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The last few days have been awesome for fans of the Uncharted series. Yet another trailer was released at the PlayStation Experience this weekend, introducing us to yet another new character. Watch the video above for more details… and to learn yet another facet of Nathan Drake’s life.
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is scheduled to launch on March 18, 2016 for PlayStation 4.
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 end of the year is near and that means its time for Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards to crown another “Game of the Year.” The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt walked away with the big prize this year, while also being surrounded by a number of huge announcements:
If you’re on the lookout for more game recommendations, you’re more than welcome to read up on What We Played in November 2015 and our picks for The Games of December 2015. And maybe you might also want to check out this cool sorting tool to help you determine Your Favorite Game of All Time.
And we didn’t even talk about the 2015 PlayStation Experience yet. You can find news from that show (and the rest of the week) after the break.
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The Ratchet & Clank movie will be coming out on April 29, 2016, but fans of the games will be able to jump into the fun even sooner! Sony announced that Ratchet & Clank for the PlayStation 4 will be released even earlier, on April 12, 2016.
Insomniac showed the above footage at the PlayStation Experience. It walks you through how Ratchet & Clank met, and shows some of the stunning gameplay. According to the PlayStation Blog, “modern controls, new planets, new and improved gameplay, all-new boss fights, and an updated arsenal.”
Don’t worry, Ratchet & Clank fans – just a few more months to go!
We’ll probably never learn the truth about what happened with Devil’s Third‘s. But development on the third-person action game is finally complete and the game will be released for the Wii U this week. Originally announced in 2010 as the first game from Tomonobu Itagaki’s Valhalla Game Studios, Devil’s Third was scheduled to launch in 2012 before a series of development difficulties and THQ’s bankruptcy created a huge bottleneck. No one’s really sure what happened in the intervening years, but eventually, Nintendo stepped up and agreed to publish Devil’s Third exclusively for the Wii U. Even with that relationship in place, the publisher has been extremely quiet about Devil’s Third over the last year.
Also on the “New Release Shelf” this week are a pair of bug-bashing sci-fi games: Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair for the PS4 and Earth Defense Force 2: Invaders From Planet Space for the Vita. XSEED Games has stepped in for D3 Publisher and completely reworked Earth Defense Force 2025 for the PS4, while also publishing the second game in the series in North America for the first time.
Finally this week, EA is expanding The Sims 4 with The Sims 4: Get Together.
One hundred foot robot golf.
Close your eyes and let your imagination do its magic to those words. Are you picturing giant robots running between skyscrapers while smacking golf balls with giant clubs? Congratulations, you’ve perfectly sussed out everything you need to know about No Goblin’s upcoming PS4 game, 100 Ft Robot Golf. Oh, and open your eyes, because No Goblin’s Dan Teasdale used a little golf pencil to write up a post on the PlayStation Blog further describing the game:
I love telling people about 100 Ft Robot Golf, because the name instantly describes what this game is. It’s impossibly huge robots playing golf! The twist is that not only are the robots directly controllable in real time, but they’re playing golf in a fully destructible environment. You can now destroy that pesky obstacle that’s blocking your shot to the green, or even push it in the way of one of your golf buddies!
100 Ft Robot Golf will be released for the PS4 sometime in 2016 and also include four-player splitscreen play, a unique single-player Campaign Mode (that focuses on the “stories behind some of the world’s most famous robot golfers”), and support for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset.
Major League Baseball’s free agency period is in full swing, but Sony has confirmed that the MLB The Show series will be staying put in 2016. Announced today at the PlayStation Experience keynote, MLB The Show 16 will be released for the PS4 and PS3 on March 29, 2016. The development team at Sony San Diego laid out their plans for some of MLB The Show 16’s new features, including the slow motion ShowTime mechanic, at the PlayStation Blog:
In MLB The Show 16, you’ll experience baseball’s most epic moments like never before with ShowTime. Using ShowTime, you can slow down critical moments for maximum control. ShowTime offers gamers a powerful new tool to help them excel in those big baseball moments.
Josh Donaldson of the Toronto Blue Jays has been selected as MLB The Show 16’s cover athlete. The third baseman won the Anerican League MVP award earlier this year, along with the MLB Players Association’s Player of the Year award and the AL Outstanding Player award. Naturally, this gave Sony the idea to also release MLB The Show 16 for the PS4 in an MVP Edition, which will retail for $69.99 and include the following goodies:
A Digital Deluxe Edition (priced at $99.99) for the PS4 will bump up the number of in-game extras to 11,000 Stubs, 20 Standard Packs, and three Opening Day Packs.
Sadly, it looks MLB The Show 16 isn’t in the works for the Vita, marking the first time the franchise won’t be released for Sony’s handheld.
Have you taken a look at the ridiculous new trailer for the Final Fantasy VII Remake yet? If not, I suggest you should. And if you’re feeling nostalgic, the planned PS4 port of the PSone original is now available to download from the PlayStation Store. Believe it or not, Sony actually added a huge number of games to the PlayStation Store today, check ’em out:
More details on all of these titles can be found after the break. And don’t forget about all the new PS2-On-PS4 games, which are also available today.
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You can’t have a PlayStation event without talking about the Final Fantasy VII Remake, and Square Enix did just that at today’s PlayStation Experience keynote.
The new trailer gives us our first look at many of the game’s characters, as well as a chance to hear the game’s voice acting. We even got a very short glimpse at some gameplay and it almost looks like an action RPG to me. It’s unknown if Square Enix is moving away from the turn-based style of the original for the Remake, but they have found a lot of success with that gameplay style with the Kingdom Hearts series.
There’s still no release date, but Square Enix reiterated the Final Fantasy VII Remake will be coming “first” to the PS4, implying that a PC and/or Xbox One release is also in the cards.
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