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Lego Avengers will assemble on store shelves on January 26
WB Games has announced that Lego Avengers will deliver of lightning bolt of superheroics to store shelves on January 26, 2016 (January 29 in Europe).
Lego Avengers is in development for a huge number of platforms (3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One) at TT Games. The Lego adaptation is expected to recreate the events seen in The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron. However, TT Games also plans to go beyond the two films by including heroes and villains from throughout the Marvel universe.
If you’re already planning to purchase Lego Avengers, you might want to know that GameStop is offering a pre-order bonus of a “Silver Centurion” Iron Man minifig, based on the armor worn by Tony Stark in Iron Man 3.
Galak-Z, The Castle Game, AeternoBlade, more added to PS Store this week
Just a handful of new games were added to the PlayStation Store this week, and it’s just as well, because a flurry of Gamescom announcements will suck up all the digital ink anyway.
The biggest game added in this week’s Store update is the latest PSN Play selection, Galak-Z: The Dimensional. A “tough” and “tactical” side-scrolling shooter with an anime twist for the PS4, Galak-Z also throws in some roguelike elements and a few mechs for good measure.
The rest of this week’s new releases, all of which are available for the PS4, include a healthy mix of unique titles:
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist, the latest CCG from Konami based on the popular Yu-Gi-Oh! anime.
- Submerged, a third-person exploration game that takes place within a mysterious sunken city.
- The Castle Game, a medieval tower defense game.
- AeternoBlade, a side-scrolling action RPG that was originally released for the 3DS and Vita.
- Boggle, the classic word game… now with a bunch of new modes.
- Trans-Galactic Tournament, a “fast-and-furious” overhead multiplayer battler.
More information on all of these games can be found after the break. And a complete rundown of this week’s new game add-ons and discounts can be found at the PlayStation Blog. (more…)
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Tagged Galak-Z: The Dimensional
Beatbuddy developer Threaks announces Retro Invasion, a shooter/brawler mash-up
Threaks, the German developer behind the musical platformer Beatbuddy, has announced their next game as the 2015 Gamescom expo opens its doors.
Retro Invasion is a side-scrolling mash-up of shooters and brawlers that pairs up modern Mike and “retro infected” Brawler Rik in a co-op “Shoot N Brawl.” In a bit of a Pixels-like twist, the land of old video games has turned the real world into voxels and its up to Mike (who looks a little like Gordon Freeman) and Brawler Rik (who is a dead ringer for Mario) to save the day.
“We’re super excited to finally announce our next game Retro Invasion.” says Wolf Lang, Co-CEO at Threaks. “With more than a year in conception and production now, it’s amazing to see how well this crazy idea works. Retro Invasion kind of feels and plays like the unholy child of Gears of War and Streets of Rage.”
Retro Invasion is playable all this week at Gamescom’s Indie Arena in Hall 10.1. It’ll be released for the PC and a number of unspecified consoles in 2016.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged Gamescom 2015
The Games of August 2015
It’s been a slow Summer, and while August is still technically a part of the season, a lot of intriguing games will be available this month. From a ton of retro classics to a handful of remakes to several wholly original titles, there’s going to be a lot to play in August. And you can find out exactly what the Warp Zoned staff is most interested in after the break. (more…)
Killer Instinct Season 3 will kick off in March with Rash (of Battletoads fame) as guest fighter
Microsoft has announced that Killer Instinct Season 3 will kick off in March 2016, which is good news for all the fighting game fanatics out there. The previously-announced PC edition, featuring characters from all three seasons, will also be available beginning in March.
Killer Instinct Season 3 will once again feature eight new characters, including Rash, one of the tubular toads from Battletoads. Best of all, you won’t have to wait until March to try him out. Everyone who has purchased the 30-game Rare Replay compilation will be able to download an early beta version of Rash starting today.
The Rash beta is expected to be available until sometime in September.
Posted in News, PC, Xbox One
Tagged Gamescom 2015, Killer Instinct, Rare Replay
Deep Silver shows off Homefront: The Revolution at Gamescom 2015
At Microsoft’s 2015 Gamescom Briefing, publisher Deep Silver finally revealed a gameplay trailer for the upcoming Homefront: The Revolution. They also showed a short, but poignant, two-minute CGI trailer (which is available after the break).
The short gameplay snippet shows a rebel squad in Philadelphia, the new location for the game, driving vehicles through the streets (and roofs) to take down a warehouse full of North Korean soldiers. It doesn’t look like anything too revolutionary, if you’ll pardon the pun, but if Deep Silver Dambuster Studios can fix the flaws of the original game, it could be a decent title.
Homefront: The Revolution will be hitting store shelves in Spring 2016 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The Xbox One will also be getting an exclusive multiplayer beta sometime this Winter. (more…)
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Gamescom 2015, Homefront: The Revolution
Halo Wars 2 announced at Gamescom 2015
Microsoft announced Halo Wars 2, a followup to the original Halo-themed RTS from 2009, at their Gamescom Briefing just a short few hours ago.
Interestingly, Sega’s Creative Assembly, the same team behind the Total War series, as well as Alien: Isolation, will be leading development. Ensemble Studios was responsible for the original Halo Wars, but they were shut down by Microsoft shortly after the release of the game.
Halo Wars 2 will be coming to the Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs sometime in Fall 2016.
Posted in News, PC, Xbox One
Tagged Gamescom 2015, Halo Wars 2
Crackdown 3 crashes onto the Xbox One with Multiplayer Beta in Summer 2016
The Crackdown series is coming back in a big way next year with Crackdown 3. Re-announced as part of Microsoft’s 2015 Gamescom Briefing, the open world action game will include “100% destructible environments” and a “criminal hierarchy to be dismantled any way you choose.”
The developers at Reagent Games have created a new behind-the-scenes trailer, embedded above, which gives us our first look at some gameplay. Reagent will use Microsoft’s Cloud service to funnel additional computing power into Crackdown 3’s four-player co-op campaign and its competitive multiplayer mode.
Unfortunately, we still have no idea when Crackdown 3 will be released. A Multiplayer Beta will take place in Summer 2016, but a final release date for the Xbox One-exclusive is still a mystery. Hopefully an Agent of Justice is on the case…
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Crackdown 3, Gamescom 2015