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- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
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- 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)
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Daily Scoop: January 9, 2017 – I’m back, baby!
It’s been so long since I wrote my last scoop! I was off from work and totally overbooked myself, ending with the last four days in D.C. for MAGFest. It was a great time, but I’m exhausted!
In between running around, I played a lot of video games, including Dishonored: Definitive Edition for the PlayStation 4. I have to admit: I’m having a total blast with it! But I also have almost 20 games still shrinkwrapped next to my television, so I’m looking forward to continuing on.
There’s less than a day to back the Humble Game Developer Software Bundle. Pay $1 or more for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Standard, the beta for Pyxel Edit, Spriter Pro, and the Spriter Pro Game Effects Art Pack. Beat the average to unlock HTML5 Exporter, Marmoset Hexels 2.5, a one-year subscription to Todoist Premium, art packs for three different Spriter Pros, and PICO-8. Pay $10 or more to also unlock SpriteIlluminator Lifetime License, art packs for two more Spriter Pros, Voxatron, and a one-year subscription to 1Password Families.
There are 319 new Weeklong Deals at Steam! Red Faction Collection is $11.99, Jotun: Valhalla Edition is $7.49, They Bleed Pixels is $1.99, and The Silent Age is $0.99. The Daily Deal is RWBY: Grimm Eclipse, which is on sale for $14.99.
Hit the jump to see all of today’s amazing shirts! (more…)
Posted in Daily Scoop
2017 IGF Awards nominees include Hyper Light Drifter, Inside, Stardew Valley, more
The Independent Games Festival has announced the finalists for this year’s IGF Awards, and it should come as no surprise that critical darlings such as Hyper Light Drifter and Inside have scored multiple nominations. But leading the way is Variable State’s Virigina, which received four nominations (“Best Audio,” “Excellence in Narrative,” “Excellence in Visual Art,” and “The Nuovo Award”) and an Honorable Mention for the “Seumas McNally Grand Prize.”
Other games in competition for the IGF’s “Grand Prize” include the aforementioned Hyper Light Drifter and Inside, along with Concerned Ape’s Stardew Valley, Blendo Games’s Quadrilateral Cowboy, Ocelot Society’s Event[0], and Ghost Town Games’s Overcooked.
The 2017 IGF Awards ceremony will be hosted by developer Nina Freeman on March 1. Fans will be able to tune in to the Twitch channel for the Game Developers Conference to watch the show, and GDC attendees will be able to test out every nominated game at the IGF Pavilion area on the expo floor.
A complete list of the nominees and honorable mentions for the 2017 Independent Games Festival Awards can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in Mobile, News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged GDC 2017, Hyper Light Drifter, Inside, Stardew Valley
Warpback: What We Played in December 2016
We here at Warp Zoned were all about gaming this month! We played everything from old games in our backlogs to new games, spanning every console possible, including our phones. Hit the jump to check out our full list of games we played… it’s exhausting! (more…)
Joe Carnahan has finished the script to the Uncharted movie
After years in development, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, and No Man’s Sky all launched in 2016. With that trio of games now available in stores, we might have finally reached the point where all the vaporware-adjacent video games have either finally been released or officially canceled. Thankfully, the Uncharted movie is the gift that keeps on giving.
The film adaptation was first announced in 2009, and since then, Naughty Dog has actually said “goodbye” to Nathan Drake with the release of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Before that, but after the Uncharted film was first announced, they managed to produce three sequels to the original game and multiple spinoff titles. Several directors and writers have taken a crack at the franchise over the years, and all of them eventually stepped away. But it looks like director Shawn Levy and screenwriter Joe Carnahan will finally be the ones who bring the franchise to the big screen.
Carnahan got on Instagram this weekend and revealed that the script for Uncharted is finished. This is an accomplishment in itself, but he also seems rather proud of his work. Carnahan referred to the script as “a BEAST” and claimed “[there’s not] a more monstrously cool action script in Hollywood right now.”
The Uncharted movie will begin filming sometime this year, and you can find Carnahan’s Instagram post after the break. (more…)
Posted in Etcetera, News, PS3, PS4
Tagged Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Valve is adding Xbox One/Xbox 360 controller support to every game on Steam
Most games on Steam will support Valve’s fancy new Steam Controller and a variety of other controllers, including those packaged with the Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PS4. But the next Steam Client Update will include the option to use Xbox One and Xbox 360 controllers with any game on Steam.
The update is currently in beta testing, and here’s the relevant entry from the Patch Notes:
Added Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Generic X-Input controller configurator support. This allows all recognized controller types to use the advanced mapping features of the Steam Controller Configurator. Note that because X-Input currently lacks per-controller means of unique identification, all controllers of that type will share personalization and configuration settings. As they share the same inputs, Xbox 360/One/Generic controllers will all see each-others configurations when browsing. Automatic conversion will be attempted when loading configurations from other controller types.
It’s unknown when the update allowing Xbox One/Xbox 360 controller support for all games will be released to the public, but you can learn more about how to opt-in to Steam’s Beta Client by visiting the Steam Client Beta Group.
Someone remade Super Mario Land in Super Mario Maker
Super Mario Land was one the five games to launch alongside the Game Boy in 1989, but it has been largely forgotten by Mario fans thanks to the release of the superior Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins in 1992 and the inevitable march of time.
Thankfully, one dedicated Super Mario Maker maestro is bringing it back. “KHAce” recreated all 12 courses (along with the final boss fight against Tatanga) from Super Mario Land in Super Mario Maker, and you can download them on the Wii U right now:
- 1-1: 8088-0000-02E1-8DAB
- 1-2: 3EB9-0000-02E1-8E7E
- 1-3: 0BE6-0000-02E1-8F1B
- 2-1: 5751-0000-02E1-8FCF
- 2-2: E5C3-0000-02E1-90B3
- 2-3: 3624-0000-02E1-9251
- 3-1: BC22-0000-02E1-93EE
- 3-2: 20C5-0000-02E1-9504
- 3-3: 25B0-0000-02E1-963A
- 4-1: B108-0000-02E1-9772
- 4-2: EE82-0000-02E1-986D
- 4-3: 0103-0000-02E1-9992
- 4-3 (Tatanga Fight): ECCD-0000-02E1-9A32
“KHAce” also uploaded a video walkthough of his Super Mario Maker recreation, and its been embedded above.
Posted in News, Wii U
Tagged Super Mario Maker
Weekly Warp-Up: Welcome to 2017…
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…
Welcome to 2017!
We at Warp Zoned rang in the new year by launching our biggest project ever: “The Scientifically Proven Best Video Games of All Time.” We analyzed 44 different “Best Video Games of All Time” lists and used the data to produce a definitive Top 100. We’re also going to look deeper at at least one game in the Top 100 every week, and we hope you’ll join us for that.
Also this week, we handed out the 2016 Golden Pixel Awards to some of our favorite games from last year including Doom, Final Fantasy XV, Dark Souls III, Pokemon Sun and Moon, and many more.
More news from the past seven days can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News
Warp Zoned’s 2016 Golden Pixel Awards: A Look Back at the Year in Video Games
In a very real way, the game industry wiped the slate clean in 2016.
After nearly a decade of development difficulties, Square Enix unleashed Final Fantasy XV on the world. Fumito Ueda and Sony Japan Studio overcame similar troubles to finally release The Last Guardian. Id Software shook off the past and was reborn after the launch of the fourth game in the Doom franchise. Blizzard closed the book on their failed “Titan Project” with the release of Overwatch. Naughty Dog said goodbye to Nathan Drake, but gamers said hello to altered realities that were both “augmented” and “virtual.” Nintendo found new kingdoms to conquer with Super Mario Run. And the launch of No Man’s Sky taught us that while the hype machine sometimes fails to deliver, the chance for a brighter tomorrow is always there.
But before we venture off into that great unknown, let’s look back at some of gaming’s highlights from 2016. (more…)
Posted in 3DS, Etcetera, Features, Mobile, PC, PS4, Top Story, Xbox One
Tagged Dangerous Golf, Dark Souls III, Doom (2016), Dragon Quest Builders, Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, Final Fantasy XV, Hyper Light Drifter, No Man's Sky, Overwatch, Pac-Man Championship Edition 2, Pokemon Go, Pokemon Sun/Moon, Superhot, The Last Guardian, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End