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You can see John Cena on the cover of WWE 2K15 this October
2K Games and the WWE have announced that John Cena will appear on the cover of the upcoming WWE 2K15 (cue the groans from wrestling fans who can’t stand Cena).
Cena starred in a promotional video to help with the announcement and the wrestler revealed that he’ll be working closely with 2K to “put my own little touches on the game.” We don’t yet know what those “little touches” are, but hopefully we’ll find out soon. You can watch the video for yourself after the break.
WWE 2K15 is in development at Yukes and Visual Concepts and will be released for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on October 28. (more…)
Comcept shows off another gameplay trailer for Mighty No. 9
Keiji Inafune and his team at Comcept have released a new gameplay trailer for Mighty No. 9, their spiritual successor to Inafune’s world famous Mega Man series.
Today’s trailer is an update to Mighty No. 9’s May trailer in that it once again focuses on the industrial locale that Mighty No. 5 calls home and the icy domain of Mighty No. 2. Go Mighty go!
Thanks to its hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, Comcept will release Mighty No. 9 for the 3DS, PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One in Spring 2015.
Catlateral Damage is fully funded on Kickstarter; PS4 stretch goal added
Chris Chung’s Catlateral Damage has reached its funding goal on Kickstarter. Backers pushed the game past its $40,000 target early on Sunday morning and that means that it’s time to talk stretch goals.
Chung has multiple bonus levels in mind as the pledges roll in including a Supermarket ($48,000), Museum ($56,000), and Pet Store ($85,000). Steam Workshop integration will be added and developer tools will be released to the public if the game manages to reach $70,000. And console gamers will even be able to get in on the Catlateral Damage if funding reaches $100,000. The ever-popular “???” is listed after that.
If you missed our Best of PAX East 2014 selections, you might not be familiar with Catlateral Damage. The title can best be described as a first-person reverse-Katamari game. If the Prince was cleaning up all of our garbage, it was this cat that threw it all on the ground.
Catlateral Damage will be released for the PC and Ouya sometime before the end of the year. As of this writing, backers have pledged $46,089 towards the game.
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Tagged Catlateral Damage
Weekly Warp-Up: World Record Run Edition
No, that’s not a typo. Welcome to the Weekly Warp-Up, your weekly wrap-up of the biggest and the best articles posted at Warp Zoned this week…
Ladies and gentlemen, true competitors make the world a more interesting place. And this week saw one of the greatest performances that I have ever witnessed. The World Cup is fun and all (USA! USA! USA!), but someone set an absolutely astonishing new world record for Super Mario Bros. this week. Someone known only as “Blubbler” managed to beat the game in 4 minutes and 57 seconds. Watch the video and be amazed. And if you catch yourself thinking, “I could do that,” stop yourself. Because no, no you can’t.
Also this week, the Warp Zoned staff published new reviews of two of this Spring’s most interesting games. Dan Hobbs weighs in on Watch Dogs while Mike Ryan goes bang, zoom, straight to the Moon Chronicles Episode 1: One Small Step.
More news from the week that was can be found after the break. (more…)
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New Releases: Sniper Elite III
Do you like snipers? How about elite snipers? Oh, and do you hate Nazis? Who doesn’t, right?They’re bad dudes.
If you agree with all of the above, then this week’s lone new retail release, Sniper Elite III, is perfect for you. Players will take control of OSS sniper Karl Fairburne as he takes on Germany’s Akrika Korps during the waning days of World War II. Sniper Elite III will be released this week for current-generation consoles (PS3 and Xbox 360), next-generation consoles (PS4 and Xbox One), and the PC.
Apologizes to all Wii U owners out there.
New trailer for Tetropolis promises 2015 release date
The last time we got our hands on Tetropolis, it won a PAXpocalypse Award as one of our favorite games of PAX East 2014. Since then, developer NextGen Pants has been hard at work adding “new content and challenges” to their puzzle platformer. After making all of these improvements (which are chronicled in an update to their development blog), the team is ready to show off some new gameplay footage as well as tease the dystopian society at the center of the game:
Tetropolis is a non-linear puzzle platformer set in a world obsessed with falling block puzzles. In the city of Tetropolis, thousands of game pieces are manufactured every minute in order to meet the demands of “the game.” You play as a square-shaped tetromino that has failed the quality check and has been discarded for not being perfect. Unlike other discarded pieces, you obtain the ability to change into different shapes, each one possessing its own unique ability that you can use to traverse the world.
Tetropolis will be available for the PC (and possibly other platforms) in 2015.
Gaze upon the Lycans of The Order: 1886 in this behind-the-scenes video
Previously, Ready At Dawn focused most of their marketing muscle behind the titular Order of The Order: 1886. But now they’re ready to show us the flip side of this centuries-long struggle. In a new developer diary, several members of the Ready At Dawn team revealed the Half-Breeds, a werewolf-like race of hybrids that are also known as Lycans.
So yeah, call them what you want, but they’re werewolves. In addition to giving us our first glimpse at this bestial group, developers from Ready At Dawn used the video to talk at length about the creative process behind their werewolves. It’s definitely worth a watch.
The Order: 1886 will be available exclusively for the PS4 on February 20.
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Tagged The Order: 1886
Watch someone beat Super Mario Bros. in a world record 4 minutes and 57 seconds
This is just unbelievable. Someone named “Blubbler” has just set a new world record for an “Any Percentage” Super Mario Bros. speedrun. Are you ready for this? Blubbler was able to beat the game in four minutes and 57.69 seconds. I’ll say it again… unbelievable!
The previous world record was 4:58.09 by “Andrewg.”
Blubbler’s world record run required pixel-perfect movements and you can read up on some of these tricks and glitches at the Speed Demos Archive. Seriously, I am blown away. It’s just an amazing bit of platforming.
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Tagged Super Mario Bros.