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
NCAA ends agreement with EA Sports, effectively killing NCAA Football 15
NCAA Football 14 was released last week for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and I hope you’re enjoying it as there definitely will not be an NCAA Football 15. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has announced (via NCAA.org) that they will not renew their licensing agreement with EA Sports.
The NCAA reached this decision after growing legal pressure from a number of athletes (including former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon), many of whom have attempted to sue the NCAA (and EA Sports) for including their “likenesses” in NCAA-branded games. The NCAA is adamant that they never allowed EA to use the names, images, or likenesses of “student-athletes” and has no involvement in EA’s separate likeness licensing deals with former students (such as Denard Robinson, NCAA Football 14’s cover athlete).
If EA wants to create a college football game for 2014, the NCAA says they are free to include the logos and stadiums of member universities as long as the game publisher negotiates for the proper “trademarks and other intellectual property” rights.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged College Football 15, NCAA Football 14
XBLA Today: R.I.P.D. The Game
R.I.P.D., a movie that looks like a cross between Men In Black and the short-lived G vs E, will arrive in theaters this Friday. If you’d rather not wait, a game adaptation of the film, also titled R.I.P.D., was added to the Xbox Live Arcade today (a PlayStation Network version was released yesterday):
Based on the upcoming 3D supernatural action-adventure film, R.I.P.D., you and a partner will take up the holsters of two lawmen dispatched to the otherworld to protect and serve the living from an increasingly destructive array of souls who refuse to move peacefully to the other side. Top-notch teamwork and an arsenal of badass weapons are the keys to defeating your enemies and bringing order back to the world.
R.I.P.D. The Game was published by Atlus and developed by Old School Games and has been priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10).
Pokemon Rumble U comes to the Wii U eShop on August 29
Nintendo has announced that Pokemon Rumble U, and an accompanying array of NFC-enabled figures, will be available on August 29. The game, which has been priced at $17.99, will be downloadable from the Wii U eShop. The figures, which are sold in “concealed capsules,” will be available exclusively at GameStop stores.
Pokemon Rumble U is the tale of a great adventure featuring Toy Pokemon, beginning when a delivery of Toy Pokemon is swept down a river and washes up on a strange riverbank. Our bewildered Pokemon heroes set out to find their way back to the Toy Pokemon Shop. Along the way they discover all is not right. Players will learn why some of the Toy Pokemon are fighting each other, and what the enemy Pokemon are plotting.
Pokemon Rumble U’s players (up to four simultaneously) will travel through a variety of Pokemon locales including Sparkly Playland, Mysterious Forest, and Blue Sky Park as they battle all 649 Pokemon and giant bosses.
Posted in News, Wii U
Tagged Pokemon Rumble U
Sonic: Lost World’s release will be found on October 22
Sega has released a new trailer for Sonic: Lost World that showcases the hedgehog’s new powers (including the Power of Rock!). The trailer has also unveiled an October 22 release date for the 3DS and Wii U game, so mark your calendars now.
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii U
Tagged Sonic: Lost World
PSN Today: Dynasty Warriors 8, Time and Eternity, Dead Island GOTY, more
A flood of new games have been added to the PlayStation Store today, let’s take a look:
- Dynasty Warriors 8 (PS3) – The latest game in Tecmo Koei’s long-running hack and slash series.
- Time and Eternity (PS3) – A hand-drawn RPG from NIS America.
- Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition (PS3) – Deep Silver’s zombie game is now available on the PSN complete with all the available DLC.
- Capcom vs SNK 2: Mark Of The Millennium (PS3) – The classic PS2 fighter is now available on the PS2 Classics store.
And that’s just scratching the surface. Details on another 11 new releases can be found after the break and a breakdown of this week’s new game add-ons can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, PSP, Vita
Tagged Dead Island
The Lego Movie will also be a video game developed by TT Games
The Lego Movie will open in theaters on February 7, 2014 and after the success of Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman, Lego Indiana Jones, and Lego Lord of the Rings, a tie-in game developed by TT Games was an inevitability. Sadly, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has decided against calling it “Lego The Lego Movie.” Instead, let’s all give a big welcome to The Lego Movie Videogame.
In a scenario drawn from the film, The Lego Movie Videogame puts Lego kids into the role of Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average Lego minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. Players guide him as he is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
The Lego Movie Videogame will be released in early 2014 for the 3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Diablo III won’t be released for PS4 until 2014
When Blizzard tagged the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Diablo III with a September release date, everyone assumed the game would be a launch title on the PlayStation 4. But, according to Blizzard’s Josh Mosqueira, that’s not the case.
DiabloFans recently spoke with a trio of developers from Blizzard, including Mosqueira, the Lead Console Developer. He informed the fansite that Diablo III won’t be available for the PS4 until 2014:
“It’s not a launch title; it will be released at some point [in] 2014. We thought that it’s really important we stagger development, so that we focus first on the PC, then to focus on current-gen and then – now that that’s done – we’re really looking at how to make it to the next-gen. Always making sure we’re making the right decisions to make each of the platforms really take advantage of what makes those platforms unique and special.”
Posted in News, PS4
Tagged Diablo III
Ultimate Warrior gorilla presses WWE 2K14 as pre-order bonus
Children of the 80s had their own “The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?” conundrum when it came to pledging allegiance to their favorite WWF superstar. While “The Macho Man” Randy Savage had his supporters, the question nearly always came down to Hulk Hogan versus The Ultimate Warrior.
Since his late 80s heyday (and victory over Hogan in Wrestlemania VI), the Ultimate Warrior has had a frosty relationship with the WWE. Aside from an appearance in last year’s WWE All-Stars, he’s never had much of a presence in WWE video games either. That all changes this October when the wrestler will be added to the WWE 2K14 roster exclusively as a pre-order bonus.
“Immortality is inspiration, pure and simple. An example to others that they, too, can do things larger than the life they are actually living, and Ultimate Warrior was the pure embodiment of this belief, in what has proven to be a very attention-getting and inspiring way,” said Warrior. “It was my good fortune to be his creator and performer, and I am humbled by all those fans who’ve not only kept his legacy alive, but deepened it over time. In WWE 2K14, Ultimate Warrior’s creed, ‘Always Believe,’ lives on.”
Well said, Warrior, well said. The 2K Sports-published WWE 2K14 will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 29.