use a more stylized look. And instead of a horrific fight for survival, Fortnite encourages players to fortify their strongholds during the day in anticipation of the horde’s appearance at night. It’s like a video game version of Robert Neville’s ordeal in the early chapters of I Am Legend.
No release date or platforms were announced for Fortnite, but I’m guessing it’s more than 14 days away.
Spike TV VGAs: Naughty Dog does zombies with The Last of Us
After conquering the video game world with the Uncharted series, Naughty Dog is ready for their next challenge, and it of course involves zombies. Possibly. The one good glimpse we got at the infected in the Spike TV Video Game Awards trailer for The Last of Us wasn’t conclusive either way. Though they were definitely cannibals.
The Last of Us is genre-defining experience blending survival and action elements to tell a character driven story about a population decimated by a modern plague. Cities are abandoned and being reclaimed by nature. Remaining survivors are killing each other for food, weapons and whatever they can find. Joel, a ruthless survivor, and Ellie, a young teenage girl who’s braver and wiser beyond her years, must work together to survive their journey across what remains of the United States.
Zombies or not, The Last of Us is one PS3 exclusive that looks like a game you can play until the world ends.
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Tagged The Last of Us
WB Montreal working on multiple unannounced DC Comics games
I think it’s safe to say that Batman: Arkham Asylum changed the way people view the superhero game. In fact, WB Games Montreal studio head Martin Carrier said that exact thing in a recent interview with Canadian Business: “Batman: Arkham Asylum [has] really changed peoples’ perceptions of the superhero game.”
During the lengthy interview, Carrier revealed that his studio is hard at work on multiple games based on characters from the DC Comics universe:
None of your titles have been announced, but you’re working on DC Comics games, right?
Carrier: We’re definitely working closely with DC on different titles, yet to be announced. It’s one of the reasons we talk to Geoff Johns and Jim Lee [the publisher’s head honchos] on a regular basis.
Carrier also confirmed that, like Batman: Arkham Asylum, none of titles they’re working on will be movie-to-game adaptations. However, with Man of Steel due to hit theaters in 2013, I’d bet a good chunk of Bruce Wayne’s billions that a new Superman game is in the works at WB Games Montreal.
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