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)
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XBLA Today: Home Run Stars
The San Francisco Giants and the Detroit Tigers will resume their battle for the 2012 World Series crown on Saturday. But if you need to feed your baseball fix tonight, there’s always Home Run Stars, a new Kinect-powered title now available on the Xbox Live Arcade:
Step up to the plate and swing for the fence in Home Run Stars, featuring Avatar Fame Star! Progress through the League mode through all three unique stadiums! Each one features a vast number of spectacular targets to aim for and earn big points. Compete with your friends in multiplayer for the highest score. Use your device supported by SmartGlass to compete in a Duel with a friend!
Home Run Stars has been priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10). However, the costs of swinging a bat around your living room could turn out to be much greater.
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Hitman: Absolution is absolutely full of Hollywood actors
Having a cast full of Hollywood actors isn’t quote the big deal it used to be, but leave it to Hitman: Absolution to collect one of the strangest groups of thespians I’ve ever seen.
David Bateson returns to portray the voice of Agent 47, but the motion capture work to bring the assassin to life was done by Lost‘s William Mapother. Ethan Rom did always walk in a creepy manner.
Other members of the cast include an extraordinary badass (Powers Boothe), the world’s most famous former porn star (Traci Lords), one of Bill’s Deadly Vipers (Vivica A. Fox), Bill’s real-life brother (Keith Carradine), and the deranged child star of Orphan (Isabelle Fuhrman).
The complete cast list can be found after the break. Hitman: Absolution will be released for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on November 20. (more…)
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Borderlands 2 Review: There’s No Place Like Pandora
When Borderlands came out in 2009, it blended together the perfect mix of role-playing elements with first-person shooter fare. Affectionately referred to as an FPSRPG, the game’s Diablo-style loot system had players upgrading their guns and shields while working their way up levels and through skill trees. Each of the four characters – Brick the Berserker, Lilith the Siren, Mordecai the Hunter, and Roland the Soldier – were enjoyable in their own way, adding some flavor to the somewhat utilitarian story. Gearbox Studios bragged that Borderlands 2 was going to take everything about the first game and made it bigger – bigger characters, deeper story, better loot. Do these ambitious changes work in the sequel? (more…)
Halo 4 War Games Pass, map pack schedule announced
Another game has jumped on the “Season Pass” bandwagon as Microsoft announced the Halo 4 War Games Pass yesterday.
The War Games Pass will give purchasers free access to three Halo 4 map packs, which will be released in December, February, and April. The pass has been priced at $24.99 (2000 Microsoft Points), which garners you a 15% discount over buying all three map packs individually. A War Games Pass will also be included with the Halo 4 Limited Edition.
As an added bonus, the War Games Pass includes “two unique in-game helmets (Scanner and Strider) and an exclusive in-game emblem (Falcon).”
You can read all about the upcoming map packs after the break. (more…)
Activision’s Walking Dead game gets new title; contest to appear in the game announced
Now that the third season has begun, Activision is ready to announce the official title of their first person shooter based on The Walking Dead television show. Since Telltale’s adventure game already laid claim to The Walking Dead, Activision and developer Terminal Reality have decided to go with The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.
And if you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a zombie (and if so, what is wrong with you?), Activision has a contest for you. The publisher has sprinkled hidden clues throughout this season’s episodes of The Walking Dead. If you spot one, and enter it at AMCDead.com, you’ll be entered into a drawing to have your face put into the game. Well, a little more than just your face…
Each week one lucky winner will be chosen to appear as a character in the game! Terminal Reality will then use photos of his or her facial likeness to create a unique character whose backstory and chilling death scene may be encountered by players during The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.
I call dibs on “killed while trying to turn my hand into a chainsaw.”
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First Grand Theft Auto V artwork, Pest Control, released
Rockstar Games is certainly the king when it comes to manipulating the public and the press. Grand Theft Auto V‘s splashy debut trailer has since been followed by a trickle of screenshots and only the barest of gameplay details. Naturally, it’s only made the masses more primed for the game’s impending “information blowout” next month.
And so it goes with yesterday’s reveal of the first official Grand Theft Auto V artwork. Titled “Pest Control,” the image depicts an artier version of the heist from the first trailer.
If you’d like to use “Pest Control” as your desktop background, Rockstar has released the image in a variety of sizes on their official website.
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Tagged Grand Theft Auto V
XBLA Today: Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus, the fourth revision of 2002’s Guilty Gear XX, has been added to the Xbox Live Arcade today. Priced at 1200 Microsoft Points ($15), it will surely make fighting fans very happy:
Network Battle Mode is now available on Xbox Live Arcade for the all new “Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus” from the best-selling 2D fighting game series. It all started from Story Mode, and now there’s a wide variety of Modes to play! Choose from among 25 fighters and engage in high-speed combat!
Here’s an 18-minute Fuse “Progress Update” hosted by Insomniac’s Ted Price
From what Ted Price shows off in this video, Insomniac Games has been hard at work on Fuse. They give some background on the four main characters – Dalton Brooks, Izzy Sinclair, Jacob Kimble, and Naya Deveraux – as well as go into detail about the primary and secondary functions of their main weapons.
If you can last through the whole 18 minutes, you’ll get a lot of in-depth information on the progress, including information about the skill trees, an interesting concept called “Lethal Teamwork” in which you can build up points off of your teammates, and “Leap,” which allows you to switch which character you’re playing at any time – even mid-battle.
But there’s more to Fuse than just a pretty face. Price said the campaign is “heavily story driven with plenty of twists and turns to keep our players engaged.” This sounds awesome, but I’m still put off a bit by the massive change in art style that occurred with the game. I’m hoping the story is as compelling as some others Insomniac has put out.
Fuse is scheduled to be released in March 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.