Author: Nicole Kline

Nicole Kline is Warp Zoned's Senior Editor. She first began preparing for the job by climbing a milk crate to play Centipede in an arcade. You can find her on PSN under the name toitle or you can email her at nicole AT warpzoned DOT com.

First screenshots from standalone version of DayZ released

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Nicole Kline

The DayZ creators have been hard at work building their standalone game, and have just released the first screenshots from it. The shots are from in-progress work, “with only basic texture work and initial lighting passes.”

These buildings were made in the original ArmA 2 game with no thought about interiors, and the DayZ creators are going in and giving each building guts, to give the players more opportunities for scavenging for much-needed items. As it says on their development blog,

“The village I used to take the screenshot in now has all its buildings enterable, including the sheds. Most focus has so far been on the buildings that are situated outside of the center, but focus now is turning to doing interiors for the city buildings. This is complicated by our desire to dramatically increase performance, and given the scene complexity inside cities we need to balance this with the desire to increase building scavenging opportunities inside the cities.”

Check out the full post, as well as more screenshots, at the DayZ blog.

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Daily Scoop: October 16, 2012 – Plans within plans

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Nothing like having a full agenda and getting nothing done! I swear that’s been my life lately. Try to get one thing together and a million other things seem to fall in the way. Oh, and also, today is kind of a natural bummer of a day – it’s the day BioShock Infinite was supposed to come out. Boo!

Anyway, what’s going on for today? John Scalzo, our Editor-in-Chief, let me know that Gamefly is having a nice sale – it’s an under $15 sale on used games. You can get Mass Effect 3 or Syndicate for $9.99, or Binary Domain or Batman: Arkham City for $14.99. Or you could just spend your money on the Borderlands 2 DLC that came out today, or saving it up for the new Sleeping Dogs DLC that was just announced. Scoop those up, people! For sure.

Some great t-shirts are up for sale today! (more…)

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Sleeping Dogs “Nightmare in North Point” DLC launches on October 30

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Sleeping Dogs is about to get a scary makeover with its new DLC game mode, “Nightmare in North Point.” Square Enix and United Front Games showed off the new mode at this weekend’s New York Comic Con. Check out the video above for some very awesome gameplay. Wei Shen, now with lightning powers, like he’s in Big Trouble in Little China? Holy crap yes.

“Nightmare in North Point” will be out on October 30 for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Be sure to grab a copy of Sleeping Dogs so you can play this scary DLC expansion in time for Halloween.

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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale beta begins today for PS Plus members

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Nicole Kline

PlayStation Plus members and Vita owners are about to get a special treat: starting today, October 16, the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale beta will be available. It will open up to the general public on October 23, but Plus subscribers and Vita owners will get a full extra week of full-on brawling. The beta will close on October 30.

According to the PlayStation Blog, here’s what you can expect:

  • Playable characters are Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Colonel Radec, Sly Cooper, PaRappa, and Fat Princess
  • Stages are Metropolis and Hades
  • Tournament types will be four-player online tournaments and 2 v 2 online tournaments (For the latter, friend invites will be supported, meaning you and friend can take on another team online)

They’ve also unveiled all of the pre-order bonus skins. Check the image after the jump to see what you’ll be getting! (more…)

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Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul to star in Need For Speed movie

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Aaron Paul is going places. As his final season as Jesse Pinkman in “Breaking Bad” is wrapping up, he’s been jumping into movies. The most recent bit of news? He’ll be starring as the lead in the new film Need for Speed.

The Dreamworks film will be inspired by the EA franchise. Due to hit theaters February 7, 2014, the studio says it will begin filming early next year. Scott Waugh will be the director, with the story written by John and George Gatin, and co-produced by John Gatin and EA’s Patrick O’Brien and Mark Sourian.

According to the Entertainment Weekly article,

While Need For Speed seeks to capitalize on the same car-culture passion that made The Fast and Furious movies such hits, the presence of an actor of Paul’s caliber suggests the racing thriller may be steering for a little more depth.

More depth? Than Fast and Furious? Impossible.

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Daily Scoop: October 15, 2012 – PokeyMans!

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Welcome to yet another exciting week! I have deals, and funny websites, and t-shirts, and so much more for you! Well, ok, not really so much more. But I can tell you about my weekend! During this fabulous weekend, I successfully drank a Guinness without getting sick, beat Borderlands 2 (and started a new game as a Gunzerker), saw Looper, and finished the twelfth Dresden Files book. Whew. Oh, and watched the first episode of season three of The Walking Dead. I’ve been a busy lady!

Amazon is just having the same deals they had last week, except not as many of them. They’re still running deal for the Xbox 360 Entertainment Bundle – for $229, you get the Xbox 360 4GB console, an Xbox Live 3 month Gold Membership, the Xbox 360 media remote, a $10 Amazon Instant Video Credit, and 3 Xbox Live Arcade games. They’ve still also got the $30 credit offer when you purchase the Madden NFL 13 PlayStation Vita Wi-Fi Bundle. Best Buy is having an Xbox 360 bundle sale. You can get $50 off the 250GB Holiday Bundle, the 4GB Kinect Holiday Bundle, and the 250GB Kinect Holiday Bundle, each of which comes with different games. Scoop ’em up! Or at least, you know. One of them.

As for funny websites, check out this awesome Pokemon art project, in which webcomic creator Noelle Stevenson draws Pokemon as they are described to her. Stevenson, who doesn’t know the Pokemons, draws them from their descriptions, and hilarity ensues. Let me just put it this way: the line “wow it looks like Crash Bandicoot went through the stupid machine” had me in tears today.

And now, t-shirt time! (more…)

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Daily Scoop: October 12, 2012 – Everybody’s working for the weekend

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Nicole Kline

The weekend is almost upon us! I hope that your weekend is full of delightful fall weather, sweaters, kittens, puppies, candy, and perhaps even a warm spiced drink. Oh, and video games, of course! I’m going to be doing as much gaming as I can fit in with my busy schedule. We’ve got plans to see Looper at some point, and I’m going to a Guinness tasting, which should be nice. Here’s to the busy weekends of the fall!

There are a few good video game deals going on over at Go Hastings right now, including 25% off used games. Put in the code 250K for that one. For some reason, they’re advertising a deal on the game Brink on their games page. Protip: do not buy this garbage. Please!

Finally, I’ve got some great t-shirts for you today! (more…)

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Daily Scoop: October 11, 2012 – Ten eleven twelve!

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Well today is a very special day – it’s the eleventh day of the tenth month of the twelfth year, making it 10/11/12! That’s pretty nifty. Too bad I’m squandering it at home laying in bed, filled with sickness and sadness. At least I get to play Borderlands 2 all day, but… still. It sucks being sick.

You know what else sucks? Zero deals! There are no deals today. I mean, that’s perfectly acceptable, in my opinion… I’ve already got my hands full with Borderlands 2, Retro City Rampage, and Torchlight II, not to mention Pokemon Black 2. I really don’t need anything else right now!

I especially don’t need more t-shirts, but there are a whole bunch of great ones today! (more…)

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