Warp Zoned Presents
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- 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: Massive Chalice
Microsoft has announced that Double Fine’s Massive Chalice is now available to download for the Xbox One through the Xbox Games Store. If you’re wondering why Massive Chalice would be released on a Monday, it’s because the game will also be available as a free download all this month through Microsoft’s Games With Gold promotion. If you’re not an Xbox Live Gold subscriber, Massive Chalice can be purchased for $19.99.
A war lasting multiple centuries hangs over Massive Chalice like a shroud. As the “Immortal Ruler of the Nation,” players will arrange marriages to create heirs who will have to fight an enemy known only as “The Cadence.”
More details about this rather insane-sounding tactical strategy RPG can be found after the break. (more…)
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Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure will be available for 3DS next week
The Doctor is in on the 3DS beginning this month.
Nintendo has announced that Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure will be available to download through the 3DS eShop beginning June 11. The game will include your standard style of Dr. Mario play along with a new (optional) Miracle Cure gauge that drops powerups like Bombs and Lasers. The Miracle Cure gauge will also make an appearance in the game’s multiplayer mode, offering a variety of ways to frustrate your opponent.
Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure will also include additional modes that feature the stylus controls of Virus Buster Mode and the L-shaped capsules of Dr. Luigi Mode.
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2K’s “Advent” is actually a PC-exclusive XCOM 2 from Firaxis
2K Games has teamed up with IGN to reveal our first look at XCOM 2, a PC-exclusive sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown in development at Firaxis Games. Scheduled for release this November, XCOM 2 takes the story 20 years beyond the alien invasion of the first game. Oh yeah, and we lost…
Watch the debut trailer above for a glimpse into a future where the aliens are in control of the Earth, and XCOM has gone underground to fight to overthrow their Advent government. This new guerrilla force will face more powerful enemies in unpredictable combat scenarios as they fight to turn the tables on a technologically superior enemy.
XCOM 2 will include “new soldier classes, new aliens, stealth-infused tactics, procedurally generated maps, and more.” IGN has also promised that Creative Director Jake Solomon and Lead Producer Garth DeAngelis will sit down for an interview later this week to discuss why XCOM 2 is skipping consoles.
2K Games and IGN will get together again in two weeks to reveal the first XCOM 2 gameplay trailer during this year’s E3 Expo.
Square Enix will release Bravely Second: End Layer in US in 2016
Nintendo closed out this morning’s “Nintendo Direct Micro” with the announcement that Square Enix will bring Bravely Second: End Layer to the 3DS in 2016.
The game, which was released in Japan back in April, will feature “a brand new story and a new protagonist.” The RPG opens with the kidnapping of Agnes Oblige, and players will take control of a “fearless knight” to save her.
A short snippet of the game has been embedded above and we’ll surely learn more about Bravely Second as the year goes on.
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Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash (and a Chibi-Robo Amiibo) will be released for 3DS in October
Yesterday, Nintendo hosted an extensive Nintendo Direct presentation for Japanese gamers, announcing a variety of new titles. This morning, Nintendo of America released a “Micro” version of that Nintendo Direct with many of the announcements translated into English. And first out of the gate is the announcement of Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash for the 3DS.
Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash is a side-scroller where the plucky little robot uses his cord to whip enemies into submission. But Chibi-Robo is clearly a fan of Indiana Jones, as he can also use the cord to swing from platform to platform or reach distant objects.
A Chibi-Robo Amiibo figure, which will exclusively be sold in a bundle with the game. Tapping the Chibi-Robo Amiibo to your 3DS will unlock Super Chibi-Robo, a stronger and faster version of the main character. According to Nintendo’s Bill Trinen, more Amiibo functionality for Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash will be announced at a later date.
Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash will be available for the 3DS this October.
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“Aim Greater” with this new cinematic trailer for Rise of the Tomb Raider
“For some, discovering the secrets of the world is the only way to live.”
Rise of the Tomb Raider is still a ridiculously awful title, but this cinematic new trailer does an amazing job of showing Lara Croft’s transformation from an inexperienced graduate student to the globe-trotting adventurer we all know her to be.
Microsoft will unveil the first gameplay footage from Rise of the Tomb Raider during a special “World Premiere” presentation as part of their E3 2015 Press Conference, which will take place two weeks from today on June 15. Fans will be able to view the show through Xbox.com, their Xbox system, or through a variety of online video providers.
Rise of the Tomb Raider is in development at Crystal Dynamics and will be released this Fall for the Xbox One and Xbox 360.
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Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games announced by Nintendo
UPDATE: We’ve added the English-language trailer from the June 1 “Nintendo Direct Micro” presentation after the break.
Mario and Sonic will do battle on the athletic field once more in Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, which was announced this morning as part of a Nintendo Direct presentation delivered by Nintendo Japan. Like the first Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games and London 2012, players will be able to go for the gold medal in Track, Floor Gymnastics, Table Tennis, Soccer, Beach Volleyball, and many other sports. We also got our first look at two new additions to the series today: Rugby and Golf.
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be released for the 3DS and Wii U sometime in the near future, though no release date was announced. However, every previous entry in the series has debuted during the November before the Olympic Games, so I think it’s a safe bet to assume Rio 2016 will as well. (more…)
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Yoshi’s Woolly World will be released on July 16 in Japan
Nintendo has announced Yoshi’s Woolly World will be released fro the Wii U on July 16 in Japan. The news was delivered this morning during a special Japan-focused Nintendo Direct presentation.
In the video, which has been embedded above, players were introduced to many of Yarn Yoshi’s many patterns including Rainbow Yoshi, Piranha Plant Yoshi, Winter Yoshi, Moo-Moo Yoshi, and Famicom Yoshi. Yoshis patterned after Mario, Link, and Donkey Kong (unlockable through an Amiibo tap of the three figures) were also shown. The Power Badge system, wherein Yarn Yoshi trades some Beads for a powerup, was given a few seconds in the spotlight as well.
Yoshi’s Woolly World is still officially scheduled for a “Fall 2015” launch in North America, though we previously learned the game will be released across Europe in June. With Yoshi’s Woolly World set to release during the Summer in those two territories, I don’t think US gamers will have to wait until the last three months of the year to purchase a copy of the game. Hopefully, we’ll hear about an official US launch date soon.
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