Daily Scoop: September 19, 2016 – Last day to get the Humble Gamemaker Bundle

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Nicole Kline

I got a lot of gaming done this weekend – including finally beating Hyper Light Drifter. There are still so many secrets to find, but there are also so many games in shrinkwrap sitting next to my television. Decisions, decisions…

Speaking of decisions, today’s your last day to decide if you want to get the Humble GameMaker Bundle! Pay what you want for GameMaker: Studio Pro, Uncanny Valley, Cook, Serve, Delicious!, Ink, and the source code for Extreme Burger Defense, Freeway Mutant, Shep Hard, and Angry Chickens: Egg Madness! Beat the average to unlock HTML5 Module, Home, Solstice, and the source code for Galactic Missile Defense, Uncanny Valley, Ink, 10 Second Ninja X GameMaker Edition, and Cook, Serve, Delicious! Pay $15 or more to unlock Android Module, iOS Module, Windows UMP Module, and the source code for Flop Rocket, Solstice, and Home.

There are 411 games in the Weeklong Deals section at Steam! Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Director’s Cut is $4.99, Just Cause 2 is $3.74, and one of my personal favorites, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, is $7.49. That’s a steal! Today’s Daily Deal is UnderRail, which is $7.49.

Hit the jump to see today’s awesome shirts!

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The Gears of War 4 Launch Trailer is here… three weeks ahead of its launch

Posted on September 19, 2016 by John Scalzo

Narrated by Marcus Fenix and soundtracked by a cover of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” the Gears of War 4 Launch Trailer has arrived… three weeks ahead of the game’s planned launch on October 11.

Those 21 days and nights will give us plenty of time to digest this new trailer, which includes the reappearance of Augustus “Cole Train” Cole and the Locust. And it looks like there’s a very real chance that Marcus Fenix won’t make it to the end credits.

Gears of War 4 will be released for the PC and Xbox One, but fans who purchase it digitally through the Xbox Games Store will receive both versions as part of Microsoft’s Xbox Play Anywhere program.

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Take a look at Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age’s TGS 2016 trailer right here…

Posted on September 19, 2016 by John Scalzo

Final Fantasy XII isn’t as well-loved as some entries in the long-running RPG series, but fans will get a chance to play through it one more time next year after Square Enix launches a high definition remake exclusively for the PS4. Announced earlier this year, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age will include enhanced graphics and the new Zodiac Job System that was introduced in the International Zodiac Job System re-release of the game, which was only available in Japan.

Over the weekend, Square Enix unveiled a new trailer for Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age at the 2016 Tokyo Game Show, giving fans a closer look at “some of the newly re-mastered visuals and environments as well as gameplay in action.” The trailer’s been embedded above, so be sure and check it out.

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Weekly Warp-Up: The Last Guardian Was Delayed Again…

Posted on September 18, 2016 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…

The Tokyo Game Show kicked off to some disappointing news this year. In addition to a no-show from Nintendo’s NX console (though the consolemaker might have accidentally leaked a March 4, 2017 release date), Sony revealed that The Last Guardian has been hit with another delay. The very highly-anticipated game will now be released for the on December 6… hopefully.

Elsewhere on Warp Zoned this week, we dove into hands-on impressions of both Pit People (a strategy RPG from The Behemoth) and the MetaArcade Adventures Platform (a text adventure creation tool from MetaArcade).

More news from the previous seven days can be found after the break.

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New Retail Releases: Destiny Collection, Killer Instinct Definitive, SMT4 Apocalypse, More

Posted on September 18, 2016 by John Scalzo

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Believe it or not, but Bungie released the original version of Destiny nearly two years ago. After building up a devoted fanbase that continues to obsessively play the shooter to this day, the developer is gearing up to launch the final expansion this week. The Rise of Iron expansion will be available to download from the PlayStation Store and Xbox Games Store, but players who haven’t yet jumped into Destiny’s universe will be able to pick up Destiny: The Collection this week for the PS4 and Xbox One. In addition to the original game and Rise of Iron, The Collection will also include Expansion I: The Dark Below, Expansion II: House of Wolves, and The Taken King.

Killer Instinct made its debut during the Xbox One’s launch period, and it too will receive a collected edition this week. Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition will include all 26 characters and 20 stages from the game’s first three seasons, as well as a pair of bonus games (Killer Instinct Classic and Killer Instinct 2 Classic).

Fans of Japanese RPGs will also find a pair of new titles available on store shelves this week. Atlus will publish Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, a side-story to the original Shin Megami Tensei IV, for the 3DS. And NIS America will bring a reworked version of Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters to the PS4.

Finally this week, the Air Conflicts: Double Pack, which contains Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers and Air Conflicts: Vietnam, will be available for the PS4.

We’ll be back throughout the week with all the new additions to the PlayStation Store, Xbox Games Store, and Nintendo eShop.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild release date possibly leaked by Nintendo France

Posted on September 17, 2016 by John Scalzo

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Leaks, especially when they’re connected to Nintendo, aren’t always a reliable and accurate indicator of reality. However, Nintendo France may have accidentally outed a release date for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild earlier this week.

Yesterday, the Nintendo France site displayed a March 4, 2017 release date for the three Amiibo figures in the upcoming Zelda: Breath of the Wild series. The consolemaker quickly amended the website, but not before a Reddit user captured a screenshot of the page.

There’s a chance that Nintendo France was using a placeholder date on their website, but it’s equally possible that the company plans to launch the Amiibo figures and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and, by extension, the NX console) on March 4. Each step in this chain requires its own grain of salt, but Nintendo has previously said that the NX will launch in March, so it’s not that far-fetched. Though we also have to consider the possibility this release date only applies to the Amiibo figures. It’s not uncommon for the company to launch Amiibo figures before the game they’re connected to, and Nintendo could be planning to launch Breath of the Wild at a later date.

Nintendo did not respond to media outlets that asked for a comment on the possible release date leak.

Let’s hope Nintendo makes an official announcement related to the NX/Zelda: Breath of the Wild soon. The suspense is killing me.

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Release of South Park: The Fractured But Whole delayed to Early 2017 by Ubisoft

Posted on September 16, 2016 by John Scalzo

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In a short update posted to the UbiBlog, Ubisoft has announced that South Park: The Fractured But Whole won’t be released this December as originally planned. The RPG’s release was pushed back to Early 2017, and the publisher attributed the delay to a need for additional time by the developmer:

The development team wants to make sure the game experience meets the high expectations of fans and the additional time will help them achieve this goal.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole is currently in development for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One at Ubisoft San Francisco.

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Hypersect adds unlockable color palettes to Inversus in new update

Posted on September 16, 2016 by John Scalzo

A lot of games are described as “minimalist,” but Hypersect took it to new heights when they limited Inversus to just three colors… black, white, and red. But thanks to the latest update, the game is about to get much more colorful.

Now available through Steam (and coming to the PS4 soon), the 1.2 update adds 45 new color palettes to the game (including one inspired by the Game Boy’s pea green screen), along with a few other changes:

  • Inversus isn’t just black and white anymore. 45 unlockable color palettes are now in game! Choose the ones you like and the game will randomly shuffle between them every match.
  • Online gameplay gets more social with over 250 unlockable emotes! Equip up to four at a time and express your joy or disappointment between rounds.
  • Experience levels are tracked for arcade and versus mode. Level up by completing matches, winning games online and earning high scores. Your level is advertised in online lobbies and each level gained guarantees an unlocked emote or color after that match (unlocks are otherwise randomly awarded per match).
  • New leaderboards for versus levels, arcade level, and number of games won online.
  • Improved public matchmaking allows solo players to search across all game modes at the same time!

You can get an eyeful of the Inversus’s colorful new look in the trailer embedded above.

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