Pucca’s Kisses Game plants a wet one on the Wii Shop

Posted on February 14, 2011 by John Scalzo

This week’s Nintendo Download is getting into the spirit of Valentine’s Day thanks to the new WiiWare release Pucca’s Kisses Game.

Pucca’s Kisses Game is an “interactive cartoon” that tells the tale of a young woman in love with a ninja and the lengths she’ll go to to cover that ninja in kisses. It’s like a ninja love story!

While Pucca’s Kisses Game is the only WiiWare release this week, it’s joined by a trio of new games in the DSiWAre Shop. Treasure Hunter X is a platformer set in a treasure-filled cave; Oscar in Toyland 2 is a platformer on a mission for missing toys; and Panda Craze is a platformer starring a panda. If you love platformers, this week’s DSiWare update might be for you.

More information on all four of these games can be found after the break.

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Halo: Reach Defiant Map Pack announced

Posted on February 14, 2011 by John Scalzo

Prepare to return to the Reach this March as Microsoft has announced the Defiant Map Pack for Halo: Reach. Certain Affinity (who have also created map packs for CoD: World at War and CoD: Black Ops) collaborated with 343 Industries on the development of the pack.

The pack will be available to download for 800 Microsoft Points ($10) once its released and it’ll contain three new maps. Condemned takes place on a giant space station, Highlands is located inside a top secret military base and Unearthed takes the action belowground to an abandoned mine.

You can check out the excellent Defiant Map Pack trailer above or you can read more about the maps after the break.

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Daily Scoop: February 14, 2011 – Happy Valentine’s Day!

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Nicole Kline

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! I’m sorry this scoop is so late, but Mike Gutierrez and I were in New York City all day yesterday with fellow Warp Zoned editors Ryan Littlefield and Brianne Galli. We romped around in Nintendo World and the Sony Style store, and just generally walked ourselves into oblivion all over the city. It was an amazing time, but we are tired.

What better way to spend a relaxing Valentine’s Day off than to do some Internet shopping? Today’s Amazon Deal of the Day in video games is Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts Re:coded for the Nintendo DS. If you’ve been waiting for a sale to pick up this port, I’d say $22.99 down from $34.99 is a pretty good time to buy.

Today’s shirt.w00t isn’t video game related, but it is Warp Zoned related, seeing as how we just announced our first contest:

Good luck with winning a copy of Super Meat Boy! He’ll be pleased to “meat” you, I’m sure.

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Xperia Play launches in March, exclusive to Verizon

Posted on February 13, 2011 by John Scalzo

Sony’s “PlayStation Phone” was revealed earlier today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and it looks like it may be everything gamers on the go are looking for in a phone/handheld hybrid.

The Xperia Play (the phone’s official name) will launch in the US in March and exclusively be available through Verizon. No pricing details were announced, but gamers will receive a phone that comes equipped with a D-Pad, two trackpads for analog control, four PlayStation-branded face buttons and two shoulder buttons. In other words, the Xperia Play is nearly a complete portable PlayStation experience.

As the first PlayStation Certified device, the phone will run all of the PlayStation Suite software in development at Sony and at third parties like Activision, Electronic Arts, Namco Bandai, PopCap and Ubisoft. Xperia Play buyers looking to get their game on won’t have to wait long after its out of the box, the phone will come pre-loaded with Asphalt Adrenaline 6, Bruce Lee, Star Battalion, The Sims 3, and Tetris. Other games in development for the Xperia Play include Need For Speed, a world-first multiplayer version of FIFA 11, Guitar Hero, Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.

In total, more than 50 games are in development exclusively for the Xperia Play, in addition to all of the games found on the Android App Store, which are also supported by the super sexy phone.

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon game details, teaser trailer roll out

Posted on February 13, 2011 by John Scalzo

I’m sure you’re shocked, absolutely shocked, to discover that Activision is hard at work on a game adaptation of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The trilogy-capping entry in the Transformers film saga will be released this Summer and Transformers: War For Cybertron developer High Moon Studios has been hard at work on the PS3 and Xbox 360 edition for about a year now. The developer used this weekend’s New York Toy Fair to tease out a few details of the game to IGN along with that nifty trailer above.

According to Game Director Sean Miller, Dark of the Moon will feel instantly familar to anyone that played War For Cybertron as the game will feature a similar control and gameplay scheme. It will also feature an online multiplayer mode similar to War For Cybertorn, although Miller wouldn’t confirm or deny any game modes beyond Deathmatch.

Instead of following the movie’s script, the Dark of the Moon game will act as a prequel to the film, taking players through Detroit, Siberia and other locations. There will also be a third transformation option, Stealth Force, that IGN joked didn’t look very stealthy.

The Transformers: Dark of the Moon film will be released in theaters on July 1st and you can expect the PS3/Xbox 360 game to launch in a similar timeframe. A DS/3DS/Wii version is also in the works at Behavior Interactive.

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Weekly Warp-Up: Helghan Public Library Edition

Posted on February 13, 2011 by John Scalzo

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…

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You may not realize it, but there have been a lot of books written about video games and the video game industry. We at Warp Zoned want to recognize this oft-ignored corner of the bookstore and have launch a book reviews section this week. So whether you read in your favorite chair or on the toilet (also a favorite chair actually), check out these reviews of 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die and Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.

Sony’s Killzone 3 is only a few weeks away and the console-maker has been ramping up the hype and the excitement for the game over the last few weeks. Their latest gambit was the release of an open beta and our own Mike Gutierrez locked and loaded his Beta Impressions this week. Sony wasted no time in making their next Killzone 3-related move as they released a single-player demo for PlayStation Plus users on Tuesday and plan to make it available to every PS3 owner on February 15.

Hmm… books and Killzone. I wonder what a library on Helghan would look like?

Hit the jump for the rest of the Weekly Warp-Up.

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New Releases: Marvel vs Capcom 3, Dragon Quest VI, Hyperdimension Neptunia, More

Posted on February 12, 2011 by John Scalzo

This week it’s all about RPGs, except for the return of a favorite fighting franchise…

The Marvel and Capcom universes will be colliding in a battle for one-on-one fighting supremacy again with the release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds this week for the PS3 and Xbox 360.

But every other major release will be much more enticing to RPG fans everywhere including Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation on the DS. Once Dragon Quest VI makes its way into stores on the 14th, it’ll mark the final game in the franchise’s main series to make its way across the Pacific. It just took a little over 15 years.

And speaking RPGs that are hard to find in America, Square Enix is bringing Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together to the PSP this week. Tactics Ogre has always been hard to come by in collector’s circles, so this new version means that everyone who wants to play it will finally get the chance to.

Also available this week is Hyperdimension Neptunia for the PS3. The game tells the story of the console war as if it were a typical Japanese RPG. Oh yeah, and a nearly naked girl representing “Sega” is the hero. Man, how can you not love NIS America?

Finally, Frictional’s Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which was originally released in 2010, will receive a retail release this week.

The full list of the rest of this week’s new releases can be found after the break.

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PixelJunk Shooter 2 heating up PS3 on March 1

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

It may have taken a while since we reported on their podcast that PixelJunk Shooter 2 was nearly complete, but the game has a release date and it’s coming surprisingly soon – March 1. Mr. Dylan Cuthbert himself announced the good news on the PlayStation Blog, excited about bringing three entirely new worlds as well as the versus mode which Cuthbert describes as a “whole new game in itself.” Players will be able to choose from over 20 weapons and abilities when they square off, and Q-Games attributes this robust multiplayer offering for how long it’s taken to get the game out.

The Q-Games team is currently taking questions on the PS Blog, and you can also ask questions for their podcast, which is listed under Q-Games in our very own Guide to Gaming Videos on Youtube. Hopefully the new game will have the same $9.99 price point as the original.

By the way, we’re all being referred to as “PixelJunkies” from now on.

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