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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
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- 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
New Releases: Resistance 3, Dead Island, Star Fox 64 3D, More
The calendar has turned over to September and we know what that means… the stingy Summer of games is over and the Fall release rush is finally here! This week’s new release slate blows away almost everything we’ve received in the last three months. There’s truly something for everybody:
- Sony finishes the fight with the Chimera in Resistance 3 (PS3).
- Zombies invade a tropical paradise in the super-hyped Dead Island (PC, PS3, Xbox 360).
- Star Fox 64 3D, one of the greatest space shooters of all time, comes to the 3DS.
- The Wheelman returns for another getaway in Driver: San Francisco (PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360).
- Those wacky guys at NIS America return to the wacky world of Disgaea in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten (PS3)
- Sega’s non-conventional Kinect title Rise of Nightmares slices and dices store shelves.
- And finally, THQ twists the Warhammer license into an action shooter with Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (PC, PS3, Xbox 360).
Check out the full list of the rest of this week’s new releases after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, DS, News, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360
Tagged Dead Island, Resistance 3, Star Fox 64 3D
Get CoD Modern Warfare 3-branded stuff this fall including an Xbox 360, Jeep, Mountain Dew
Sure, you’re planning to pick up Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 this November. But do you plan to make your life revolve around the shooter franchise? Well, Activision is hoping that you do.
First up, they’ve got a special Modern Warfare 3-themed Xbox 360 system. The system will be priced at $399.99 and include a 320GB hard drive, two controllers, a Bluetooth headset, special startup and shutdown sounds and a copy of the game. The controller and the headset will both be available separately as well.
So you’ve got the game and you’ve got the system, but how do you plan to get to the store? Jeep is hoping you drive there in a 2012 Call of Duty Special Edition Wrangler. The custom four-wheeler was designed with input from Modern Warfare 3 developers. The development team also helped out with the creation of the new Mountain Dew Game Fuel Tropical flavor. Finally, every package of Doritos you purchase in October will include an offer for Double XP in Modern Warfare 3.
All of these products will be available after the game’s November 8th launch. But I gotta wonder, where’s the Call of Duty-branded guns?
Posted in Etcetera, News, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Four minutes of multiplayer in latest CoD Modern Warfare 3 trailer
No reason to beat around the bush. Here’s the latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gameplay trailer. It features almost four full minutes of multiplayer action. Check it out.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be released for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on November 8. DS and Wii versions are also in the works.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty “action-adventure” game officially canceled
We’ve been expecting the hammer to fall since the beginning of the year, but the team at Sledgehammer Games has finally revealed the fate of the Call of Duty “action-adventure” game: it’s been canceled.
Speaking to GameSpot, Sledgehammer co-founders Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield said their team put about six months worth of work into the game before Activision pulled the plug. And, as we all know, after that plug hit the ground, Sledgehammer was invited to help Infinity Ward put the finising touches on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
“We had a prototype together that was pretty compelling, and it looked really good,” Condrey said. “[But], the opportunity to work on the biggest thing in the industry with Infinity Ward, that’s demonstrated that they know how to do exceptional software, was just an opportunity we couldn’t [pass up].”
Activision has never been one to pass up a big payday, so presumably they’ll revisit the Call of Duty spinoff idea someday.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
First Aliens: Colonial Marines trailer nukes us from orbit
Acid Blood? Check.
Power Loaders? Check.
Moonmen All Over the Place? Check.
Something Getting Nuked From Orbit? Check!
Yup, it’s an Aliens game all right. It may be hard to believe, but this is the first full-length trailer for Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines. The long-in-development shooter is finally nearing completion (it’s currently scheduled for a Spring 2012 release) and it’s looking as sharp as a knife flying between Bishop’s fingers.
All we need now is for someone to scream “Game over, man! Game over!”
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Aliens: Colonial Marines
Dark Souls “Prologue” videos continue to creep us out
Namco Bandai has released the second part of the prologue to Dark Souls and it’s just as creepifying as part one. I mean, it’s a skeleton, but it’s not a skeleton! This dark tale will be continued with a third part soon.
Dark Souls will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 4.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Dark Souls
Dungeon Siege III expansion coming this October
Prepare yourself to break free of the borders of Ehb this October when Square Enix and Obsidian release the first expansion for Dungeon Siege III, Treasures of the Sun. The downloadable pack will whisk players to the Aranoi Desert, where they will meet “hordes of new villains only to find a forgotten abbey hiding a long-lost secret: the greatest treasure of the Azunite faith.”
The expansion will also add a variety of tweaks and enhancements including:
- New abilities: Players will be able to attain mastery of the arcane through powerful new attack, defense and healing abilities.
- Level up to 35: Dungeon Siege III: Treasures of the Sun will further power up players by raising the game’s existing level cap from 30 to 35.
- More monsters and items: Players will encounter new monsters in the Aranoi Desert—including mummies and giant skeletons—and will find more powerful items, adding to the thousands already available in Dungeon Siege III.
- Reallocate Talent & Proficiency Points: Players can reallocate points spent in Proficiencies and Talents, enabling changes to character customization throughout the campaign.
- New Enchanting System: Transmuting items now gives players chances at gaining powerful new Vials that allow them to enhance their weapons and armor through the DLC’s new enchanting system.
Dungeon Siege III: Treasures of the Sun will be priced at $9.99 and be available to download from Steam (PC), Xbox Live (Xbox 360) and the PlayStation Network (PS3) this October.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Dungeon Siege III
Nintendo Download: Pac-Man, NES Ambassador Titles
The big addition on Nintendo’s download services today is the 3DS Ambassador NES titles. But that didn’t stop The Big N from adding a few other games as well:
- The 3DS eShop will receive a Virtual Console version of Pac-Man.
- The Wii Shop Channel will receive a World War I-set tower defense game known as Trenches: Generals.
- And the DSiWare Shop will receive House M.D.: Blue Meanie, an adventure game starring everyone’s favorite cantankerous doctor; and Go Series: Fishing Resort, a fishing sim.
More information on all of these games can be found in the weekly Nintendo Download newsletter.