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
Xbox Store Today: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier Episode 3, Has-Been Heroes, RBI Baseball 2017, more
The dead walk once again as part of today’s Xbox Games Store update. Above the Law, the third episode in Telltale’s The Walking Dead: A New Fronter is now available to download for the Xbox One. Players will take control of Javier and attept to find a role for the character in his newly reunited family.
Also available to download today is Has-Been Heroes, the latest release from GameStop’s GameTrust label. The strategy game will give Xbox One owners the chance to flex their tactical muscles as they help a group of hapless protect two princesses on their way to the Academy.
Finally this week, baseball fans can step up to the plate with RBI Baseball 2017, the latest retro-styled simulation from MLB Advanced Media. Featuring all 30 MLB teams, and over 1,000 players, RBI Baseball 2017 is the only MLB-licensed game on the Xbox One.
You can learn more about all of these games after the break. (more…)
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Tagged RBI Baseball 2017, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition will be available on April 11
Beamdog and Chris Avellone have teamed up to bring Planescape: Torment into the modern age. The seminal RPG will be reborn on the PC (Windows, Mac, and Linux) and mobile devices (iOS and Android) as Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition on April 11. In addition to a gorgeous graphical makeover, the Enhanced Edition will include a number of futuristic new features:
Enhanced Edition Features
- Enhanced Planescape: Chris Avellone, Lead Designer on Planescape Torment, has partnered with Beamdog to curate gameplay updates, bug fixes, and enhancements to best capture his original vision for the game.
- Remastered Music: The full Planescape: Torment soundtrack has been remastered in-game to add more depth to Sigil and the multiverse.
- 4K Interface: Sigil has never looked this good! The interface of Planescape: Torment has been rebuilt in high definition with tons of new convenience features.
- A Planescape For Today: The Enhanced Edition includes modern features such as tab highlighting, area zooming, combat log, quickloot, and more!
You can learn more about Planescape: Torment’s Enhanced Edition by sneaking a peek at the FAQ on the game’s official website. And don’t forget to check out the Announcement Trailer for Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition, which has been embedded above.
Posted in Mobile, News, PC
Tagged Planescape: Torment
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier Episode 3, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 + 2.5, MLB The Show 17, more added to PS Store
It’s another big update for the PlayStation Store this week, so let’s get right to it…
Kingdom Hearts III is still no closer to release, but Square Enix wants to prepare PS4 players with the downloadable release of Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix. The compilation includes four full Kingdom Hearts games (Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Herts: ReChain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts II, and Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep), and it offers the most complete look back at the franchise’s beginnings.
Telltale continues the story in The Walking Dead: A New Fronter this week with Episode 3: Above the Law. Now available to download for the PS4, players will need to help Javier find a role in his newly reunited family in the middle episode of this season.
Sports fans will have several new choices to choose from this week on the PlayStation Store, including dueling baseball games (MLB The Show 17 and RBI Baseball 2017), an old school hockey game (Old Time Hockey), and a boxing management simulation (Punch Club).
Elsewhere on the PlayStation Store, the “Play Collective” promotion rolls on with the PS4 release of Videocult’s side-scrolling survival game, Rain World.
Finally this week, Ska Studios will bring Salt and Sanctuary, their side-scrolling action RPG, to the Vita.
You can learn more about this week’s additions to the PlayStation Store after the break. (more…)
Graceful Explosion Machine will be released for the Switch on April 6
Vertex Pop has announced (via Twitter) that they will bring Graceful Explosion Machine, their upcoming side-scrolling shooter, to the Nintendo Switch on April 6.
Graceful Explosion Machine will be priced at $12.99/€12.99, and it’s also expected to be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One later this Spring. And in case you missed it, Vertex Pop also released a very colorful trailer for the game last month.
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Tagged Graceful Explosion Machine
Try not to die of dysentery in The Caribbean Sail… now available for PC
For gamers of a certain age, The Oregon Trail isn’t just a game, it’s an experience that has never really been duplicated. But developer Victorian Clambake is going to try with The Caribbean Sail, a game where players try not to die of dysentery as they set sail for Nassau:
Name your crew… Choose your profession… Purchase a ship… Buy supplies… Set sail for Nassau… Spear fish for food… Get dysentery. Survive the voyage and set an online highscore or die horribly. Then do it all again
Featuring retro-styled graphics, and that “edutainment” feel you can only get from The Oregon Trail, The Caribbean Sail is now available to purchase (for $2.99) from the developer’s official website.
Victorian Clambake is also trying to get the game on Steam, and they’re seeking your votes through Steam Greenlight now.
Enter the Gungeon will be available for the Xbox One on April 5
Dodge Roll has announced (via the Xbox Wire) that Enter the Gungeon will be available for the Xbox One on April 5. Players who purchase the game will also receive access to Enter the Gungeon on Windows 10 (with Cross-Save) as an Xbox Play Anywhere title.
Enter the Gungeon is a twin-stick shooter, and players will need to delve deeper and deeper into the procedurally-generated environments of the Gungeon in search of “The Gun That Can Kill the Past.” The developer also mixed in some light dungeon-crawling elements, and found further inspiration from “Ikaruga, the Souls-Borne games, Metal Gear Solid, The Binding of Isaac, and Dungeons & Dragons“:
Enter the Gungeon mixes bullet hell mechanics with the rogue-lite dungeon crawler genre. Every session sees the player fighting through an ever-changing fortress of doom, on a quest to reach the Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: The Gun That Can Kill the Past. Along the way, you’ll wield more than 400 guns and items, dodge bullets, flip tables, meet weird NPCs, and duel massive bosses.
A new gameplay trailer for Enter the Gungeon has been embedded above.
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Tagged Enter the Gungeon
Bungie and Nathan Fillion tease Destiny 2’s “Worldwide Reveal Trailer” with “Last Call” teaser
An official Destiny 2 announcement is coming soon, and to help build the hype, Bungie released a brand new teaser trailer today starring everyone’s favorite Vanguard, Cayde-6 (Firefly‘s Nathan Fillion). The cyborg is seen lamenting the destruction of his favorite bar… which is then interrupted by several huge explosions.
Destiny 2’s “Worldwide Reveal Trailer” will be available on Thursday, March 30, at 1:00 PM (Eastern Time). Earlier this week, Bungie also unveiled the game’s official logo.
First episode from Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy series will debut on April 18
Telltale Games has announced the first episode from their upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy series will be released on April 18. Titled “Tangled Up In Blue,” it’ll be available as part of a Season Pass ($19.99), or as a standalone download ($4.99).
As expected, Guardians of the Galaxy will be available to download for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One, as well as mobile devices running iOS or Android. A “Season Pass Disc” that contains the first episode, along with downloadable access to all subsequent episodes, will also be released for the PS4 and Xbox One on May 2.
Telltale will release the first trailer for “Tangled Up In Blue” this Thursday, March 30, at noon (Eastern Time). But for now, we’ve got new artwork from the game featuring Thanos doing battle with Star-Lord, Groot, Rocket, Drax, Gamora. (more…)