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Microsoft showing Sonic CD at PAX Prime

Posted on August 22, 2011 by John Scalzo

Now this is an awesome surprise. Microsoft’s Major Nelson laid out the company’s PAX Prime lineup in a post on his blog. Mixed in among other Xbox Live Arcade titles like Trials Evolution, Crimson Alliance and Orcs Must Die is an XBLA port of Sonic CD.

Sonic’s Sega CD adventure was last made available through the GameCube-exclusive Sonic Gems Collection (OK, it was on the PS2 too if you lived in Europe). It’s inclusion on the Xbox Live Arcade is a bit of a no-brainder as Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic 4: Episode 1, Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic Adventure are all already downloadable from the service.

Sega has yet to formally announce Sonic CD for the XBLA, so this could be a mistake, but it sounds pretty legit to me.

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Square Enix and Airtight Games bringing secret project to PAX

Posted on August 22, 2011 by John Scalzo

Even though Gamescom just ended, Square Enix has a new secret project they plan to premiere at this weekend’s PAX Prime.

Developed by Airtight Games (Dark Void), the untitled game is said to be “incredibly fascinating and quirky.” Square Enix and Airtight have also confirmed that the game’s Creative Director is ex-Valve employee Kim Swift. Swift was one of the creative minds behind Narbacular Drop as well as its successor, Portal, and Left 4 Dead.

The game will be make its public debut on Saturday, August 27 at 7:00 PM during a panel in the Pegasus Room.

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Mortal Kombat 10 likely, but don’t expect it next year

Posted on August 22, 2011 by John Scalzo

Here’s a shocker, Mortal Kombat 10 is being discussed within NetherRealm Studios. Speaking to Official Xbox Magazine, series creator Ed Boon had this to say about future installments in the brutal fighting franchise:

“We’re going to at least have a conversation about a sequel, but we certainly haven’t started or planned out anything,” offers Boon. “I would love to see another one come out in the not-too-distant future. At the same time, I personally wouldn’t want to release one really fast — like next year — because I think you can oversaturate [the market], especially having released a game that’s doing exceptionally well. I would really want to give it time to breathe.”

So work on MK10 hasn’t begun yet, but a sequel to this April’s big-selling reboot sounds very likely. Unless NetherRealm does a 180 and tries their hand at a non-fighting game as Boon also told OXM that the studio is “definitely exploring other opportunities [beyond the fighting genre].”

Mortal Kombat Basketball confirmed!

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Daily Scoop: August 22, 2011 – Fun hangover!

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Nicole Kline

I had way more fun this weekend than I thought humanly possible! The Philadelphia Geek Awards were amazing (check out what you missed!), I played loads of Dungeons & Dragons, and I got to spend yesterday with my family. It was low on video games, but with PAX Prime coming up in just a few days (eeeee!), I’ll be making up for that soon enough.

Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games today is EA Sports MMA for $9.99 on the PlayStation 3. Also, the PC MMO Hello Kitty Online Premier Edition is just $5.56! The two new weekly deals are a discount on Kinect game Brunswick Pro Bowling, which is $27.08, and the other is buy Disney Epic Mickey, get another Disney game from that list free. That means you could get Disney Epic Mickey and Disney Sing It: Party Hits for $29.99. ZOMG.

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Duke Nukem Begins, Fable IV rumored, even though both have already been announced

Posted on August 22, 2011 by John Scalzo

Who wants some?

The October 2011 issue of Official Xbox Magazine (via CVG) is spreading the rumor that Fable IV and Duke Nukem Begins are in the works at, respectively, Lionhead and Gearbox. Awesome news for fans of those franchises, but neither game is actually rumored to be in development, they’ve already been confirmed by the creators themselves.

According to OXM, Fable IV will appear in 2013 with a “proper, controller-based” game. But series creator Peter Molyneux already confirmed a “proper” Fable sequel back in March. Another Fable title, the Kinect-powered Fable: The Journey was announced at E3 and will be released in 2012.

Duke Nukem Begins has an even stranger saga. OXM relays the rumor that Gearbox will reboot the Duke Nukem franchise after they complete Aliens: Colonial Marines. But the game, then known as Duke Begins, was first revealed in a court filing when Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms sued Take-Two. According to the court filing, the game was canceled, but Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick and Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford have both confirmed more Duke Nukem games are on the way. So why not start with the already begun Duke Nukem Begins?

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Dragon Age III will be “the best from Dragon Age and Dragon Age II”

Posted on August 21, 2011 by John Scalzo

Speaking to PC Gamer, BioWare CEO Dr. Ray Muzyka has revealed the first bit of news about Dragon Age III. Quizzing the developer about the franchise’s split fandom after Dragon Age II (our own Adam Woolcott awarded it a four out of five), the magazine asked Muzyka what direction the threequel would take.

He could have spouted the obvious “we’re going back to the basics” line that you would expect, but instead, Muzyka confirmed that Dragon Age III will combine “the best from both games, Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II.”

“What we need to do as developers is take that feedback from both sets of fans to heart and see about marrying that in future games in the Dragon Age franchise. I think that the team has actually got a great plan. I think the team is going to have some things that are going to surprise both sets of fans, both core fans and new fans with a marriage of these… the best from both games, Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II. And we look forward more to talking about that in the future.”

Dragon Age III has yet to be officially announced, but it will likely be released sometime in 2012.

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Weekly Warp-Up: Gamescom is Over, Onto PAX Prime

Posted on August 21, 2011 by 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…

August’s two big gaming expos happen one right after the other and just as Gamescom comes to a close in Germany, PAX Prime is readying itself for the big time in Seattle. The gaming world had more than that this week as all sorts news that is both thrilling and chilling spilled out onto the Interwebs this week.

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This week, our focus remained on the awe-inspiring Borderlands 2. We got a look at the game’s first teaser trailer, a few screenshots and capped it off with a wish list detailing What We Want From Borderlands 2. Take a ride!

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Gears of War 3 opening cinematic is Hollywood-riffic

Posted on August 20, 2011 by John Scalzo

Gears of War 3‘s September 20 release date is exactly a month away and Microsoft has unveiled the game’s cinematic. Taking its cues from a big budget Hollywood blockbuster, the game dishes out the storyline so far thanks to an audio diary being recorded by Anya Stroud.

It looks, in a word, epic.

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