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It’s time to pay the taxman, but EA Sports has a better idea on how to spend your April 15. The publisher has unveiled the first trailer for NHL 14, so you should give it a watch above (after you’ve paid Uncle Sam, of course). The game will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 10.
Hit the jump for a look at some of the new features we can expect to see in EA’s 23rd hockey simulation.
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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…
Ubisoft’s neon-drenched Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. It doesn’t require the original Far Cry 3 to play and doesn’t include any callbacks to its parent game beyond using the same engine. So why does it include the Far Cry 3 name? The world may never know, but the wave of 80s cliches has already turned this into a must-have game in May.
This week we also chatted with TJ Lutz of Pwnee Studios about Cloudberry Kingdom and how development is going (specifically on the Wii U) as well as his feelings on how hard a platformer should be. Finally this week, we took a look at Supergiant’s Transistor in our continuing coverage of PAX East 2013.
For more new news, hit the jump.
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NetherRealm Studios (the creators of Mortal Kombat) are back with their latest game, the DC Comics one-on-one fighter Injustice: Gods Among Us. Watch Superman and Batman battle it out for the soul of the DC Universe on the PS3, Xbox 360, or Wii U this Tuesday.
This week also sees the release of the final Operation Rainfall game, Pandora’s Tower. The Operation Rainfall group worked tirelessly to find a publisher for the Wii game (along with Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story before it) and it is amazing that we’ll finally get to play the fruits of their labor for oursselves this week.
A trio of other games will also be available this week:
The Lyon-based, Atari-owned studio Eden Games has been shut down. The developer behind Alone in the Dark and the Test Drive: Unlimited series had been placed into liquidation at the start of the year according to a report from Eurogamer.
In May of last year, rumors were filtering through that the studio had closed. Then, Atari made a statement saying that they wanted to “make it clear that the studio has not closed and that we will continue to support the console and PC games of Eden Games.” A number of Eden Games employees were let go two years ago, causing the remaining staff members to temporarily go on strike. A new developer, Blossom Minds, emerged from this strike.
The last title developed by Eden Games was 2011’s Test Drive Unlimited 2.
Shovel Knight has reached the end of its Kickstarter odyssey and the retro platformer from Yacht Club Games has surpassed the developer’s wildest expectations.
Yacht Club Games, which is made up of several former members of WayForward Technologies, was asking for $75,000 to complete development on the PC, 3DS, and Wii U game. 14,749 backers responded with four times that amount and pledged a total of $311,502. The developer has set up a PayPal account for fans who missed out on the Kickstarter drive and still wish to donate and/or pre-order the game.
This outpouring of support has ensured that every stretch goal Yacht Club set for Shovel Knight will make its way into the final game including:
Congratulations to the team at Yacht Club Games. Shovel Knight is currently expected to be released in September.
2K’s successful reboot of the XCOM franchise, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, brought many new fans to the series when it was released last year. The title’s classic turn-based gameplay was combined with modern production values to procude an exciting game that appeared on multiple Game of the Year lists.
But what a lot of people have forgotten is that 2K originally resurrected the series with the announcement of a 2K Marin-developed first person shooter, simply known as XCOM. But like 1984 Ministry of Truth, it seems that the publisher is trying to shove their seven-years-in-the-making game down the Memory Hole.
The XCOM official website and two YouTube videos on 2K’s channel have been removed. Rumors abound that the game has undergone a stylistic shift at 2K Marin, but we’ll have to wait and see if that’s true or if the entire game has been scrapped.
[Source: Digital Trends]
State of Decay, Undead Labs’ open-world third person zombie survival simulation, has been a long time coming. And after viewing the brand new trailer above, we now know it’ll be available on the Xbox Live Arcade this June.
The end is here. Life as you know it has gone to hell after the mother of all zombie outbreaks. Now you and the few scattered survivors must band together to survive and rebuild in a 3rd-person action game set in a dynamic open world. You choose where to make your stand, designing and fortifying your home base, performing daring raids for food and ammunition, and rescuing other playable survivors with unique talents. The open, sandbox world develops in real-time, dynamically generating content based on your choices and the ever-increasing zombie threat.
Just don’t let the armless zombies get you… they’re the worst!
Microsoft has delayed the release of the retail disc version of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition. The game was previously scheduled to hit stores on April 30, but has been pushed back to add in “the very latest content.”
FYI: In order to include the very latest content, the retail version for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition has been delayed until June 4 (US)
— Larry Hryb (@majornelson) April 12, 2013
The “very latest content” likely includes the upcoming “Title Update 10,” which will fix most of the bugs introduced in “Title Update 9.” With the delay, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition will now be available in stores on June 4.
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