Warp Zoned Presents
Video Game Canon- Angry Birds, Dragon Quest, FIFA Soccer, and Silent Hill are the World Video Game Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
- BAFTA Games Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- Clair Obscur Completes the Sweep by Winning “Best Game” at 2025-2026 BAFTA Games Awards
- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
Warp Zoned Presents
- Video Game Research Library
- Spore: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- 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)
Most Recent: News
Daily Scoop: June 20, 2014 – Saga
If you like Space Operas even the slightest, you should definitely check out the comic book series Saga. I am finally caught up on it – I bought the third volume and promised myself I’d read it when I was done school – and wow, it is incredible. I wish they would make a video game out of it – the universe is so rich and I would love to explore it on my own. There’s just so much out there!
Speaking of so much being out there, the Steam Summer Sale is still going strong. You can get State of Decay for $4.99, Plague Inc: Evolved for $10.04, and The Walking Dead: Season 2 for $12.49, among many other sales. If that’s not enough, the Humble Store is offering up Thief for $14.99, The Novelist for $7.49, and Papo & Yo for $3.74. Scoop ’em up!
Let’s end this week with a fantastic lineup of t-shirts!
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
Nintendo Download: Pushmo World, 2048, Super Dodge Ball, more
Nintendo has brought their Pushmo series of puzzlers to the Wii U with today’s launch of Pushmo World on the Wii U eShop. It’s joined by an absolutely ridiculous number of new games including…
- How To Survive, a survival horror game (whoa, meta) for the Wii U.
- 2048 (3DS), the mobile puzzler that was inspired in large part by Threes!
- Super Dodge Ball (3DS and Wii U), one of the few dodge ball games ever to be produced and a stone cold NES classic.
- Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition (3DS and Wii U), a fancified version of the popular platformer.
And that’s just the tip of this week’s new releases on the 3DS, Wii U, and DSi. More information on all of this week’s new releases can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, DS, News, Wii U
Tagged Pushmo World
Catlateral Damage struts its stuff on Kickstarter
Another Warp Zoned favorite, Catlateral Damage, is now on Kickstarter. I was freaking out about this one before I included it on our PAXpocalypse list, because it was amazing even before I played it. It’s a ridiculous amount of fun, sort of like a backwards Katamari Damacy, where you play as a cat knocking over everything in your owner’s house. My one regret right now is that I don’t have $500+ to get my awesome cat Puppy in the game.
Catlateral Damage is due out in November 2014 for PC, Mac, Linux, and Ouya. You can play the demo now on their Kickstarter page, and you really, really should.
Posted in Mobile, News, PC
Tagged Catlateral Damage
Daily Scoop: June 19, 2014 – Rainy Thursday
It’s a gorgeous, rainy Thursday, and I’m home alone trying to get some work done. Of course, what that means is I’ve gotten about half of my work done, and read almost the entire Internet. I was planning on going to Wizard World Philadelphia this weekend, but I’m just not sure if I can justify spending that much money on a convention I haven’t been enjoying much in recent years. I’ve been going since 2000 (omg!), and I’ve seen the major ups and downs of WW, and at this point, I don’t know if I’m willing to spend $55 to go for one day. I’d much rather save that money and use it towards one of the many PAXes that now occur around the world. Nothing against comics, but… video games!
Let’s talk about video games, shall we? Steam just announced their monstrous Summer Sale, which will go from today until June 30th. The Witcher 2 is $3.99, Far Cry 3 is $7.49, XCOM: Enemy Uknown is $7.49, and there are about a billion others on sale. Go check it out!
There’s a new Humble Weekly Bundle as well. This one’s all about strategy games! Pay what you want for Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD, and Cubetractor. Pay $6 or more to unlock Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign, Eador: Masters of the Broken World, and Space Hulk. Pay $9 or more to unlock Ironclad Tactics.
There are some great t-shirts today, too!
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
XBL Store Today: Sixty Second Shooter Prime
For the third time in two days, Microsoft has updated the Xbox Live Games Store with a new game. This time it’s Sixty Second Shooter Prime, a twin-stick shooter from Happion Labs. Perhaps in the future they’ll gain access to some kind of “Xbox Blog” to alert players and the media about these new releases in a single news blast.
Nah, that’d never work.
Anyway, Sixty Second Shooter Prime has been priced at $4.99 and is available to download for the Xbox One now:
Sixty Second Shooter Prime is a twin stick shooter with a sixty second time limit. You’ll be surprised how fun that is. You have one minute – and one life! – with which to deal as much destruction as possible. The enemy hordes are relentless, so only the sharpest wits and the fastest reflexes will prevail. Will you press your luck and fly to the deep levels where the truly treacherous foes await? The clock is always ticking in this fast-paced dual-stick shooter. But thankfully, our intrepid scientists at Happion Laboratories have developed all-new weapons to help you in those sixty seconds of hell. Use missiles to build a large chain bonus or lure your opponents into deadly remote-detonating bombs. With these tools at your disposal, you can develop all kinds of strategies to make that minute last a lifetime!
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition will be available on July 1
DrinkBox Studios has announced that their side-scrolling action game Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition will be available to download for the PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on July 1. In case you missed it last year, Guacamelee! stars a luchador named Juan Aguacate and follows his quest to save the President’s daughter from the evil undead controlled by Carlos Calaca.
The “Super Turbo Championship Edition” will add a variety of new features to the PS3/Vita original, including:
- Expanded Story – An expanded version of the game that includes new content and all DLC from the original
- New Game Areas – Players will ride boats through the Canal of Flowers to save a besieged fishing town, and avoid lava as they climb through the fiery Volcano
- New Boss – Face off against the deadly Trio of Death, a three-headed skeleton that lives in the Volcano, who helps the evil Carlos Calaca build his skeleton armies
- New Abilities – Maximize destruction with the powerful new INTENSO combat mode and dish out scrambled pain with powerful Chicken Bombs. Plus, swap dimensions independently in co-op play using the new Shadow Swap ability.
- New Enemies – Lethal new elite-class enemies that want to chokeslam luchadores to sleep
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition will be priced at $14.99 on all platforms.
XBL Store Today (Part 2): Outlast
Now this is a surprise. Microsoft had previously performed their Wednesday update to the Xbox Live Games Store this morning, adding EA Sports UFC for the Xbox One and Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack!!! for the Xbox 360. But about an hour ago, they added another Xbox One game: Red Barrels’ Outlast.
The first-person survival horror game was released for the PS4 in February after a successful PC launch last year. But up until the moment the game was added to the XBL Store, no one knew it was in development for the Xbox One. Another interesting question to ask in light of Outlast’s Xbox One launch is, “What does this mean for Microsoft’s famous “parity clause” for ID@Xbox titles?” Before today, the consolemaker wasn’t interested in your game if it was previously released for another console (though, case-by-case exceptions are possible). Either Outlast has qualified for one of those exceptions (Warp Zoned’s Mike Ryan loved it on the PS4) or Microsoft has begun to rethink the whole policy.
After the large number of amazing indie games showcased at this year’s E3 Expo, I’d say the latter would be a wise decision. But for now, I give you Outlast…
Outlast ($19.99)
In the remote mountains of Colorado, horrors wait inside Mount Massive Asylum. A long-abandoned home for the mentally ill, recently re-opened by the “research and charity” branch of the transnational Murkoff Corporation, the asylum has been operating in strict secrecy… until now. Acting on a tip from an anonymous source, independent journalist Miles Upshur breaks into the facility, and what he discovers walks a terrifying line between science and religion, nature and something else entirely. Once inside, his only hope of escape lies with the terrible truth at the heart of Mount Massive.