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
Nintendo Download: Mighty Switch Force! 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Tuesday), more
Are you ready for more Mighty Switch Force? The heroic Patricia Wagon is back (again) in the Wii U re-release of Mighty Switch Force! 2. Now available in glorious high definition, fans of the franchise will want to give it a look. On Tuesday, Wii U owners will also get the chance to download the Director’s Cut of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Ubisoft’s Just Dance Kids 2014.
Sliding over to the 3DS eShop… Natsume’s lifestyle sim, Hometown Story, will also be available to download on Tuesday. If Hometown Story is unfamiliar to you, just know that its the latest game from the creators of the popular Harvest Moon series.
More information on all of these titles and the rest of this week’s Nintendo Download can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Namco Bandai trademarks Soul Calibur: Unbreakable Soul in US
The soul still burns.
It’s looking more and more likely that Namco Bandai is prepping a new Soul Calibur announcement. Yesterday, the publisher submitted a trademark application for a game known as “Soul Calibur: Unbreakable Soul” with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Right now, all we know is that the trademark applies to “computer game software” and also includes a section stating that the game will include online play.
Namco Bandai filed an identical trademark application with the Trademarks and Designs Registration Office of the European Union several weeks ago. So while we’re still waiting on an official announcement, this is definitely more than a rumor.
Posted in News
XBLA Today: Hexodius, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
It’s Wednesday, so Microsoft has delivered another dose of new Xbox Live Arcade games. First up is Hexodius, a twin-stick shooter:
EXPLORE-EQUIP-ESCAPE! With its potent blend of twin-stick shooting, exploration and customization, Hexodius invites players to explore the vast complex, equip their drone with powerful items and upgrades, and ultimately escape the clutches of the deadly enemy droids in a blaze of laser fire!
Also available today is a new version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire subtitled “Special Editions”:
Get into the hot seat and play classic Millionaire for a chance to win a virtual million dollars! This all new version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire lets you play solo or challenge your friends. You keep game play fresh and fun with a constant expanding library of question packs offering hundreds of new questions.
Both games have been priced at $9.99.
God of War: Ascension, The Wolf Among Us, more added to PS Store
Kratos returns (again) as God of War: Ascension is now available to download from the PlayStation Store. I could have sworn this happened months ago, but the weekly PlayStation Store update doesn’t lie. Also available this week is the first episode of Telltale’s latest episodic adventure series, The Wolf Among Us. The Fables spinoff stars The Big Bad Wolf and he’s going to huff and puff and…
…let you know that hunting sim Cabela’s African Adventures, horse racing sim Champion Jockey, and game show sim Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Special Edition are also available as PS3 downloads today.
Over on the Vita, Activision has added Angry Birds Trilogy to the PlayStation Store and XSEED has released their prison-set action RPG Valhalla Knights 3.
More information on all of these games are available after the break and a full rundown of this week’s new game add-ons is available at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged God of War: Ascension, The Wolf Among Us
Big Brother banishes Watch Dogs to Spring 2014
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs was one of this Fall’s most ambitious new games. Perhaps it was a bit too ambitious as the publisher has announced that the game will now be released in Spring 2014. The delay comes slightly over a month ahead of the game’s originally scheduled November 19 release date.
The development team issued the following statement to explain the delay:
Our ambition from the start with Watch_Dogs has been to deliver something that embodies what we wanted to see in the next-generation of gaming. It is with this in mind that we’ve made the tough decision to delay the release until Spring 2014.
We know a lot of you are probably wondering “why now?” We struggled with whether we would delay the game. But from the beginning, we have adopted the attitude that we will not compromise on quality. As we got closer to release, as all the pieces of the puzzle were falling into place in our last push before completion, it became clear to us that we needed to take the extra time to polish and fine tune every detail so we can deliver a truly memorable and exceptional experience.
“It needs more time polish everything up,” the reason for every delay ever. When it’s finally released in Spring 2014, Watch Dogs will be available for the PC, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Pokemon X/Y sells four million copies in two days
This weekend’s worldwide launch of Pokemon X and Pokemon Y went quite well for Nintendo. It’s the first time a “main series” Pokemon game was simultaneously shipped to stores across the world and, according to Nintendo, over four million copies of the game were sold on Saturday, October 12 and Sunday, October 13.
“The early response to Pokémon X and Pokémon Y not only reaffirms the ongoing passion of Pokémon fans, but also indicates that an entirely new generation of gamers is eager to experience the franchise for itself,” said Nintendo President Satoru Iwata.
Because the company has never attempted a simultaneous worldwide launch of a Pokemon game before, Nintendo wasn’t able to directly compare it to the sales of previous Pokemon games. But their internal estimates state that X and Y are definitely the fastest-selling 3DS games of all-time and are currently outpacing the sales of Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2 by 70%.
That’s not pocket (monster) change.
Posted in 3DS, News
Tagged Pokemon X/Y
Ride the Pirate Ship and Magic Mountain in new Kingdom Hearts III trailer
Disney held their first D23 Japan Expo over the weekend and they used the opportunity to debut some new gameplay footage from Kingdom Hearts III. The PS4 and Xbox One RPG is still a long ways away, but you can watch as Sora does battle with the Heartless using the Keyblade and the Key Blaster while Donald and Goofy tag along. Later, the trio jaunts over to Disneyland/Disney World and rides the Pirate Ship and Big Magic Mountain.
It’s a magical place.
Posted in News, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Kingdom Hearts III
Microsoft and Penny Arcade team up for Killer Instinct: Pin Ultimate Edition
Microsoft still has no plans to release a disc-based version of their Xbox One launch title, Killer Instinct. But they’ve teamed up with Penny Arcade (specifically, artist Mike “Gabe” Krahulik) to produce a boxed version of the game known as the “Pin Ultimate Edition.”
Instead of a game disc, the box will contain a voucher for the “Ultra Edition” of the game, which includes all eight Season One characters and a downloadable version of the original Killer Instinct arcade game. Two “Pinny Arcade” pins designed by Krahulik, Jago and the Killer Instinct 3D Logo, will also be packaged with the Pin Ultimate Edition. Finally, the box will contain a display board for all 16 Killer Instinct pins. Additional pins will can be earned through in-game efforts, though some will be sold separately or available as part of future promotional activities.
The Killer Instinct: Pin Ultimate Edition has been priced at $59.99, a $20 premium over the digital-only Ultra Edition. It’ll also be released on November 29, a week after the launch of the Xbox One.
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Killer Instinct