All Articles: Xbox 360

Deep Silver brings Dead Island back from the grave

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

Developer Techland had a lot of interesting projects in the pipeline, but most seemed to be put on hold, seemingly indefinitely after the Call of Juarez series began. Fortunately, one of those projects, Dead Island, is being brought back by independent publisher Deep Silver. IGN had a lengthy preview of the game, which will still be open-world, first-person, and having a heavy focus on melee combat. You play on a resort island, so there’s not really caches of military weapons lying around. You’ll have to rely on everything and anything you can get your hands on, which is certainly reminiscent of Dead Rising. However, Techland sets its game apart with a physics engine that makes every strike you land result in a very specific injury to the undead, taking off a certain piece of skin or breaking bones.

When I first heard of Dead Island, it was billed as a PC/360 title as Techland’s Chrome 4 engine apparently didn’t support PS3 back then. That seems to have been cleared up, as the game’s now on track for release on the three main high definition platforms and slated for a 2011 release. Hit the jump for the new teaser trailer. (more…)

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Hard Corps: Uprising shoots its way onto the XBLA

Posted on February 16, 2011 by John Scalzo

Microsoft has kicked off their 2011 Xbox Live Arcade House Party promotion in an explosive way as Hard Corps: Uprising is now available to download.

Priced at 1200 Microsoft Points ($15), the game is a prequel to the Contra saga as a whole and to 1994’s Contra: Hard Corps in particular. Developed by Arc System Works, the game also brings an anime-inspired flavor to Contra’s signature run-and-gun routines for the first time.

In addition to the main game, Konami has made two bonus characters for Hard Corps: Uprising available to download (priced at 200 MS Points each) along with a whole closet full of Avatar items.

Check back later today for our review of Hard Corps: Uprising.

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New Alice: Madness Returns teaser is trippy

Posted on February 15, 2011 by John Scalzo

File this one under “obvious,” but the latest teaser trailer for Alice: Madness Returns is full of whacked out visuals and gruesome violence. Alice is enjoying an idyllic day in Wonderland when a demonic vision turns the skys black and causes Alice to lash out (quite literally) at her Wonderland friends. Down the Rabbit Hole indeed.

Alice: Madness Returns is in development at Spicy Horse and will be released on the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this year.

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Felicia Day to star in Dragon Age webisodes

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

It seems like releasing webisodes to promote a new game is the cool marketing trend as of late, and all of us at Warp Zoned are extremely excited for the Mortal Kombat series accompanying the game. BioWare is the next developer jumping on the opportunity, as a six-episode series for Dragon Age II, titled Dragon Age: Redemption is already in post-production and will be hitting the net this year. The project is under the creative direction of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and The Guild star, Felicia Day. Day, a self-proclaimed “organic gamer” (?) wrote the story for the heroine she portrays, Tallis (the same name as the production company), and chronicles this Elven assassin’s quest to capture a renegade magician. Directing is Independence Day associate producer Peter Winther and cinematography is being handled by John Bartley, who also worked on “Lost.” Day commented, “They are going to take this a step above what we have seen on the Web before,” so hopefully this won’t look like recorded footage of Day and crew awkwardly LARPing.

“Tallis is headstrong, she fights dirty, and she has a really sarcastic sense of humor… I wanted to bring a modern sensibility to a fantasy character in a fantasy world.” Expect Tallis to be like every hipster chick you know who’s constantly seeking male approval.

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First look at Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters

Posted on February 14, 2011 by John Scalzo

The Green Lantern movie, starring Ryan Reynolds, will be coming to a theater near you this June. But did you also know that WB Games has a game adaptation, titled Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, in the works? Well, they do, and you can check out the game’s debut teaser trailer above.

Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters is being developed by Double Helix Games and will be available on the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 sometime this Summer. A DS version is also in the works at Griptonite Games.

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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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2K drops Balls of Steel Edition for DNF on May 3rd

Posted on February 11, 2011 by John Scalzo

The most important game in the world deserves an equally important collectior’s edition. Thankfully, it looks like 2K Games plans to come through for Duke Nukem Forever with the “Balls of Steel Edition.” The $99.99 package (available exclusively at GameStop and Amazon) doesn’t have an actual pair of steel balls in it, but it does include a ton of other neat stuff:

  • Collectible bust of the greatest alien ass-kicker of all-time
  • Numbered, limited-edition certificate of authenticity
  • 100-page hardcover book:
    The History, Legacy & Legend: Duke Nukem Forever Art from the Vault
  • DNF postcard series
  • DNF radioactive emblem sticker
  • DNF collectable comic book
  • DNF foldable paper craft
  • DNF poker chips
  • DNF mini-card deck
  • DNF radioactive emblem dice

It also includes a copy of the game for the platform of your choice (PC, PS3 or Xbox 360). Or maybe Gearbox has been screwing with us this entire time and there is no game. We are talking about Duke Nukem Forever after all.

Providing they’re telling the truth, Duke Nukem Forever and his Balls of Steel will be available on May 3.

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Galactus announced as a boss character in Marvel vs Capcom 3

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Mike Gutierrez

Capcom announced today that the god-like Galactus will be appearing in Marvel vs Capcom 3 as a boss character. I’m hoping for some more Onslaught, but I guess we’ll just have to see. You can also see a little Amaterasu from Okami and Zero from Mega Man X in action, which is always awesome.

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