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PS Store This Week: Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age, Minecraft Story Mode Season 2, Serial Cleaner, more
We might be in the middle of the Summer gaming drought, but there are plenty of new releases available this week through the PlayStation Store.
Leading the way is a game that actually made its debut more than a decade ago. Originally released for the PS2 in 2006, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age will feature enhanced graphics and sound on the PS4, as well as the Zodiac Job System that was only available in the RPG’s “International” edition.
Square Enix will also publish MotoGP 17 for the PS4 this week, which includes all the riders, teams, and tracks from the 2017 season.
A second epic tale will launch for the PS4 this week, as Telltale Games will release the first episode of Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2. Jesse and friends return in Episode 1: Hero in Residence, but there’s no rest for the wicked, as a strange gauntlet has latched itself onto Jesse.
Finally this week, a trio of new indie games will provide some interesting new experiences for PS4 owners. Serial Cleaner is a 70s-set adventure about body disposal, Iron Crypticle is a Gauntlet/Smash TV hybrid, and Mr. Shifty features a teleporting thief.
More information about all of these games (and a few other new releases) can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, PS4, Vita
Tagged Final Fantasy XII, Iron Crypticle, Minecraft: Story Mode Season 2, Mr. Shifty, Serial Cleaner
Here’s the video game deals for Amazon Prime Day 2017
Prime Day is back at Amazon, and the online storefront is gearing up to offer gamers a ton of Video Game Deals this year. Like in years past, you won’t find many BIG titles on sale, but there is a little something for everyone.
We’ve collected Amazon’s Prime Day 2017 Video Game Deals right here, though the retailer will surely be adding more throughout the day…
Overnight/Morning Deals (Eastern Time)
- Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition (PS4) – Starts at 3:14 AM
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Collection (Xbox 360) – Starts at 5:19 AM
- The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind (PS4) – Starts at 6:24 AM
- Nioh (PS4) – Starts at 6:54 AM
- Super Dungeon Bros (PS4) – Starts at 7:09 AM
- Farming Simulator 17 (Xbox One) – Starts at 8:14 AM
- For Honor (PS4) – Starts at 8:24 AM
- Darksiders: Warmastered Edition (PS4) – Starts at 8:34 AM
- Super Smash Bros. For 3DS (3DS) – Starts at 8:39 AM
- Dragon Quest Heroes II (PS4) – Starts at 10:09 AM
- Lego Worlds (Xbox One) – Starts at 11:24 AM
- Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition (Xbox One) – Starts at 11:44 AM
- Putty Squad (PS4) – Starts at 11:49 AM
Afternoon/Evening Deals (Eastern Time)
- Final Fantasy XV (PS4) – Starts at 12:34 PM
- Guitar Hero Live: Supreme Party Edition (PS4) – Starts at 1:29 PM
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands (PS4) – Starts at 1:39 PM
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (PS4) – Starts at 1:54 PM
- Just Dance 2017 (Xbox One) – Starts at 2:39 PM
- Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection (PS4) – Starts at 3:44 PM
- Onechanbara Z2: Chaos (PS4) – Starts at 4:59 PM
- Tekken 7 (Xbox One) – Starts at 5:09 PM
- Tekken 7 (PS4) – Starts at 6:14 PM
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC) – Starts at 6:14 PM
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 – Road to Boruto (Xbox One) – Starts at 6:39 PM
- Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair (PS4) – Starts at 7:24 PM
- Dark Souls III (PS4) – Starts at 7:39 PM
- 88 Heroes (PS4) – Starts at 7:59 PM
- Overwatch (PS4) – Starts at 8:04 PM
- WRC 5 (Xbox One) – Starts at 8:09 PM
Summer Games Done Quick 2017 raises more than $1.7 million for Doctors Without Borders
Summer Games Done Quick, an annual speedrunning marathon that benefits Doctors Without Borders, closed the book on another successful event this weekend. According to the organizers (via Twitter), Summer Games Done Quick 2017 smashed all expectations and managed to raise a total of $1,760,400 for the charity. That figure easily beat last year’s total of $1,294,139, and the bar has definitely been raised for Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 in January.
We here at Warp Zoned want to give a hearty congratulations to all the runners who took part in Summer Games Done Quick 2017, and all the donors who helped make it such a success. And in case you missed out on some of the amazing runs, you can rewatch the entire marathon right now on YouTube.
Nintendo Download: Kirby’s Blowout Blast, Metal Slug 2, Rayman Raving Rabbids, more
Nintendo spent the morning delivering a huge dose of news for Splatoon 2 during the latest Nintendo Direct presentation, but the consolemaker also spent the afternoon updating the Nintendo eShop…
First up, 3DS owners will get the chance to download Kirby’s Blowout Blast today. Based on a minigame from Kirby: Planet Robobot, Kirby’s Blowout Blast asks players to inhale foes and blow them away across more than 25 3D stages.
Switching over to the Switch storefront, Nintendo’s newest console is now home to Metal Slug 2, a side-scrolling shooter that originally debuted on the NeoGeo in 1998. This time around, players will be able to choose from four different characters as they try to defeat Morden’s Rebel Army.
Finally today, Wii U owners will be able to download Rayman Raving Rabbids, which was originally released for the Wii in 2006.
You can learn more about all of these games (and a few other new releases) after the break. (more…)
NIS America will bring Penny-Punching Princess to Switch, Vita in Spring 2018
It looks like Disgaea 5 Complete was just the start of NIS America’s relationship with the Nintendo Switch. The publisher, famous for their uniquely Japanese games, waltzed into this weekend’s Anime Expo and announced that Penny-Punching Princess will be released for Nintendo’s newest console (and the PS Vita) in Spring 2018.
The brawler RPG features an overhead view, and a very materialistic sense of combat:
In a world ruled by capitalism, cash is king!
Use the money you gather to bribe enemies to fight for you, activate deadly traps with your dough, and when all else fails, smash all that stand against you with your fists! Fight your way from nothing and amass treasures to take on the mighty Dragoloan Family and reclaim your kingdom!
NIS America also announced plans to release a special Limited Edition of the game for the Switch, and you can pre-order it now through the NIS America Online Store:
Penny-Punching Princess Limited Edition
- Copy of Penny-Punching Princess
- Royal Family Lapel Pins
- Sebastian and Coin Keychain
- Credit Card Shaped 2GB USB (with Official Soundtrack)
- Collector’s Gold Bar Box
The first trailer for Penny-Punching Princess is embedded above for your viewing pleasure, and a closer look at the Limited Edition can be found after the break. (more…)
Posted in News, Switch, Vita
Tagged Penny-Punching Princess
PS Store This Week: SpeedRunners, Toby The Secret Mine, That’s You, more
Not even the 4th of July can stop Sony’s weekly PlayStation Store update. Though it did slow it down a bit…
But there’s nothing slow about SpeedRunners, the multiplayer runner from TinyBuild and DoubleDutch Games. And it’s now available to download for the PS4.
Also available to download this week is Toby: The Secret Mine, a shadowy puzzle platformer for the PS4 from Headup Games and Lukas Navratil. Players will join Toby on an adventure into the deep forest as he tries to rescue his friends and family from a mysterious kidnapper.
Finally this week, That’s You is a party game for the PS4 that turns your smartphone into a controller. That way, everyone can join in the fun with “tons of funny questions, texting games, and drawing challenges.”
You can learn more about all of these games (and the rest of this week’s new releases) after the break. (more…)
Zero Time Dilemma’s PS4 debut leads a packed announcement schedule from Aksys Games at Anime Expo 2017
The 2017 Anime Expo welcomed anime fans from around the globe to Los Angeles this weekend, and Aksys Games was there to announce a massive slate of upcoming games for release in 2017 and 2018.
The localization house started things off with confirmation that Zero Time Dilemma, the third game in the Zero Escape trilogy, will be released for the PS4 on August 18. The visual novel is currently available for the 3DS, Vita, and PC, but the PS4 re-release will be remastered with “impressive” high definition graphics. [Source]
Aksys is planning to bring several other visual novels to North America over the next year. During their Anime Expo panel, Aksys revealed a handful of such titles from Idea Factory including Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly, and Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk. Both Psychedelica games are tangentially connected by haunted locales, and both will launch for the Vita in 2018. [Source]
The publisher will also team up with Idea Factory to bring 7 Scarlet to the Vita in 2018. 7 Scarlet features a story involving a mysterious town, a missing university student, and a search for the truth. [Source]
More ghostly tales will be told in Creeping Terror, a horror exploration game that’ll launch for the PC and 3DS this Fall. Players will travel through a haunted house, an old tunnel, and a shadowy cavern in search of a monster in Creeping Terror. [Source]
Players will also be in search of monsters in SG/ZH: School Girl/Zombie Hunter, a third-person shooter developed by D3 Publisher for the PS4. The goofy game follows five girls who attempt to save their school from a rampaging horde of zombies. [Source]
A different kind of “ghost” story is at the center of Jake Hunter Detective Story: Ghost of the Dusk. Developed by Arc System Works, Ghost of the Dusk is a hard-boiled detective story that’ll be released for the 3DS in North America in 2018. [Source]
Aksys announced plans to package together two games in the Code Realize franchise, Code Realize: Guardian of Rebirth and Code Realize: Future Blessings, as Code Realize: Bouquet of Rainbows. The bundle will be available for the PS4 next year. [Source]
Moving on (or rather, not moving on), the publisher will release Bad Apple Wars for the Vita on September 29. The visual novel takes place in a school (not surprising)… that’s located in Purgatory (whoa). Bad Apple Wars follows a battle for the soul of Purgatory between the Delinquent Team of Bad Apples and the Disciplinary Committee. [Source]
Under Night In-Birth, a 2D fighter from Arc System Works, will receive a major update this Fall with the release of Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[st]. Set to be released for the PS3, PS4, and Vita, the Late[st] version of the game will include two new characters, Enkidu and Wagner, and a story-focused Chronicle Mode. [Source]
Finally, the craziest game on Aksys’s radar might be Drive Girls, which will be released for the Vita on August 11. In Drive Girls, players will control a team of superpowered girls who can turn into a fleet of speedy supercars. The girls will do battle with an invading alien force in a genre mashup that includes melee action and driving prowess. [Source]
That’s all for now, but new trailers for most of these games should be available online shortly.
Dutch PR firm reveals that Dragon Quest XI will be released outside of Japan
Will Square Enix release the next Dragon Quest game outside of the Japan? And if they do, how long will we have to wait? RPG fans have had to go through this same song and dance for most entries in the franchise, and it looks like things won’t be in different for the upcoming Dragon Quest XI: In Search of the Departed Time. But a Dutch PR firm may have spilled the beans a bit early.
Speaking to Gamer.nl, the unnamed company revealed they would be handling public relations for the title after Square Enix launches Dragon Quest XI in Europe and the rest of the “Western market.”
But assuming the company is telling the truth, we still don’t know when Dragon Quest XI will be available outside of Japan. And we also don’t know if all three versions of the game (it’s in development for the 3DS, PS4, and Switch) will make the trip.
All we know for sure is that Dragon Quest XI: In Search of the Departed Time is set to launch in Japan for the 3DS and PS4 on July 29. I hope you have your dancing shoes on, because anything after that (including the launch date for the Switch version in Japan) is still a mystery.
Posted in 3DS, News, PS4, Switch
Tagged Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age