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July just flew by here at Warp Zoned! We chose to stay inside to beat the heat, and played a lot of video games. Some of us played a few of the games that trickled out in the slow summer, while others were busy annihilating their backlogs. One thing is agreed: we all enjoyed ourselves. Read on to see exactly what we played in the month of July!
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Hooray for Tuesday! It’s sort of become my favorite day of the week, because of Board Game Night at Redcap’s Corner. My boyfriend and I meet some friends there and play some mixture of games – I’ve had an addiction to Lords of Waterdeep lately, and King of Tokyo is always a big hit. Yay for board games!
Anyway, let’s talk some deals, shall we? GameStop has a bunch of crazy deals going on right now that they’re calling GameStock 2012. The featured deal right now is $20 off Warner Bros. games, including Mortal Kombat and Batman: Arkham City. There are lots of other deals, too – like getting 50% off a three-month XBL Gold membership if you buy an Xbox 360 console, and $10 off any WB-published Lego game (that one ends today!). And don’t forget to check out all the pre-owned deals.
One super awesome t-shirt, coming right up…
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The phenomenon that is Kickstarter has changed the way we look at game development. In the first ever edition of “Kickstart This!” (we hope to make it a regular feature), we delve deeper into five projects that are being financed by gamers like you.” We will try and focus on those we feel offer an innovative or exciting project in the hope that one or two may fiddle your fancy enough for you to give generously to the projects.
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The weekends just got better with the return of “Breaking Bad.” But now my Sunday nights are spent watching that and “True Blood,” usually while eating Chinese food and trying to stay awake. Oh yeah, and doing homework. That last part is lame, but the other parts are awesome, so that’s ok!
Let’s see, deals today… well, let’s start with the latest sale going on over at Amazon, which is just called the Summer of Games: Deals on Summer Sports Titles. Riveting already, yes? You can get Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympics for $29.99, or London 2012 for $39.99, or Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 for $19.99. Scoop ’em up!
The new weekly deals are up as well:
No shirts today, but some other cool stuff…
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The Wii U’s launch date is still up in the air, but that hasn’t stopped D3 Publisher from announcing another launch game. The company has revealed plans to bring Family Party 30 Great Games: Obstacle Arcade to the Wii U this holiday season.
People of the Internet, please try to contain yourselves!
Family Party 30 Great Games: Obstacle Arcade will be released exclusively for the Wii U and will feature “dozens of hysterical obstacle courses, popular sporting events, and arcade and brain challenges” specifically designed for multiplayer play:
Family Party 30 Great Games: Obstacle Arcade is the latest in the top-selling Family Party franchise, coming exclusively to the Wii U system from Nintendo. Competitors will navigate through multiple locations in Family Party Land, a remote island divided by uniquely themed environments and obstacles to take on some of the wackiest challenges yet. Using the Wii U GamePad, players will be able to interact with their characters off-screen to enhance the gameplay and create a personalized touch. Obstacle Arcade delivers hours of family entertainment where players can choose from over a dozen family-friendly characters and challenge each other in up to four-player multiplayer in 30 diverse games. These over-the-top games include dodging barrels while on a horse, racing across obstacles floating on water, setting off and detonating fireworks, skydiving from above while avoiding a huge artillery of rockets being shot by other players and many more.
After a tense round of negotiations, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) and the city of Los Angeles have announced that the E3 Expo will remain in LA through 2015.
“The City of Los Angeles is thrilled to welcome E3 back for another three years,” said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. “My office was committed to doing whatever it took to keep the largest annual conference that the City hosts here for another three years. I personally joined in the negotiations, and we worked with all parties to ensure the needs of E3 would be met. The City is grateful the Entertainment Software Association continues to view LA, the entertainment capital of the world, as the ideal location for the world’s premiere video game convention.”
The ESA also announced that the 2013 E3 Expo will open on Tuesday, June 11 and run through the 13th.
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…
The 2012 London Olympics opened on Friday in particularly bizarre Olympic style. I can’t say I got all of it (how did the teenage boy call the teenage girl if he had her phone?), but I think we can all agree that the Queen skydiving out of helicopter alongside James Bond is pretty awesome. Daniel Craig actually pulled double duty on Friday as Activision announced his participation in the upcoming 007 Legends.
As the nations of the world come together in peace and sport, we asked the question How the PS3 and Vita Can Live Peacefully Together? It’s no secret that Sony’s handheld hasn’t set the world on fire, but is the actual PS3 stealing some thunder from the “portable PS3”? We investigate.
Finally this week, we dug deep into Lollipop Chainsaw’s Pop Culture Yearbook and… oh my god… you wouldn’t believe how many references and allusions we found in there.
So give your best royal wave and hit the jump (don’t forget your parachute) for more of this week’s biggest stories.
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is less than a month away, but if you pre-order the game from GameStop, you’ll receive exclusive access to the “G1 Retro Pack,” which includes an Optimus Prime G1 Skin, and two G1 Retro weapons: the Megatron Gun and the Shockwave Cannon. You can get a look at Optimus Prime’s new paint job in the trailer above, which has been perfectly cued to “The Touch,” Stan Bush’s perfect rockin’ signature tune from 1985’s Transformers: The Movies.
In addition to the G1 goodies, pre-ordering Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will also net you early access to the game’s demo. The demo will be available to download from the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace on July 31, but pre-order purchasers will receive a code to download it instantly.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be released for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 on August 21.
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