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
XBLA Today: How To Survive
505 Games and Eko Software are responsible for today’s addition to the Xbox Live Arcade: How To Survive. Naturally, the disaster players are attempting to survive is a good old fashioned zombie apocalypse:
You are shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive? Collect the pages of a Survival Guide and figure it out, of course! Find food, water, and shelter before you perish. Uh oh, is it getting dark? Figure out how to get through the night! While you’re at it, gather up some of this awesome stuff and piece together over 100 handmade weapons and tools—from shotguns to Molotov cocktails. Now you can defend yourself and your friends like a boss!
How To Survive has been priced at $14.99 and is also now available for the PC through Steam. The game will also be available on the PS3 (through the PlayStation Store) and on the Wii U (through the Wii U eShop) soon.
EA shifts release of The Sims 4 to Fall 2014
The Sims are moving on down… the calendar that is. Electronic Arts announced yesterday that The Sims 4, the next edition in the lifestyle simulator series, will launch in Fall 2014, a slight delay from the originally planned Early 2014 release date.
“The Sims franchise has the best fans in the world and their passion and enthusiasm is at an all-time high,” said Rachel Franklin, VP and General Manager of The Sims Studio. “Those millions of voices will fuel our development process, helping The Sims 4 to be the most ambitious and the best game our studio has ever made. We can’t wait to see our fans reaction when The Sims 4 comes out in fall 2014.”
The Sims 4 will be released exclusively for the PC and, if you pre-order, you’ll gain access to the Life of the Party DLC pack, which will be available as part of the game’s Limited Edition.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged The Sims 4
Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Deus Ex: HR Director’s Cut, more added to PS Store
It’s another big week for the PlayStation Store as Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut, Rocksmith 2014, and SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton’s Robotic Revenge all make their digital debut simultaneously with their retail release.
If superheroes, augmented humans, musical lessons, or underwater mutants aren’t your thing, this week’s update also includes Ninja Theory’s unsung Enslaved: Odyssey to the West; Ubisoft’s stab at strategy, R.U.S.E.; a PSN version of Beer Pong!; puzzle platformer Ethan: Meteor Hunter; first person shooter Alien Rage; and the Cthulhu versus technology shenanigans of Magrunner: Dark Pulse.
Oh, and Lego Marvel Super Heroes is also available for the Vita.
More information on all of these games can be found after the break and a full rundown of this week’s new game add-ons (including Borderlands 2: T.K. Baha’s Bloody Harvest and Saints Row IV: Enter the Dominatrix) can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged Alien Fear, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Lego Marvel Super Heroes
TitanFall stomps into stores on March 11, 2014
Electronic Arts and Respawn have announced that TitanFall, the winner of dozens of “Best of E3 2013” awards and the main reason many people are buying an Xbox One this Fall, will be released on March 11, 2014. TitanFall will also be released for the PC and Xbox 360 on that date.
In addition to the standard edition of the game, EA will also offer TitanFall for sale as a special Collector’s Edition that will retail for $249.99. It will include an “18 inch hand-crafted Atlas titan statue with diorama and battery-powered LED lighting, a full-size art book featuring more than 190 pages of rare concept art, and a full-size schematic poster of the Atlas titan.”
In honor of TitanFall’s release date announcement, Respawn has produced a new gameplay trailer, which you can view after the break. (more…)
NASCAR 14 turns left onto the PS3, Xbox 360 in early 2014
Deep Silver has announced that they’ve acquired the license to publish games based on the NASCAR racing series. Wasting no time, the company also announced that NASCAR 14 is in development at Eutechnyx, the same team behind NASCAR 2011 and NASCAR: Inside Line. NASCAR 14 is currently scheduled to be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 in early 2014.
Deep Silver COO Geoff Mulligan has big plans for the franchise’s future: “NASCAR is a hugely popular sport, second only to the NFL in TV ratings. Deep Silver is thrilled to have acquired the publishing rights to NASCAR 14 and looks forward to cultivating a long-term relationship with both the fans and the franchise.”
For NASCAR 14, Eutechnyx plans to bring back the popular Highlights mode, which allows gamers to download a recreation of a recent race that includes accurate track positions, car conditions, and weather. A Career Mode, online play, and official teams and tracks will also be included.
Fans can also choose which driver will appear on the cover of NASCAR 14 by voting at DriveForTheCover.com. The winner will be announced during NASCAR’s Champion’s Week in early December.
Rumor: Alien: Isolation will mostly star Ripley’s daughter
When 20th Century Fox filed a trademark application for “Alien: Isolation” yesterday, we all assumed it belonged to Creative Assembly’s long-gestating Alien project. Now, a report on Kotaku has possibly revealed a few details about the game.
Citing an anonymous source within Sega, Kotaku’s Jason Schreier is reportinfg that Alien: Isolation is definitely in development at Creative Assembly for current-generation and next-generation consoles (and presumably, the PC). According to Schreier’s source, the game is an atmospheric first person shooter (a first for the studio) similar to BioShock and Dishonored. It will focus on “stealth and horror elements” and… it will star Ripley’s previously unseen daughter, Amanda.
Owing to the title, a single Xenomorph will stalk Amanda Ripley for the majority of the game. Before the climactic showdown, she’ll do battle with “clones and soldiers” using melee weapons. When she’s overwhelmed, Amanda can use vents and lockers to hide. No wonder Ripley was drawn to Newt in Aliens.
If this report is true, it will be the first time that Amanda Ripley will appear in the expanded universe of the Alien films. Her picture was briefly seen during the Director’s Cut/Special Edition of Aliens, when Weyland-Yutani executives informed Ripley that Amanda died while she was in hypersleep.
2K details DLC plans and Season Pass for WWE 2K14
2K Games has announced a full slate of post-launch downloadable content will be released for WWE 2K14. Following the game’s October 29 release, three “Content Packs” will be made available in November, December, and January. Each pack will include a variety of new wrestlers and new customization options for the game’s Create-A-Wrestler mode.
Fans who wish to pre-purchase all of WWE 2K14’s DLC can do so as part of the Season Pass program. Priced at $19.99, the Season Pass will include two additional wrestlers (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash in their “Outsiders” outfits) as well as 10 Online Badges.
“WWE 2K14 delivers a comprehensive selection of downloadable content, including impressive roster additions, fan-favorite gameplay and customization options,” said Chris Snyder, Senior Director of Marketing at 2K. “Combined with the game’s Season Pass program, we are offering the ultimate WWE video game experience for an amazing value.”
A full rundown of the contents of the three “Content Packs” can be found after the break. (more…)
20th Century Fox trademarks “Alien: Isolation” for games
Creative Assembly has been hard at work on their mystery Alien project for more than two years now. But it looks like the game may have finally found a title as 20th Century Fox has applied for a trademark for “Alien: Isolation.”
Per the US Patent and Trademark Office, the application doesn’t just apply to video games, but also “downloadable ring tones, graphics, computer desktop wallpaper, computer screen saver software, mousepads, decorative magnets, eye glasses, and multimedia content.” Eye glasses? Really? I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this trademark application refers to an in-development video game.
Hopefully we’ll have more information to share about Alien: Isolation, including an official announcement from Sega and/or Creative Assembly, soon.