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Video Game Canon- BAFTA Games Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- 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
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- Video Game Research Library
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- 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
Weekly Warp-Up: PAX East 2013 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…
Most of the Warp Zoned staff has made their yearly trek to the cavernous halls of the Boston Convention Center for the 2013 PAX East show. You can keep up with all of our updates by following our handy PAX East 2013 page and we’ll have plenty more news, previews, and interviews from the show floor next week. Oh, and we continue our obsession with Shovel Knight in the latest edition of Kickstart This!
But don’t think we forgot about every other corner of the gaming universe this weekend. Hit the jump for more news from the week that was. (more…)
Posted in News
New Releases: BioShock Infinite, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14, Army of Two 3, More
It’s here! It’s here! It’s finally here!
After multiple delays, 2K Games and Irrational Games are finally ready to release BioShock Infinite. You’ll be able to take to the skies of Columbia (and battle an animatronic George Washington) on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.
If blasting robotic ex-presidents isn’t your thing, this week also sees the release of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
More new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, BioShock Infinite, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14
Saints Row IV “Director’s Cut” DLC will include all “Dominatrix” content
Saints Row IV is looking pretty insane, but apparently it could be crazier. When Volition rolled the “Enter the Dominatrix” DLC into number four, they left out some stuff that was “too crazy.”
During a Q&A session at PAX East, Volition Senior Producer Jim Boone said the developers plan to release a director’s cut of “Enter the Dominatrix” as DLC for Saints Row IV. Creative Director Steve Jaros added, “There’s a lot of work that goes into making something appropriately silly.”
Remember, that’s “too crazy” for a game that includes superpowers and mechs and other things.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged PAX East 2013, Saints Row IV
Diablo III is “not necessarily a Sony exclusive”
Diablo III‘s console coming out party during Sony’s PlayStation 4 reveal only confirmed the former PC exclusive’s extension to Sony systems (namely the PS3 and PS4). It seems obvious in retrospect, but that’s “not necessarily” the final word on the subject.
Speaking to the Penny Arcade Report, Joshua Mosqueira, the game’s Lead Designer, said, “We don’t have any announcements to make at this time. But we’re not necessarily a Sony exclusive.”
That sounds like confirmation of an Xbox 360 and/or Wii U version to me.
Note: The Diablo III Xbox 360 boxart to your right is a fan-made fake.
Posted in News, PS3, PS4
Tagged Diablo III, PAX East 2013
Capcom announces DuckTales Remastered at PAX East
Capcom’s developers had a lot to say during the “World of Capcom” panel at this year’s PAX East convention. In addition to delivering status updates on upcoming titles like Remember Me and Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, the publisher pulled back the curtain on the possible game of the year: DuckTales Remastered.
The game, which was inspired by the NES classic, will be developed by WayForward and it’s out this Summer for the PSN, XBLA, and the Wii U eShop. Check out the first trailer after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360
Tagged DuckTales Remastered, PAX East 2013
Nintendo Download: Zen Pinball 2, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, more
I don’t want to tell Nintendo how to run their business, but maybe “Nintendo Download Day” shouldn’t be on Thursday if the majority of games published by Nintendo are released on Sunday. Just look at the two biggest games in this week’s update: Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity. They’re both coming to the 3DS eShop this week (and are technically part of today’s Nintendo Download), but you won’t be able to download either one until Sunday, March 24.
If bustin’ ghosts as Mario’s kid brother or exploring dungeons as your favorite Pokemon doesn’t thrill you, there is a new game you can download today: Zen Studios’ Zen Pinball 2. It’s now available on the Wii U eShop along with most of the previously released DLC tables including Marvel Pinball and Plants vs Zombies table.
More information on these new releases, as well as a trio of additional games that will be available today, is available after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, News, Wii, Wii U
Tagged Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, Zen Pinball 2
Jerry Rice, Adrian Peterson, Deion Sanders lead first round of Madden NFL 25 cover voting
The first round of voting for the Madden NFL 25 cover athlete is in the books and it went more or less as you’d expect. In the New School bracket, Adrian Peterson won his first round match in decisive fashion, garnering 94% of the vote against Carson Palmer. And over on the Old School side, Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders both put up impressive numbers, flattening Fred Taylor and Cortez Kennedy, respectively.
If I were a betting man, I’d wager that all three will make the final four.
ESPN has updated the brackets and voting for the second round is now open until Wednesday, March 27. You can head over to ESPN.com/MaddenVote to vote and be sure to check out all the second round matchups after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Madden NFL 25
Imangi releases update to fix Temple Run 2 objectives
Temple Run 2 is one of the biggest games currently available for mobile platforms. The game racked up over 50 million downloads within two weeks of its mid-January release, and its surely surged past the 100 million mark by now (or, if not, it will soon). The game has also been plagued by a bug that prevented some players from completing some of the higher level Objectives. But with today’s new version 1.1 update, that bug is a thing of the past!
The update also adds multiple opportunities to collect more cons including daily and weekly challenges as well as Friend Challenges. Imangi Studios assures us it squashes another pesky bug where you couldn’t “stack” two powerups of the same type.
So what are you waiting for? It’s… Time… To… Start… Running!
Posted in Mobile, News
Tagged Temple Run 2