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
- How a Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game – The New York Times (2026)
- 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)
Most Recent: News
505 Games acquires Drawn To Life license
While Nordic Games came away with the big prize from the second THQ auction, 505 Games managed to sneak in a winning bid for the Drawn To Life series. The Italian publisher bid $300,000 for the 5th Cell-developed franchise and that was good enough to win them the rights to the franchise as a whole as well as the previously released Drawn To Life (DS) and Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter (DS, Wii).
The sale of all THQ properties will be finalized during a U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing on May 13, 2013.
Believe it or not, Deep Silver released the Dead Island: Riptide “torso edition” in UK, Australia
Back in January, the Internet went into complete meltdown after Deep Silver revealed the “bloody torso statue” at the center of the Zombie Bait Edition of Dead Island: Riptide. Normally, a limited edition statue wouldn’t cause much of a stir beyond the hardcore special edition collectors, but the “Zombie Bait Edition” was set to include a statue that depicted a mutilated (read: armless and legless and headless) woman wearing nothing but a Union Jack bikini.
Deep Silver apologized for the statue saying, “We sincerely regret this choice.” The statement also said: “[W]e are committed to making sure this will never happen again.” No matter how much they said they regretted it at the time, the company has gone ahead and released the “Zombie Bait Edition” as originally planned in the UK and Australia. I guess if you promise to make sure something never happens again, it has to happen at least once.
According to CNET Australia, a Deep Silver representative told them that “an extremely limited quantity of the Zombie Bait Edition has been made available to some retailers for those customers who wish to purchase it.”
Show the 'Torso Edition'
[Source: CVG]
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Dead Island: Riptide
Nordic Games wins big at THQ auction: Darksiders, Red Faction, MX vs ATV, more
An unlikely winner has emerged in the second round of the THQ sweepstakes: Nordic Games. The small publisher, located in Austria, bid $4.9 million to obtain the majority of THQ’s remaining properties including Darksiders, Red Faction, MX vs ATV, Destroy all Humans!, Summoner, Titan Quest, Frontlines, Juiced, Full Spectrum Warrior, and over 150 other titles. A full list of Nordic’s acquisitions will be unveiled soon, probably sometime after the purchase hearing current set for May 13.
But now the question becomes, what happens next? What does Nordic Games, best known for publishing the Painkiller series, plan to do with all of these properties? According to Lars Wingefors, Nordic’s CEO, the company plans to embark on an in-depth analysis of each property and will eventually move forward with sequels to many of them.
“First and foremost we are very happy about this deal which also turns over a new leaf for the entire Nordic Games Group. In the long term, we either want to cooperate with the original creators or best possible developers in order to work on sequels or additional content for these titles,” Wingefors said.
To that end, Nordic Games has set up a special section in their official forums to solicit fan feedback on how to proceed with their new toys.
The first half of the THQ auction was held in January, with Deep Silver, Ubisoft, Crytek, Take-Two Interactive, and Sega participating.
Posted in 3DS, DS, News, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
Tagged Darksiders, Darksiders II, Destroy All Humans, MX vs ATV Alive, Red Faction: Armageddon
God of War: Ascension, GOW Legacy PS3 Bundle lead interesting Amazon Gold Box day
Are you in the market for a PS3? If so, Amazon has a great deal for today as part of their latest Gold Box promotion. Today only, he retailer has slashed the price of the God of War Legacy PS3 Bundle by $70. Regularly priced at $349.99, it can be yours for $279.99. The bundle, which includes a Garnet Red PS3 with a 500GB hard drive, God of War: Ascension, and the God of War Saga collection, is every God of War fan’s dream. And if you’ve already got a PS3 setup and all the other God of War games, Amazon has also taken 33% off the price of God of War: Ascension today ($39.99).
Ten “Lightning Deals” round out today’s sale, let’s see if we can guess what they’ll be:
EXPIRED 12:00 AM (Pacific) – Gears of War: Judgement
5:00 AM (Pacific) – Halo 4
7:00 AM (Pacific) – Agent 47 he takes on his most dangerous and personal contract to date. (Best Guess: Hitman: Retribution)
9:00 AM (Pacific) – Team up to take down the Necromorph threat. (Best Guess: Dead Space 3)
11:00 AM (Pacific) – Envelop yourself in a richly detailed, 3D sound field as you… (Best Guess: headphones)
1:00 PM (Pacific) – Give yourself an audio advantage! (Best Guess: more headphones)
3:00 PM (Pacific) – What choices will you make to escape alive? (Best Guess: Tomb Raider)
5:00 PM (Pacific) – Race on some of the best driving roads in the world (Best Guess: Forza Horizon)
7:00 PM (Pacific) – Put 13 great sports at your fingertips! (Best Guess: Kinect Sports or a similar minigame collection)
9:00 PM (Pacific) – Experience the LEGO The Lord of the Rings heroes come to life in a… (Best Guess: Lego Lord of the Rings)
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged God of War: Ascension
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection coming to PS3 in June
After a tweet from creator Hideo Kojima seemingly outed the package last week, the Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection has finally been officially announced by Konami.
The Legacy Collection will be available exclusively on the PlayStation 3, and will consist of Metal Gear Solid, the somewhat rare Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions (both will be the PSone versions), the HD Collection versions of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, and the “Trophy Edition” of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Not only will you get all that, you will also receive not one, but two, digital graphic novels written by Ashley Wood.
The Legacy Collection will be available in stores sometime in June, and we’ll bring you an official release date as soon as Konami announces it, so stay tuned!
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection
Splinter Cell: Blacklist’s Wii U features are declassified in this new trailer
The latest trailer for Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist showcases some of the in-game abilities that have been made easier to execute using the Wii U GamePad.
Marking targets and drone piloting are just two things that you can expect to use the Wii U GamePad for in Blacklist. It really looks like Ubisoft has enhanced the gameplay experience by using the Wii U GamePad instead of giving the system a straight port.
Ubisoft is targeting a release date of August 20 in North America, August 22 in EMEA regions, and August 23 in the UK for Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
Posted in News, Wii U
Tagged Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist
Daily Scoop: April 22, 2013 – Off to ECGC!
Another week, another exciting event! This week, it’s the East Coast Game Conference in North Carolina. I’ll be back on Friday! But until then, you’ll just have to find your own deals, sadly. Wait! Please don’t be too sad!
If you’ve been waiting patiently for Dishonored to go one sale, I’ve got good news – you can get it right now on Amazon for $19.99. If I didn’t have a giant pile of games sitting next to my television right now, as well as a big pile of stuff to move into my new apartment, I would have bought it already! Once I’m all moved in, I might splurge on a few new games. We’ll just have to see…
Got some great t-shirts for you today! Hit the jump for the awesomeness. (more…)
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
Gearbox acquires Homeworld license in THQ auction
Bidding in the second THQ auction concluded last week and most of the publisher’s remaining intellectual property will find new homes soon. One such property is the real-time strategy series Homeworld, which has been acquired by Gearbox Software.
In the announcement, Gearbox revealed that the Homeworld series is a favorite of Brian Martel, the company’s Chief Creative Officer. Plans for the future of the franchise are still up in the air, but Martel has promised that Gearbox is already in the process of making Homeworld and Homeworld 2 available on leading digital platforms soon.
The company is also actively recruiting new talent to work on their latest acquisition, closing the press release with this news: “[P]lease try to get our attention if you have capability and interest to join the effort in developing or enabling Homeworld’s future.”
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Homeworld, Homeworld 2