Warp Zoned Presents
Author: Mike Gutierrez
Awesome new trailer for Wii RPG Pandora’s Tower
Earlier in the year, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata teased a new RPG coming exclusively to the Wii, called Pandora’s Tower. That’s pretty much all the information we got, but now a new trailer for the game has been released. We also know the game is coming out May 26 in Japan, developed by Ganbarion, the team behind the DS’ Jump Super Stars.
The official site has been updated with the trailer and release date, but no other information has been provided. You know, like if this game will ever come to the United States.
Posted in News, Wii
Tagged Pandora's Tower
Warp Zoned Wish List: What We Want From Killzone 4
After four intense games, it’s time to give the Helghast and ISA forces a break. Indeed, Guerilla Games has already hinted that they are preparing to move on to a new IP. However, the universe is still expanding with the live action short that recently released, as well as the novel Killzone: Ascendancy. It would be a shame to leave the game side dormant for too long, so we look ahead to the future with what we’d enjoy seeing in Killzone 4. (more…)
Posted in Opinions, PS3, Top Story
Tagged Killzone 3
Angry hackers declare war on Sony, go after CEO’s kids
The self-proclaimed “hacktivist” group Anonymous has declared war on Sony in response to their recent legal actions against members of the hacking community. The group has threatened attacks on Sony’s websites, and many comments on the official PS Blog suggest PlayStation Network service outages are also their work.
A reconnaissance campaign has also been launched to gather as much public information as possible on the judge in the upcoming litigation, Sony’s lawyers, employees, and their relatives. One user on their IRC channel asked “no one found ANY info on Stringer’s kids?” in relation to Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer.
I honestly can’t believe all this started from the removal of the Other OS feature and Linux support. Have any of these “hacktivists” even tried using Linux on the PS3 before it was removed? Trust me, it isn’t worth bringing back.
If you want peace, dress for war: Peace Walker clothing line launching 4/11
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was easily one of the best games of last year, and to commemorate such a classy game comes a classy clothing line for men starting next week. Konami and musterbrand LLC will be launching the first complete Metal Gear Solid clothing line on April 11, with quarterly updates surrounding “special events” throughout the year.
Peace Walker must have done pretty well for Konami, with Careen Yapp, VP of Acquisitions and Franchise Development, stating “the mass success and support for our latest Metal Gear Solid hit has allowed us to expand beyond what we’ve done in the past with the series, and we are very much looking forward to offering this new line to a global community of fans.”
I personally want to know what these “special events” are going to be. Kojima stated the results from working on Peace Walker will lead to the development of an NGP/PS3 cross-platform title. Peace Walker 2, perhaps?
Posted in PSP
Tagged Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Resistance 3 looking even more beautiful in leaked footage
We already saw a lengthy showing of Resistance 3‘s multiplayer earlier in the month. Some leaked footage came out of Insomniac’s community day event from the other night, and it’s looking even better. This continuous, uninterrupted clip, shows a seemingly higher fidelity than the previous video, particular with some impressive lighting effects. The frame rate still appears locked at an exceptionally smoothed pace, but the visuals look to bring the game more on par with PlayStation’s other big FPS series, Killzone. Doing this would be commendable enough in single player, but watching a solid combination of graphics and frame rate in multiplayer has me dying to get lost in it.
Resistance 3 releases for the PlayStation 3 on September 6.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Resistance 3
Sega bringing exclusive content to PS3 for Virtua Tennis 4
We already knew that Virtua Tennis 4 would be getting PlayStation Move support (Kinect, too) but Sega appears to have a couple other goodies for the PlayStation Nation. One such bonus is the inclusion of “legend players,” consisting of Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, and Pat Rafter, all three of whom will be playable out of the box. PS3 owners will also get two party games: Pin Crasher, a classic mini game in the Virtua Tennis series, and Net Blitz, which you can see in the video above. Pin Crasher will be DualShock only, but Net Blitz will have Move support.
Virtua Tennis 4 will be available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii on April 29.
Posted in News, PS3
Tagged Virtua Tennis 4
The fates may be with us: Xenoblade coming to Wii in Europe
RPG enthusiasts have been on the edge of their seats to see if two titles over the last year, The Last Story and Xenoblade, would be making it to America. Prospects are still bleak for the former, but chances just got a little higher for the latter, as Nintendo of Europe has confirmed today it will be bringing Xenoblade Chronicles (a retitling of Xenoblade) to PAL territories. The game is slated to release sometime later this year, and will feature both English and Japanese voice tracks, along with subtitles in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. Unfortunately the Wii is region locked, but I can think of a few people who’d be willing to import it with a Wii that can play it because of the language options alone.
Xenoblade is known for being the latest game by Monolith Soft, the company behind Xenosaga, consisting of many veterans from Square during its golden age. Their most notable works there include Xenogears and earlier Final Fantasy titles. You can check the official site for the port here.
Posted in News, Wii
Tagged Xenoblade Chronicles
The fates are against us: Mega Man Universe cancelled
This is a sad day indeed. Andriasang reports that Capcom’s official site for Mega Man Universe has revealed that the development on the project has been cancelled. The game was supposed to release for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this Spring, but “various circumstances” have led to the cancellation. One could speculate that the departure of “the father of Mega Man,” Keiji Inafune, from Capcom may have been one of those circumstances, although I can’t say how involved in development he was. The game could be considered the LittleBigPlanet of Mega Man titles, allowing players to customize their characters and create their own levels.
The concept seemed too good to be true, and unfortunately it was. Mega Man Universe had been highly anticipated by fans and I’m personally a little heartbroken over this. Let’s hope for some better news for the rest of the day.