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
BloodRayne: Betrayal Review: Brutal Might Be a Better Subtitle
The plot behind the BloodRayne franchise is one of those ideas that is both stupidly brilliant and brilliantly stupid. I mean, a half-naked half-vampire kills Nazis in a fantastic display of polygonal plasma… what’s not to love? You may hate yourself in the morning, but you have to admit, that is an awesome premise for a game. It was this reaction from gamers (and a trio of less-than-stellar Uwe Boll films) that caused the series to go dormant back in 2004. But you can’t keep an undead half-vampire down and Rayne has returned in the 2D side-scroller BloodRayne: Betrayal. And yes, she draws plenty of pixelated plasma this time. Sadly, there aren’t any Nazis. (more…)
Posted in PS3, Reviews, Top Story, Xbox 360
Tagged BloodRayne: Betrayal
CoD Black Ops Rezurrection Map Pack now available on PC, PS3
This is just a quick reminder that the Call of Duty: Black Ops Rezurrection Map Pack is now available to download from the PlayStation Store and PC download services.
Priced at $14.99 on both platforms, the pack includes reworked versions of the original Zombies maps (“Nacht der Untoten,” “Verruckt,” “Shi No Numa” and “Der Riese”) as well as a brand new map, “Moon.”
Download it today or get yourself pumped for the Double XP Weekend on September 23-25 with the awesome Rezurrection trailer above.
Posted in News, PC, PS3
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops
Nintendo Download: TwinBee 3D, Break Tactics, more
Nintendo has updated their trio of online shops with new games and, once again, the collective response of the world is “Never heard of them.”
But if you want to give this week’s new releases a whirl, the 3DS eShop received a “3D Classics” of TwinBee, a Famicom-only vertical shooter that never made it to America back in the day. But thanks to the handheld’s virtual console, gamers can play as it looked originally or in a new 3D mode.
Also available this week is a pair of puzzle-platformers: Aya and the Cubes of Light is available as WiiWare while Escape Trick: Ninja Castle is now on the DSi Shop.
Finally, Break Tactics, a “full-scale tactics game,” is available to download from the DSi Shop.
More information on all of these titles can be found in the Nintendo Download weekly newsletter.
See more of Rachel in the Extended Cut of the RE Revelations TGS trailer
Rachel, and her barely-there wardrobe that is utterly inappropriate for zombie fighting, were introduced in the most recent Resident Evil Revelations trailer. Capcom Japan unveiled an extended version of that video during the Tokyo Game Show giving gamers a more in-depth look at Rachel’s anatomy secret agent schtick.
The new bits in the trailer veer off into some pretty heavy spoilers including the fact that Rachel gets face-raped to death by a tentacle zombie. Whoa!
If you stop and think about the spoiler, it’s actually pretty brilliant. Basically, Capcom played a massive practical joke on the entire world. They introduced a ridiculous, and frankly stupid, character only to kill her off a week later in the exact same trailer in which she was introduced.
Posted in 3DS, News
Tagged Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil 4 HD, Burnout Crash! added to XBLA
That headline sounds awfully familiar. And it should, as most of the games available in this week’s Xbox Live Marketplace were added to the PlayStation Store yesterday as well.
The big new release this week is Resident Evil 4, which is now available in HD for the first time. The high definition port will be part of the XBLM’s Games on Demand service, even though a matching retail release never materialized. It’ll be joined by downloadable versions of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and MLB 2K11.
This week’s Xbox Live Arcade additions include the top-down racer Burnout Crash! and the arcade platformer Rotastic.
More information on both of these titles can be found at Xbox.com (Burnout Crash!, Rotastic).
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Burnout Crash!, Resident Evil 4
Diablo III beta begins; more invites coming
The fiery gates leading to the Burning Hells have begun to swing open.
With those words, Blizzard has officially opened the Diablo III closed beta. If you’ve been chosen to participate in the beta, your invite should be coming soon. If you weren’t chosen, take heed, for Blizzard will release more beta keys as the test continues. That’s right, take heed. I’m setting the mood here people.
Naturally, feedback from the beta will be used to shape the finalized game. Best of all, the Diablo III beta doesn’t come with a non-disclosure agreement, so testers are free to talk about the beta with anyone they want.
If your beta warrior needs a mystical guide in their quest against the forces of evil, Blizzard doesn’t have a wizened old man on standby, but they have posted a Diablo III Beta FAQ to answer all your questions.
Forsooth, Diablo III is almost ready to be released!
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Diablo III
PC version of Batman: Arkham City delayed until November; new screens released
In a very short note, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced that the PC version of Batman: Arkham City will be released in November instead of on October 18 with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. That’s it. That’s the entirety of what the publisher had to say on the matter.
However, while they didn’t say “we’re sorry,” releasing a batch of new screenshots showcasing a battle with Bane and the Monarch Theatre (where’s Bruce’s parents were killed) is a welcome sight. You can check them out after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Batman: Arkham City
Resident Evil 4 HD, Burnout Crash! added to PlayStation Store
Resident Evil 4 is now available on the PlayStation Store in stunning high definition, so if you never played it on the GameCube, PS2, PC, Wii or iPhone over the years, now’s your chance! To further sweeten the pot for PlayStation Plus subscribers, Sony is discounting the game to $9.99 ($19.99 is the regular price) and they’re offering up Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2 and Nemesis for free.
If you’d prefer to play a newer game, EA and Criterion have added the top-down Burnout Crash! to the PlayStation Store.
Of course, modern is the exact opposite of this week’s PlayStation Store theme. All of the remaining “new” releases are actually downloadable versions of games we know and love including the arcade/Geneis classic Altered Beast, Volition’s Saints Row 2, Disney’s Bolt and Cubixx HD (an upscaled version of a PSP Mini released in 2010).
The PSP Store gets the same old is new treatment as Atlus’s Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 2: Innocent Sin is the sole new release.
You can read all about this week’s new releases and game add-ons by calling up the Internet Archive or visiting the PlayStation.Blog.
Posted in News, PS3, PSP
Tagged Burnout Crash!, Resident Evil 4