Author: John Scalzo

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…

There was a lot of non-announcement announcements made this week.

First up, Blizzard’s Rob Pardo has revealed that the developer has a version of Diablo III “up and running” on console hardware. But they’re still not ready to announce it and there’s a possibility that the game may never be released.

Next, Valve’s Gabe Newell has confirmed that his company is hard at work on the long-rumored “Steam Box” and will probably release it next year. But any details about the name, the price, and what it’s capable of are still up in the air.

Finally, a job listing posted by PopCap Games has revealed the developer is working on a “AAA game.” It probably won’t be some brutal bloodbath, but it does use the same engine that powers Battlefield 3 and Medal of Honor: Warfighter. Alright then.

And here’s a real announcement for good measure… There’s just two more days to enter our contest to win a Best of Bond two-CD set and a copy of 007 Legends for the Xbox 360.

Hit the jump for more of this week’s biggest news stories. (more…)

If you’ve ever wondered where Rockstar Games plans to take the Grand Theft Auto series after GTA5, we might have gotten our answer from one of the game’s producer, Leslie Benzies.

Digital Trends recently sat down with Benzies to discuss Grand Theft Auto: Vice City‘s re-releases on mobile platforms. In the course of the conversation, Benzies said that while the company loves the Vice City setting, he doesn’t know if it would work outside of the 1980s Scarface/Miami Vice setting.

And that’s when he revealed that Rockstar’s dream is to create a game that includes all of its major cities:

Of course at some point we would like to have one big world containing all our cities and let the player fly between them and revisit their favorite areas, and in that context reimagining Vice City would be very interesting.

So, Grand Theft Auto VI for the PS4/Orbis/Thebes and Xbox 720/Durango confirmed?

Gears of War developer Cliff Bleszinski is getting closer to making a decision on his future in the game industry.

After leaving Epic Games in October, CliffyB embarked on a grand tour of game development houses including Activision, EA, and Double Fine. But in an interview with the hosts of G4’s X-Play, Bleszinski revealed that his next job will likely be as the head of a new studio.

Bleszinski told X-Play, “It’s not a matter of if. It’s a matter of when and with who.” And after this new studio opens, he may not be working on Gears of War-like games anymore as Bleszinski added, “I don’t really want the whole chainsaw gun to be my legacy.”

It makes sense. After all, his first game was the cartoony platformer Jazz Jackrabbit.