Warp Zoned Presents
Video Game Canon- Clair Obscur Completes the Sweep by Winning “Best Game” at 2025-2026 BAFTA Games Awards
- Boss Fight Books Gets 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
- Silent Hill, Dragon Quest, Skyrim, and More Announced as Finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
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
Jackbox Party Pack 4, Life Is Strange: Before the Storm – Episode 2, ELEX, more added to Xbox Store
Welcome to another Friday update for the Xbox Games Store.
Today, Jackbox Games brought their latest party game compilation, The Jackbox Party Pack 4, to the Xbox One. Also available to download on Microsoft’s most recent console is Life Is Strange: Before the Storm – Episode 2: Brave New World, the second chapter in the prequel series, and ELEX, a “science fantasy” RPG from THQ Nordic.
You can learn more about all of today’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Jackbox Party Pack 4, Life Is Strange: Before the Storm
Super Meat Boy coming to Switch this year… Resident Evil Revelations will get exclusive minigames on the Switch
More re-releases are coming to the Nintendo Switch this Fall, and that means updates for Super Meat Boy and both Resident Evil Revelations games.
You can learn more about Super Meat Boy’s Switch debut and new minigames for both Resident Evil Revelations games after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Switch
Tagged Resident Evil Revelations, Resident Evil Revelations 2, Super Meat Boy
Nintendo has sold 2 million Switch consoles in US… Switch update adds game clip recording and save data transfer
Extra! Extra! The Nintendo Switch is a massive hit!
OK, that’s not exactly news. But Nintendo did announce sales figures for their latest console today, as well as unveiled a brand new system update.
You can read all about both stories after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Retro, Switch
Tagged Arms, Mario Kart 8, Splatoon 2, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Fire Emblem Warriors, The Mummy Demastered, Jackbox Party Pack 4, more added to Nintendo eShop
Get the party started with today’s Nintendo eShop update.
Switch owners will be able to compete with friends and family in five-and-a-half new party games from Jackbox Games in The Jackbox Party Pack 4. And starting tomorrow, players will be able to recruit characters from across the Fire Emblem universe on both the Switch and New 3DS to do battle in Fire Emblem Warriors.
Beginning next week, Switch owners will be able to get nostalgic with WayForward’s MetroidVania-inspired The Mummy Demastered and they can keep the party going with Just Dance 2018
You can learn more about all of this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop after the break. (more…)
Posted in News
Tagged 3DS, Fire Emblem Warriors, Jackbox Party Pack 4, Just Dance 2018, Switch, The Mummy Demastered, Wii U
WWE 2K18, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Rogue Trooper Redux, Dungeons 3 added to Xbox Store
A quartet of new games is now available to download through the Xbox Games Store for the Xbox One.
2K Games slams the competition with the launch of WWE 2K18, and it’ll be joined by Ubisoft’s South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Rebellion’s Rogue Trooper Redux, and Kalypso Media’s Dungeons 3.
You can learn more about all of today’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged South Park: The Fractured But Whole, WWE 2K18
Gran Turismo Sport, WWE 2K18, Jackbox Party Pack 4, more added to PS Store
Get ready to go on a wild ride with friends of all stripes in this week’s PlayStation Store update.
To start things off, Sony will launch the first online-focused entry in the Gran Turismo franchise, Gran Turismo Sport. 2K Games will offer up their own knockdown-dragout clash for the PS4 this week with the release of WWE 2K18. However, for the true cutthroat competitor, there’s The Jackbox Party Pack 4, the latest party game compilation from Jackbox Games.
Two very different sets of friends round out the rest of the PlayStation Store update. The South Park gang will tackle superhero franchises in South Park: The Fractured But Whole, and Deck Nine will continue the story of Life Is Strange: Before the Storm in Episode 2: Brave New World.
You can learn more about this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store (including a handful of Vita games) after the break. (more…)
Square Enix will re-release Star Ocean: The Last Hope in November for PC and PS4… 8-Bit Adventure Anthology brings back Shadowgate, The Uninvited, and Deja Vu on October 31
Some forgotten favorites are coming back this Fall courtesy of Square Enix and Abstraction Games. Square Enix will remaster Star Ocean: The Last Hope for the PC and PS4, while Abstraction Games is resurrecting Shadowgate, The Uninvited, and Deja Vu in a new compilation.
You can learn more about both re-releases after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Star Ocean: The Last Hope
EA closes Visceral Games and indefinitely delays their Star Wars game… Sony announces two Star Wars: Battlefront II PS4 bundles
It was a bad day for game developers today as EA announced the closure of Visceral Games (and an indefinite delay for their Star Wars game). But the publishing powerhouse also teamed up with Sony to produce two Star Wars: Battlefront II bundles for the PS4.
You can read more about both stories after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Star Wars: Battlefront II, Star Wars: Visceral