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
Telltale will release Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 Episode 3 on September 19… Thimbleweed Park will come to Switch on September 21
Bizarro worlds are the order of business in this midday update, as Telltale Games has announced that Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2 – Episode 3: Jailhouse Block will be available on September 19 and Terrible Toybox has confirmed that Thimbleweed Park will come to the Switch on September 21.
Read all about both games after the break. (more…)
Posted in Mobile, News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2, Thimbleweed Park
Sonic Forces will be released on November 7… Snipperclips Plus expansion will launch on November 10
Whether you’re running full speed ahead, or methodically solving a puzzle with two sentient pieces of paper, last night’s Nintendo Direct presentation had something for you.
Sega confirmed that Sonic Forces will be released on November 7, and Nintendo unveiled a Snipperclips expansion that’ll launch three days later.
Learn more about both after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One
Tagged Snipperclips: Cut It Out Together, Sonic Forces
Bethesda will bring Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus to Switch… Skyrim gets a November 17 release date on Switch
Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct presentation was possibly our best window yet into where the Nintendo Switch is going throughout the rest of the year and into 2018. But the biggest surprise was, without a doubt, Bethesda’s confirmation that both Doom and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus would soon be available for Nintendo’s newest console. We also learned when The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will make its Switch debut.
Learn more about this unexpected collaboration after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Switch
Tagged Doom (2016), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Don’t Starve Together, NASCAR Heat 2, Pro Evolution Soccer 2018, more added to Xbox Store
Microsoft’s midweek update for the Xbox Games Store is ready, and Xbox One owners will have several new options to choose from.
The Xbox One debut of Klei’s Don’t Starve Together is one of today’s highlights. As is the launch of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2018, 47 Games’s NASCAR Heat 2, and EA Sports’s NHL 18: Young Stars Edition.
You can learn more about today’s additions to the Xbox Games Store after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged NASCAR Heat 2, NHL 18, Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Tooth and Tail, more added to PS Store
Welcome to Wednesday… and it’s time for another update to the PlayStation Store.
This week, PS4 owners will be able to download Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, the latest RPG in the long-running series, as well as Bethesda’s Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (a spinoff starring Rosario Dawson), Pocketwatch’s Tooth and Tail (an animal kingdom RTS), and a quartet of sports games (NASCAR Heat 2, NBA Live 18, NHL 18, and Pro Evolution Soccer 2018). Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 is also available for the PS3, and Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana can also be found on the Vita.
You can learn more about this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
Posted in PS3, PS4, Vita
Tagged Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Tooth and Tail, Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
Okami HD announced for PC, PS4, Xbox One… Frictional Games will bring Soma to Xbox One
A pair of games are on the move this afternoon. Capcom has announced that Okami HD will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One this year, and Frictional has said that Soma is in development for the Xbox One.
You can learn more about both games after the break. (more…)
Apple removes Home Button in new iPhone X and also announces iPhone 8
Apple held their annual iPhone unveiling today and it looks like the company’s war on buttons will continue. The iPhone X will remove the Home Button and replace it with a fully glass screen. Meanwhile, the iPhone 8 will offer an incremental upgrade over the currently-available iPhone 7, and it’ll retain the Home Button.
More details on both phone models can be found after the break. (more…)
Call of Duty 2018 might return to modern warfare… Bethesda’s Pete Hines said they’ve got another unannounced game coming in 2017
Unannounced games are always full of promise… because we don’t really know anything about them. While they’re not ready to announce them just yet, Activision dropped a few hints about Call of Duty 2018 and Bethesda has one more unannounced game on track for a 2017 release.
Learn all the secrets after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Doom (2016), PAX West 2017