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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Daily Scoop: July 21, 2014 – Creating a home in Terraria
When Anthony Amato and I started dating, we played a little bit of Terraria. Well, he played a lot – I played a little. Now that we have much better computers, we’ve started playing it again. We had some connectivity issues (boy can it be a butt to play multiplayer on PC!), but I think we’re ready to start building. Or rather, Anthony has built a lot, and I think I’m ready to move in. :D
There’s a new Humble Flash Sale – get it while it’s hot! It’s the Humble Flash Re-Bundle Simulators. Pay what you want for Bridge Project, Trainz Simulator 12, Euro Truck Simulator, and Wildlife Park 3. Pay $6 or more to unlock Agricultural Simulator 2013, Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming, Pool Nation, and Professional Farmer 2014.
At the Humble Store, they’ve got Awesomenauts for $2.49 and Awesomenauts: Starstorm for $6.29. And at Steam, the Daily Deal is Syberia II for $0.99. Scoop ’em up!
Let’s check out some t-shirts, shall we?
Posted in Daily Scoop, Etcetera, News
Mighty No. 9’s monthly trailer blitz includes a look at Call
Keiji Inafune and the development team at Comcept have gotten into the habit of unveiling a new trailer for Mighty No. 9 every month. For the July trailer, the team has given us a sneak peek at Mighty No. 9’s sidekick, Call. The developer has also shone a spotlight on the dash mechanic and the many transformations at Mighty No. 9’s disposal.
Mighty No. 9 will be released for the 3DS, PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), PS3, PS4, Vita, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One in Spring 2015.
Dance Central Spotlight busts a move on Xbox One on September 2
First announced during the E3 Expo last month, Harmonix has confirmed that Dance Central Spotlight will be available to download on September 2. The Xbox One-exclusive game has been priced at $9.99 and will include 10 tracks to start with:
- Avicii – “Wake Me Up”
- Cher Lloyd – “I Wish”
- David Guetta (featuring Sia) “Titanium”
- Jason Derulo (featuring 2 Chainz) – “Talk Dirty”
- Kid Ink (featuring Chris Brown) – “Show Me”
- Lorde – “Royals”
- OneRepublic – “Counting Stars”
- Pharrell Williams – “Happy”
- Rihanna – “Diamonds”
- Will.I.Am (featuring Justin Bieber) – “#thatPOWER”
More than 50 additional tracks will be available to download on launch day including Capital Cities’ “Safe and Sound,” Emeli Sande’s “Next To Me,” Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” the “Cedric Gervais Remix” of Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness,” and The B-52s’ “Love Shack.” Harmonix is also hard at work on making add-on content from the first three Dance Central games compatible with Spotlight. Those tracks will be able to be downloaded separately and will be available as a free download if you previously purchased them on the Xbox 360.
Dance Central Spotlight will be part of the Xbox Lounge during this week’s San Diego Comic-Con, so be sure to bring your dancing shoes if you want to play it.
Posted in News, Xbox One
Tagged Comic-Con 2014, Dance Central Spotlight
Doom 4 likely won’t be shown to the public until next year
Doom 4 (I know, I know, it’s actually just Doom) made its debut at this weekend’s QuakeCon, but it sounds like the rest of us won’t get a peak at the next game in the beloved series until sometime in 2015. Speaking to PC Gamer, Bethesda’s Pete Hines revealed that that’s because development is still in the early going and that the game isn’t quite ready for a public reveal just yet:
“I try really, really hard for this to be a dev first, dev-lead thing,” said Hines, and id Software isn’t ready for a worldwide reveal of Doom. “We’re working with them to say, ‘How does this work? What do we want to show?’ And they’re like, ‘Look, we don’t want a stream to go up for a game that isn’t at the point where we would formally show it to the world, and now that thing is getting picked apart, and digested, and gone through frame-by-frame and getting nitpicked to death, when normally we wouldn’t be showing this to anybody at all.’”
So if Doom 4 is still so rough around the edges, why show it at QuakeCon at all? According to Hines, it was to get the Doom name back out there and show that id Software’s troubles are behind it:
“I really wanted to put something out there that, in a strong way, said, ‘id is working on something that we think is really cool,’” said Hines. “And we wanted … to show something to [id Software fans] that gives them the confidence that it is still a viable studio that’s doing really cool stuff, that is making a game you want to play, and is treating Doom with the care and respect that you want.
“And now we’re going to go away and go back to making the game, but to be able to counter other people talking about us and we’re sort of just sitting here staying silent, or operating from this negative space of like, ‘Oh, it got rebooted, oh it’s in trouble.’ All of that stuff just bothered the hell out of me.”
It looks like those of us who couldn’t attend QuakeCon 2014 are just doomed to wait.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Doom (2016)
Continue Countdown #7 – Our Favorite Games From the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii Era
With the Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One now available in stores, it’s time to look back fondly on the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii Era. A lot of great games were released during gaming’s seventh generation and we talk about eight of our favorites as well as several dozen more in a rapid-fire Lightning Round. Did your favorite make the cut? There’s only one way to find out.
8 Games (+ Honorable Mentions)… 30 Minutes… And Go!
Weekly Warp-Up: This Is Your Doom Edition
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…
Has this Summer felt a little uneventful to you? Me too. So how about you relax in a nice comfy chair and read all about our discussion with Katy Levinson, the Business Development Manager at Crooked Tree Studios, to discuss their next game, For My Brother.
Want more news from this past week? You can find several more big stories after the break. There’s plenty of interesting after-Evo stuff to be found. (more…)
Posted in News
Madden NFL 15 adds “The Gauntlet” in this new gameplay trailer
As the first real version of Madden released in the next-generation era, EA Sports is putting a lot of extra effort into Madden NFL 15. One of those new features is “The Gauntlet,” an extra mode that drops players into a drills and skills competition with passing, catching, running, and defensive-themed events. Players will be able to challenge the high scores set by their friends as well as tackle “boss challenges” on their way through The Gauntlet.
Madden NFL 15 will be out on August 26 for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Joe Montana is teasing Joe Montana Football 16
Joe Montana teased on Twitter that Joe Montana Football 16 is coming. The Tweet was simple – just the image to your right, and the hashtags #youvewaitedlongenough and #joemontanafootball16.
Replies to the Twitter post went from excited to incredulous, with some speculating that Montana was referencing a 49ers Flag Football game that was held over the weekend. But most are hoping that it was a pre-announcement of a sequel to the Sega Genesis favorite. Sega relinquished the trademark to Joe Montana Football more than 20 years ago, so if it is in development, who knows where it’s going to come from or what platform it will appear on.
Hopefully we’ll get more information soon, because as Montana said, we’ve waited long enough.
Posted in News
Tagged Joe Montana Football 16