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: Nicole Kline
Cliff Bleszinski wants to develop for the PC from now on because of the community
Leigh Alexander captured a candid interview with Cliff Bleszinski in her usual lovely style over at Gamasutra. It’s a worthwhile read, and full of brilliant points about where the video game industry is headed. Bleszinski, personally, sees himself moving towards the PC for his next game. As Alexander said, “Starting his own studio is the direction in which he’s leaning, and he wants to benefit from a modern online environment that allows development teams to have closer relationships with their players and welcome them into the iterative process.”
Bleszinski himself had this to say:
“PC is where I’m going to wind up. That’s where the community is… The trend will always be the core. If I start a studio, I want a community manager there day one. I want weekly video or podcasts; I want task lists available on the subreddit. When my wife and I play Rust, before we play, we check the subreddit. Whenever you get a little bored with a game, someone issues an update. I feel like a game developer again, where I get to check out the build list.”
Something else struck me in the interview as well. Bleszinski also told Alexander: “The whole ‘old guard,’ where you get a Game Informer cover and an E3 reveal, is dead. I’ll never make another disc-based game for the rest of my career, and [at E3] they’re trying to woo buyers from Target and Walmart?” This fits with Ken Levine’s statement about focusing on digital games made by smaller teams.
This “old guard” is going to reshape the face of the industry. It truly is an evolutionary time in video game development.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance officially coming to PS4, Xbox One
Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the super-realistic PC RPG set in Medieval Europe, has had a great run on Kickstarter. In fact, there is still a few more hours left if you want to get in on it. And what’s more, Warhorse Studios has announced that the game will also be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, via an adorable video of them unboxing an Xbox One devkit.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is scheduled to come out in December 2015. Check out their Kickstarter page for more details.
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Tagged Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Daylight will be released for PC, PS4 in April
Looking for a sweet horror game to play once it gets a little warmer? Look no further than Zombie’s upcoming Daylight, a procedurally-generated horror game full of scares, puzzles, and… glowsticks? Looks like F.3.A.R. meets Outlast, but with witches instead of asylum inmates.
The developers recently sat down with IGN and revealed that Daylight will be out on April 8 for the PC and PlayStation 4.
TowerFall Ascension rises to the PS4 challenge on March 11
The magical day I’ve been waiting for is finally going to arrive! On March 11, TowerFall Ascension will be coming to the PlayStation 4. Matt Thorson himself wrote the PlayStation Blog post with the announcement.
In case you don’t know what TowerFall Ascension is (and seriously, if you don’t, where have you been?), it’s an incredibly competitive four-player versus game of archery. The graphics are retro, but the physics are not – you can arc your own arrows to catch an unsuspecting foe, as well as dodge and catch the arrows of enemies. Every second is crucial – you won’t even want to blink.
TowerFall originally came out for the Ouya as one of its big launch titles. It’s been revamped for the PS4, and now includes a a new Quest mode for one or two players. In this arena, you’ll have to fight against monsters that spawn from portals. It doesn’t sound as fun as multiplayer, but it’s something to do when you’re home alone.
TowerFall was in our PAXpocalypse list and was also mentioned twice in our end-of-year awards, the Golden Pixels. It’s one of the best local multiplayer games out there, and it’s the number one reason why you should go out and buy more DualShock 4s right now… or at least before March 11.
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Tagged TowerFall Ascension
IndieCade East 2014 After-Report: Day 1 – The Calm Before the Storm
This year’s IndieCade East was held at the Museum of Moving Image in New York City from Friday, February 14 to Sunday, February 16. There were dozens of games available to play – some were being showcased, while others were included in installments within the museum itself. There were also talks, including keynotes, and many of the game developers were on-hand to discuss their games… and check out what other people were making. It was an exciting weekend, and Warp Zoned was there to drink it all in. (more…)
Daily Scoop: February 19, 2014 – TitanFall
I don’t really play shooters on the PC, simply because I never have. There’s nothing else to it, really – I just haven’t, and so I’m afraid to try it, because there are just so many buttons, and they’re all over a keyboard, and isn’t the controller so much easier? What TitanFall has taught me is that it’s not: in fact, it’s nowhere near as beautiful as using a keyboard and mouse. Or maybe this game just captures what it is to be a PC shooter so perfectly that it’s the best introduction I could ever have. Either way, the beta is this flawless, pulsating, nearly living thing that has taken over my free time, shredding it into tiny little unrecognizable strips.
All of this might be more perfectly told by Penny Arcade, but I still have feelings, too.
Back to reality: what are today’s deals? There’s less than a day left on the Humble Weekly Bundle, featuring several IndieCade darlings and supporting the IndieCade foundation. There are also some deals at the Humble Store as well, including Drunken Robot Pornography for $11.99 and Probably Archery for $8.99.
The Daily Deal at Steam today is Darkout, which is on sale for $7.49. And I forgot to mention yesterday that Garry’s Mod is also on sale for Midweek Madness, at the low price of just $2.49.
And now, the moment you’ve certainly been waiting for – the t-shirts!
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Disgaea 4 Vita and more to be released by NIS America in 2014
NIS America announced their 2014 release schedule last week, and there’s plenty for all you doods out there! President Souhei Niikawa came out with a Prinny hat on and thanked the press for their support. He went on to say that NIS is currently working on a game for the PlayStation 4, and that the full details would come out at the Tokyo Game Show later this year. After that, NIS showed trailers showcasing NISA’s upcoming projects…
- Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited, for the Vita, is a portable remake of the PS3 RPG.
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, also for the Vita, is a sequel to the recently released school-set RPG.
- Demon Gaze, a first-person RPG for the Vita.
- Hyperdimension Neptunia Producing Perfection, an “idol simulation” based on the popular RPG series based on personalities from the game industry.
- Battle Princess of Arcadias is a side-scrolling brawler for the PS3.
- Fairy Fencer F is a turn-based RPG from Compile Heart for the PS3.
- Mugen Souls Z is another RPG from Compile Heart for the PS3.
- The Witch and the Hundred Knight is an action RPG that will be available for the PS3 on March 25.
As always, it’s a huge list of quirky games, each with their own niche following.
For full details on all of these games, check out the PlayStation Blog. Or, if you just want to see the latest screenshots, check out a Flickr gallery set up by Sony.
Final Borderlands 2 DLC, Sir Hammerlock Versus the Son of Crawmerax, out on April 15
Gearbox is wrapping up the Headhunter Packs with their final DLC for Borderlands 2. This one is Easter-themed – or at least, Easter-colored – and is called Sir Hammerlock Versus the Son of Crawmerax.
The Vault Hunters are setting out to take a nice vacation when Sir Hammerlock gets unceremoniously kidnapped. Spend some time with Brick, Mordecai, Lilith, and Crazy Earl as you try to find Hammerlock and destroy Crawmerax Jr. in the process. (He’s just a little peeved about his dad getting killed back in The Secret Armory of General Knoxx DLC from Borderlands, and wants some revenge.)
Of course, you’ll get a great head for your troubles, and there are some new skins for the Vault Hunters as well. This final Headhunter Pack will cost $2.99 and will be out on April 15 for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
My only question is… if Gearbox isn’t working on Borderlands 3, and this is the final DLC for Borderlands 2, what exactly are they working on?
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Tagged Borderlands 2