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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
- Spore: An oral history – Design Room (2026)
- 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)
Most Recent: PC
New Releases: Darkspore, More
After one of the biggest release weeks ever, the month of Apirl closes out with a wimper. EA’s action RPG Darkspore is the only new release of note and it heads a very short and uneventful list.
You can check out the full list of the rest of this week’s new releases right here to see for yourself:
PC
- Cargo! The Quest For Gravity
- Chronicles Of Mystery: Secret of the Lost Kingdom
- Darkspore
- Deadly Secrets: Art of Murder
- Egyptian Trilogy
- IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
- Stray Souls: Dollhouse Story
- Twisted Lands: Shadow Town
Wii
Rolling With Kierin Chase: Talking the Past, Present and Future of Dungeons & Dragons
Warp Zoned editors Nicole Kline and Mike Gutierrez recently got a chance to sit down with Kierin Chase, Brand Manager for Dungeons & Dragons at Wizards of the Coast. As former dice rollers themselves, they were eager to see what 4th Edition has to offer and how it has progressed in the two years since its launch. Kierin was more than happy to detail all of the new D&D supplements, product lines, video games, and everything overall that makes now a better time than ever to jump into “The World’s Greatest Role Playing Game.” Nicole even got to ask the million-dollar question: will we see a resurrection of Spelljammer? (more…)
Posted in Features, PC, PS3, Top Story, Xbox 360
Tagged Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale, PAX East 2011, Tabletop Games
Daily Scoop: April 22, 2011 – Happy Earth Day!
It’s Earth Day, yay! Celebrate Earth Day by planting a tree, getting a free cup of coffee at Starbucks, or performing a fatality on one of your friends. My Earth Day celebrations will include trying to solve puzzles with a portal gun and considering baking a cake. Which one of those was a lie?
Today’s Amazon Deal of the Day in video games is Sega of America’s Football Manager 2011 for the PC and Mac. It’s half price at $19.99. If you picked up Madden NFL 11 yesterday and you think maybe you need to up your managerial skills, this sounds like the right kind of deal for you!
Nothing worth noting on the daily t-shirt circuit today, but I did find this gem over at Shirtoid:
It features Chell as the patron saint of portals, and goes well with all the other references we’ve made to Valve’s super hit this week.
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News, PC
“Come get some!” with new Duke Nukem Forever trailer
Strippers! Ludicrous gibs! Extended urination sequences! Grotesque aliens! Lesbian makeout sessions! Monster trucks! This trailer is NOT SAFE FOR WORK because it’s too awesome!
Just like Duke.
Duke Nukem Forever will (finally) be available for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on June 14.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Duke Nukem Forever
Portal 2 has levels with motion control… on the PC?
Even though Valve was adamant in their stance on not making Portal 2 compatible with the Move – let alone the Kinect – it is compatible with new motion-sensing controllers for the PC. The Razer Hydra, by Razer, can be purchased standalone or in a bundle with Portal 2, and there are six special levels created just for the new controllers.
Razer collaborated with Sixsense and Valve to make this power happen. Gabe Newell said that the controller “is a significant step forward for the PC gaming industry because it not only affords an almost-physical experience for gamers, but also presents developers an opportunity to innovate and significantly push the boundaries on new forms of gameplay and entertainment.”
It’s also already compatible with over 125 PC games, including World of Goo and another of Valve’s hits, Left 4 Dead. Sixsense’s CEO, Amir Rubin, feels that this collaboration has “established the PC as the best platform for motion gaming” and that the levels made for Portal 2 “allow gamers to fully experience the possibilities of motion gaming.”
I don’t know if jumping onto the motion controller bandwagon will establish the PC as the best platform. Now that the PC has caved and joined the fray, gamers who desperately hoped that motion gaming was a fad will now have to embrace the grim reality: it’s here to stay, and now it’s even on your computer.
The Razer Hydra will be available in June for a price of $139.99 (and that includes a copy of Portal 2).
Royalty Gone Wild! William and Kate get married in The Sims 3
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is eight days away and EA has decided to take the piss out of the happy couple (What? They’re British.) Using The Sims 3, the publisher has created their own version of the royal wedding complete with a drunk Harry, a fainting Charles and a Queen Elizabeth that gets jiggy with it.
What? She does get jiggy with it.
Posted in News, PC
Tagged The Sims 3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 announced
Fashion empress Emma Watson is proud to bring you the trailer above for the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (and no, it’s not the Mature-rated Harry Potter we’ve all been anticipating). We don’t have a release date yet, but it’ll likely ship alongside the movie’s theatrical opening in July.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is coming out for the Wii, DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. The DS version will give you up to four person handheld multiplayer while the PlayStation 3 version will support PlayStation Move, for a little more immersion with your wand play.
Check out CoD: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack trailer
Treyarch has unveiled the first trailer for the second Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack, Escalation. The developers discuss what gamers can expect from the four new maps: “Zoo,” an abandoned Russian zoo; “Hotel,” a 1960s-style vacation spot that is also abandoned; “Convoy,” an abandoned truck stop (am I sensing a theme here?) and “Stockpile,” an abandoned weapons depot (yup, definite theme).
Treyarch was less forthcoming about “Call of the Dead,” the new Zombies experience included with Escalation. Apparently, more details of the flesh-eating variety will be revealed in a few days.
The Escalation Map Pack will be available for download first on the Xbox Live Marketplace on May 3rd with PC and PSN availability coming later.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Black Ops