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Dust 514 enters open beta on January 22 as CCP merges Eve Online with PSN FPS
CCP Games has announced that their free-to-play PS3 first person shooter, Dust 514, will enter an open beta phase on January 22 as all PlayStation Network users will be able to download the game beginning next week.
The open beta was preceded by CCP’s merging of the Dust 514 game world and their MMO, Eve Online. According to CCP, the single persistent online universe that this merger has created is “something unprecedented in videogame history.”
“The launch of the Dust 514 Open Beta is another step towards our long-term vision for CCP and Eve,” said Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP. “But this is just the beginning. As we have done with EVE Online, in the coming weeks, and for years to come, we will continually improve upon and add to the Dust 514 experience, as well as add deeper integration between the two games and their communities.”
If you can’t wait one more week, access to the Dust 514 closed beta is still available by purchasing the Dust 514 Mercenary Pack from the PlayStation Store.
Dean Dodrill (very vaguely) hints at new Dust announcement
The whole world missed this one last week, but even the vaguest hint about the future prospects of Dust: An Elysian Tail is something you want to follow up on.
Dean Dodrill, the one-man-band behind the Xbox Live Arcade hit, took to Twitter and revealed that he actually has two projects in the works, one of which is related to Dust in some way:
@glidding @freesmon @ricodragonborn Thanks all for playing. I’ll hopefully have something new to announce soon… Dust related and not.
— Dean Dodrill (@NoogyTweet) January 6, 2013
First announced in 2009, Dust: An Elysian Tail wasn’t added to the XBLA until this past August, so Dodrill might have a different definition of “soon” than you or I. That said, any announcement will probably be worth the wait.
Posted in News, Xbox 360
Tagged Dust: An Elysian Tail
Journey lands 11 nominations at 2013 DICE Awards
The Interactive Achievement Awards will be sporting a new look in 2013, but they’ve managed to recognize the great games all the same. Now known as the DICE Awards, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences revealed their picks for the best games of the year this morning, nominating thatgamecompany’s Journey for an astonishing 11 awards.
The game is up for… deep breath… Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, Outstanding Innovation in Gaming, Downloadable Game of the Year, Casual Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Gameplay Engineering, Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, and Outstanding Achievement in Story.
Other Game of the Year contenders include Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. All four of those games are up for multiple awards, along with other big hitters like Halo 4 (six nominations) and Dishonored (five nominations).
The 2013 DICE Awards will be given out on February 7 during the 2013 DICE Summit. Our host for the evening will be Chris Hardwick, best known as the host of The Nerdist and Telltale’s Talking Dead (hmmm…).
The complete list of nominees can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, Mobile, News, PC, PS3, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360
Tagged Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, Journey, The Walking Dead, XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Weekly Warp-Up: Naughty Gods Edition
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…
We’re 13 days into 2013 and this year’s gaming landscape started to become a bit more focused this week. Sony dropped the God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta onto the PlayStation Network for PlayStation Plus users and we put Kratos and the other naughty gods through their paces. Spoiler alert: It’s pretty great.
This week also brought with it the first details about Pokemon X and Y, the first “main series” Pokemon games for the 3DS; Lego Marvel Super Heroes, a surprsing announcement from the DC Comics-owning WB Games; the standalone version of DayZ, which has gone through a complete overhaul; and the surprise announcement of Major League Baseball 2K13.
Are you looking for more news from last week? Then look no further than the link below. (more…)
Posted in News
New Releases: DMC Devil May Cry, BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition
2013’s slim release schedule continues this week as only two new titles will make their way into stores. And only one of them can technically be called “new.”
That game is Ninja Theory’s new take on the Devil May Cry franchise, DMC: Devil May Cry. It’ll be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360. A PC release is planned for later in the month.
Also available this week is BioShock: Ultimate Rapture Edition, which includes the original BioShock, BioShock 2, and every piece of downloadable content. It too will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
That’s it! See you next week.
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged BioShock, BioShock 2, DMC: Devil May Cry
Andrew McCutchen steals the MLB 13: The Show cover spot
Andrew McCutchen, the center fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, has been selected by fans as the cover athlete for Sony’s upcoming baseball sim, MLB 13: The Show.
With 108,148 total votes, “Cutch” annihilated the competition, finishing with almost 20,000 votes more than the second place C.C. Sabathia. The rest of the vote totals shook out like so:
3rd: Miguel Cabrera
4th: Matt Kemp
5th: Bryce Harper
6th: Buster Posney
7th: Ryan Braun
Poor Ryan Braun only only got 13,153 votes. Guess they don’t play a lot of PlayStation in Milwaukee. Must be a Microsoft town.
MLB: The Show will be available for the PS3 and Vita on March 5.
Posted in News, PS3, Vita
Tagged MLB 13: The Show
Warner Bros. has (probably) registered more Batman: Arkham Asylum-related domains
Batman: Arkham City wasn’t always known as Batman: Arkham City. Originally, WB Games referred to the project as Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 when it was first unveiled during the 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards. it was only later that we would learn the game’s official title as part of a mass registration of domain names by WB Games.
Can you guess where this is going? Yup, Warner Bros. has gone on another domain registration spree.
The following domains were all registered by MarkMonitor, the domain management company that handles all of Warner Bros.’s web addresses. So it is (technically) unknown if Warner Bros. even owns these domains. But they probably do. And they could have been registered for any number of reasons. As misdirection… as a pre-emptive strike against domain squatters… to promote a product completely unrelated to video games… for some other reason entirely. It is literally too early to tell.
But here’s the list of domains anyway. Personally, I think “Batman: Arkham Knight” sounds kind of awesome…
- arkhamuniverse.com (Arkham Universe)
- batmanarkahmuniverse.com (Batman: Arkham Universe)
- batmanarkhamarises.com (Batman: Arkham Arises)
- batmanarkhambegins.com (Batman: Arkham Begins)
- batmanarkhamdarkknight.com (Batman: Arkham Dark Knight)
- batmanarkhamknight.com (Batman: Arkham Knight)
- batmanarkhamlegend.com (Batman: Arkham Legend)
- batmanarkhamlegends.com (Batman: Arkham Legends)
- batmanarkhamnight.com (Batman: Arkham Night)
- batmanarkhamorigins.com (Batman: Arkham Origins)
- batmanarkhamstories.com (Batman: Arkham Stories)
- darkknightarkham.com (Dark Knight Arkham)
- dcarkhamuniverse.com (DC Arkham Universe)
- dcarkhamverse.com (DC Arkhamverse)
- thearkhamuniverse.com (The Arkham Universe)
[Source: Fusible]
Posted in News
Tagged Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman: Arkham Origins, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
God of War: Ascension Beta Impressions: Eviscerating Your Expectations
The God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta launched this Tuesday for PlayStation Plus members, and, as a member and a person who’s played the previous God of War games extensively, I felt I had an obligation to download it. I was skeptical about the idea of multiplayer in a God of War game, mainly because the entire concept behind the franchise was the struggle of just one man: Kratos. He has created his own mythology, becoming a fixture in the Sony gaming world. So how could they make multiplayer in a game that was so Kratos-centric? My healthy skepticism was almost instantly destroyed when I began playing the beta. Yes, it’s actually that much fun. (more…)
Posted in Previews, PS3, Top Story
Tagged God of War: Ascension