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Weekly Warp-Up: We Want Wii U 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…
Nintendo has finally fully pulled the curtain back on the Wii U. We now know that Nintendo’s next-generation system will be released on November 18 in both a Deluxe Set and a Basic Set. We also know the Deluxe Set will be priced at $350 while the Basic Set will retail for $300.
The two biggest surprises of the Media Event were the announcements of Bayonetta 2 as a Wii U exclusive and the reveal of Nintendo TVii. Much less surprising, but still exciting, was confirmation that Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be availale on launch day.
And speaking of launch day, Nintendo also revealed that 21 titles will be available on November 18 alongside the new console, with another 30 set to release over the first three months of 2013. Oh, and most Wii U games will be priced at $60.
Was there any non-Wii U-related news this week? There most certainly was! Read all about it after the break. (more…)
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New Releases: Borderlands 2, Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Set, F1 2012, More
The Fall gaming rush has definitely arrived as one of this season’s most anticipated releases, Borderlands 2 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360), will be available in stores this week. If wacky adventures on Pandora in search of loot aren’t your thing, then perhaps you’d prefer to punch it out with your friends thanks to the massive Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Set (PS3, Xbox 360).
If neither of these options are to your liking, there’s always the open wheel racing thrills of F1 2012 (PS3, Xbox 360) and several other new releases that can be found after the break. (more…)
Microsoft registers domains for Halo 7, Halo 8, Halo 9
Microsoft famously announced a brand new trilogy of Halo games, specifically Halo 4, Halo 5, and Halo 6, during their E3 2011 Press Conference. That was seen as extreme long-range planning then, but now it’s just getting ridiculous.
According to Fusible, the publisher has recently snapped up a ton of domains related to Halo 7, Halo 8, and Halo 9 including:
- halo7.net
- halo7.org
- halo8.org
- halo9.net
- halo9.org
So let’s see, judging by current development cycles, we should all be playing Halo 7 by 2018. Maybe 2020 at the latest. So start saving for the Super Mega Awesome Edition now!
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Steam community approves first ten Greenlight games
Valve has announced the first ten titles that have been approved for Steam Greenlight. Greenlight is a new Valve initiative, meant to utilize the community to select the next upcoming games to be released on their platform, Steam. These first titles will be released in the coming months, depending on their completion dates (as they are all at different levels currently).
The ten games are:
- Black Mesa
- Cry of Fear
- Dream
- Heroes & Generals
- Kenshi
- McPixel
- No More Room in Hell
- Project Zomboid
- Routine
- Towns
Valve business developer Anna Sweet said, “The Steam community rallied around these titles and made them the clear choice for the first set of titles to launch out of Greenlight. Since launch, hundreds of titles have been submitted, with more coming in every day. We expect to be announcing more titles coming to Steam via Greenlight soon.”
For more information on the games, check out the Greenlight site.
New Little King’s Story coming to Vita on October 2
New Little King’s Story will be coming to the PlayStation Vita on October 2. XSEED’s follow-up to 2009’s Little King’s Story for the Wii will feature a new storyline as King Corobo, hot on the trail of “Nightmare,” the Devil King, who has taken his kingdom.
As King Corobo, you will visit seven kingdoms to free the seven captured princesses. Players will lead the Royal Guard into battle, strategizing to win back their land. The game will include online features, including DLC, cooperative play with item combining, and leaderboards, as well as upgraded visuals and touch controls.
Again, New Little King’s Story will be available via download on the PlayStation Vita on October 2.
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Tagged New Little King's Story
Fuse (formerly known as Overstrike) set for March 2013 release
Insomniac Games is working with EA on its first multiplatform release. Originally known as Overstrike, it’s now called Fuse. The official announcement trailer can be seen above, and it’s a bit different from the E3 2011 trailer.
While the Insomniac feel is still there – the crazy weapons, the giant enemies – there’s definitely a change in tone between those two trailers. Gone is the cartoony fun we know from Ratchet and Clank. There’s more of a Resistance feel happening here, but even that seems a bit stripped down. Hopefully teaming up with EA and going multiplatform isn’t choking the creativity out of this much-beloved studio.
Obsidian wants to fund isometric RPG Project Eternity through Kickstarter
Obsidian Entertainment is at it again. The great minds who brought us Fallout and Fallout 2, as well as the Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale franchises and many, many others, are working on a new PC game tentatively titled Project Eternity.
The tease they posted as “Project X” a few days ago is now a Kickstarter project. As with many companies these days, Obsidian doesn’t want to compromise their dreams with a publisher, and is going right to the public. The Kickstarter page describes the scope of Project Eternity:
Project Eternity will take the central hero, memorable companions and the epic exploration of Baldur’s Gate, add in the fun, intense combat and dungeon diving of Icewind Dale, and tie it all together with the emotional writing and mature thematic exploration of Planescape: Torment.
Combat uses a tactical real-time with pause system – positioning your party and coordinating attacks and abilities is one of the keys to success. The world map is dotted with unique locations and wilderness ripe for exploration and questing. You’ll create your own character and collect companions along the way – taking him or her not just through this story, but, with your continued support, through future adventures. You will engage in dialogues that are deep, and offer many choices to determine the fate of you and your party. …and you’ll experience a story that explores mature themes and presents you with complex, difficult choices to shape how your story plays out.
Intrigued? Go fund them. Heck, if you’ve got a grand laying around, you can even help design the game, creating your own NPC.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Pillars of Eternity
Daily Scoop: September 14, 2012 – Friday, hooray!
It’s Friday at last! And I’m afraid I’m still sick. Fever + tummy problems = a sad panda. I am still slogging through it to do some laundry, though that cleaning I really wanted to get done is just going to have to get put off yet again. At least I can still play video games! Right now I’m deciding between more of The Last Story on the Wii or Link’s Awakening on my 3DS. Decisions, decisions…
There are a few deals going on at Target right now, including $10 off Madden NFL 13 and $20 off Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Scoop ’em up!
But the big news right now is that I found out there’s a midnight release of Borderlands 2 right here in Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love does not often hold these midnight releases, so I’m glad my most anticipated game of the year is one of them! Don’t expect me to be coherent next week, folks.
And now… t-shirts! (more…)
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