Warp Zoned Presents
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
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
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII begins “The Final Journey” in this trailer
Lightning is sporting a new look in the latest trailer for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Hmm… black leather… dark sunglasses… wielding a big sword… fighting a demon…
Lightning is Blade!
OK, maybe not. But check out the trailer and be on the lookout for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII’s release on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2013.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
God Mode coming to PC, PSN, XBLA in 2013
Atlus has announced they’ll be publishing God Mode, a downloadable shooter from Old School Games and Saber Interactive in early 2013. God Mode is in development for the PC, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade and promises to be “an exciting third-person shooter that looks like a retail product […] with gameplay features and cooperative play like no other downloadable title.”
God Mode is a shooter that places players in the boots of a former god who has been banished from Mount Olympus along with the rest of his family. The former god must battle through the Maze of Hades to return to the Pantheon and reclaim their rightful place alongside the other gods.
God Mode will carry a budget price of $9.99 (800 Microsoft Points) and include a four-player multiplayer (local LAN and online), fully customizable gods, a Rage meter, and in-game modifiers known as Tests of Faith.
I assume your might will be tested as well.
Earth Defense Force 2025 gameplay video showcases new soldiers
We’re on track to receive not one, but two Earth Defense Force games in 2013. There’s the Vita re-release Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable and the brand new PS3/Xbox 360 game Earth Defense Force 2025. EDF! EDF! EDF!
In addition to dating EDF 2017 Portable yesterday, D3 Publisher Japan has unveiled a new gameplay video that showcases the new soldier types found in EDF 2025. If you played last year’s Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon, you’ll be familiar with the Pale Wing and Air Raider classes, but they’ve been slightly modified for EDF 2025. Actually, the Pale Wing corps operates exactly like the Jet Armor did in Insect Armageddon. Limited flight capabilities from a jetpack and an energy-based weapon mean that the bugs have no where to hide.
The real fun is found with the Air Raider class. The Air Raider is a support soldier that drops a variety of turrets including a healing station, a machine gun turret, and land mines. The Air Raider, true to his name, can also call in an airborne strike that kills bugs dead.
Guaranteed.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Earth Defense Force 2025
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable probes PS Vita on January 8
D3 Publisher has sent along word that if the world doesn’t end in a few hours, we’ll get to play Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable on our Vitas in 2013. To be more specific, we’ll be able to download apocalyptic alien shooter from the PlayStation Store for $39.99 on January 8.
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable adds seven new levels to the game (bringing the total to 60) and reintroduces the jetpack-powered Pale Wing corps from the Japan-only Earth Defense Force 2. An online multiplayer mode has been added to EDF 2017 Portable as well.
Posted in News, Vita
Tagged Earth Defense Force 2017
Retro City Rampage coming to XBLA, WiiWare in January
Vblank Entertainment has announced that Retro City Rampage will be available to download from the Xbox Live Arcade and Wii Shop Channel in January.
However, if you don’t want to wait you can grab the PC version now for $9.99 (regular price: $15) direct from the developer’s website or on Steam. The $9.99 price will also be applied to the PS3/Vita version (buy one, get both!) on December 24.
Either way, a winner is you!
Nintendo announces March 24 release date for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
Those lovable Pokemon will invade the 3DS next year in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, the latest game in Nintendo’s long-running franchise.
Scheduled for release on March 24, Gates to Infinity will let players take control of their favorite Pokemon (Pikachu, Snivy, Oshawott, Tepig or Axew) and “journey through infinite dungeons, battle and befriend other Pokémon, collect treasures and explore the game’s vast, beautiful world.”
It sounds pretty similar to every previous Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game, but this rendition will also include “Magnagates” that can only be accessed by scanning a circular object in the real world with the 3DS Camera and a multiplayer mode.
Nintendo has promised to reveal more details on the multiplayer mode soon.
Posted in 3DS, News
Tagged Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
Star Trek game beams into stores on April 23
A few months before Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the crew of the Enterprise, we’ll all get a chance to control Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in Namco Bandai’s Star Trek for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Today, the publisher has confirmed that the game will be available in stores on April 23, 2013.
They’ve also announced that players who pre-order Star Trek will obtain the “Elite Officer Pack,” a downloadable bonus that includes ten costumes from the first movie as well as three additional weapons (Starfleet Type IV Stealth Sniper Rifle, U.S.S. Kelvin Hand Phaser, and Academy Phaser). The costumes will include “Stealth” uniforms, Kirk in a leather jacket, U.S.S. Kelvin uniforms, Academy uniforms, and Kobayashi Maru uniforms.
One of those is not like the others.
Nintendo Download: Wario Land II, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, a lot more
It’s another big week for Nintendo’s download services.
This week we’re treated to the 3DS eShop release of Wario Land II as well as the computer-generated action of Escape Vektor. A large batch of formerly retail-only games including Pilotwings Resort, Mario Tennis Open, Bit.Trip Saga, and many more are also available to download today.
Wii U gamers will get the chance to download new games based on the game show staples Jeopardy! (never forget the exclamation point) and Wheel of Fortune.
Hit the jump to read up on what else the Nintendo-playing public can download today. (more…)