Warp Zoned Presents
Video Game Canon- Angry Birds, Dragon Quest, FIFA Soccer, and Silent Hill are the World Video Game Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026
- BAFTA Games Awards: All the Winners from 2003 to Today
- Clair Obscur Completes the Sweep by Winning “Best Game” at 2025-2026 BAFTA Games Awards
- Boss Fight Books to Get a New Look for Richard Moss’s “Age of Empires”
- GDC Awards: All the Winners from 1996 to Today
Warp Zoned Presents
- Video Game Research Library
- We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) – Yarn Spinner (2026)
- 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)
- Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history – Design Room (2025)
- In 2005, games started rewiring our brains – The AV Club (2025)
Most Recent: Top Story
Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Review: The 30 Second Climax You Actually Want
Japanese role-playing games are almost always lengthy, involved affairs that require hours of your free time. In our modern era of instant gratification, the genre might be a touch out of step… until now. Originally a hit title on the PlayStation Portable, Half-Minute Hero has arrived on the Xbox Live Arcade, complete with a host of enhancements. That, and a totally ridiculous subtitle which perfectly fits the crazed motif of the game. Designed as a super speedy take on your traditional Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest game, Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax presents role-playing in extremely small chunks, with a hearty side of wacky humor to boot. RPG fans looking for something different will certainly find it here. (more…)
Posted in Reviews, Top Story, Xbox 360
Tagged Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax
Dream Trigger 3D Review: Anything But Lucid
Dream Trigger 3D by D3 Publisher for the 3DS is not just a lot of 3’s and D’s. It’s a shmup that destroys all of your preconceived notions of shmups. It’s frustrating at times and it will leave your hands cramped (quite literally and painfully). But it will also appeal to your love of difficult, old-school arcade games because it’s fun, addictive, and a breath of fresh air in a time when some games don’t even have a failure option. But do the benefits outweigh the frustration and pain? (more…)
Second Chances: 5 Games That Deserve Another Look
Gaming is a time-consuming hobby. Unlike music or movies, which require a minimal investment, video games can be lengthy and involved affairs. As such, it’s much easier to miss out on really good games that come and go without much notice. Perhaps it’s because of a bad release date, or maybe it just didn’t get heavy distribution or advertising. Hell, maybe it doesn’t have a good Metacritic score, or it was completely ignored on gaming message boards. Regardless of the reason why, some games just don’t make it, and that’s a shame. That’s why we’re here, though – to pick out some unheralded gems and give them the attention they so richly deserve. They might not be able to compete with the heaviest of hitters, the so-called “AAA” games that sell millions, but they present entertaining gaming experiences all the same. (more…)
Posted in Features, PC, PS3, Top Story, Wii, Xbox 360
Tagged Singularity, The Saboteur
Warp Zoned: The eMag Issue #2 is here
June is over, Summer is here and so is the second issue of Warp Zoned: The eMagazine. So fire up your eReader and prepare to take your favorite WZ writers on a road trip!
Warp Zoned: The eMagazine
Issue #2 – June 2011
Download It in EPUB Format Here
In June we got to see the wonders of E3 including the Press Conferences from all three major players (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo). Besides looking to the future at the E3 Expo, we looked at the future of game rentals in a Redbox vs Gamefly comparison and we also glimpsed a look at the future of the 3DS.
But that doesn’t mean we forgot the here and now as we got our hands on El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron and Sonic Generations as well as reviewing Dirt 3, Sega Rally Online Arcade, Brink and Dungeon Siege III.
Next issue, prepare yourself for an alien invasion in Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon.
The Next Level: The Games of July 2011
July seems to be relatively quiet… that is, until we get to the end of it. Atlus has some crazy coming out with Catherine, and a few other games also caught the eyes of the Warp Zoned staff. Read on to see what’s got our wallets crying for July. (more…)
Warp Zoned Podcast: Episode 12
It’s that time again! Time for you to check out the latest Warp Zoned podcast. On Episode 12, Senior Editor Nicole Kline and Podcast Producer Ryan Littlefield are joined by West Coast Editor Adam Woolcott. They talk about the latest news (what’s up with Nintendo’s refusal to localize games we are dying to play???) and then move into our big topic: game reboots. Are you a fan of game reboots? Let us know your opinion by sending a line over to mailbag AT warpzoned DOT com. We’ll even read your email on the air! You’ll be Internet famous. Pull up a chair, settle back, and relax, as you listen to Episode 12 of the Warp Zoned podcast!
And be sure to check back in two weeks for lucky Episode 13!
Warpback: What We Played in June 2011
Here we are, the end of June! We were all so pumped for E3, but it came and went so quickly we barely remembered it. But we here at Warp Zoned were all kept busy with plenty of games, old and new. There’s always something for all of us, from platformers to dungeon crawlers to games with “Hot Boners.” Read on to see what we played in June! (more…)
Dungeon Siege III Review: An Elegant RPG For a More Civilized Age
In a lot of ways, Dungeon Siege III can be considered a “first” for the franchise. It’s the first game in the series published by Square Enix, and the first developed by Obsidian Entertainment. It’s the first Dungeon Siege game to appear on a console, and the first new game in the series in five years. With this new beginning at hand, I dove into the Dungeon Siege series myself for the first time and came away with a pretty good RPG experience. (more…)