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Dragon Ball Z/Naruto/One Piece crossover J-Stars Victory Vs+ coming to US in 2015
Bandai Namco has announced that J-Stars Victory Vs+, a crossover fighter featuring characters from Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and One Piece will make its way to North America next Summer.
Based on the popular Shonen Jump manga magazine, J-Stars Victory Vs+ is a two-versus-two fighting game that will be released for the PS3, PS4, and Vita. According to Bandai Namco’s Tumblr page, the North American version will include a brand new Arcade Mode.
Posted in News, PS3, PS4, Vita
Tagged J-Stars Victory Vs+
Check out the first trailer for Theatrhythm Dragon Quest
Square Enix doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to bringing Dragon Quest spinoffs to North America. But perhaps that’ll change with next year’s Theatrhythm Dragon Quest.
The publisher released the first trailer for the 3DS rhythm game over the weekend during the Jump Festa convention. Theatrhythm fans will surely appreciate a new entry in the series while Dragon Quest will jump for joy at the NES-themed level and all the recognizable monsters.
Theatrhythm Dragon Quest will be released for the 3DS in Japan on March 26. Hopefully an American release date will be announced soon.
Posted in 3DS, News
Tagged Theatrhythm Dragon Quest
Weekly Warp-Up: Christmas Countdown 2014 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…
Are you ready for Christmas? Is your tree up? Is your shopping done? Have you told someone how much you hate Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime”?
Now that you’re in the proper holiday mood, feel free to look back at some of the articles we posted this week including my review of Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions and Andrew Rainnie’s latest Kickstart This! column, which includes Aviary Attorney, Curse of the Darkness, and Spectrum.
NIS America dropped a pretty nice batch of presents down our chimney this week as well with the announcement that the publisher will release will release The Awakened Fate Ultimatum (PS3) on March 17, Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy (Vita) in Spring 2015, and Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (PS4) in Fall 2015.
More news from the last seven days can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News
CoD: Advanced Warfare’s Exo Zombies will star John Malkovich, Bill Paxton, Rose McGowan
Sledgehammer Games is currently hard at work on the first episode of the “Exo Zombies” cooperative mode for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, which will be included in the Havoc Map Pack. And now we know which Hollywood heavyweights have been tapped by Activision to star in the downloadable expansion.
John Malkovich (!), Bill Paxton (!!), Rose McGowan (!!!), and Jon Bernthal (apparently he’s on The Walking Dead) will play four “unprepared and untrained” Atlas employees who suddenly find themselves face-to-face with the living dead. You can hear Malkovich monologue about their desperate situation in the trailer above.
Can they work together? Can they survive? Will Bill Paxton get killed in particularly gory fashion, as he is wont to do (and will he yell “game over, man” as it happens)? We’ll all find out together in January. Well, Xbox owners will. If you’re playing Advanced Warfare on the PC or PlayStation, you’ll have to wait until February.
Halo: Master Chief Collection owners will receive Halo 3: ODST for Xbox One for free
Microsoft and 343 Industries are still working on a patch to fix the matchmaking problems found in Halo: The Master Chief Collection. As a way of apologizing for these issues, the publisher and developer will offer players who purchased the game before December 19 a free month of Xbox Live Gold service and a series of free content updates over the next week:
- All ten Halo 4: Spartan Ops episodes
- Exclusive In-Game Nameplate
- Exclusive In-Game Avatar
Finally, Microsoft will add “Relic,” a remastered Halo 2: Anniversary multiplayer map, and the popular Halo 3: ODST campaign to Halo: The Master Chief Collection sometime in the future. According to Xbox Wire, development has just begun on both, so it might be a while before they’re available. But as with the Spartan Ops episodes, both will be available for free for Master Chief Collection owners who purchased the game before December 19.
Presumably, both downloadable additions will be available for everyone, but no announcement has been made as of yet.
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Halo 3: ODST, Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Respawn is working on a non-TitanFall game… and probably more TitanFall
Respawn Entertainment’s CEO, Vince Zampella, recently sat down with Game Informer to talk about the company’s rather eventful year and their presently percolating future.
First things first, Zampella confirmed that the company doesn’t have any additional DLC planned for TitanFall now that the Season Pass has run its course. However, EA previously announced that they had contracted with Respawn for “new TitanFall experiences,” so perhaps the developer is already hard at work on TitanFall 2? Zampella alluded to that in the interview by saying, “Respawn Entertainment does want to make more Titanfall.” He also reaffirmed that “future [TitanFall] projects will not necessarily be exclusive” to the Xbox and PC.
Finally, Zampella also revealed that Respawn is now home to a second team, which is working on a “non-TitanFall project.” This team is headed up by the recently hired Stig Asmusson, who you might remember as the Creative Director behind God of War III.
But whatever Respawn has in the hopper, a public debut will have to wait. Zampella closed the interview by saying, “Next year will be a little quiet. We’ll be heads down, back to work.”
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Tagged TitanFall 2
Evolve’s last behind-the-scenes trailer is all about “Creating A Monster”
Turtle Rock Studios has posted the fifth, and final, episode of “The Evolution of Evolve,” their behind-the-scenes look at Evolve. This episode is all about the Monsters and how Turtle Rock attempted to make the beasts less alien and more relatable to players. Because I know that when I’m hunting human prey in the forest, I think of myself as a giant Cthulhu-like demon. Everybody does that, right?
Evolve will be released for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One on Feburary 10, but Turtle Rock will host a beta test in January, which you can read all about here.
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Review: The Natural Evolution of Retro Evolved 2
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions had a lot to live up to. The last game in the series, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, dethroned Smash TV as the standard bearer of the twin-stick shooter genre. And the first game in the franchise, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, was considered by many to be the Xbox 360’s killer app for the first year. But Lucid Games proved to be more than up to the task with an excellent new entry in the series. After the closure of Bizarre Creations (the creator of Retro Evolved and Retro Evolved 2), Lucid became the new home for multiple members of the Geometry Wars development team. So we probably shouldn’t have been worried at all. (more…)