Warp Zoned Presents
Video Game Canon- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Has Another Big Night and Wins “Game of the Year” at the 2025-2026 DICE Awards
- 2025 GOTY Scoreboard: In Progress
- The Game Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Racks Up Nine Wins, Including “Game of the Year”, at the 2025 Game Awards
- “Animal Crossing” and Undertale” Lead the Way for New Book Series About Games at University of Chicago Press
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: Paul Cohn
App Store’s 5th Anniversary offers five games for free
This Wednesday marks the five-year anniversary of the iOS App Store, and to celebrate Apple is giving away five of their best games for free for a limited time: Badland, Infinity Blade II, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Tiny Wings, and Where’s My Water? The games are regularly priced at over $20, so grab your iOS device and install them while you can to enjoy the savings.
Five non-gaming apps are also currently available for free including Barefoot World Atlas, Day One (Journal/Diary), How to Cook Everything, Over, and Traktor DJ. More details are available at the iTunes App Store.
Cooking Mama 5 is in development for 3DS
Cooking Mama 5 is set to be revealed this month at Shogakukan’s Ciao Summer Festival, according to a report by Siliconera. In development by Cooking Mama Limited, the game will be the second in the series to land on the 3DS. It is expected to launch in Japan this winter, with a Western release likely to follow.
Expect to learn more at Shogakukan’s Ciao Summer Festival, which takes place on July 28.
Posted in 3DS, News
Tagged Cooking Mama 5
Here’s the 12-minute gameplay video of Destiny from E3 2013
In case you missed it in all the chaos that was this year’s E3, Bungie has released the extended gameplay demo of Destiny, their upcoming sci-fi shooter, that was shown at Sony’s Press Conference.
The game is set in the distant future after the collapse of a Golden Age of exploration, with players taking on the role of a Guardian of the last city on Earth. Destiny is planned for a 2014 release on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Here’s a new trailer for “Buried,” the latest addition to CoD: Black Ops II’s Zombies Mode
Vengeance, the latest DLC map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, was released yesterday for the Xbox 360, bringing four new multiplayer maps, the Ray Gun Mark II, and “Buried,” a new chapter for Zombies Mode.
If you’re a PS3 or PC user you’ll have to wait to play the adventure, but in the meantime you can check out the new “Buried” trailer Treyarch just released. It’s full of dramatics, cinematics, and there’s some shooting, too. You can also catch a glimpse of the Ray Gun Mark II in all its zombie-bursting glory.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops II